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[Sep7imus]

[SPEC QUESTION] New Relationship of Melissa, PF, and SP

[AngriBuddhist]

All good questions that have no real answers right now.

Some are saying that we must now get rid of the flea but I STRONGLY
disagree. Being one of two free entities on ILB, I think that we need
to find a way to use him.

Kinda like a remote controlled mechanical spy bot.

[Kachi]

Wow... I hope those questions get answered relatively soon... they're intruiging.

As to the Flea keeping the Princess's existence a secret... you're right, that's definitely off. And perhaps Melissa keeping the Princess's new dungeon secret from the Flea is a reflection of the fact she might realise that he could have known about her and not said...

But if the Flea is Covenant (as I believe, although disagree all you like, that's why we're here ), then... what is it about the Princess that kept him from telling Melissa? Did he think she was a threat? Was there just something about the fact she talked to him ... normally... that kept him from saying? I think the Princess did say at one point he whispered secrets into Melissa's ear... I wonder why not THAT secret.

Mmm, more things I have to wait to find out about.

[Sep7imus]

[daboking]

that makes a lot of sense, sep7imus. I can fully see the Flea being a covenant tool protecting the forunner tech from us... the thing to me, though, is how SP still feels so human. I am certainly open to the idea, and what you propose makes great sense.

[LordSaryon]

Big SPEC

[Kachi]

[Extrasonic]

Melissa's off her rocker. As many others have noted, her mission parameters are totally corrupted by the Flea (seek/behold/reveal). Not only that, but she can't even appreciate the humor in Chappy's brazen attempt to claim that he was a Master Chief from The Pillar of Autumn. (Which, if you're out there Chappy, was a stroke of comedic genius.) Simply put, she's completely nutters.

The only thing that SP has done more often than deriding the Flea's intelligence is tell us that she's an expert at hiding and that she's a survivor. With Melissa non compos mentis and the Flea, well, sort of slow, I don't think that it would have taken much for the SP to trick them both into thinking she'd been captured.

In other words, I think the SP is still in (deep) hiding. The real question in my mind is "where is she going to turn up next?"

[Centipede]

I've posted this in bits and pieces on other threads, but this seems like a good place to tie them all together so here goes.

It is my belief that Melissa has been corrupted by the PF which is a Covenant AI/virus. The fact that he is far more primative than the other two AI's supports this, as does the name PIOUS Flea. I think the SP is a Forerunner AI and that Humans are re-evolved Forerunners. This would explain Sparky (fro the game) assuming that the MC and the marines were Forerunners returning to activate the Halo. That alone lead me to think that the Forerunners were very human like to begin with. I also noticed that Sparky doesn't refer to the Covenant as Returners which lends evidence to the fact that they are not the Forerunners nor descended from them. The Forerunners knew that the Flood fed off sentince, so it's entirely possible that they devolved themselves to deny the Flood sustenance in the hope of starving them out. (Not that far fetched, they were willing to destroy all life in teh universe in order to stop the Flood) If we are the re-evolved Forerunners and the SP is a Forerunner AI, the fact that the SP seems so Human would make perfect sense.

Working on the assumption that the PF is a Covenant AI, it would definitely attempt to !grope and !attach the SP. The Covenant's technoiogy is based entirely on the Forerunners, except their AI. They do not have very advanced AI as yet, and capturing a Forerunner AI to adapt would be a primary goal of any Covenant entity encountering one. He would keep the SP form the Queen in order to prevent his ruse of being hte SPDR from being discovered.

The SP never did anything to inhibit the Queen, just hid and didn't allow the Queen to capture her. If the SP is a Forerunner AI and Human are the Forerunners re-evolved, then the SP would be more than curious about us. That's why she is willing to talk to us and play games with us, she wants to learn more aobut us. In contrast, if she were a Covanent AI, she wouldn't understand us enough to play games, and most likely wouldn't be interested.

That's my .02

[smirkinghint]

I think the flea is going to come into play a lot more than we thought.

[Anton P. Nym]

[chaotic_mind]

[Sep7imus]

Re: [SPEC QUESTION] New Relationship of Melissa, PF, and SP

[ariock]

SP and the Artifact

[chaotic_mind]