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Ok so trout me if I deserve it but: Follow me on this one-

We know AI's carry a dormant limited backup. So, if according to regular monarch rule a princess bcomes a Queen then vice verse right. So is it possible it is some reference to The queen once being a princess - that is a backup copy?

Ok so I'm out there I know but hey - new life to an old puzzle might get something clicking (That and I'm about 50+ pages late in this puzzle lol)

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:54 pm

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hrm.... I seem to remember one of the princess stories mentioning how the queen became a queen, but I can't remember exactly, and I lost my copy when my hd crashed. Anyone else out there?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:07 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:08 pm

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Ralen · Boot Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 44

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:56 pm

McDonaldHeard · Boot Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 18

Total spec here, but what if SP's clue refers not to Operator but simply "OP," which I understand Melissa is also referred to. Then the hint is that the answer is a two-word phrase O___ P____.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:35 pm

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Meeps · Kilroy Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 2

Actually, if I could just put my two cents in, it might not help, but I think that people were on the right track with the fact that all the words were prepositions in the first clue and that "Sounds like" has to do with the word preposition....meaning actually "Pre-position" or maybe even "pre-positions". This, I think, links to the second clue from today about what the "least favourite person" was "before she became Queen"...i.e. what was her "pre-position", if that makes sense. I just can't figure out what that position was. I've tried everything that The Queen has been referred to, as I'm sure other people have.

Perhaps this is a pointless post or I'm speaking to the obvious and I'm just thinking "out loud" on the forum so to speak, but I'm hoping that maybe it will spark some thought in someone else. Thanks.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:47 pm

turbov21 · Veteran Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 108

Trout me is you will, but...

Darketnal · Boot Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 26

If I'm not mistaken, isn't Melissa=Durga=SP, and therefore the answer would be Spartan?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:48 pm

Nova

What was Melissa before she became the Queen?

The Operator.
Alive.
In space.
Sane.
A friend.
Aboard a ship.

Just rounding up possibilities... Idea

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:53 pm

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before she was the Queen she was whole. which sounds like hole.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:59 pm

Checksum

Don't forget flash clone. Well, technically the flash clone is what replaces the original human, so maybe that's not it. Oh well, stick it on the list anyway. Wink

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**Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:03 am

Wizarbo · Boot Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

we need to remember that what we got today was a hint, so whole sounds like hole yes,b ut think, would have you come up with the word 'whole' from the original clues? if not then its not gonna work. This probably wasnt meant to be a 2 week puzzle, we are just not looking in the right corner, i know we are all gonna feal retarded when we find the answer was infront of us the entire time =/

**Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:06 am

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i would tend to leave out anything that is pre awakening of SP. as she has no memory of being Yasmine, a Spartin, Durga or what have you, this seems unlikely to me.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:07 am

detayl

In the puzzles today there were some clues that had rows of *** characters around them. Turned out the puzzle was actually about stars. Maybe there is a similar reason for the dashes/hyphens/whatever. I was thinking that they are also minus signs which is a mathematical operator

I didn't get anywhere else with it so it's probably nothing...

**Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:30 am

Foz · Veteran Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 90

I'm not entirely sure of that. We don't really know what SP knows. It is quite possible that she has been there all the while; locked up in her coffin, even during Melissa's "normal" operation.

Meanwhile, back at the Justice League...There has to be significance to "between" as it is between 20 prepositions. It's just stting there smack in between them...mocking me.

Edit: Just remembered that the Widow's story tells us that it (the widow) found the Queen dead, so we might deduce that the Queen was alive before the crash.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:30 am