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[yanka]

[SPEC] What is Elysium?

[Munchkin]

This is probably *miles* off -
I think that the yellow pill might in fact be the red pill.
(That mouse over image has only added to my thought)
Since the inverse of the colour blue/yellow is yellow/blue then perhaps the effects of the pills are equally inverted. The blue pill makes you sleep - the yellow pill makes you wake up. Perhaps Elysium is knowingly/unknowingly marketing a pill made by Pandora (Rebecca was in charge of research and development - which is the page that Elysium was posted on and she would have to have had a hand in creating the new product) to wake up bluepills.
Hmmm...
Anyone else think so? Or have I read too much/too little into this?
- C

[Nik_Doof]

I also suspect Elysium is a promise for replugging into the matrix, but this promise isn't being followed through....maybe as mentioned is a psudo-matrix used to "interrogate" the redpills for information about the ongoings outside the matrix....

Or it could be referencing to this, but i doubt they would advertise a competing MMORPG

[Trynian]

I'm siding with Yanka on this one. More evidence to support this is that "paranoia" is a perfect way to describe redpill (or imminent redpill -- yes, that is a known slang for unplugged humans) behavior. But the message itself certainly very much implies that Elysium intends to follow through on the Cypher promise.

However, I would not be surprised if Elysium actually does work, at least to some extent...that would throw another shade of grey into the moral issues surrounding the Matrix. If the Machines really do just want to give the humans who want it the chance to plug back in to the Matrix...well, now, wouldn't that be interesting?

By the way, do we have any evidence that the Machines weren't going to follow through on their promise to Cypher? I've always assumed that to be the case -- it was Agent Smith running the show, after all -- but now I'm having my doubts.

[GMullen]

OR

redpills could be people in the martix who want to be unpluged and the yellow pill is just as said a plesbo or maybe a blue pill to stop people from being unpluged remember they need humans as batteries

[spaceboy]

My theories:
Slumberil- The proverbial "Blue Pill" Pretty much the one that Morpheus offered to Neo in The Matrix.

redpills- people who have taken the redpill and are now living in the real world. The are the ones that jack into the matrix and fight agents and all that good stuff.

Elysium- I'm thinking that it's a kind of "reverse red pill" Probably something similar to what Cypher would have taken to put himself back into the Matrix. It erases your memories of ever having been a "redpill", and once you take it, you'll never know that you are living in a fabricated reality

Also, I think that the company that produces Elysium and Slumberil is probably run by the machines or agents, or something like that..

[orphaen]

Wright Research is currently run by an exile, check the City Guide.

[yanka]

This is from here:

[orphaen]

"...yellow pill is actually the red pill."
I always theorized it was a middle ground between two overt choices. Or something like that.. I typed it all out under our theories section if you wanna read the full account of my drivel.

[yanka]

[orphaen]

http://xmyth.proboards44.com/index.cgi?board=theories&action=display&num=1105047414
main site > theories board > Why Yellow?

[Quirk]

according to http://slumberil.com/elysium.php it is for paranoid schizophrenia... but the symtoms they describe appear to be things that almost anyone would have in the example situations.

[DosAceos]

"Why, I blush and get nervous when I talk to my boss and groups. Maybe I'm really paranoid? I better take this pill."

I get the impression they're making it seem like normal activity is extraordinary, and that you need to take a pill for it. Their pill.

[Protoman]

agents?

[Gryfft]

The machines claim Elysium puts you back to sleep. Pandora warns us, though, that all it really does is kill ya. I think she called it a fatal placebo....