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[Zemat]

[WILD SPEC] Ronnie is the SP AND, she came with the artifact

[BlascosGunfight]

I think that there is a severe lack of evidence and that you should probably go to bed now.
Until we receive or activate further information about Ronnie, such wild speculations as this are merely a collection of moot points.

[krystyn]

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[Platonix]

Two major flaws in that SPEC. First, the Sleeping Princess was still in her glass coffin when the gang arrived on ILB:

[Zemat]

I'm deeply sorry...

I do try to keep up with everything and read the most that I can before posting anything yet it's really hard to keep up with the vast amount of material (the ILB site, the wiki, theBruce's Timelines and Axon Plot) when you only got 2 hours a day to waste on the net (not just playing this game). I also use the search feature, but so far I use it just to avoid making a trout comment. But enough of excuses.

I remember reading the two quotes and I forgot the part of the SP still being there in the glass coffin after the incident.

I still have my doubts about the two quotes. It is clear that SP escaped through the coffin cracks but I don't remember any reference on the texts to she being imprisioned after or before the incident by the queen, widow or PF. I always assumed she was there from the beggining of the known story. That's way I pressumed the coffin being the artifact or a planet (That wild speculation I made about the glass coffin being a glassed planet could be handled more like a double allegory symbolizing both a dead planet and the artifact). But the spec about she being Ronnie coming from the future via the artifact still holds leaving out the flawed planet/coffin association I made.

We have plenty of references making Ronnie a candidate for a spy AI. Yet she's still alive at the moment of the recordings and we know they are being made (in-game) somehow as we speak (the operator just confirmed she has some sort of way to interact with the future slightly, both to record and manipulate). And SP's personality seems to match with that of Ronnie's. Since we know time travel is possible and it's probably associated with the artifact then we can't rule out still the posibility that SP came from another time, other than Melissa's time, along with the artifact. Even if the artifact isn't really the glass coffin SP talks about (the rest of the AI's also travelled througth time supposedly aided by the artifact without being enclosed by it, maybe).

Also the 404 answer saying that the queen is able to put her again in the coffin could be handled like an allegory to suppresing her means of communication with us or interaction with the ILB server. SP is a process, a piece of software. That's why I think she says the queen would hardly need any tools to put her back in the glass coffin. Just like the queen didn't required any tools the destroy the SPDR. Although I must say this argument doesn't support nor necessarily contradicts the glass coffin being the artifact. If the queen can put back the SP inside the glass coffin, then it doesn't have to be a weird object like the artifact just a mundane object like a hard drive or a blocked server. But the answer could also imply that the queen could put a firewall blocking the means by which the artifact interacts with the server, if the artifact came also to our time (the widow talks about handling unknown crystal fragments, I don't know if this was allegory of some sort or a literal reference to a physical material)

[Nova]

I'm not sure it's entirely on the same line of thinking as this thread, but anyway, when SP explicitly mentions memories of things more than 7 years ago, I'm pretty sure we're supposed to take the hint that she is not a human-based AI.

The seven-year life span of human smart AIs is very well documented and for the Princess to explicitly say 'more than 7 years ago' is something that cannot be ignored.

So, unless the Forerunners snatched Ronnie and made an AI out of her, which is pretty unlikely, I feel pretty comfortable speccing that neither Ronnie nor any other human is the basis for the SP.