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[MjolnirMkII]

Nice analogy! My girlfriend does that to me every saturday. Its become our routine.

But seriously, if in fact the entity is Gravemind, then what exactly can we do to thwart a threat that seems to be too far from Earth to do anything anyway? Is Gravemind a threat at all?

[Urk]

[Falagard2]

[MjolnirMkII]

I am in agreement with Falagard2 on the Gravemind theory. It makes a lot of sense and the spec has good reasoning and facts to back it up.

But I regress, what does Gravemind hope to accomplish by communicating and hacking AR in our time? Is there supposed to be a pivotal point in human history at this time that could affect our future?

[Urk]

[OwduaNM]

[Spec]

[MjolnirMkII]

Yup. Xbox 360 is the jump. Xbox 360 connected with the Halo 3 Zune turns into an interplanetary drive system fueled by the incoherent cursing of 12 year olds over Xbox live.

[violentvixen]

The n00bs shall inherit the earth.

[Phyltre]

I just can't picture the Gravemind being the entity that feeds us clues and is the instrument of our learning from this ARG. Sorry if I'm thinking a little outside the universe at the moment but remember that this is a learning experience by all accounts.

Of course, I suppose it could be a false-prophet situation; perhaps he tries to entice us into disabling the Ark, or using Forerunner technology to allow him to escape.

But even this line of thought makes me wonder--if the Gravemind is around 500 years before canon events, wouldn't that mean that the Delta Halo fight never ended? That for whatever reason, the Flood had already generated self-sustaining mass on that Ring and had spent the intervening years assaulting it? (Consider just how badly destroyed the Quarantine Zone was. Parts of it were completely and utterly slagged!) Perhaps the situation on Delta Halo was the original outbreak that removed the Forerunner from the playing field? Remember we haven't once heard that the Halos kill the Flood directly--it is likely they aren't affected by them.

From this perspective (and only this one as far as I can see) the Gravemind idea makes sense. Since the Gravemind is even now attacking vital Ring systems, (and we know it eventually claims their monitor), it would make sense for it to surf the Forerunner internet as a biological AI, encountering the processes governing Earth's Ark in the process.

[Urk]

[Phyltre]

[Lostconfused]

Still cant agree with the gravemind explanation. For one thing, there are probably some physical fail safes that gravemind wouldn't be able to overcome all the way from the delta halo and there is no sign that he is anywhere else.

All the posts made by AR make it seem that this is an unknown entity of questionable intent that has been around for a rather long period of time and has just now awoken once again.

To me it seems that linking all the vague messages to gravemind forget that its main goal is the spread of the flood. Honestly all those signs pointing to gravemind that are too much of a coincidence are to vague to be considered clear proof. Personally i still think its going to be something else other then gravemind. Well maybe we will find out tonight.

[MjolnirMkII]

It would be great of at the end of the countdown the page just showed a flood army and said "You are dead! The Flood ate your brains!!"

But I really think that it just might unlock server 1 on halo3.com

[Urk]

Possible contact:

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11388345

[tsondie21]

we need to warn SoTA somehow

also: "he is here"

looks like its not cortana