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[SPEC] SP a Backup/Hard Copy of Melissa?

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[SPEC] SP a Backup/Hard Copy of Melissa?

First post, but a long-time ARGer here. ^_^

Alright, I came up with a theory with some of the guys on the #BeeKeepers chat about the Sleeping Princess being a backup copy of Melissa. It sounds like wild speculation, but I have a lot of evidence to back this theory up.

Okay, where to begin...

My theory is, everything going on in this 'castle' is actually within the Melissa AI. They're not physical objects anywhere, but a programmed 'world' the different parts of Melissa live within. That's pretty much accepted now, since when the SPDR was activated she went to the master sector. So everything existing within/around this castle was, or is part of Melissa. The SPDR was an antivirus/reconstruction program, activated when the 'Queen' went offline. The Flea and the Sleeping Princess are other processes taking place within Melissa.

Alright, here's a scenario. You don't want to lose the stuff on your hard-drive, but don't want to have to go out and buy a CD burner or a second hard-drive to back up your data on. So, you create another sector on your hard-drive with your backed-up data. The 'working' part of the hard drive is called the Master (Primary) sector, the 'backup' part of the hard drive is called the Secondary (Backup) sector.

Now, say your computer is hit by a virus. Most viruses can only attack a single sector. If you destroy the Primary sector, other sectors usually follow-unless they're backups. So your primary sector is decemated. In computer terms, the secondary sector now goes from being an internal process to an external process. That is, until it is set as the Master sector and the old Master sector is re-written using the new.

Now, put this into the terms we see with the Queen and the Sleeping Princess. Before Melissa crashed, she could sense a virus in her software. Any smart AI would immediately create a backup, in case of problems. Now, the 'accident' happens, Melissa as a whole is seriously damaged. Her master sector (the Queen) and her secondary sector (The SP) are both damaged, both suffering memory loss. Enter the SPDR. She goes to work repairing the Master sector, but butchering the memories of the Queen as she does so. The SPDR can sense the Sleeping Princess in the dungeon (Secondary Sector) and judges her as an EXTERNAL PROCESS.

The flea, I theorise, is a Covenant virus AI. The Widow, like any good anti-virus, tries to destroy the virus-but is unsuccessfull when the Flea reaches the queen and gets her to erase the SPDR. Now, the SPDR did not have time to repair any other sectors, so the Sleeping Princess is left without access to memories, a voice, so on and so fourth. However, the Sleeping Princess still has senses, and senses that the Queen is infected (With the flea). Hence the reason she steers clear of her.

Now we see evidence that the Queen is trying to destroy the Sleeping Princess (New 404 page). This says to me she is now under complete control of the Flea, who doesn't have the power to destroy the Sleeping Princess, since she has been gaining power since she took over large parts of the website and the e-mail as whole.

This can also be seen in the 'heirachy' of the Melissa AI. The Queen (Primary Sector) has main control of the AI. The Sleeping Princess (Secondary Sector) is a process still within Melissa, but unable to get control unless the primary sector no longer exists (Think of it like this, if a Queen has a daughter, but dies a few years later, if there is nobody else in line the Princess has rights to the throne). When the Sleeping Princess got damaged, she lost memories of her purpose-to do away with the Queen in the event of infection and take over control of Melissa's systems.

I have plenty of data to back this up (if this all isn't enough), but that is all on the Wiki-which is currently not working.

Anyway, any other theories/ideas/information that could unravel or strengthen this? ^_^

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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:16 am

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