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[nobodyman]

[SPEC] Flea: friend, foe, something else?

[Nova]

I think the Flea is no danger to SP, more of an annoyance (much like a real flea). Since he can't subvert her like he did Melissa, she has no need to be rid of him. She can't delete him anyway, as he just evades her attempts. So, since she can't delete him and he can't affect her, she seems to be attempting to communicate with him in an attempt to make him useful for her own ends (for example, seeking his help in locating a place to hide from Melissa).

[chaotic_mind]

A part of me wants the Flea to turn out to be a good idea. After all, the Flea may once have been something other than what he is now. Years in the Covenant R&D lab may've changed him.

Still, I think we should hold the Flea to the same level of suspicion that we do for all the entities involved in the story.

In my case, that means trusting none of them, but furthering the story through them regardless of my reservations because that's the only way the story will progress.

Still, I'd have to say that I think, in my paranoid heart of hearts, that the Flea is jerking our and the Princess's heart strings.

He says "I love you", but all he wants is to do kiss the girl.

Make them fall in love indeed.

Luke P.

[jonus511]

what if the flea has been influenced and changed through its interactions with the SP?

I mean, its obvious that it changed Melissa (who, it seems, is now at odds with Durga in the future) through constant contact and slowly changing her mantra. So, can't it be possible, that the Flea then changed as well through constant contact with the SP? If you look at it this way, the email it sent out that told us that the SP was captured makes more sense. And the new contactme.html then makes a lot more sense. The Flea's mantra is now changed...

[DarkStorm]

[SPEC] What if, instead of working on Melissa directly, we somehow get the Flea to replace his mantra with Melissa's original one, and thereby "re-infect" her with her real program?

I have no idea how to go about it. In fact, maybe we'll have to work on the Flea via the SP. (But keep an eye on the SP, to make sure she's not starting ot pick up the Flea's mantra herself).

Trying to undelete the SPDR may be an idea, too. (After all, deleting doesn't usually mean the disk is emptied, it usually just changes the disk directory and removes the pointer to the file's start block).

-DS-

[Guest]

Idea: Someone ask her to access the file containing her mission. When that's done, ask her when it was last modified, and then ask her the launch date of the Apocalypso. Then ask her who modified it. If and when she says SPDR, you might say that it is operating outside of it's parameters and should be deleted and reloaded from version whatever the original SPDR was.

[ABoxInABox]

The Flea just wants to know the truth. It will do all it can to find it. At first, he thought Melissa would be able to tell him, and now the Princess. Really, we won't know if he's 'good' or 'bad' until the end of all this.

[Centipede]

I still maintain that hte FLea was sent by the Covenant to subvert our AI's. He ran into the Princess (which I believ eto be a Forerunner AI) and decided to try and subvert her too. HIs first attempts failed completely, so now he's just changing tactics.

[Mike_Was]

[klobbermeister]

From Cmdr. Mike Was

[CoffeeJedi]

this is a segment of an email i sent to the princess:

[fugitivesoldier]

The Flea is a pimp.

He's playing all sides of the game.

Rock on, Flea!

!init transmit Rock On!
success

[ABoxInABox]

[fugitivesoldier]

!bkp init flea-sector cmd proc
pimpin'

[Akodo Bob]

[SPEC/WILD and UNFOUNDED] Flea's True Nature