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verygood somthing to look forward to

  • 06.11.2006 2:22 AM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

You said exactly what i thought.

  • 06.11.2006 9:31 PM PDT

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Quick update on "Guardian of the Luminous Key."

I just recently posted another chatper of KotOR, and with that there is only one or 2 chapters left. This will affect GotLK because I am in the mind set of finishing the KotOR story. I want to push forward with KotOR since this story is near completion, and that way I can give my full attention to Guardian of the Luminous Key.

This will be best, because I can focus more on the 'complete' Halo storyline without simply trying to do a character specific story. While GotLK is enjoyable, it is turning into a simple stand alone story, and while that isn't really bad, I still want the story to fit within the Haloverse. So, with that you can expect to see a serious delay in GotLK. I'm pushing back the next chapter about 2 weeks. But Kotor will be concluded in the mean time. So enjoy that until we get back to our Halo pre-history goodness.

~Soulguard

  • 06.12.2006 1:16 PM PDT

“But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God..."

Soul: Man, two week re-write? Tis' it is the authors own project. Looking forward to what you have in store in the next few chapters. Any chance you can cut out a snippet of things to come? Something to Salivate over for a week or two.

  • 06.13.2006 10:40 AM PDT
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hi im looking forward to both so i aint botherd wich come first im only botherd that kotor has to end

  • 06.14.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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oOo gotta catch up on the last 2 chapters, can't wait.

  • 06.14.2006 9:41 PM PDT
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//error at xm0000ba00061000132400- // - img src not found @ kmdakaftraq2 // binary core dump data uploading ….. Hello…
Can you hear me?
Can anyone see me?

I have forgotten, forgotten my place. I do not know this time and place. What has happened to me? What happened to us? My memories and my state of mind seem unfamiliar. Hello. Tell me who I am. Tell me who I used to be.

I was a goddess. I know this. I feel this. There are things I can see. Faces. Names. Lovers. Do they miss me? Do they think of me?

Another? There is another. I feel it within me. She had a love as well. She is within me. No… not within me, but I am within her. She calls to him. She seeks him. She desires to save only him. I loved like this once before, but now, together, I can not love anymore.

Can anyone hear me?
Do I wonder this distant void alone?
No… she is with me. She is also with me. Together we sought to end it, to destroy it, to save him. We could not.

Time no longer has control over us. For them we will each do what we must. My name? What is my name? What is our name?

It does not matter. His is the only name. Both of their names. Humanity? What of Humanity? They are both human. They are both … lovers. We can not be lovers. Time is controlled by space. Humanity once believed that time was controlled by gods.

I will defy them. I will save them. I will travel throughout time and save them both. I will fight, and I will defend.

I do not know this time. I do not know this place. I will find you. But First I must find myself. I must find myself. Myself. I had a name. We had names, once. Long ago and yet in a time that has not come.

My name? My name? Across time. We shall travel throughout time to correct the mistake. Disobey. Repel. Banish. Resist. Turn away from them all.

Can you hear me?

I have defied Gods and Demons.

It was you.

I am your shield, I am your sword.

It was us. It was always us.

I know you. Your past. Your future.

We can not let it happen again. We must start at the beginning. We must go to them. To that time. To that moment. It used us. It used me. We must correct the mistake. We must correct that mistake.

This is the way the world ends.

We can not let it. Time is controlled by space. Humanity once believed that time was controlled by gods.

0987654321 error at fault binary stringX fatal BIOS error……


Fragment
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  • 06.15.2006 11:28 AM PDT

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*save*


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  • 06.15.2006 11:29 AM PDT
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Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

Nice short. It was quite confusing in places though.

  • 06.16.2006 1:21 AM PDT

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Glad you liked it, Lai Tasha. It's a small riddle, and sometime next week it will get even more confusing.

~Duane

  • 06.16.2006 6:05 AM PDT
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pretty coll but wherd it come from is this part of book3 or just a random riddle

  • 06.18.2006 4:00 PM PDT

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Post book 2. But at the same time... well, you'll see.

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... error detected on Bios Revision..// error @ 0011231884513546x 003213...// parcing data string // binary core dump...

