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[UPDATE] 06.18 - New AdjutantReflex post, "That Old Life"
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Phyltre wrote:

I was under the impression that the "AI" was the Gravemind, which had infiltrated High Charity's systems?


That is a brilliant observation. Never even occured to me. But she does specify that the AI was on the forerunner ship.
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CORTANA:

I'll do what I can to slow the launch sequence. But there's something inside the ship, a presence that's fighting back. For a Covenant construct it's unusually formidable.


I once developed a theory that all covey AI's were copies of this one on the forrunner ship, A la the copies Cortana made of herself in First Strike. That would explain why the covey AI's are dumb, and why this one is so smart while still appearing the same. Then I got distracted by a shiny object and forgot about it.

Back to topic, we don't need Cortana or Melissa to be present for there to be a ludicrously powerful AI hanging around.

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 		Um. This isnt a post, but the Transmission page is new. Check it out. AR got hacked.
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 		to be fair, we should ignore whatever was found on the dev site at akqa... plus, I must have inadvertently brought over that comment as well, when I meant to leave it in the other thread since it doesn't have to do with AR and his posts, so let's work on dropping anything AKQA-related Wink
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 		With AR gone it seems, and the countdown increased, there might be a message from our unknown entity pretty soon.
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 		Allow me a second to throw out some insane specs about AR.

Perhaps AR is a sub-routine of Cortana, which she sent to Earth as a warning. However Gravemind has fully breached her security and thus found out about the warning, and pursued.

Add to this that the flood assimilated Captain Keyes in H1, whom was in fact Cortana's commanding officer on the Pillar of Autumn. Is it possible that Keyes had knowledge of how to breach/destroy Cortana in the event that the Covies were inevitably going to obtain her? and thus Gravemind now has the same knowledge.
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 		I do miss Capt. Keyes. He was a great commanding officer. But I am pretty sure he did not know much about AIs and computers to the extent to know about how to breach Cortana's security.
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 		The naming convention (Adjutant Reflex) adheres to Forerunner nomenclature and it's function is "facilitation of array requirements."

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Urk wrote:
The naming convention (Adjutant Reflex) adheres to Forerunner nomenclature and it's function is "facilitation of array requirements."


You are forgetting about all that data that Cortana picked up from Halo installation 03. AR could have been a part of that data.
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 		Is anyone keeping B.net covered for a new entity to communicate? That way we find out pretty quickly after its first post?
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Grifter_7 wrote:
Allow me a second to throw out some insane specs about AR.

Perhaps AR is a sub-routine of Cortana, which she sent to Earth as a warning. However Gravemind has fully breached her security and thus found out about the warning, and pursued.

Add to this that the flood assimilated Captain Keyes in H1, whom was in fact Cortana's commanding officer on the Pillar of Autumn. Is it possible that Keyes had knowledge of how to breach/destroy Cortana in the event that the Covies were inevitably going to obtain her? and thus Gravemind now has the same knowledge.


That is a good spec, but unless there is a time travel element to the game that can't happen. Cortana doesn't exist yet, and the Gravemind is still somewhere on the Delta Halo.
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Urk wrote:
The naming convention (Adjutant Reflex) adheres to Forerunner nomenclature


I think not. From Halopedia (emphasis added):

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The System Peril Distributed Reflex (or SPDR, pronounced "spider") is an automated program placed in UNSC AIs to assist the AI in repair when it becomes too damaged to function properly on its own.


Could it be that AR is part of a human AI, and not Forerunner?

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 		Sorry, double post.
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Jordan117 wrote:
Urk wrote:
The naming convention (Adjutant Reflex) adheres to Forerunner nomenclature


I think not. From Halopedia (emphasis added):

Quote:
The System Peril Distributed Reflex (or SPDR, pronounced "spider") is an automated program placed in UNSC AIs to assist the AI in repair when it becomes too damaged to function properly on its own.


Could it be that AR is part of a human AI, and not Forerunner?


Even if I grant you the word "reflex" and neglect to point out the difference in word count, you'll still have to explain away "facilitation of array requirements," and the use of a holographic Halo and then a Forerunner glyph as an avatar. Not to mention the existence of such an advance Human AI when our best efforts to date are playing chess or entertaining children.

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Urk wrote:
Jordan117 wrote:
Urk wrote:
The naming convention (Adjutant Reflex) adheres to Forerunner nomenclature


I think not. From Halopedia (emphasis added):

Quote:
The System Peril Distributed Reflex (or SPDR, pronounced "spider") is an automated program placed in UNSC AIs to assist the AI in repair when it becomes too damaged to function properly on its own.


Could it be that AR is part of a human AI, and not Forerunner?


Even if I grant you the word "reflex" and neglect to point out the difference in word count, you'll still have to explain away "facilitation of array requirements," and the use of a holographic Halo and then a Forerunner glyph as an avatar. Not to mention the existence of such an advance Human AI when our best efforts to date are playing chess or entertaining children.

Perhaps it, like the AIs in ILB, has somehow fallen into or found a way to contact our time. Maybe it is part of an ONI bot that has knowledge of the Forerunners. It could even be melded with another entity. It's all just spec at this point.

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Urk wrote:
Jordan117 wrote:
Urk wrote:
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Even if I grant you the word "reflex" and neglect to point out the difference in word count, you'll still have to explain away "facilitation of array requirements," and the use of a holographic Halo and then a Forerunner glyph as an avatar. Not to mention the existence of such an advance Human AI when our best efforts to date are playing chess or entertaining children.


Did you perchance see my previous post? Smile

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=336287#336287
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