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[Jordan117]

Re: good point

[psygene]

Where is HHM with her rapier wit?

Apologies for being off-topic. But, a little humor does always go a long way.

[thebruce]

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[LordIllidan]

[HitsHerMark]

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[skybruin]

I had a thought pop into my head not too long ago as I lay in bed.

The nature of the riddle posed by AR keeps making me think of a mirror. that has been discussed before here. but thinking further along those lines made me ponder the riddle more. if one looks into a mirror what do they see. Themselves. So in regards to the riddle, I PMed AR the words he sees himself.

What poped into my head this morning was more of a clarification of the above thought and how it applies to AR.

I know believe AR to be a subroutine of the larger construct. Sort of like the SPDR was a subroutine of Melissa. He was specifically placed to monitor the world until some cycle or event takes place while the larger construct hibernates. now that cycle or event has come or will arrive shortly

I also believe that the AR subroutine has gone beyond it's function, gaining more consciousness over the period of monitoring it's surroundings(us). This may have lead to AR's description of the larger routine as something wicked. It doesn't want to end it's interaction with us. Thus the hiding in some place small, it will compress itself and try to remain inconspicous as the larger construct awakens.

Now whether or not this is cortana or not is still in question. I don't see any solid evidence yet that this is the case, so for myself I will treat AR and the larger construct not as gravemind or cortana, but as a completely new individual within the Halo universe.

[Urk]

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[Lostconfused]

quickie note on the gravemind teleportation. The gravemind is tapped into the halo and a bunch of its system which allows it to use the teleportation system of the halo for that little bit of lightshow in the game, if i remember correctly Cortana managed to do the same thing in the first halo game.

One thing that i would not agree on is that the gravemind has any kind of foresight into the future that is not provided through its experiences and memories hehe. Halo3.com in character description states that it posses genetic memory of the flood so i guess that make sense. My real concern though is that is this gavemind the same one from 100000 years ago? Halos are a rather indirect weapon against the flood so i am not certain if the gravemind from that time was wiped out or not

[Urk]

[Lostconfused]

[Urk]

Speculation

I think it may be a leap to assume that the new entity is Gravemind. It seems plausible that he is pulling some strings, but until we get hard and fast data, we can make no assumption.

That said, here is another piece of "evidence" to contribute to the speculation that he is involved. During a track on Halo 2 there is an audio clip embedded in the background. When reversed, speech forms. It is widely believed to be Gravemind, though the text is not entirely accurate, per Marty O'Donnell. Even so, it bares similarities to some of the communications with AR and this new "being."

[Lostconfused]

I just think that people give gravemind too much credit and tend to forget that "aaaaaahhhh its flood its going to kill us all and eat our corpses aaaah. (screams of horror and pain)"

He has been around for a long time, he probably knows more about the events of the past then any forerunner AI that we have seen. Although each was equally vague in telling us what the heck happened. Its just that i cant help but doubt that the gravemind can freely travel/communicate through out the universe without going off and infecting half the galaxy.


Edit: Also on that message during the mausoleum track. Is gravemind the only one that is allowed to do lyrical introspective mussing with a somewhat nihilistic bent in the halo universe.

[MjolnirMkII]

Well, if it is not Gravemind, what other characters have lived long enough to fit the description AR gave and fit into the persona of that musing?

[CoffeeJedi]

One thing that keeps coming to me when AR talks about the other only seeing a reflection, is this from chapter 1 of ILB:

"But, I'm reflected. I can't look at myself, I bounce away."

(sorry if this is trout)

[Anton P. Nym]