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[thebruce]

hm.... I like... might ave to read through at some point and attempt to develop a timeline ... great idea, hijacking a real life event and sci-fi-ing it.

[eranmane]

OOG, GameJack.. wait, there isn't even a game going on... then just.. FAKE.

Take a look at this code from the old page on google cache:

[Doug52392]

I kind of figured it's not a Bungie related project after they locked the topic, plus the fact that the admins apparently knew nothing about it. Most people at Bungie's forums are continuing to play it as a non-Bungie related Halo based ARG.

I noticed that Java applet to, so I highly doubt Microsoft would take applets from computer geeks

[thebruce]

Actually...
1) there's no game to hijack. it's new
2) the code is a separate applet the designer chose to use -its date of creation means nothing to the content of the page
3) Eric Harshbarger was affilliated with Mind Candy. That doesn't mean Eric is involve with this, but it certainly means whoever made this is most likely knowledgable of Perplex City and/or Mind Candy and/or ARGs
4) I'm a web developer, it's not gibberish to me OTOH, Unfiction doesn't show HTML, so your quote shows nothing sigificant. What you meant to quote was this:

[MulletMan]

How in the world did this get posted before my thread Newest developments are posted in this thread:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=487762#487762

However, continue discussion here apparently

[Macavity]

[redct]

Yeah. Not much has changed over this whole time.

I think it went: "Saving up power for databurst", Random text generator, "Insufficient power"

Seems they're having power problems.

[Yamato]

MercurySS.net now says:

[Macavity]

[paulnevar52]

mercuryss.net updated

[Max Steele]

Alright, I'm going to jump into this one. Evidently the last post in this thread was 4 days ago and no one has put together the new information showing on this site? Sloppy, sloppy!

Here's what I'm seeing:

There's a logs panel. I didn't see anyone referring to the logs panel in previous posts, so I'm assuming this is part of the "new information". Here is the data presented as it's shown on the web site:

Logs Panel

[Max Steele]

So what we have here is a probe from the future. MercurySS COM Probe UNSC-7236.R333.1384.N581.1261.7783.Y313.

As for the logs, it tells us at the beginning that the log owners are unknown, and both the Helios and Mercury logs are inter-mixed. However, all logs posted look to be from the Mercury probe.

Helios was watching a Covenant invasion on Aegroto 7. It de-cloaked and was going to jump out of the area when it was hit by fire. Helios sent out Mercury SS, a com probe I believe, to send a message to to UNSC asking for reinforcements because the current UNSC force on the planet was wiped out.

Mercury came online after the hit and found its powerplant, jump drive, propulsion, and countermeasures were not working. It was able to repair everything and had enough power for two jumps.

Mercury scanned all networks and did not find any familiar signals. This tells me Helios was interrupted during the jump process and Mercury ended up in an area of space it wasn't supposed to be in. It did a scan and found it was 59 AU from the Sol system, but it's astronomical data did not match up with where it was.

Mercury did a galaxy scan and found the nearest ones were the Milky Way and Andromeda.

For some reason, it didn't have enough power to jump straight to Earth or Mars from its location, but it could jump to Andromeda Galaxy first (no destination given), then to Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy. However, this caused it to travel in the path of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

It jumped and made it, but collided with a US Military spy satellite in orbit around Earth, damaging its maneuverable thrusters. It did a time sync, and found either it was January 8th, 2008 or August 1st, 2008, depending on how you look at the date stamp. It states the date it synced up with is less than preset date/time, so this tells up Mercury has travelled from the future into the past, and blames the black hole encounter for it.

Mercury then decided to do a data dump before it self-destructs and attempts to contact someone on Earth. It does a scan and chooses the United States SETI listening post to send its transmission of "Greetings" to. It detects an outgoing message to the US government and assumes it is an early warning system from its transmission to the post. Mercury will now re-send the "Greetings" message every 30 seconds.

Also, combing through that Bungie.net forum post on all of this, MercurySS is posting over at http://www.praetoriaguard.com/search.php?search_author=MercurySS

That's what I've pieced together from the information on the site.

[thebruce]

thanks for the outline, it's helpful. I actually archived the contents of the current site as soon as I heard it was updated

I haven't decided yet whether to put a page for it on the halo wiki (halo.wikibruce.com) as it doesn't seem related to iris at all, and its "argishness" is still up in the air
*shrug*

[Max Steele]

I was just thinking - we should create users on the www.praetoriaguard.com forum and then we would be able to send private messages to MercurySS through the site without having to worry about other people commenting.

Perhaps the probe would respond in that fashion, since it doesn't seem to respond to forum message posts.

[Max Steele]

I've created an account there and I just sent this Private Message: