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[psygene]

TINAG.

What if SOTA are right? What if "Ancients" have been in "contact" with humanity? What if these "Ancients" are indeed beings from another planet and have been modifying human history so that advancements occur, so that leaps are made in particular directions? So that some "desirable" civilizations flourish, while other non-desirables perish? All, so that we may reach a technological level capable of executing some task in the future.

But if an alien organic entity lived amongst us in such vast numbers, would we not have noticed them? For it would take vast numbers with either, long life spans, or multiple generations of them, to have the ability to shape human evolution. And, we would have noticed such obviously different biological entities. Unless they created and left behind some sort of ageless, eternity-enduring, non-organic intelligence, that would push humanity in directions that these "Ancients" wanted, without arousing too much suspicion. Non-organic intelligences that would not be too obtrusive. Maybe Adjutant Reflex is one such non-organic intelligence, which is now attempting direct contact with us so that we may support SOTA. Perchance SOTA requires a lot more "man"power than its current membership, to accomplish what AR now requires.

This "array" that AR constantly mentions in its communiques seem to have come under threat. Furthermore, this array may not be Earth-bound, and someone/something malevolent has stumbled across it and is subverting the real purpose behind the array for their/its own ends. This may have forced AR's timetable for technological evolution to move ahead and therefore requires more assistance than is currently afforded by the decidedly few SOTA members. Mayhaps we should all sign up with SOTA as soon as possible, and await instructions from AR.

Also, "Ancients" is too archaic a term to be used to label these biological entities that came before us. Perhaps we should call them "Forerunner"?

Thoughts?

Aside: I believe that our intimate knowledge of the Haloverse has tainted our read on things here and therefore we're jumping to conclusions that need not be made yet. The Haloes do not exist yet. The Ark does not exist yet. The Covenant do not exist yet. All this has been referenced by other posters here before me. We should probably keep that in mind. Even I have been guilty of forgetting TINAG.

Apologies for the overly prose discourse at the beginning. I was looking to drive home a point.

[Phyltre]

Agreed. I advise any of us burning to get into the SOTA as a member (which is hit-you-in-the-head-obvious participation territory) to limber our writing skill and make ourselves look like useful potential members. Stay AWAY from franchise keywords, just as the SOTA site does. Make yourself sound like an actor, not a player, since an actor will be much more useful to an ARG than a fanboy player who breaks storyline continuity will be. Play up some "parallel research" you've done, google some extraterrestrial organizations you can claim to be affiliated with (all's fair in love and ARGs); in short, be a good roleplayer.

As a bit of an aside, can we all assume that the Forerunner DID survive in the Halo timeline? None of the precepts of the SOTA make sense if they didn't, and I doubt such an obvious point would have been overlooked in even the most cursory glancing-over of the Halo Bible (which the PMs certainly have been advised upon.)

[CitizenErased]

some people on args.bungie.org were discussing the idea of going to stongehenge on the solstice... im thinking thats a bad idea. lots of crazies up there. so before anyone suggests it, id say its prolly not a great idea.

[Lostconfused]

Well this is the halo universe so we need to take a couple of things into account. The Halo array was fired 100000 wiping out any and all sentient life in existence. Because there is an existence of the Ark we can assume a small number of sentient entities survived from that time, not counting the flood. Apparently the flood life form is small enough (for some reason) to escape the destructive force of halo, but i would assume the grave mind entity that comes into existence isn't. The flood are supposed to die due to starvation, so the halo wipes them out indirectly.

The real problem with answering the visitors questions is that there are too many unknowns. There are forerunner AI constructs that have survived and persist, we don't know how many or their purpose but we have met a couple. Also questions need to be answered of how did the current grave mind come about, what started the covenant on their crusade against the humans. Oh also theres a message in one of the audio tracks that follows the classic scheme of being revealed if played backwards.

[Drew]

Not sure why, but someone requested an overlay of the glyph onto the Transmission page:



Nothing, really.

[Dark_Ryder14]

[Jordan117]

New MySpace post

[Khune]

do we have video of the san fran protest cause if not I have it right here

[Auras]

[Falagard2]

[Starblade]

[epmatsw]

Someone on Bungie's forums found this site by searching for the mispelled Antikythere Mechanism mentioned on SOTA. Read the links at the bottom, it is suspicious, but I'm not sure if it's related.
http://www.aldo-disorbo.net/discovery.asp

[Khune]

Sorryhere San Fran protest

[Khune]

The site has no link to this ARG it most likely is prpaganda to draw lure to the game itself

[Khune]

bungie said so themself that they want this game to appeal to everyone so it might not seem like the stamp of a arg to relate to halo in an obvious form but it is in its essence