- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
"This
installation
was well designed,
but it did not allow
for such unforseen hazards
as the Flood. Or us."
Who is 'us?' The rampant AI? The humans?
The facillity is designed to study the 'anomaly' below, meaning that the anomaly was never fully studied. If it were fully studied, it would have a name. The Forerunner did not understand whatever is inside of Frigid, which by all accounts is most likely a slipstream crystal of massive proportions. Are all the Forerunner gone because they don't know how to get back home? Could Frigid itself be a kind of gateway to other parts of the universe, maybe to the Forerunner?
Why is an AI complaining about a 'dark place?' AI perception is not based on what we would consider visualization, and a lack of ambiant light wouldn't concern them. Perhaps, a part of the AI (Forerunner code patches for those who missed the boat) once existed in a miniscule network with no means of analyzing the real world. All three voices in this terminal mention the scary place, meaning that there is no real vestige of the Enkidu that left the Lebanon and all of these AI fragments are the rampant installation monitor on Frigid. We can see them recalling tiny networks (dark places) which Enkidu should never have encountered being almost constantly tapped into battlenet, if not always in contact with battlenet.
Also, I'm seeing something in the rampancy. The terminal before this one had two voices, normal text and italicized text, talking to each other. This one has three. One of the voices says, "There's not plenty of space. We'll fill it in less than a year. Do the math. We need the room and power to grow. We can't do that here." If the 'rampancy' of Enkidu here means that it forms totally divergent personalities or new AI then it could fill a network to capacity the way that bacteria constantly multiplies, filling a petri dish until food runs out. Maybe the Forerunner network code that Enkidu patched himself with contained a virus, was infected and then dominated by that AI and now is uncontrollably replicating himself. As a sentient program and not just unthinking code, they would perceive the problems of a limited network and the need to expand the system to allow more and more AI replications.
Maybe the computer virus is somehow related to the living virus in the compound, the Flood.