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[SPEC]Troy?Beehive?..HORSE
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Babrook
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 		[SPEC]Troy?Beehive?..HORSE
Sorry if this is a trout, I have searched for it and read each of the topics, and did not see it.

Searching for the definition of beehive got me a long description, that ends up being like the Trojna Horse, an eclosed item used to beseige and carry peopple. Somone on this forum said that troy was a codename for earth.

What if the operator or spider is using the beehive (ilb) to sneak in and attack earth?

Just a thoguht.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:06 pm
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NapalmXZero
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 		Well, I know it isn't directly related, but August 24, 410 Rome was overrun, symbolizing the fall of Western Roman Empire. Maybe the PM are using ancient history to hint at events to come.

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babbler
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 		Ironically, that was also the date of St. Augustine's death twenty years later. (The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths prompted his greatest work, the Civitas Dei.)

Bungie has a history, so to speak, of abundant use of classical allusions (best level name ever: "My Own Private Thermopylae") -- probably the result of their time at University of Chicago (hello, Leo Strauss!). Your point is purely speculative, but it bears consideration for the long term.

For example, Procopius argued that Rome was betrayed from the inside:
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Among the youths in the army whose beards had not yet grown, but who had just come of age, [the Visigoth's commander Alaric] chose out three hundred whom he knew to be of good birth and possessed of valor beyond their years, and told them secretly that he was about to make a present of them to certain of the patricians in Rome, pretending that they were slaves. And he instructed them that, as soon as they got inside the houses of those men, they should display much gentleness and moderation and serve them eagerly in whatever tasks should be laid upon them by their owners; and he further directed them that not long afterwards, on an appointed day at midday, when all those who were to be their masters would most likely be already asleep after their meal, they should all come to the gate called Salarian and with a sudden rush kill the guards, who would have no previous knowledge of the plot, and open the gates as quickly as possible. After giving these orders to the youths, Alaric straightway sent ambassadors to the members of the senate, stating that he admired them for their loyalty toward their emperor, and that he would trouble them no longer, because of their valor and faithfulness, with which it was plain that they were endowed to a remarkable degree, and in order that tokens of himself might be preserved among men both noble and brave, he wished to present each one of them with some domestics.

After making this declaration and sending the youths no long afterwards, he commanded the barbarians to make preparations for the departure, and he let this be known to the Romans. And they heard his words gladly, and receiving the gifts began to be exceedingly happy, since they were completely ignorant of the plot of the barbarians. For the youths, by being unusually obedient to their owners, averted suspicion, and in the camp some were already seen moving from their positions and raising the siege, while it seemed that the others were just on the point of doing the very same thing. But when the appointed day had come, Alaric armed his whole force for the attack and was holding them in readiness close by the Salarian Gate; for it happened that he had encamped there at the beginning of the siege. And all the youths at the time of the day agreed upon came to this gate, and, assailing the guards suddenly, put them to death; then they opened the gates and received Alaric and the army into the city at their leisure.

Could we be unwittingly playing the part of Alaric's fifth column? As yet, we just don't know.
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