- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: X Isle
J_A_C_K,
I think that anachronism is simply hinting to the fact that we are reading these messages out of chronological order, which is obvious based on the dates/times of the messages.
Taken from dictionary.com:
\An*ach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to refer to a wrong time, to confound times; ? + ? time: cf. F. anachronisme.] A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
Wait a minute. everthing that we have gotten here has had more than one meaning to it. Basically everything has double meaning or even triple meaning. Perhaps Anachronism is a clue refering to both the wacky AI, calling itself Enkidu (who i think is some kind of alter Cortana we have yet to see) and the order that we recieve the transmissions.
I have quoted a lot from the Cortana leters and have drawn some connections. Here is Cortana from the second letter where she seems to be talking from Frigid:
From: "Cortana" <cortana@bungie.com>
To: <hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie>
Subject: Your Mortality (My Summer Vacation)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:04:41 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
I get the strangest transmissions sometimes. Especially when it comes from you people.
Have you missed me? Things are great here. The weather is good, the suns are shining, and I'm making lots of new friends. Of course, I always do.
The multiple suns that are shinning? Friend talk? Good weather? Let me just say that this sounds exactly like the place we see in the Enkidu terminal, FRIGID. Cortana is infact somehow on Frigid. Note that the title is also references "My Summer Vacation". Isn't one of the Enkidu terminals titled, "How I spent your Summer Vacation". The letter references these Enkidu events on Frigid. Furthur more, these Enkidu events take place before the events of Halo.
Still scratching your head?
Let me show you, before and during the events of Halo, Cortana (the one that we all know *wink, wink*) was with the Chief. We know this from reading the Fall of Reach and playing the video game. But then we have these Enkidu terminals that take place during the same genral time, making the events of Frigid and Halo over lap. Well as I have shown above, Cortana is also on Frigid at the same time. Basically she is in two places at the same time. How is this possible?
A time anomoly or more exacty a Anachronism. The entity or entities we are dealing with on Frigid are from another time.