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(SPEC) SPDR
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Dark Spartan
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 		(SPEC) SPDR
I think the SPDR program used to be a human at some point that commited suicide and was brought back to life as this program. SPDR could be short for spider. From reading through some hidden text on the honey page I found a ref. on the greek myth of Arachne, when looking into this I find....

"Athena took pity on Arachne. She most likely did not expect that Arachne would commit suicide. She brought her back to life, but not as a human. By sprinkling her with the juices of aconite, Athena transformed the woman into a spider, her and her descendants to forever hang from threads and to be great weavers."

The part about being "weavers" can also tell us a bit about what kind of program the SPDR is.

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Mag!cian
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 		This is a great speculation as to what SPDR could mean... thanks for the INFO!

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Macavity
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 		Sorry to bust your bubbles, but S.P.D.R. is actually an acronym. It stans for:

System

Peril

Distributed

Reflex

Basically, the SPDR is an autonomous repair program - it's not particularly smart, but it's got a job and it does that job well.

Or it did, until the Pious Flea (which is a small AI of unknown origin and purpose) supplanted it.
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Dark Spartan
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 		I knew it was some sort of repair program, I just wasnt sure if it any A.I. to it or not.

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