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[coweringomega]

Speaking of blips....

[improvius]

Re: Speaking of blips....

[Andy]

My personal theory, based almost solely on hunches, is that The Castaway attempts to send Melissa along with the Forerunner artifact to his son on Earth. However, travelling with the artifact causes odd things to happen as in the novel First Strike, sending Melissa back in time. Her arrival in that timeframe is accompanied by some sort of disturbance which disrupts the city's power.

As for Jan, I'm pretty sure she was really just trying to return the gatepass like she says.

[voipme]

Here's some wild spec for you to play with. Let's say that the ship Melissa was on crashed into Earth (or wherever they are). Judging by the fact that the power went out, let's say it hit a powerplant of some sort. Through some bizarre turn of events, Melissa was able to get off of the ship. Maybe its just me, but I think we'll be seeing more references to tie Melissa and Durga together. We already have all the weird S.E.R.E. and "wake up" phrases to match them together. If that's the case and Melissa == Durga, then we might be able to spec as to why Durga/Melissa went to Jersey's computer. The only reason I can see for that is because Jersey's father (Corporal Jason Morelli) is the only person who has ever made Melissa "feel real."

Ok, I'm done speccing my pants off.

[coweringomega]

[quote] We know that takes place after the interrogation, and is a continuation of that story line. The next person to suggest otherwise gets pranked with a crowbar. [/quote]


I completely agree. It seems pretty obvious that it does come after, I just threw that in there since we were looking at communications blackouts.

OK, what am I doing wrong with the quotes?

[improvius]

I think it's safe to assume that SSF agent James disabled any systems which might somehow lead to the fire being put out before the evidence was consumed. We are only looking at the 3 "mysterious" spikes which start the 3 scenes.

-Imp

[truegent]

Re: Speaking of blips....

[thebruce]

Re: Speaking of blips....

[GunsmithCat]

That's the joy of a story told by multiple unreliable narrators with a penchant for surrealism and an inability to communicate directly.

It's hard to say anything is 100%.

[Dan04]

I spec that Jan was questioned in the ruins of a burnt down police station.

[Heresiarch]

First time listening to the stories I thought that the <dizzy...durga> sequence led to the <blip...hey_soldier> sequence, the "better-than-that" that durga suggests being a direct feed to info on Jan at that second. I thought that the power surge was durga bulling her way into the system and focusing on Jan.

Now I think that CoffeeJedi's three simultaneous interruptions theory is right, but I thought I'd throw that out for everyone anyway, just for spec-juice.

[CoffeeJedi]

some good ideas about the possible effects of time travel causing the blackout, but the blackout happens in the 26th century, mellisa is here in the 21st

how does that work?

[johnny5]

A few random thoughts:

Melissa/Durga arrived onto Jersey's computer, then expanded.

The comms malfunction between Kamahl and Hiro may have been caused when Durga "wet the system" explaining how she has the transmissions in memory.

[WAS(Wild as Spec)] What if Jan is a cyborg. Partial AI. maybe the sleeping Princess? Theire levels of maturity are similar.

--john--

[thebruce]

no, that scene also opens with the disruption - Jeannie had to restart because of it

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