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[LOCKED] [TRAILHEAD] Halo 3 ARG (a real one, not ILB2 again)
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Inboundmuskrat
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 		Now I read something today (can't remember where) but AR said something about responding in 50 days after this next communication. Now I could read it wrong, but 50 days without a response seems pretty long for an ARG.

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WhiteGulls
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 		Now, here's a suggestion - I dunno if I'll be around when he awakens again, but if he does, someone should send Reflex some SPDR code. If this IS ILB2, then maybe, just maybe... this is the valiant return of the SPDR?

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caiaphas
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 		In regards to researching and collating on the part of AR:

AR pretty much says that the last event happened around 100 000 years ago (give or take a few). We know from canonical sources that this coincides with the last firing of the Halo array.

We also know that 2 installations (halos) are compromised, one of them rather catastrophically so (big boom in sky). Without double checking, I think AR even mentions this. If he doesn't, it doesn't really matter with where I'm going.

My thinking: AR is collating and researching the data since the last "event"; particularly in regards to effectiveness of firing off the remaining installations. For lack of a better phrase, perhaps the AR is trying to find a firing solution that works in the current situation (an array missing 2 out of 7 installations).

Is this germane to whatever ARG is going on? I have no idea.

Caiaphas BoT

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Anton P. Nym
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Urk wrote:
There is no reason to believe that the XBL account is authentic. It's nice that it's being archived, but I would question the validity considering AdjutantReflex indicated that b.net would be his sole vehicle for communication.

There's one way to verify the XBL chat's authenticity. If the gamertag used by Live's AR is linked to the Bungie.net's AR account, then were copacetic. If there's no linked account, we're still at sea. And if it's linked to a different Bungie.net account, I may have some banning to do.

-- Steve's not cutting the jokers much slack on this one, not if they're deliberately trying to mislead players.

edited to add: I can't check from here... I could check in two hours, or someone here can pop over to Bungie.net and check by visiting AdjutantReflex's profile there.

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troglodyte
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 		Non-Authorized also makes sense- it's possible the Ark was or will be boarded without authorization. If it was not authorized after the Halos were first activated, that would explain the existence of humanity, the covenant, and the reason for the existence of AR and other AI programs.

As for the 50 days thing, that was an XBL chat log, which I'm currently regarding as apocryphal.

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@Anton
The XBL account is NOT linked to the B.Net account, and has since been removed. If it is real, it's currently impossible to verify.

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tsondie21
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Anton P. Nym wrote:
Urk wrote:
There is no reason to believe that the XBL account is authentic. It's nice that it's being archived, but I would question the validity considering AdjutantReflex indicated that b.net would be his sole vehicle for communication.

There's one way to verify the XBL chat's authenticity. If the gamertag used by Live's AR is linked to the Bungie.net's AR account, then were copacetic. If there's no linked account, we're still at sea. And if it's linked to a different Bungie.net account, I may have some banning to do.

-- Steve's not cutting the jokers much slack on this one, not if they're deliberately trying to mislead players.


The account on Bnet is gone, but when it was there, I believe I remember someone saying it was linked. I think they said it in a Bnet forum.


EDIT: What is this SPDR I keep hearing about?
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Silent_shadow900
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 		From wikipedia's entry on I Love Bees:

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The game's story essentially began with a military spaceship crashing to Earth in an unknown location, killing the crew and leaving the craft's controlling AI program damaged. This AI, known as the "Operator" or "Melissa", was not alone. Other AI programs shared its system or affected it from other systems. One program, called "SPDR" (System Peril Distributed Reflex) or "Spider", was a software task meant to repair Melissa, but Melissa, disoriented and self-protecting, did not take kindly to this interference.


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Shadowkiller
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caiaphas wrote:
In regards to researching and collating on the part of AR:

AR pretty much says that the last event happened around 100 000 years ago (give or take a few). We know from canonical sources that this coincides with the last firing of the Halo array.

We also know that 2 installations (halos) are compromised, one of them rather catastrophically so (big boom in sky). Without double checking, I think AR even mentions this. If he doesn't, it doesn't really matter with where I'm going.

