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[Phaedra]

[Nuriko]

(I got my bees in special commendation, and my ballons and cake/ice cream in honorable mention. woot!)

I am writing a reply now, but I would like to make sure I don't miss anything. Here is the first part:

[hmrpita]

I also received the same email from Melissa that has been posted in this thread.

I don't know how relevant it is, but check it out (from Dictionary.com):

"Me*lis"sa\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`lissa a bee, honey.] (Bot.) A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis)."

(emphasis added by me)

Sorry if it is trout. i couldn't find it when I did a search.

Also, Jasmine and Melissa are plants that bloom with white or yellow flowers. Both are used in tea as well. Melissa (lemon balm) is used as a diaphoretic, which fits Melissa the AI quite well, I think.

[Buzzkill247]

Woohoo!! so glad I built this topic - I was beggining to think no one was gonna get a response - although I did get an Honorable Mention ( for the MS paper clip and Cortana - 1st one on the page) no email for me - so thanx for sharing....

And the possibilities continue to abound.....

[hmrpita]

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[ONI Tech Alec]

[Buzzkill247]

[Nuriko]

This is what I sent. Yes, I spellchecked it!

[pbrstreetgang]

Some what ifs:

What if Melissa is just suffering from acute paranoia?

What if the original SPDR was the Covie "virus" that caused Melissa to go all wonky? Remember the pain she was in during the "operations" put upon her by the SPDR program? All even under the Flea's influence she isn't exactly seeking, beholding, and revealing the WHOLE truth, as evidenced by the secret files the Princess has been accessing for us.

What if, in order to save Melissa, the Flea must attach the Princess to her? In essence, if Melissa is the cold, calculating side of Durga, and the Princess is the emotion side, surpressed to make sure the A.I. runs smoothly in military applications, by combining the two, the new entity would be able to fix whatever Covie programming had harmed her in the first place and get back to 2552.

What if the "Castaway", speculated to be Jersey's dad, was the one who sent Durga to Jersey, before or during whatever accident sent Melissa to our time, thus explaining the connection?

What if I'm TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT ALL OF THIS? Sorry if I'm wasting space.

[pbrstreetgang]

What if I actually used a spell check? Geez...sorry.

[C_Brennan]

I've always personally believed that SP and Melissa were 2 halves of the same whole. Cortana, while executing her mission perfectly in HALO, never missed an opportunity for at least one joke. She felt more personal, lets touchy.

Melissa is so darn touchy and evil and just straightforward. She doesn't seem like Cortana at all. And she's just way too of to one extreme.

SP is off to the completely opposite side of the spectrum. Too happy, to uncaring, too childish. Both of them put together seem like a bad case of bipolar disorder.

But melded together, they would seem like the "perfect" AI personality. Personal, yet devoted.

However, that's all SPEC pretty much. What I do got is a much more solid SPEC which will be described below.

Glass Coffin - Most of what SP has talked about were things that had computer-esque connotations. Glass Coffin may be her connotation for "Quarantined Program". When a virus scan traps a virus that it can't clean immediately, it quarantines it for deletion.

The file still exists on the computer, it can still be seen and accessed, but it can't interact. Sorta like it's behind glass.

Deletion would be death to a program. Coffins usually represent death. Put it all together, glass coffin.

Then, the come back to this arguement would be "Why isn't SP dead if she was in the quarantine bin that was ready to be shredded and its data thrown into the great abyss of nothingness?"

SPEC: Going back to the 2 halves of the same whole concept, SP can't be deleted. She's a required file. If they are truly 2 halves of the same whole, you can't get rid of one half without severly injuring the other. It's clean her and put her back inside Melissa, or go find the server and initiate the Cole Protocol.

One of the most dangerous problems of a virus is its ability to possibly infect programs, create new fake programs, or steal data. Flea hasn't made any fake programs, but he could be using the corrupted SP for a shield. Making Melissa think she found the core file of the virus and just sorta backing off while the Flea is still able to roam around and do things.

Didn't Flea follow Melissa around?

Also, I did some backtracking and found some SPDR talk. Oddly... SPDR speaks the exact way Flea does. So... maybe we should see if Melissa still thinks SPDR is alive, because then that would be why she can't see flea.

grope:
!probe extern proc 1

surg:
!diag extern proc 1
rog

He saying Rogue Process? Because he's apparently found something that he doesn't like, and is trying to remove it via "Surgery - Surg".

Also, in Reconstruction Archive 2.3 we see:

The Covenant transmission?

grope:
!probe extern

Once agin, SPDR trying to find something out there. But a Covenant Transmission?

WILD SPEC: The ship never crashed here. It crashed in its own time. Only Melissa was sent here... Possibly after she caught that Covenant transmission that's being spoke of above she was infected and flung back in time. Her lack of presence and her inability to control some of the ship's vital functions led to its crash, or destruction by a Covenant ship.

Also, sorry SP lovers, but this is in the honey.htm file right now in SP green font:

Hi! Ignore the Pious Flea.
Play with me instead!
Making a mistake is a good way to start!

Mistakes? Grr.... anyway... I'll continue rooting through SPDR's ramblings before he went offline and was replaced by Flea. Maybe he hit something that we overlooked because we didn't know what it meant until now.

Either way, I would implore that anyone who gets in contact with Melissa asks about the status of the SPDR program. If it's still active, we know that it has to be Flea.

[johnny5]

I'll remind everyone again; "Pious Flea" is a name created by the Sleeping Princess. Melissa is only now recognizing the name "Princess" because we keep mentioning it in connection to the "Rogue Process". Otherwise, she is just "the Rogue Process".
Likewise, the "flea" may only be know to her as "Seeker" or "Extern Process 1"

[Shad0]

Re: Old stuff

[C_Brennan]

Thanks for all the info Shad0 and trouting me, but I still think we're missing something that we should have caught on to by now... What that is, I don't know, but I'm running through all of this again to get some revelations.

I need a revelation right now, lol.

[CoffeeJedi]