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[LordIllidan]

[SPEC] "Iris" is AR's attacker

[thebruce]

interesting thought... not much to go on until more happens... the question remains then, where did Iris come from, and what exactly IS Iris?

[Phyltre]

I believe that the underlying question here is whether or not there will be a central posting entity at the b.net forums. It's been openly stated that we will be guided by an 'unknown' hand (punctuation from the article, implying we DO know the entity that will be the guiding force) but whether or not we have any further explicit first-party postings will probably answer that question.

I believe that AR has interacted with multiple unseen entities thus far. One entity/group it was compelled to resist; the more powerful one took it offline. I think these are different because you don't launch a slow attack against something that acknowledges lower rank than yourself. Also AR uses the term 'us', in relation to his position. Since it is unlikely that he is referring to humans on Earth, we can only presume other entities.

I think it is, as this thread suggests, unlikely that the Gravemind is attacker. In fact, it is explicitly impossible because AR says his motives are oblique, and alliances opaque. But there is no finesse in the Gravemind's actions; he wants to consume all live and bring it to himself. So far he has acted only in self-preservation; hardly oblique motives. So unless AR is transcendentally idiotic, he wasn't taken down by the Gravemind.

If I had to make my own guess, I would say that AR was the agent (or a member of the agency) responsible for pushing humankind in the right direction as we have seen in the halo.com comic, and that attacks have occurred which necessitate the intervention of a more powerful being or construct. This would fit in with the idea of the AR as a POST operation, a sort of monitoring underling. I do not believe that AR's attacker was Iris, but the entity with which we communicate next may very well be.

My apologies on the length.

[CoffeeJedi]

[LordIllidan]

[thebruce]

[Phyltre]

I might be mistaken, but it appears that AdjutantReflex has been decommissioned on the bnet forums. His name is no longer yellow (although his group and previous statements still are.) I guess we should take it as a hint that he's good and dead, at least for the time being?

edit: Also, the group which AR was a member of appears to have grown significantly, from 12 members to 120, unless I misread. Sounds like a "small space" if you ask me, but you need to be approved by the group to join it. I've tried joining but perhaps now I'll try a bit harder?

http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/117546/Group/GroupHome.aspx

[DreamOfTheRood]

[LordIllidan]

[CoffeeJedi]

[Khune]

In am in the group that AR is in any theories as to what I should do.