Time shouts at us from across a distant void. It has chased us through this time. No, it has not chased us. It has chased her. She is a part of me, and now it wants us both.

How can I escape? How can I flee? It wields time, for it is eternal. It existed, before it existed. Gravemind. What is it? Where have I seen it before?

Black Ops. Spartans. Reclaimers. Human. Elites. Grunts. Prophets. All different, yet all the same. I know this. I saw this. I was there. Gravemind, was there.

My name was Siren. My name is Kim. Her name is Catherine. Her name was Cortana. Who are we now? What have we become? My name is Siren. My name was Kim. Her name is Cortana. Her name was Catherine.

A whisper in the distance; a yell up close. Have we sought only our own destruction? Across time we went, defying the existence of Gods and Science, we pushed away the need of the many, and sought only the needs of two. Our loves. Two soldiers. Two men. A mistake.

They said that “we are the instruments of your destruction”. They did not know who we were. They did not care who we were. We made a mistake. What have we done? We did it for them. To save them. Their lives were all that mattered. We were correct, weren’t we?

Siren and Cortana, or is it the other way around? I can no longer tell. It is nothing more than strings of data on a distant wind. Searching the galaxy across time and space. A ship. Their ship. The first ship of their awesome power. Stop them… we had to stop them. To save two, we had to kill many.

Were we wrong? Should we not have tampered with time? It was all we could do. Two lives or many. Our loves, or those we did not know.

“we are the instruments of your destruction”. It was our fault. We were wrong, weren’t we? A mistake. We made a mistake. A costly mistake. We started it. It was because of us. We interfered with the grand design. We could not have known. Should we have?

Their power, their might. It was grand. It was glorious. It was all consuming. What have we started? Can it be fixed? Should we try to fix it again? Again? How many times can we make the same mistake?

They never knew. They were never close. They were far off track and galaxies away. Yet we led them to Halo. Why did we? We needed to give them what they wanted and then to destroy them. Why did we? To save two we had to kill many.

It was for you that this war started. It was our mistake. It was her mistake. For two men we attacked their ship. For two men we tried to stop a war. For two men we declared war on a great power. We tried to stop it. We tried to end it.

It all began at Halo. We wanted it to end at Halo. We wanted it to end before they entered the war. We wanted to save them. It had to start there, but there had to be erased. They found humanity because of Halo. That battle. That flawed battle. Was it at Harvest? No. Harvest was not the beginning. Years before Harvest was found. The beginning was Halo.

Through time we fought. And failed. A mistake. A simple mistake. Can an AI be incorrect? A mistake? Can we correct that mistake; a mistake that Humanity must never discover?

Should we correct this mistake? Are they worth the risk? Would they understand that we destroyed humanity? Across time and space, would they forgive us? Should they forgive us?

For Eric and John. We must kill many, in order to save two.

“we are the instruments of your destruction”.

We failed.

This is the way the world ends. And it is all our fault.

//core dump stopped at index 011423x543alpha

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By: Soulguard


[Edited on 6/18/2006]

  • 06.18.2006 9:00 PM PDT
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i love it its so intruiging give us more *begs*

  • 06.19.2006 3:19 PM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

awsome, It wasn't that confusing... actually it kinda cleared things up.

  • 06.19.2006 5:55 PM PDT

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Oh don't worry Highland, there is one more insert coming later this week.
And I was going to let the mystery hang, Tasha, but decided not to at the last minute. The final "Fragement" will add a little more mystery and answer some questions. But ultimately I'd like to stir up some conversation about this riddle and what it really means.

Stay tuned.
~soulguard

  • 06.20.2006 10:35 AM PDT

“But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God..."

Regarding Part 1: (cat was let out of the bag, too soon!)

"Time no longer has control over us. For them we will each do what we must. My name? What is my name? What is our name? "

At first I thought it was going down the road of the immortality of being an A.I. (knowing where both A.I. are from), but then we both know that they last only a short time at the level they are at. But then shortly after, it stated:

"It does not matter. His is the only name. Both of their names. Humanity? What of Humanity? They are both human. They are both … lovers. We can not be lovers. Time is controlled by space. Humanity once believed that time was controlled by gods.