My thinking: AR is collating and researching the data since the last "event"; particularly in regards to effectiveness of firing off the remaining installations. For lack of a better phrase, perhaps the AR is trying to find a firing solution that works in the current situation (an array missing 2 out of 7 installations).

Is this germane to whatever ARG is going on? I have no idea.

Caiaphas BoT


Well, from the ending of Halo 2 the Halo was still fully functional. So it is compromised but still able to fire. Of course it may not be that way forever, the Gravemind obviously doesn't want the Halos fired again, so disabling it isn't outside the realms of possibility.
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Mango7
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Inboundmuskrat wrote:
Now I read something today (can't remember where) but AR said something about responding in 50 days after this next communication. Now I could read it wrong, but 50 days without a response seems pretty long for an ARG.


That was because AR supposedly said something about responding and 1200 hours. but it was probably 1200 hours military time, as in 12 noon. not 1,200 hours.

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Inboundmuskrat
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 		Now I have a question that pertains to AR. He/She said that he/she is trying to figure out the firing perimeters. With one of the halos taken out of the equation, can the halos still "clean" the whole universe?

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weephun
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Anton P. Nym wrote:
-- Steve wishes such trivialities as wages and groceries didn't interfere with his precious ARG time.


So does Preston. So so very busy keeping UE3 teh awesome! ... no really, it's "work" I promise Cool

Can't wait to see if this goes somewhere interesting though. Fingers are crossed.

I'll actually add this ... so it's not just another "hey, I'm back too, look at me post Wink ... that I actually found linked to by Steve (somewhat META so I'm not too surprised he didn't post it). http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10645838&postRepeater1-p=1#10648155

No way to know if that "super awesome project" is this particular super awesome project, but it would be cool if it were. Those are some awesome minds that could create some real phun times.
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enderxenocide0
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FauxHammer wrote:
enderxenocide0 wrote:
Personally, I find the Ark reference more likely to be related to the Ark of the Covenant than Noah's Ark. The reference to the Flood is meant to be misleading. I hate to go into all this, I think it would end up getting us sidetracked. There's too many years behind it to go into.


Actually, I'd rather stick to a Genesis reference. After the genesis flood, God made a covenant with Noah never again to destroy the world with a flood.

Yes, I realize that. It took three years to convince the Bungie community that they were being mislead. Hold on, there's a couple threads that some of us have written detailing this, let me find some.

Angels and Demons - My own theory that deals with the past, and a tad on the future. It should contain some of the important links.
God (or something like Him), as seen in halo. - One by IceWeasel, the very best biblical theorist among the Bungie community.
The Seventh Trumpet - Most of Ice's stuff compiled on his website.

That covers most of it. The first thread links to older works by Eagle117, the most respected theorist on Bungie.net. He actually got responses from Eric Trautmann himself. I'm not saying that nothing in Genesis is relevant, only that I believe Genesis is relevant to Halo's backstory, and that current events have more relation to Revelation.

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Root
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 		A couple of questions
What type is the array of. Since it's an array, those elements of the array must be of some type; what is the type?

What is AR mining on these pages?

Can we return a value from the array?

int i=0;
for( i ; i < sizeof(requirements); i++)
{
printf("%h", requirements[i];
}

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Shadowkiller
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Inboundmuskrat wrote:
Now I have a question that pertains to AR. He/She said that he/she is trying to figure out the firing perimeters. With one of the halos taken out of the equation, can the halos still "clean" the whole universe?


There is probably some redundancy in the way the Halos are set through out the Universe so that losing one or 2 won't affect things drastically.
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enderxenocide0
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 		Re: A couple of questions
Root wrote:
What type is the array of. Since it's an array, those elements of the array must be of some type; what is the type?

What is AR mining on these pages?

Can we return a value from the array?

int i=0;
for( i ; i < sizeof(requirements); i++)
{
printf("%h", requirements[i];
}

I don't think he means array as we programmers think of it.

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