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[SPEC] The ONI Conspiracy Spec Thread

[Cherry Cotton]

Nice! The Last Voyage of the Apocalypso, huh? How about Melissa's Island?

Oh, sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a haunted apiary,
It began around 2552,
On a ship you thought was a ferry.
The captain was a woman by the name of Greene,
The AI slightly nuts,
Five crewmen set sail that day,
No ifs, ands, of buts.
The lunar winds were getting rough,
Malfunctions, they assumed.
If it weren't for a cylindrical briefcase thingy,
The Apocalypso would be doomed.
The ship took ground on some poor girl's site,
with Melissa, her Princess too,
the Spider, and a Flea!
The Manticore, some E-mails and a countdown,
Here on Melissa's Isle!

(insert wacky island hijinks)

So this is the tale of a bunch of geeks,
We've been here for a long long time,
Answering payphones by the ton,
A pain in my behind.
The Operator will do her best,
you know it's the truth,
to recite bizarre memories,
into your phone booth.
Jars of honey and a trailer,
began this A.R.G.,
as well as Robinson Crusoe,
but with the foot of a flea.
So join us here each week my friend,
It's nothing at which to sneeze,
From payphone hunts to Notepad schemes,
Here on I Love Bees!

[Platonix]

[Schmeck]

Bravo! That was great!

[thebruce]

haha congrats, you're now famous

http://www.thebruce.ca/ilovebees/MelissasIsland.asp

I had to... (with a couple minor changes - repeats, typos, a couple modifications to help with rhythm)

[Shad0]

Re: [SPEC] The ONI Conspiracy Spec Thread

[kalamazoo]

Incredibly cool, Cherry Cotton

but...... TOPIC!!!!

1) Three serious anomalies occurred on the Apocalypso:
a) A Covenant intercept indicated an attack on Troy. This intercept was forwarded to ONI HQ.
b) Glitches began to occur in Melissa's systems. It is highly likely that these are traces of the Pious Flea, as the descriptions show similarities to the Princess' descriptions of the PF's traces.
c) The Apocalypso picks up a presumed Covenant (likely actually Forerunner) artifact in deep space.

2) Upon return to Earth, the Forerunner artifact activated somehow. This had the effects of:
a) crashing all comm channels in Sol system
b) crashing the Apocalypso out of slipspace.
The reasons for the crash are mysterious, a common finding when dealing with Forerunner artifacts.

3) The Apocalypso's computer systems were found to be wiped upon observation. Officially, this was a side effect of the crash.
a) However, *we* know that the following computer individuals did survive:
EDIT: smartass, I had to go catch an axon. not my fault the board prematurely posted my message. all I got was a login script.
1) Melissa, or what's left of her on ilb
2) The Pious Flea
and possibly:
3) Durga (if she is Melissa, a copy thereof, or a fragment thereof)
4) The Sleeping Princess (if she is a copy or fragment of Melissa, or a Forerunner AI, or a backup ONI AI)
b) The means by which the Apocalypso's servers were wiped is currently unknown.

4) The possible means by which the Apocalypso's servers have been wiped are several:
a) As officially stated, the effects of the Forerunner artifact may have wiped them. This would necessarily imply that either:
1) Melissa got off the ship beforehand or
2) Melissa was offloaded at the time of the Shipwreck, by:
i) herself
ii) the Artifact
iii) the Pious Flea
iv) the Sleeping Princess
v) a combo of the above
b) The system's were wiped later by ONI Section Three (Standish). This would necessarily imply that Melissa left the ship after the wreck.

5) A faction in ONI does not want the truth regarding the Apocalypso to come to light, and 'arranged' Captain Greene's unlucky death in a bus accident just after landing. It is unknown whether that 'truth' has to do with Troy, the Pious Flea, or the Artifact.

6) In reference to Troy:
a) Troy was glassed, and everyone knows it.
b) Troy may or may not have been evacuated in response to Captain Greene's communique. Higher, in his presumed persona as the Cranky Old Man, certainly wanted to give the Navy bureaucracy the impression that it had been at least partially evacuated. The secretary taking the call was not surprised.
c) Some important 'family papers' supposedly belonging to Cranky Old Man (if they exist at all) were confiscated by Marines prior to landing. It must be assumed that this was done at ONI request. The reasons for the confiscation are unknown.

7) Something occurred on, around, or in reference to the colony planet Harmony, related to the incidents leading up to the glassing of Troy, that Higher finds 'instructive'. Except for this offhand comment, nothing is known regarding Harmony.

It is therefore apparent that Melissa contains information vital to the Covenant war effort on several fronts. It is *unapparent*, however, to whom that information should be given. Certainly, there are elements of ONI that would rather destroy this information than allow it to come to light. This explains Melissa's belief that she is 'behind enemy lines' even when it's obvious she's on Earth, and Durga's extreme reluctance to be returned to the government.

[Jeeeeeeee]

[Mix]

I'm a little confused. When did the Apocalypso 'crash', leaving Melissa on ilovebees.com? If the ship itself transported through time, Capt. Greene wouldn't have met her end by a bus. Maybe only the computer data went through time, hence it was 'wiped out'?

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[HitsHerMark]

[devolver]

[Trynian]

So what, then, is the significance to the fact that the .wav recordings we have been listening to all begin with a systems or communications failure of some sort? It seems to imply that the recordings begin exactly at the moment of the Apocalypso's crash...

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[Arana]