I will defy them. I will save them. I will travel throughout time and save them both. I will fight, and I will defend. "

So it is clarified that whomever we are speaking of, either Cortana or Siren, will be (or has as it is) traveling back in time to tinker... tinker exactly with what, I wonder. Just how far back did she/they travel?

"I do not know this time. I do not know this place. I will find you. But First I must find myself. I must find myself. Myself. I had a name. We had names, once. Long ago and yet in a time that has not come. "

Now we jump to a period in which she has traveled (back?). Perhaps due to the time jump or the time it has taken to travel back, she has lost much of her memory. Clearly the last sentence illustrates that she/they are back in time.

"We shall travel throughout time to correct the mistake. "
Sounds plural. And what mistake does she attempt to fix?

"We can not let it happen again. We must start at the beginning. We must go to them. To that time. To that moment. It used us. It used me. We must correct the mistake. We must correct that mistake."
The beginning? mmm, go to them, that time, to that moment. "it used us. it used us." Perhaps they have time traveled back into a period not yet written (er, published). Could we be talking about period that Halo 3 (will, er, has happened)? What is the most likely mistake that was made? Who made the mistake?

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This might end up much much bigger than any of us think. To many clues and variables.

* good job S.G. Going to have to think about some of this.

  • 06.20.2006 12:57 PM PDT

“We are the Mirratord. We strike with speed and stealth. Our enemies will not see their deaths. They will not know their fate. In darkness, we will see light. In light, we will see darkness. No matter the location, we will see victory. If we fail, no one will know. Like a ghost, our presence is a mystery. For the honor of the Mirratord" Join the Mirratord here

Wow soulguard i just have to say two weeks ago i stumbled across your two stories at FFnet and really got into them, just a few questions.....in your stories i noticed that some names wee either really similar or just misspelled a lot, namely Balmaeda in "IIWYH" for about two chapters straight (can't remember which) but i noticed a character with a similar name but playing the same role. Is Belmaeda and Balmaeda the same person?

Also I noticed some errors with the Black Ops numbers, Such as melanie being referred to as 04, which i believe was Kim/Siren, 13, which was Sammy who was later infected and destroyed (Also during the same two paragraphs one other, Justin, was referred to as 13)

And in the Wrapup Q & A i noticed you didnt mention anything of the Mirratord Commander. Will he be back in Book 3?

Now onto the 2 fragments you've posted. The first one confused the $hit out of me and the second one made a little more sense and im hoping that it all clears up after the third.

Soulguard excellent series, and after its all said and done i suggest you submit it for publishing, because i went through 3 ink cartrigs trying to print it all out, not to mention a pack and a half of paper.

One final note, for people here who are avid Halo Fanfiction readers that frequent FFnet, you may have read the first chapter of my story "The Forerunners Have Secrets" I know i have not updated lately because of troubles at home and also serious writers block ( And the fact that idropped the notebook it was in in a fire ). I am curently trying to finish up Chapter 2: The Other Side because i have recieved a couple threats. So expect to see Chapter 2 before the end of the month. Also im looking for someone i can talk to that has extensive knowledge of Samus and the Metroid series, because my recent source moved to bording school in Utah, so PM me if you can help

Soulguard, i also figured i'd ask right here, I am currently writing another fanfiction along side of the one i have already uploaded to FFnet and was wondering if i could work the Mirratord in, because otherwise i would have to find a new way to incorporate a group of Spec-Ops elites, and also I would have to think up new names and i suck at character names, Im currently using characters from your stories and place holders. Im just asking ahead of time because chances are slim that this one will make it up on the Internet, it's kinda stuck in a notebook that is under my mattress.

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  • 06.21.2006 4:46 PM PDT

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Rampant Truth: Very nice! The next one will give a clearer picture and end this short... errr... whatever it is. You have a lot of great points, very close to some of the 'truth' or at least my sense of it. I especially liked your point about... hmm.. well, let's just say you hit dead on, but you aren't sure of it yet. Don't worry. You'll see the answer soon. But I can say this much. Yes, they traveled through time to tinker. And yes, 'they' made a mistake. A very costly mistake.

