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Phyltre
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Maybe it's a possible natural defense against the Flood. That's the only way it would make any sense either 100,000 years ago or 500 years in the future.

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garius
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Maybe it's a possible natural defense against the Flood. That's the only way it would make any sense either 100,000 years ago or 500 years in the future.


Which, following that line, could explain why Earth is so damn important to the whole big finale and possibly why the forerunners were buggering about in Ancient Africa to the disgust of ancient tribesman in the first place.

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garius wrote:

So, assuming i'm reading that right, what we may be meant to be looking at - in theory - is a particular part of a bacteria from the Streptococcus family rather than a specific member of that family (i.e. Streptococcus Pyogenes).

Would that be correct?


Yes! We would be looking at the secretions of a Streptococcus XXX bacterium. Or, alternatively, we could be looking at a new or undiscovered specie called Streptococcus pyrogens with the new species being called pyrogens. Either would be interesting.

On a party-crashing note, the original picture is of Streptococcus pyogenes, and it is a typo in that context. It may not be here. (The original picture looks entirely different, search for it on gettyimages.com)

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Maybe flesh-eating bacteria can eat away the flood and kill them all?
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It's been specualted, but if that was true (i wish it was) why would we still be in danger of the Halo's being activated again, besides the covenant for their own personal gain? Unless the bacteria is relased when the Halo's are fired, but I thought that the Halo's were designed to starve out the flood. This could mean that we could be destroyed with only the flood left to die because we are already dead.

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garius
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This could mean that we could be destroyed with only the flood left to die because we are already dead.


Important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

Okay, everyone remember - no activitating any Halos until we figure this shit out.

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Phyltre wrote:
Maybe it's a possible natural defense against the Flood. That's the only way it would make any sense either 100,000 years ago or 500 years in the future.


But what is happening now so to speak, what is going on in the halos, research on the flood?

Expanding on Camperman's idea maybe the flower could be a weapon against the flood.

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devwild
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As the metadata was clearly planted (it's not actually in the "original" image, just in the descriptor on the site), and the paths appear to be planted (too conveniently left over, positioned randomly), I'm thinking these clues may actually be there for the sake of emphasizing that the image itself is a fake - a red herring.

What purpose it has beyond that is over my head at the moment (aside from the numerals as dates).

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Phyltre
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gott_sei_dank wrote:

But what is happening now so to speak, what is going on in the halos, research on the flood?


In our current timeline, probably nothing is going on at the Halos, except the monitors are buzzing around and murmuring to themselves about nothing in particular.

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As the metadata was clearly planted (it's not actually in the "original" image, just in the descriptor on the site), and the paths appear to be planted (too conveniently left over, positioned randomly), I'm thinking these clues may actually be there for the sake of emphasizing that the image itself is a fake - a red herring.


Hmmm, deception. Then perhaps the malevolent entity is spoofing the Forerunner servers?

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devwild
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Phyltre wrote:
Hmmm, deception. Then perhaps the malevolent entity is spoofing the Forerunner servers?

I was thinking more along the lines of "a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma" - A hint specifically intended to guide you to look elsewhere for the actual clue. Whoever provided the image may have been trying to mask their clue (from the malevolent entity perhaps). The ARG managers would have left these hints in as to imply that whoever did so was hurried and sloppy (too sloppy to be an AI I would think).

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Phyltre
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Except the problem is, the refences that remove the information from it's supposed timeline is current-day. It's the current mutation of an illness. Now this means that our supposedly Forerunner multimedia must actually be generated recently enough for the reference to this illness to be relevant.

So then your stance is that this must be false-flag information, and the real clues will only come through studious study of what was falsified and given to us?

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J2G wrote:
Ok, so if you open this image in Photoshop you can find some hidden paths.

Here is the paths box shoing the 3 and their names, and highlighting path 1

*snip huge picture*

And here all 3 paths are filled in red.


*snip huge picture*

The extend outside the boundry of the image... where they left in by a designer who addapted the image? Or do they mean something else?


Hey J2G, good find I'll have to try that myself.

You know, if you register you can attach files to your posts so they thumbnail in the thread but people can still look at them full sized. Smile
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devwild
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Phyltre wrote:
Except the problem is, the refences that remove the information from it's supposed timeline is current-day. It's the current mutation of an illness. Now this means that our supposedly Forerunner multimedia must actually be generated recently enough for the reference to this illness to be relevant.

So then your stance is that this must be false-flag information, and the real clues will only come through studious study of what was falsified and given to us?

I think we have to assume the clue, particularly if it is masked somehow, was generated current-day. All interfacing we have had thus is in the current-day. If server 05 was supposed to be a historical record (which is pretty explicit) and the contents show blatant evidence of being generated and manipulated in the current-day (on a mac with photoshop with a bunch of sloppy left-overs), that just emphasizes that the records are to some extent falsified.

I have no strong stance, just throwing out an idea.

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Okay, here's the thing. You guys are looking way too far into this, because we see already that Bungi made two mistakes. They left the text tag on the image that marked it as a stock photo, and those paths? They were most likely used to edit the picture. Since it was made in Photoshop, they probably did something to the picture so it wouldn't actually look like a real virus. That's the only purpose I can see in having those there, because with the way the paths are shaped with the little tendrils, it's clear that those are the outlines of where they edited something.

Either that, or they are trying to highlight those sections. Perhaps the little blob with circles in it is Flood spores...I don't know what the other side would be. I can hardly tell anything that's going on in this picture.

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Look at the bigger picture of where we got the information

The server we got the information off of is a forefunner artifact of some sort.

When we touched the glyphs it gave us information store on it. The server was treated as log for what was happening before the fireing of the first Halo. With the transmission log and array record data.

KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE

I could see this as two things.

Grave Mind - This entity, what ever it is has been around since, or before the fireing of the halos. He does not want the Halo's to fire, cause they will kill the flood ( possibley his children? he is describing how tenacious and energetic his flood are ) So he has Arbitor, and MC running around trying to stop the fireing of the halos, so that his flood can flourish.

Forerunner - This could be the last transmisson of the person / team that fired off the halos. He is describing how energetic and tenacious life ( human race and all living things around it ) and it has its worst anithesis ( the flood). and says the Flood is the thing that must be destroyed.


This photograph of a bacteria. Could be a close up of a Flood cell, ( Strep bacteria Cell) that could vaccinate people from contamination... The one hope that is mentioned.


whos knows at this point i am just speculating

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