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[DeceptaconS]

[SPEC] What does this have to do with Halo 2? The Connection

[Max Damage]

I don't even know where to start here, but..



This is the biggest trout I've ever seen.

Sorry - all these theories are old, and have been disproved or are so unlikely that they're not worthy of consideration.

[chaotic_mind]

But link, Max Damage, link!

I suppose when my headache subsides I'll try to find the relavant info.

Luke P.

[ajenteks]

[DeceptaconS]

[chaotic_mind]

Well, a cursory search didn't seem to come up with much, though I know this has been discussed before, though mostly before my time.

As to the varroa mites looking like Flood, well...I'd have to say, that really, there's not enough evidence to suggest a connection. I think the floodicles were meant to look insectile, since most people have such a reaction to that sort of thing.

Further, there has been no EXPLICIT mention of flood through out this game. Such a subtle mention seems less like evidence of what ilovebees really means, and more a nod to Halo players, if even that.

The eight-legged creature is probably the SPDR. The SPDR seems to be refered to metaphorically as a Spider, or as a Widow by the Princess. The SPDR's purpose is to recollect the shattered fragments of Melissa.

The only thing that really could be a flood would be the Pious Flea (which is an arachnid like the mite, and the spider), but the Flea connects much more strongly in my mind to the Covenant.

Further, the capture of Captain Keyes hardly left the human survivors on Halo leaderless. We still have Master Chief, Cortana, Silva, and Wellesley.
There is nothing (that I can find, Max Damage, you might be able to do better then me) that EXPRESSLY invalidates this speculation. It just seems too far out there.

Luke P.

[Vicious]

[chaotic_mind]

I don't know. It also looks like every mite I've seen.

I think it may a be a matter of interpretation, but it just doesn't fit for me.

Luke P.

[GunsmithCat]

I think the mite infesting this bee would be Flea.

[jedi]

[CoffeeJedi]

i think the varrao mites were a nice little red herring, and a way for the writers to explain why Aunt M can't sell her honey right now (imagine the logistics if she could!)

people seem to forget that the mite infection is NOT one of Mellisa's metaphors, its a real physical problem that is plagueing Margaret's Honey, it was there before the corruption, and even Dana acknowledges it

so going from that... the current theory is that the flood "evolved" from present day microscopic bugs from Earth called varrao mites? that's... a little out there... it just doesn't seem to fit with the rest of this ARG (not to mention Halo in general)... i want ALOT more proof

[carguy0625]

voices at hive site

[DigiDevil]

Seems to me that this makes more sense than any of the other conjecture I have seen on these forums. It creates a pattern (Bungie is fond of patters, just look at thier level designs), and it gives the search direction (makes items easier to prove or disprove when you have a starting point). And for all of you screaming trout just remember that theories are created to be disproven. If you don't agree with it disprove it, don't flame it.

[CoffeeJedi]

Re: [SPEC] What does this have to do with Halo 2? The Connec

[TheSchnoo]

I just started getting into this game, it's too bad there haven't been any axons around Cincinnati, I'd love to go out to one. Anyway, it makes sense that the Pious flea is part of the covenant, most likely some kind of virus that got into Earth's network and poisoned the queen (probably some kind of Skynetish AI) and thus found the location of earth. The pious flea also wishes to assimilate other AI's in order to make it easier for the covenant to attack. Indeed it makes sense that the "Sleeping Princess" is some kind of countermeasure against this sort of infection, she spies on the queen and the pious flea so she probably is reporting what is happening to someone somewhere. I dunno, a lot of this is confusing and I hate waiting for the game to play out because I wanna know what's going on, but I figured I would throw in my 2 cents even though it's probably been said and discussed before.