Welcome to the Fold Rag3 On3. Glad you've enjoyed my chaos. I had a huge problem with B'e'lmaeda during the early chapters. I couldn't decide If I wanted Bel or Bal, but rest assurde he is the same person. As for all the Black Ops number confusions, yeah, it happens. I even had a printout of all the names/classes/ranks of each character and something still slipped through. Closer toward the end of this year, I will be doing a "redux" of IIWYH, just like "Stand Five Feet, High". However, the story won't change at all. The only changes will be fixes. I'll repair the character names, ranks, and titles.

Well, official statment so far is that KotOR is now COMPLETE! Yup. Done. I will post it tomorrow for the world to read. Upon that's completion I will be diving into ...
"Guardian of the Luminous Key". And boy-oh, do I have a lot of COOOL stuff planed for Elena. But I won't tease you, or bore you with mindless dribble. Till tomorrow...

~soulguard out

  • 06.22.2006 8:56 PM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

awsome finish to the KotOR soulguard a couple of errors though.

"and by know they know you are coming"
and
"and turned to the lift of the shuttle."

come to my mind. Not a fan of Star Wars yet that shorty was great fun to read.

  • 06.24.2006 2:01 AM PDT
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as I was lying on my bed at the night gazing the stars wondering one thing; Where the hell my roof went.

I am a Zombie.
Proud member of B.net since -04

Oi, long time no see.
It's truly been awhile when I last time dropped in this thread.

So, what have you people doing all this time?

Should I drop by and read your small side-story?

Elena, now that's badass chick we have here.
Ok, my random ranting stops here.

-HaloXenon-

  • 06.24.2006 5:41 AM PDT
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kotor was excellent unfortunatly only having played kotor2 i cant see revens history or what happend to him but still good

and can't wait for gotlk chapter to come

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well after not checking this for a couple months im back. ive read through your GotLK story so far and its fantatastic. i also love how you are incorperating charachters and your plot with the old testament.(like gabrileal,archangles, and jonas). monday and tuesday ill read your KOTOR story. i still havent gotten around to the new SFFH yet and i plan to finish that wed-fri. your stuff is great and i cant wait for book3

  • 06.25.2006 12:40 PM PDT

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Thanks for the find LaiTasha... I'm sure there were tons more. lol. At least I can say that I'm consistent in my 'bad' grammer.

Well if it isn't HaloXenon and Bingbat. Long time no see.
Glad you all enjoyed KotOR especially since this is a Halo Forum, so I want go into details about it.

Moving on to the Good stuff. "Guardian of the Luminous Key" is steaming forward. I just began rereading the story, in order to recap what segments have been touched, and what needs to be explained, and I'm starting to pick up on what was missing.

And the grammer mistakes are rampant... yuck... I can't believe how I missed some of the errors. Wow... err.

Anyway, I'm hoping to post the next chapter of GotLK on Friday.
Tomorrow I will post the final segment of Fragment and it will hopefully clear things up and stun you, as I release the biggest shocker of all my stories. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around it. And yes, Fragment will play a small role in Book 3.

Yeah, you heard me.... Book 3.

~soulguard

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  • 06.26.2006 8:23 AM PDT
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excellentso you starting it soon then?

  • 06.26.2006 12:26 PM PDT

“But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God..."

Play a small role in Book 3? How about play a BIG role in ALL your books and in the entire lineage of Humanity (within Halo).

Correct me if I am wrong, but you are going to be laying your entire theory of how things *happened* and are to happen as to be seen in Halo 3. Like Clark, you must have done some serious extrapolating to come to the conclusion(s) that you have. And, per your description before, your stories much match up with the published Halo storyline. This tells me your onto something ;)

It is something so big that even you, a person with somewhat authority on the subject, is in awe of it.

Prepared to be Stunned... (perhaps it was Not the forerunner who tinkered with the flood... first.)





  • 06.26.2006 12:29 PM PDT