Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33154547-20150126113820/@comment-5949826-20150330192843

Coolbuddy379 wrote: NP about Arbiter hand. Can confirm it's Chief's BR. I went and picked up a BR as Chief in campaign and thaty's exctly what it looks like.

As for the trailers, I think they're purely metaphoric and they symbolise the fact that there are two stories - the actual truth and the truth being told. Chief could well be talking to himself. "You betrayed them for this, [John]?" and on Locke's side, there are small inconsistencies - Chief doesn't appear on Radar whereas Locke appears on Chief's, he holds a DMR but the HUD states it's a BR85HB, and he grabs the Pistol with one hand but in the next scene he holds it with the other. This could potentially mean that this side of the story is the lie, or the truth told to someone to disguise the actual facts.

Basically I think this story is not mean to be taken literally that there will be alternate endings or free roam or replaying missions or the same event with opposite characters, just that there are two 'truths' being told and we need to find out which is the actual truth and which is the lie being presented as truth. There's evidence for both sides.