- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The countdown message that appears on the homepage of Ilovebees.com could be related to Cortana in Halo - First Strike. Perhaps the "Halt- Module Core Hemorrhage" is an error message; Cortana, after all is an AI program. Maybe this error was caused by the data that she downloaded and stored from Halo, or the copying algorithym from the Covenant AI.
"Control has been yielded to the System Peril Distributed Reflex" means that Cortana's functions are now controlled by the "Peril Distributed Reflex," perhaps the AI equivalent of a drive for self-preservation that is now working to save Cortana from destruction by whatever is corrupting her. The medium that the message speaks of could be Cortana, as she has "Strong Intrusive Inclanation." In the books, especially Fall of Reach, she often intrudes into sensitive data that she has no business looking at. "In 3 days, the network throttling will erode," could mean that further corruption of Cortana's internal data would be take place in those 3 days. Meta is the latin stem for "change", so maybe in 17 days, Cortana will change into a new entity of some sort.
Maybe on August 24, this new Entity will become activated, or "Wide Awake and Physical." This may sound a bit far-fetched, but these are just my speculations.