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Subject: Enkidu - Cortana Letters Revisted?
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Hey now noir and me, we're just having a civilized conversation... so far anyway *shifty eyes* lol. Or are you talking about the little jerry springer episode happening between Stitch and Tartarus...
but then again to be Jerry Springer there would have to be naked dwarfs running around a big fat guy who was cheating on his sister with his brothers wife who was hitting on his daughter while horseback riding naked eating ice cream...
Anyways this could very well be a teaser by Bungie for Halo 2... but they seem like ld recycled ideas. Thought they have some very intersing refrences and parralels to different subject such as greek, babylonian, and as of late (hehe) Shakespeare... very interesting indeed

  • 05.09.2004 12:58 PM PDT
Subject: Credo In Un Dio Crudel
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I'm a little rusty in my italian but I believe the title is Creed In A God Crudel which when I looked up on google is either a name of a Italian play or a part of a song called the seven circles of dantes inferno.

  • 05.09.2004 1:11 PM PDT
Subject: Enkidu - Cortana Letters Revisted?
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Unless the the Forerunner had trained the Flood to not harm the Forerunner but only their enemies. That way they could train and engineer all the Flood they would want without having a risk of being infected. But if that's the case why not just trigger Halo and destroy their enemies (whoever they may be) with a single press of a button...


Ahh, but would they really want to destroy all sentient life just to destroy one enemy? That's like nukeing New York just to kill a single cirminal, you would be killing a lot of innocent lives.

But the Flood, they would offer a very efficint way of killling your enemies, but you would have to make sure that they, too, wouldn't destroy the entire galaxy by infecting all life in it, so you would want to contain them well.

As for them not attacking the Forerunners, the could have been genetically enginered with instincts not to attack them, sort of like animals won't attack their mothers and families etc.

  • 05.09.2004 1:18 PM PDT
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Nice Point there u guys realy should stop fighting the game isnt reallife (altho i like to think it is i live in myt own little halo/marathon world ) this is so cool if its from bungie this makes the story incredibly DEEP

[Edited on 5/9/2004 1:20:36 PM]

  • 05.09.2004 1:19 PM PDT
Subject: Credo In Un Dio Crudel
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I did an online translation and got "I believe in a God "Crudel". I'll add what I find out about Crudel in an edit or another post.

-edit- Ok, well I couldn't find a direct translation for "Crudel", but guessing from the context I've seen it in within several Italian or Latin sentences I'd say it's "Cruel" (real shocker right?). Anyway. . . belief in a Cruel God which I think may have something to do with Forerunner being 'godlike' and their ties to the flood.

[Edited on 5/9/2004 1:31:04 PM]

  • 05.09.2004 1:20 PM PDT
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Well, I found an aria of this "Creed in a God" 'Crudel.'

Credo in un Dio crudel
Che m’ha creato simile a sé
E che nell’ira io nomo.
Dalla viltà d’un germe
O d’un atòmo vile son nato.
Son scellerato perché son uomo,
E sento il fango originario in me.
Si! Questa è la mia fè!

Credo con fermo cuor,
Siccome crede
La vedovella al tempio,
Che il mal ch’io penso
E che da me procede,
Per mio destino adempio.

Credo che il giusto
È un’istrion beffardo
E nel viso e nel cuor,
Che tutto è in lui bugiardo,
Lagrima, bacio, sguardo,
Sacrificio ed onor.

E credo l’uom
Gioco d’iniqua sorte
Dal germe della culla
Al verme dell’avel.
Vien dopo tanta irrision la Morte.
E poi? E poi?
La morte è il Nulla,
E’ vecchia fola il Ciel!


That may have something to do with it. I tried using an online translator, but more than half of the words cannot be translated. Seeing as how I do not speak Italian, I'm obviously not the person to translate.

Added -

Perhaps this website can help.

http://opera.stanford.edu/Verdi/Otello/main.html

The play is Otello. I'm not sure if this has been established yet or not. Disregard if it has.

[Edited on 5/9/2004 1:32:16 PM]

  • 05.09.2004 1:25 PM PDT
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Ok i got another question, ok first AI's are compatible to any function of technology rite?
And if they are why not take over the main covenent ship instead of destroying it? Im preety sure they have gun turents in the mainframe for the AI to work and destroy the cov on the ship.

