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[Spec]Echolocations, GPS, Total Station
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 		[Spec]Echolocations, GPS, Total Station
I can't help but think we're missing somethings about the advertisements that were put up. People were immediately grabbing at the image, but most seem to have overlooked the advertisements actually selling the items. I've only seen a few posts about them.

Now, it seems fairly obvious that Flood Containment Control is in-game. The question is how exactly. We know they are, apparently, based on the waterfront in Boston. They seem to be a front for actual flood containment. But the question is, why on Earth a few hundred years before we even actually became aware of the Flood? I'm beggining to think they are somehow related to ONI.

However. Back on topic. The two items that really kinda stood out to me were Echolocation and Total Station. We'll start first with Echolocations.

The first thing I kinda asked myself was "Echolocaitons? Gwah?" The main reason being, it's PLURAL. Why on earth is Echolocations pluaral? Doing a search for Echolocations turns up a book. Poems by a woman named "Diane Thiel". It's fairly interesting, since the back cover of the book describes it as "Just as whales echolocate to navigate their way around objects, Diane Thiel uses her poetic voice to echolocate through various landscapes of myth, consciousness, and the physical world. Folded into the layers of landscape are aural echoes of meter and rhyme that guide Thiel's poems through the hollows of loss, the search for lineage and love, and the personal and societal ruins of war." The book is definitely OOG, but a reference to it does not seem out of the question. It would not be the first time Bungie referenced Poetry.

However, in the non-plural sense, we know what Echolocation is. However, what does making Echolocations plural mean? If we are talking about something like Sonar, it could be recorded data of a place. There is a device I remember reading about quite a while back, of a robot that could roll through caves making noise and basically construct a digital map of the cave with the input it gets.

Why caves? This brings me to the Total Station. It seemed odd to me that people cleaning up floods would need a device like a Total Station. It just didn't make much sense. However, considering how the Forerunner seem to have buried a lot under the Earth's surface, it seems likely that this could be the use for a Total Station, especially when combined with Echolocation. A Total Station might make sense for flood containment (Working out coordinates for where barriers were to be set), but it just seems to make more sense when combined with echolocations.

That of course leaves us with the GPS devices. This is another odd one, since I can't see people cleaning up flood debris and the like really needing GPS on-sight. However, combining it with cavernous exploration...

It seems quite possible that the company posted out advertisements as a front for its doings behind the scenes. Cleaning sites of flood, quite literally. And if they were digging, and there was flood actually contained here on Earth, it would make sense.

On the Lycos listing for it, though, was the ability to contact the person that made the listing. I've contacted them, and have not yet gotten a reply. Though if I do, I'll be sure to update.
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 		It must be pointing to the ark, or at least something important being buried. The FCC has to lead us there...or closer to it anyway, but I get the same feeling DM, ..we're missing something.

Good spec.

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 		Just for information, echolocations, according to the dictionary, isn't a real word. Take a look: http://www.bartleby.com/61/84/E0028400.html
Echolocation does have another definition, though: "2. Electronics A process for determining the location of objects by emitting sound waves and analyzing the waves reflected back to the sender by the object."
Basically, just analyzing echolocation.

Also, according to wikipedia, Echolocation can actually be several things including sonar and ultrasound.

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redct wrote:
Just for information, echolocations, according to the dictionary, isn't a real word. Take a look: http://www.bartleby.com/61/84/E0028400.html
Echolocation does have another definition, though: "2. Electronics A process for determining the location of objects by emitting sound waves and analyzing the waves reflected back to the sender by the object."
Basically, just analyzing echolocation.

Also, according to wikipedia, Echolocation can actually be several things including sonar and ultrasound.


Yes, I stated much of this in my post. "Echolocations" is plural and not actually a word, hence why I believe it is actually refering to the book.
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 		First post here, so please be gentle....

Surveying equipment, GPS, echolocations. Definetly says "caves" to me, too. Trying to fit this into a flood control front, I guess the most important thing they'd need to know is where underground rivers are, either to drain water out or to know where floods are more likely to happen. Without the echolocations, I'd just say that it's to measure out potential flood plains.

My guess is "echolocations" does refer to maps of underground cave structure, which they'd be interested in selling since it saves other groups the trouble of scouting things out themselves.

I would say the most interesting thing is that they're selling this stuff. Which suggests....they don't need it anymore. They've found what they were looking for?

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 		I would say that the echolocations are for finding objects underwater that could be stepped on or could bring about serious injury to those who are working in the murky water. However, no such item exists. Maybe they do in 2552...
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 		SOTA ando FCC???
Ok, I'm going a little wild here... but, what if Flood Containment Control (FCC) is some kind of SOTA branch? This brings my mind to the days I used to play RPG's as Werewolf or Vampire. White Wolf used to have meta plots for their games and usually they had a corporate faccade and some guerrilla branch...

So, I'm thinkinh one of two things is happening...

First: FCC and SOTA are friends, the second doing recruitment and the first gettin their hands dirty.

Second: FCC and SOTA are enemies. Maybe FCC wants to study the flood and SOTA wants to destroy it... or maybe viceversa, SOTA worships the flood and FCC is here to destroy it...

My 2 cents... enjoy!

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shadeedge wrote:
First post here, so please be gentle....
I would say the most interesting thing is that they're selling this stuff. Which suggests....they don't need it anymore. They've found what they were looking for?


Good point. If FCC was a Men in Black type of organization (the obvious reason that theory arose is all of the skullduggery and info-hiding that appears to be going on in the recordings) then why would they be selling these things? Even if they had found what they were looking for and they no longer needed them, would they risk going public just to raise a little bit of cash?

I personally am hoping that FCC and SotA are adverse, and we have to pick a side, but this may be a sign that it's not going that way.

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