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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

So, I'd like to take advantage of this hibernation period to try to summarize my take on the backstory here. If anyone else has additional or different interpretations, please chime in! [Note: This is based partially on what little I know about the Halo universe from playing ILB]

I think that Dreaming Eye's tale is essentially true and represents the story of how she got taken as a little girl and turned into an AI that eventually became Sacajawea on board the ship Lewis & Clark. She was playing hide and seek with her sister, and fascinated by space and the stars, she ends up hiding on board a spaceship, which ends up taking off. She is discovered and is taken to someplace where there are a lot of children to be evaluated for their suitability as AIs. She is tested and is found to be a "Prime" candidate, and after trying to escape, she is recaptured and the last bit we just got was what happened when they drugged her before the "operation" or whatever. The "scorpion" seems to be the symbol of this AI project, and I think it is interesting that the number that she was apparently given (541-P) (as mentioned in the latest story pieces) is the same number as the "fake" virus that the crew believed for a while was infecting the ship (as mentioned in the logs) but later was discovered to have been introduced into the ship encyclopedia by the AI.

The Lewis & Clark was on some kind of scientific mission when something went wrong in deep space. I happen to think that this was caused by the Forerunner artifacts that Isaac was carrying with him (as mentioned in the latest audio log), but that is just a guess at this point. In any event, the ship dropped out of slipspace, the crew was awakened, and the AI was fractured, just like in ILB. The AI fragments seems to include at least "Sys" which is the emergency system part of the AI, and "S/Essy" which is the little girl part of the AI, which retains memories of her original life. The 'hostile' tentacle could either be a 3rd fragment of the AI (which has shown signs of instability) or might possibly be an external element, like maybe part of the Forerunner thing, whatever that is.

That's about all I got at the moment. What have I missed/not understood?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:37 am

Misroi · Veteran Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

Is that how AIs are created in the Haloverse (i.e., their neural paths digitally reproduce a human brain scan)? I wasn't aware of that. If that's true, sounds as though there's less allegory in the tale of Dreaming Eyes than I thought.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:56 am

Turducken

**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:25 pm

danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:47 pm

Shad0

Re: [TRAILHEAD] Intimation

**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:56 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:38 pm

TheClockworkRat · Greenhorn Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 5

**Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:08 am

krystyn

It's actually Catherine Halsey, and I clearly need to catch up on my Red vs. Blue. I think I stopped watching regularly right after season 2 or 3. Smile

**Posted:** Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:19 pm

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Turducken

**Posted:** Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:26 pm

krystyn

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh, that IS a lot!

**Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:31 pm

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ironnikki

Alright. After reading all 80-something pages of this thread (partly out of interest, partly out of sheer hatred of my job,) I think I'm gonna try my hand at this ARG thing.

Bear with me!

**Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:46 pm

MrToasty

New tweet:

**Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:32 pm

anaerin

As noted on IRC, the Maze is back up and running! http://thewaytheirworldended.com/Q7J8R04J87FFJ983Q2/

**Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:20 pm

anaerin

And we've got something VERY new!

On the PK node, there's the message ">NODE:DATA//WEAK ANOMALOUS SIGNAL DETECTED/FLAGGED FOR SURVEILLANCE" (Thanks Dante).

Upon digging/spidering, I found:

**Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:52 pm

catherwood

churning away with Anaerin in IRC...

I've found a total of 8 "pathlocked" items, which lead to 8 new "group" strings (the base-64 stuff). The "resolved" end nodes can be found at the following paths:

**Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:01 pm