- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think we're all starting to overthink all this, and are making these explanations too complex for their own good. I think we ought to take a step back for a minute, because we're all missiong the forest for the tress.
Alright, we all know that Enkidu is an AI. Just like that one AI from the FoR, he choose a name of a famous historical figure and believes he is that person. Nothing special. That's normal. Certainly, that explains why he keeps making all these mythological refernces to The Epic of Gilgamesh. (Generally, you need an understanding of the myth to know what he's saying, but then trying to take other aspects of the story and use it describe Halo is futile. Halo will never fit into a template like that. There do tend to be similarities from time to time in passing with what seems everything, but the vast majority of them are quite a strech. Except of course Starhammer, which turned out to be a really good template, not a strech at all.)
We know JD is now on the Lebanon and it's losing power. We also know Enkidu is of Frigid and found a forerunner srtucture. The humans broke in, using Enkidu to open the doors, most likely he found his way into the central computer of the structure. My guess is that he found a bunch of very important data, just like Cortana did in Halo's control center. It certainly slowed down Cortana and aparently shortened her life a lot. What would it do to adumb AI like Enkidu? Probably drive him mad right then and there. Maybe slowly change his data signatures so that the Lebanon terminals can't even distinguish him. Maybe make him so that rather than simply recounding the life of Enkidu, he feels real emotion about it; bitterness about how it turned out for his historical figure, for example.
That's the most logical and simplist answer. I thought I'd bring it up again, because everyone seems to have disregarded it for much more complex and unlikely explanations.
So instead of trying to use this to patch together the furure of Halo, we need to use this to solve the present. That is, what's happening to Enkidu now, not what's going to happen or what may or may not have happened.
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
It's a distraction to keep us from figuring out the important information in the letters. Just wish I knew what it was.