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[Mazian]

Re: Not simultaneous... But possibly... All part of one memo

[GunsmithCat]

The more of the Hive-Ku's that we get, the less likely it seems there was a precipitating event.

I could sort of accept the first three, but now we're bordering on coincidence one side of wild. It's far too limiting to assume that these people would all be having exciting adventures that line up second by second, all with the precisely same start point. For one thing, Jan's story easily spans a few days if not much longer - Kamal's appears to take place around a night and the following day, and Jersey's you can fit into an entire afternoon.

Since we know now that Durga and Jersey seem to listening in on all of this, it doesn't seem necessary to tie them to some external event - they are all tied to Durga. It's not that these actions might not occupy some of the same space. Jan's "right" might take place around the time of Kamal's visit with Aiden. (Frustratingly Aiden asks for the time, doesn't get a response...)

We'll probably get more when we get another set of hidden axons revealed by Princess. Notice none of the ones on Hive-Ku are centered around GOM. Since the Apocalypso is our best bet for a precipitating event, hopefully we'll know more then. Personally, I'm hoping GOM = Morelli and they aren't on Earth, because it could help tie some things together.

[noideaforausername]

[JimmyJames]

I know this isn't necessarily in respect to the subject line, but it fits with the conversation and I'm trying to help reduce posts. I'll try and tie it in to the subject if I can.

One thing that doesn't make sense to me is how Durga could be listening in on the pre-incident conversations between Jan and the cop. She wasn't expecting it and wouldn't have initiated a recording and the cop certainly didn't want it recorded.

Possibly they have some kind of neural implants that allow a skilled program/hacker to basically enter their mind, similar to to those used by the military personal in in Halo, but I don't remember anything of that nature being mentioned yet.

Now there is one way to tie it together. Melissa remembers being on an ONI Spy Vessel (length 120 meters, crew 40, cover pleasure yacht). Also, these recordings are contained in Melissa's memories.

It's been brought up that she does not recognize these voices in her head, but that could be explained in that she was not completely restored when the Widow was deleted, stopping her reconstruction and therefore giving her a sort of amnesia where she still has the memories as they are data in her memory bank, but does not recognize them. This would put Melissa back in the story.

Another explanation is that this data was included in the package that ended up on the ILB server, but this data was not collected by Melissa. This would provide a path for Durga to be involved. However, if this is the case, what happened to Durga and how did these memories end up with Melissa. If Melissa is Durga, why then does she not recognize her own voice and why was she concerned about someone else listening in on her. That would lead to an unnamed third party.

This theory sounds good, but even if we didn't know who was listening in, we should at least be able to figure out why. The only plausible explanation at this point would be someone, with advanced technology, is spying on all of these people becuse of their activities and unique talents/abilities. As we are fairly certain this is tied into the Haloverse, the only two major players with this type of intent would be ONI and the Covenant.

The Covenant does not seem to make sense because they don't seem like they would care about information which did not present information regarding Forerunner artifacts or a way to rid the universe of Humankind.

Therefore, we're back to ONI. As stated previously, Melissa has a memory of an ONI spy vessel, and by the crew conversations in her memories, it would seem that she was on this vessel. I've said before that it would make sense that ONI would be interested in the people involved in the Axon Dialogues because of their activities and abilities. Durga, the sort of new player would also be something that would be watched, if ONI knew about her or had some way of alerting them to suspicious entities in the network, which from the books it seems they do.

Therefore, would it not make sense that Melissa was the AI on the ONI spy vessel, watching these people, and recording their activities? When I said that this is what she was doing "right" before she got sent here, I didn't mean an hour/day/week before. I believe this may have been part of her mission, to watch these individuals. Therefore, the key is not necessarily in the details of their stories, but the major themes included in all the stories. Only time will tell, but if my belief is that one or more major connecting events will be presented in the next set of axons. If not, I've heard that crow tastes like chicken, so it can't be all that bad!

[Mazian]

[truegent]

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[GunsmithCat]

[GunsmithCat]

OK, that whole "reason" thing could quickly derail this, so I reworded it into this.