A countdown on bungie.net yesterday has culminated today with a new teaser trailer.

The video shows an abandoned city being pelted by what appear to be drop pods, as evidenced by the tagline “Prepare to drop.” that shows up later in the trailer. There’s not much, but if you look at some earlier posts that went up on bungie.net, it’s fairly easy to piece together what’s happening.

In this post, we see that an urban infrastructure A.I., the “Superintendent,” has gone haywire and is spamming out generic safety messages to a harried comm duty officer (and presumably to bungie.net.). There’s an emergency on, but they don’t say what. The trailer probably takes place through the eyes of the Superintendent’s street-level cameras.

In this message, it becomes clear that the Covenant Loyalist invasion of Earth is well underway. Someone from the Office of Naval Intelligence is requesting a specific squad of men from the heavy crusier Say My Name. (They sure do have weird names for ships in the human fleet.)

The requester identifies himself as “someone who doesn’t report to Fleet,” and the Admiral notes that he “didn’t think you S1 types ever left your cave.” S1 probably refers to Section One of the ONI, responsible for intelligence and information gathering rather than field operations.

So, what does all this mean? Well, it looks to me like the next content pack for Halo 3 is going to have new co-op missions revolving around a covert ops team doing a mission during the game’s regular campaign timeline. Maybe I was right after all.

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