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[SPEC] A round up and a theory

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HB_01
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Joined: 03 Jul 2007
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Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

[SPEC] A round up and a theory

Hey guys, Been reading up on what's been discoverd so far and i feel ready to make a contribution.

This is guna be a long one.

So what do we know now?

Basically there's the entity named Adjutant Reflex that showed up on the bungie.net forums posting some odd comments. Popular belief is that this is an AI (or possibly a network of machines / monitors) that's resident in the Forerunner Ark in eastern Africa. By the sounds of Adjutant Reflex (AR)'s posts, its system is under attack by something, but we don't yet know what.

What happened next?

An email was sent out to numerous people, which includes a strange glyph drawn on the background wall image. That glyph has shown up in an image on halo3.com as well. Soon after, AR also updated its avatar in the bungie.net forums to that glyph.

Glyph?

Symbols used by the foruners, Kinda like an alphabet. After the first one was turned up they started to crop up everywhere. The link below will to take you to an image of the original glyph in the email.

http://halo.wikibruce.com/images/2/21/070614-Glyph-zoom.jpg

The odd thing is that that glyph had also been "found" by a research group who cataloged findings from around the world - there most recent being that very gyph. THe name of the group? "Society of the Ancients"

Society of the what?

In a number of cities around the world (6 reported so far) - NYC, San Francisco, London, Vancouver, Chicago, and Boston - a group of people calling themselves the Society of the Ancients have been holding small rallies, and handing out flyers, trying to raise awareness for their website. The group catalogues a number of ancient discoveries, but the latest being the appearance of the symbol, the very glyph found in the email. The latest update to their website includes a link to... are you ready?

A countdown.

COUNTDOWN?!?

A website with a countdown It was in base 7, and it ended at midnight June 20, the start of the summer solstice.

For those who dont know what the summer solstice is i lifted this from wikipedia:

"A solstice occurs twice a year, whenever Earth's axis tilts the most toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to be farthest north or south at noon. The name is derived from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstice, the Sun stands still in declination, that is, its movement north or south is minimal."

So a forunner symbol found by the society of the ancients turns up a countdown to a twice yearly event...The rabbit hole goes deeper still.

Surely there cannot be more?!

Ok, so the countdown is ticking away when a Halo 3 comic print ad was found in a Circuit City flyer, and in a Best Buy ad, directing people to halo3.com/comic. But there's also a trick... read the comic, on the last page, play around with some of the frames... you'll find 4 numbers that make an IP address : Linking back to the countdown

So what about our little glitch in the forums Adjutant Reflex?

Well the little A.I that could had been busy! Adjutant Reflex updated the world on its status through the bungie.net forums, as it attempted to retain integrity against its attacker. As the onslaught continued, the timer on the transmissiong log (the IP website from the comic) began speeding up. Eventually AdjutantReflex succumbed to the attacker. The site reflected this defeat with the timer halting in its tracks as it said "System failure. Root cause unknown. Rebooting." The time left, coincidentally, when treated as GPS coordinates seem to point to a suspicious location in southeastern Africa, near Voi, and near where the Ark supposedly rests. But, before AR was 'sterilyzed', it told us that it would "seek one of [us] out and leave [its] legacy in a small space".

So the countdown website now has no relivance exept for some GPS coordinates?

No not exactly, near midnight on June 20th, the transmission log website suddenly directed visitors to a location called "Bounce Path Control", where they were given a 'key' code, and heard a message from an unknown identity asking us to take these 'keys' and research information that would be given us to possibly avert the fate the Forerunners were led to. After 100 visitors had received their keys, the transmission log directed to the unlocked "Server 05", a number of files were made accessible by activating symbols located at various points around a rotating Forerunner object. These files seem to describe a viral outbreak, a log of data occurring moments before the initial firing of the Halos 100,000 years ago, a mysterious star map with a variant of AdjutantReflex's glyph, and a video with a transcript describing the past event.

Great scott! Then what?!?!?!

well, that is it for now, those are all the events that have happened up to this point we can only dig around and see what we can find or untill another forunner server can be got into.

However...

I have a theory.

Bungie loves the number 7. soon we will be aproaching the 7/7/07, a good date to release data no? It's not just a crazy hunch I have either, a number of important events have occured on the 7th of July:

Isac Newton received his MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.

Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.

So there is my summing up and my theory. Keep your eye's peeled on the seventh and we will soon know if I have been proved wrong

edited to add [SPEC] tag ~rose

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:09 pm

SGMX
Boot

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 50

Man, someone should collect all that info in one place. Maybe in a wiki or something...

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:16 pm

HB_01
Boot

Joined: 03 Jul 2007
Posts: 21
Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Yeah there is one, Its actualy where I started my research and lifted stuff from, it is this URL http://halo.wikibruce.com/Home

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:20 pm

ssx3master
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Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Posts: 72
Location: New Jersey

SGMX wrote:

Man, someone should collect all that info in one place. Maybe in a wiki or something...

I cant really tell if that was a joke or not, but I hope to god it was. lol.
But yeah, the bruce has been kind enough to supply us with a day-to-day database on a wiki he created
here since this whole thing got started. </thread>

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HB_01 wrote:

Yeah there is one, Its actualy where I started my research and lifted stuff from, it is this URL http://halo.wikibruce.com/Home

**facepalm**

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:22 pm

HB_01
Boot

Joined: 03 Jul 2007
Posts: 21
Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

ssx3master wrote:

SGMX wrote:

Man, someone should collect all that info in one place. Maybe in a wiki or something...

HB_01 wrote:

Yeah there is one, Its actualy where I started my research and lifted stuff from, it is this URL http://halo.wikibruce.com/Home

**facepalm**

lol, well at least you tried Smile

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:33 pm

Shadaraman
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Joined: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 60

Ships passing in the night and all that...

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What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"
- Frank Herbert

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:42 pm

SGMX
Boot

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 50

(Was hoping it would go without saying)

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:28 pm

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