- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I think you are all on the wrong track. Biggest clue is the style of the posts. Like that of a terminal. From the starship Marathon.
So, a few ideas, from a Marathon point of view. First, note the quote "Once I was wild and I will be wild again." This AI isn't going rampant, it is RETURNING to rampancy. Meaning it went rampant, then was "tamed" to some extent. I know of three rampant AIs, don't you?
Second, the marines are referring to JD initially as a Spartan... but it seems that was only a cover story. Who do we know who has a Spartan's capabilities, and has been around for a long while? Hm...
Third, the poetry isn't refurring to Bungie's history of games, I think... think instead of heroes of the past. On the Marathon story page, they reference the theory of a single hero that is reincarnated through the ages. Indeed, one does seem to have done so, if you believe that the PiD main character was grafted to Jarro machinery as some have suggested, to produce the character that lives through the Marathon trilogy. Who says he just went away?
As to the story, seems a Spartan, some Marines, and a captive AI had crash-landed midway to or from Reach, right before it crashed... looks like another Forerunner artifact. That much is obvious. However, why can't anything leave? Might it have something to do with what is "dark and shining" down below? Might it explain why there seems to be even more room than suspected? Answer seems obvious, doesn't it?
A final note: no Forerunner artifact has ever gone unprotected. The fronts should be obvious. The Covenant, who want to get off Frigid. The Flood, who have the same reasons. The Marines, also trying to survive, and hoping to find a mighty weapon. JD, said pseudo-Spartan. And the guardian AI, unprepared for a once-and-future rampant AI, dare I say a madly intelligent one?
That is all.