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[SPEC] Meaning of the New Clips From the recipe3 Page

[t-toe]

it was questioned if there were two stories going on in the "goodbye.wav". where there's that sudden shift when he's put on hold. however, I would like to note that it's the same voice actor speaking as the old man, and talking to that lower officer. chances are, he's not really an old man at all, but trying to get some info on that Lance Coorporal.

what do you all think?

[daegan]

Well we now know that Melissa and Greene's intel got back to HQ and that they decided to at least Evacuate SOME of the citizens on Troy.

Possibly not all of them. We don't know for sure.

What puzzles me is why Flea and Melissa held this story back from us?

[Atoner]

I'm not so sure there are 2 stories being relayed here. It sounds like the guy clamoring about his receipt is the same one who asked "any data yet?". He may have just been throwing his voice to make it unrecognizable. He may have just been checking to see what happened to "Corporal Janet Adams".

-Atoner-

[farva]

Speculation at this point, of course, but I don't think these new clips will be directly related to the other clips. Instead, I think these new clips are to let us know about the evacuation of Troy and that [WILD SPEC] ONI is monitoring local (meaning "close to Earth") transmissions to see if the Covenant is on the way.

[Extrasonic]

transcript of receipt.wav:

[devolver]

I wondered about this sentence from Goodbye:

"It looks like a ship dropped in, inside of lunar orbit."

The second man seems surprised by this--that it's one of "our"/human ships. Don't remember much of my Halo: First Strike (that is, possible ), but does this have any significance? I remember something about Cortana being able to travel through slipspace much more precisely once she got into the network on that Covenant Ship (Ascendant Justice?). Before that, human ships wouldn't have been able to jump that precisely--inside of a lunar orbit. IF that's true, then what does it mean that Apocalypso could do it?

Then again, maybe I'm reading this totally wrong. I've been told I've been wrong before ...

[ariock]

quick spec and relisten..

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[Dorkmaster]

Unless, and this cannot be discounted outright (at least until we get other clips), the following is the case:

Since this is CP (chatter protocol) going on. We already have proof that chatter can be hacked by a good hacker (Kumal or whatever his name was) then we HAVE to assume that the govt. could hack it too. SO... along that reasoning, maybe this isn't necessarily one person impersonating someone, but maybe the same machine scanning CP transmissions and recording them? (explains the beeps, IMHO) Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there... I know most disagree, but does anyone have evidence that they can say shoots this down? (I welcome it.)

[cedmond]

so why would this guy (who seems to be a high up military type) be posing as an old man trying to get info of someone else in the military? why not just ask someone in house? might he not be who we think he is (if we think he's anything yet)

[Slothboy]

[Malrog]

[LilSerf]

I agree that the deep-voiced guy is 'putting on' the voice of "Mr. Receipt."

You can hear the slight music and the clock ticking throughout, and his voice is clearly "in the room" with the mic (as opposed to "snotty lady" who's clearly on the other end of a phone-like connection).

It also seems to me that after Snotty Lady tells Mr. Receipt that Cpl Adams is dead, it takes a few seconds for him to process that and the 'Mr. Receipt' voice suffers until he recovers and concentrates on doing the voice.

Not to mention the crotchety-old-man flavor of Mr. Receipt is just so over-the-top

[Slothboy]