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[GloryFish]

[Question] What is our goal?

[Arashi]

Hmm.... personally (at the risk of sounding inhuman) I would say it would be better to restore the AI - think of what he/she/it could tell us.. oh the dilemma

[SecondSundodger]

As I'm sure most everyone knows, when something gets deleted from a PC's hard drive, it's not really gone. There are ways to recover that "deleted" information. What's that recovery process called, and could it (or something dealing with it) clue us in into how to help Melissa or SP recover old memories?

[AngriBuddhist]

I was wondering about this after we got the first .wav files organized.
We have figured out what is causing the ILB freakiness.

Mellissa said:

"I hear a jumble of voices in my head. The voices are in someway related
to my accident. Because of the damage, I am unable to accurately assess
the nature of the voices. By broadcasting the voices to my crew, they will
be able to assess the damage. Once assessed, the damage can be repaired."

That is are current goal. To "hear" the voices and assess the damage.
These .wav files are the voices and since they don't yet tie into the "accident" we must have quite a few more to "hear".

So in turn, our mission is to figure out what it takes to "hear" them all.
There seems to be a total of 777 axons, although we can only see 215
of them, and getting them "hot" might be what needs to be done.

And who knows, answering telephones might not be the only way we
end up doing that.

[GloryFish]

[AngriBuddhist]

Gloryfish wrote:

[DigitalTrickster]

[Spec/Meta]



I'm not a Halo fan so my knowledge of the universe is limited. Are we certain Melissa plays a defined role in Halo 2 or in Bungies universe? If not then how we choose to proceed could in fact be important. Just wanted to offer a counter point, if some of the background runs counter to a flexible Melissa plot let me know. I'm a Halo newb as I said.

[AngriBuddhist]

No, you are correct. We have no idea if it will tie in at this point.

On the other hand, there is alot of facts that point to it being atleast within
what, a decade of Halo/Halo2.

Melissa mentions "Covies" (Covenant).
The memory in the ships hold mentions "Covenant" and "Forerunners".
The recent "troy" .wav mentions the "glassing" (halo version of planetary
destruction).
And I can't remember where but the fall of "reach" is refered to.

So, it's in the Halo universe, it happens after the first Halo game.
In the other .wavs, Earth does not seem to be recovering from a massive
attack.

Sorry about the abrupt sentences. I'm really tired.

The timeline would put it before or right at the Covenat attack on the
Earth and at this time it's perfectly reasonable to believe that it ties
directly into the scenario of Halo2.

[Zanzibar]

[SPEC] It seems to me that our goals will change over time. The Flea will at some point get in the way, and it will be up to us to help kill the Flea. Or at least help SP wrest control of Melissa away from the Flea.

Something that occurred to me is that the Flea wouldn't WANT us to have access to the axons in the 'Troy' sequence; otherwise those files would have been sent via axons in the \links.html page instead of 'hidden' through the \recipe3.html page. So what is in the Troy sequence that is sensitive enough to exclude? And how did the SP know to give them to us?

[AngriBuddhist]

zanzibar,

It's not what is said in the .wav. It's what it implies.
Marines arrive on Troy to evacuate personel. They do this because the
humans have found out how to crack the Covenant transmissions.
They discover that the Covenant are on their way.

When transmitting this the Pious Flea is trying to tell the Covenant,
"Hey, Look! They knew we were coming. We have been compromised."

[jellyfish_green]

[vidstudent]

[SPEC] Shooting off endgame theories

[Platonix]

[Atoner]

Currently it seems like our goal is to sit around with our thumbs up our posteriors until we get more axons.

-Atoner-

[Zemat]

First time here, heh!

Here's my wild spec:

From what I recall, Mellissa mentions she can't know anything about itself and that it's encased in mirrors (or that was Durga?).

Maybe the purposes of the Axons is that, as her "loyal crew", we must get access to all the voices in it's head and reorganize them for her to see. We are being her mirror and this is the actual distributed reflex the SPDR was trying to achieve. But the PF has taked control and now it's tellign Mellissa what and what no to show us in order to give her a false "truth". A "truth" as the PF sees fit for it's own benefit (whatever it may be). SP on the other hand is showing us the rest of the information and telling us not to listen to PF to advance SP's own take on the truth.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong about everything. Trout?

Oh! And hi all!!