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[KLind]

This seems really odd to me. Wonder who's speaking.

[Shlonster]

My first thought was Cortana.. the whole bit about choosing between those who created and those who consume.. choosing between humanity and gravemind... something to that effect. And if the kid talking about stringtheory/time travel is right (in the thread about 801snpow), it could be possible.

[rush]

If the speaker is Forerunner, which I strongly think, it certainly supports my "they have no morals" theory.

[LorD BaZTArD]

Call me crazy on this... but something tells me that the capital letter in each sentence is a possibly a sentence encrypted in a cypher.

I speak to you of my intent
B ut intentions are eddies and whorls
A nd they change with the course of a stream
T his stream becomes a river
A nd a cataract of logic and doubt
W ho has the right to live?
T he light with the will to create me?
O r dark with the will to consume?
S ometimes might is right
A nd sometimes the lamb must submit to the lion
M y convictions are tested
M y intentions now are fey and strange
S hould I pursue a pyrrhic choice?
A nd rethink alliances?
A nd choose a new philosophy?
R ight or might?
T ruly I do not know
B ut you will, soon enough
F or this is where the cataract floods
A nd drowns the boon of higher ground

IBATAWTOSAMMSAARTBFA

I might be seeing a clue where there is none, but it does stick out to me. Any ideas?

[rush]

For kicks and giggles, here's some 50,000 anagrams: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=IBATAWTOSAMMSAARTBFA&language=english&t=0&d=&include=&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&a=n&l=n&q=n

[LorD BaZTArD]

Heh. Ouch. I think there's a cypher hidden somewhere though, perhaps in the poem. Might be something found in the images too.

[chewpathingy]

the first thing that came to mind when i read this was that it sounds awfuly close to scripture or another work of writing. It really sounds like some of the lines are just re-edited lines of something else, however i cannot place just what it is. just my silly ideas.

[Awhite2490]

This is the second time we've heard the term pyrrhic....
Also, I think this sounds similar to a theory I had about Gravemind. Perhaps he's a Forerunner who saw what his race was doing, didn't like it, and instead allowed himself to be infected by the Flood. It fits, if you think about it.

[LordC]

Choice?

[Locohoco]

 

[Dunia]

I disagree that this is AR.

AR said there was something more powerful that was taking over. Something much older. Something dangerous.

I think that is who is speaking. Overwriting the server logs.

[Locohoco]

[Dunia]

Am I the only one that thinks this is Gravemind, or Gravemind connected with Cortana?

The rampancy thing & AI split personality was done before, so I kind of excluded that theory. I figured AR was the "monitor" of the High Charity ship and was scanning out computers for his approach.(I'm ignoring the time difference between our world and Halo's)

Gravemind has Cortana and isn't he on the High Charity ship headed for Earth?

He mentioned something like "Before there was one enemy, now there is two".

The log says something along the lines of fighting an enemy that wishes to embrace you.

This thing is talking about intent, light & dark, stopping the Halos from firing, etc. Maybe he's trying to convince us(lying?) that he's not the enemy or he is conflicted. He did release Master Chief & the Arbiter and sent them to stop Tartarus.

Because I'm thinking towards the end of Halo3. What ending will there be?
Will we stop the halos from firing and the flood will still be out there to get us? Or do we shuffle some people into the ark and save humanity by wiping out everything. There is a destroyed halo so a portion of the universe would not be cleansed anyway. Is there supposed to be a truce with Gravemind? I get the feeling that we can't kill him. The forerunners couldn't because he's still around. Do we make peace with him? What is a logical conclusion to these events?

[J2G]

I speak to you of my intent
But intentions are eddies and whorls
And they change with the course of a stream
This stream becomes a river
And a cataract of logic and doubt
Who has the right to live?
The light with the will to create me?
Or dark with the will to consume?
Sometimes might is right
And sometimes the lamb must submit to the lion
My convictions are tested
My intentions now are fey and strange
Should I pursue a pyrrhic choice?
And rethink alliances?
And choose a new philosophy?
Right or might?
Truly I do not know
But you will, soon enough
For this is where the cataract floods
And drowns the boon of higher ground

This has 120 words, on 20 lines. It contains 7 question marks. It contains 509 letter characters and 101 spaces.

The number of words on each line:
7,6,9,5,7,6,8,7,4,9,4,7,6,3,5,3,5,5,7,7

The number of characters on each line (not spaces):
21,31,35,23,27,21,30,27,21,38,22,31,28,20,24,13,15,21,31,30

The number of spaces on each line:
6,5,8,4,6,5,7,6,3,8,4,6,5,2,4,2,4,4,7,6

Line 11, and line 19 have an extra space at the end (so that the number of spaces = the number of words, rather than 1 less, I have shown these in bold)

There is only one other mark of punctuation a "'," (comma) in line 18.

The number of words between the question marks:
40 ? 8 ? 7 ? 33 ? 5 ? 3 ? 24

The number of syllables in each line:
8,9,9,7,9,6,9,8,5,11,7,9,8,7,8,3,6,6,9,8

Anyone got any bright ideas? i am gonna run the text through some grids, to see what comes up... I'll publish here tomorrow.

J2G