If Halo players were lucky enough to complete the campaign in Legendary difficulty, the scene would continue and show Master Chief's
escape pod drifting towards a strange planet, giving the Halo trilogy a nice cliff hanger ending which opened doors for a new Halo story ark.
► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a
drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the
escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the
escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked
pod hatch window break apart and the
pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).