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[thebruce]

[SPEC] Princess's location

[Heresiarch]

Yeah, I've had the same problem conceptualizing where the SP is. I think that what the casket refers to is the encryption that the Widow runs into in that first story.

Saying that the SP comes from the alien device feels right, it really works, storywise and metaphorically, but is totally unbased in logic. It would explain the encryption, the inability to understand english at first, but real life casket =/= virtual casket. But I want it to!! ARgh.

[GunsmithCat]

This is all I've gathered related to this. No spec here, just random factoids:

1. There are many references similar to a Halo cryopod in the Story, killer.jpg's and I believe the ladybee emails. These are all potentially written by SP.

2. There are NO direct mentions of a cryopod.

3. SP, until recently, loved to speak in metaphor. She seemed limited to finding other pieces of text, paraphrasing them and re-using them.

4. Melissa may have put SP in her "place" (wherever that is)

5. There's no evidence of anything physical making it to our time. This includes the Forerunner artifact likely to be the cause.

6. It's possible the Castaway came aboard via a cryopod and that either Melissa or SP found him.

7. SP can see spy on Flea, Melissa and SPDR. She seems to be able to hide from them quite successfully.

8. For being in a hushed casket where nobody can hear her, Princess sure talks a lot.


EDIT: Oh yeah. For some reason, Princess seems able to retrieve Melissa's memories.

EDIT EDIT: Double oh. We have references that AIs can be transmitted via slipstream (Flea's arrival).

Not sure if that helps at all

[Dorkmaster]

I still don't know if I go with this or not, buy with all this spec on the flea being the covie part of the equation, then we wouldn't expect the flea to really have anything to do with the cylinder they found, would we? So it would kind of make sense that the Princess was connected to this cylinder with the bars dots and triangles... It would make sense using the sealed chamber as a metaphor and such, and it would be why it was locked in chamber in the deepest darkest dungeons et al... right? Cuz they put it in a sub sub sub-basement, right? (I know I'm screwing up terms left and right, but you know what I mean ) Anyway, I think this is the most "in-game" theory so far, even if it isn't true in the end... And it doesn't conflict with anything else yet... anyway, that's all spec, but I found it to be the most intriguing theory thus far. Good job, thebruce!

[GunsmithCat]

I had first assumed Flea arrived on the artifact. One a re-read I decided that was inaccurate.

It seems more likely that Melissa was decoding Cov slipstream transmissions. The Cov realized this and embedded the Flea into one. Melissa decoded Flea and he infested her.

This is assumed from:

[Dorkmaster]

My point (ok, well thebruce's) exactly... The flea would make no sense as the cylinder's contents! However, if the whole transmission thing was true, then maybe the flea is the Castaway? It got in, made Melissa a little odd (maybe even convincing her to holo to talk with it, necessary or not?) Anyway, that's a whole other spec. But I am really starting to believe the Princess is directly connected to the Cylinder and if so, why called the Princess (unless her intention is to usurp the throne at a later point?) Anyway, my $.02...

[GunsmithCat]

Well Flea + artifact made sense when I thought Covies used the artifact as a trojan horse (literally) to get Flea on board. But then I read the quote I posted and realized they had a more valid method.

I'm 99.999% sure Castaway is human.

[Heresiarch]

Yeah--If PMs are listening, I want more on the Castaway! Who the hell is he? What does he have to do with the crash? What the hell would a stealthy spyship being doing picking of a castaway anyway?

And why was he hitting on a computer?

[cmcdannold]

[HUMOR] Maybe he is our story's "Captain Kirk"/"Commander Riker". Those two would hit on any being in the female form.

Sorry, I could not resist after reading:

[HitsHerMark]

I know that it's my biggest question... How did they all get here? Obviously, they crashed to earth... But how? Were they transmitted over some frequency and got picked up by somebody's dish antene or cel phone? Or did they come here contained in something that somehow ended up getting its wires crossed with whatever server has ilovebees on it? (I'm leaning twords the latter myself.)

Hasn't anybody asked Dana where the server is? Is it in her house, or her Aunt's place, do they pay for hosting?

If we can find out where the server is, we might be able to figure out how they all got in there.

And if we can find out how they got in there, then I think that would make a great many things more clear.

[GunsmithCat]

[HitsHerMark]

[GunsmithCat]

[Raveneyes]

we have been told by dana a number of times, that she doesn't feel secure in giving out the location of the server, so it's either a)not going to be ingame at all, or b)we haven't gained dana's trust enough.

I'm leaning towards the first answer, because it seems some people that talk to her on a regular basis have asked and haven't gotten a peep.


~b

[HitsHerMark]