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Oecumenix

[SPEC] Seeker/Princess' home

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:06 am

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My interpretation of that is not that they both are from the same home, but that they both want to go to their respective homes. I wonder if this possibly means that the Flea might not be a Covenant AI after all, and it is simply in his nature to control the Queen to meet his ends (finding a way home).

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:43 am

Oecumenix

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:00 am

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I really don't think that the Flea and the Sleeping Princess share a home, she hates him too much. I think, instead, that the Flea was simply expressing the fact that he is looking for his home. That, or he is unaware of his home-of which both he and the Sleeping Princess are looking for.

If they shared a home, I doubt that the SP would dislike him so much. I think maybe he was trying to pull a 'smooth' one on her. He seems like an overly slick kinda guy, going up to the SP all the time and trying to get some flea-on-princess action. Pulling her leg, maybe?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:05 am

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Sirius · Greenhorn Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 3 Location: UK

But if that was the case, how would SP know they have that home in common, if she cannot remember her own home?

I agree with avatrix here in that the thing they have in common is wanting to go home.

Although I do still think the flea is a covenant "AI". I think the flea is some kind of spy program, with the added ability to manipulate Melissa to some extent. The flea would likely want to send any information it has back to the covenant perhaps?

No real evidence to back this one up, but perhaps the flea wants to send the location of earth to the covenant? If the flea sent a signal now, at light speed, from earth, presumably itd take a very long time to get to the covenant homeworld... maybe 500 odd years.. just right to fit in with when the covenant discover earths location in Halo: First strike, and tieing in nicely with halo 2..

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:13 am

GunsmithCat · Unfettered Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 459

Re: [SPEC] Seeker/Princess' home

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:36 am

noideaforausername · Decorated Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 185 Location: UK

i've read these sections differently, it seems..

i don't know how many people have done it, but through the years of using computers, i've often got frustrated and had an 'argument' with the statements they'll throw up.
For example:
Syntax Error in...
bite me
Syntax Error in...
i'll give you Syntax Error
*kicks computer*

in that respect, i took these lines to be that the Flea (or whatever is writing the code) is trying to run some kind of command, and she is just responding to them. Like a kind of one-way conversation. It's prying her for information, and she's replying with rhetorical comments.
Or am i horribly wrong?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:05 pm

jellyfish_green

It can't be one-way or the Flea wouldn't be trying to escape after she threatens him.

But the Flea seems to be able to understand the gist of her sentences even if he only replies in syntax, and can be easily confused (!analyze:fail).

**Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:23 am

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**Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:58 am

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