  • 05.09.2004 1:27 PM PDT
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Enkidu believes in the Forerunner. The Cruel Gods. They were the ones who unleashed the flood, and I'll bet you for less than honorable purposes.

[Edited on 5/9/2004 1:32:59 PM]

  • 05.09.2004 1:32 PM PDT
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We've been over this three times. It means, "I bleieve in a cruel God." Comes from the opera: Otello, based on the play Othello, by Shakespere.

  • 05.09.2004 1:32 PM PDT
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Sorry then. I just noticed the new thingy on the Enkidu page today and wasn't aware that anybody had said anything (too many pages of banter and spam to read all of the posts I'm not around for)

  • 05.09.2004 1:34 PM PDT
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Has anyone tried matching the dates given in the terminal with the dates in the three Halo books? Apologies in advance if it has been tried.

  • 05.09.2004 1:37 PM PDT
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nope

  • 05.09.2004 1:38 PM PDT
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It's been done. Halo started on Sptember 19th. This is Spetember 13th. Halo hasn't even begun yet.

  • 05.09.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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Looks like 'O' is up, and it pretty much spells out that it's the Flood that they found. Obscure reference in the source and explanation below:

meta name="keywords" content="Marathon, Halo, Bungie, Enkidu, fanfic, and curst be he that moves my bones, responsibility, recon and intelligence"

I did a search for "and curst be he that moves my bones". It's part of the epitaph on Shakespear's grave, which he wrote before he died. The full text is:

"Good Friends, for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the bones enclosed here!
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones."

  • 05.09.2004 1:48 PM PDT
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Ah. My apoligies, as I've said before. I left my books at school and I couldn't check.

  • 05.09.2004 1:48 PM PDT
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yo, this topic rocks

  • 05.09.2004 1:50 PM PDT
Subject: Enkidu - Cortana Letters Revisted?
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Posted by: Shifty
but then again to be Jerry Springer there would have to be naked dwarfs running around a big fat guy who was cheating on his sister with his brothers wife who was hitting on his daughter while horseback riding naked eating ice cream...

Its funny cause its true.

  • 05.09.2004 1:51 PM PDT
Subject: Credo In Un Dio Crudel
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If this is not a Fanfic and is actually from Bungie than here is my theory:

If Bungie is going to make a thing like this to give us clues of what is going to be in the new Halo than why would they put the flood in here just like before? I think this a new kind of species and not the flood but are like the flood. The forerunner would not just study one kind of species would they? I doubt it. Like someone said before about how only Humans and Covenant called the Ring world Halo. 343GS called it Installation 04. So that means the other Installations do not have to be like Halo right? Frigid may as well be another Installation for another species.

P.S. thanks to who ever said that about the other Installations not nessasarily needing to be like Halo.

  • 05.09.2004 1:54 PM PDT
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It's true cause it's funny...

  • 05.09.2004 1:57 PM PDT
Subject: Credo In Un Dio Crudel
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Oh and one other thing somebody said about the terminals to be like the greek alphabet, does it still match up with the new ones???

  • 05.09.2004 1:57 PM PDT
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Hey zk315 did you notice that in FS that after the time crystal thing. The MC and everyone else are heading back to earth on September 13th

Yes the terminals are still matching a version of the greek alphabet.

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  • 05.09.2004 1:58 PM PDT
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Thanx

  • 05.09.2004 2:04 PM PDT
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If the Forerunner did engineer the Flood they could have also engineered a cure. They could have a similar immunity as Johnson. Then their class 12 battle armor would be just to protect them from the flood punching them.

Also these terminals are giving us more evidence for the Flood being a weapon. Then the human have translated "Weapons Cache" correctly.

  • 05.09.2004 2:11 PM PDT
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I cant believe how much stuff on this page has already been said before. Some stuff even just 2 or three pages before. I guess its because of the lack of enthusiasm thats dropping this thread down to the bottom of page 2. And I guesss that is due to the lack of direct information. At least E3 is around the corner.

  • 05.09.2004 4:11 PM PDT
Subject: what the hell is up with the freakin CORTANA LETTERS!!!
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I dont understand this garbage

  • 05.09.2004 4:17 PM PDT