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I'm not buying that it's a forerunner ship because of the following:
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
length: 120 meters
crew: 40
cover: pleasure yacht
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Thanks for the link, though, that's interesting. The widow could be a backup system trying to diagnose and repair the damaged AI, but then I'm not sure why this story is significant. That the Manticore and the guards don't recognize the widow suggest that the widow isn't really the Queen's friend, or that the backup system isn't supposed to be working (Maybe it's being prodded by the Covenant?) The lodestone floor where the Queen lies suggests hard-disk platters, although this is less likely to be a direct image because the tech in Halo seems to be well beyond that. That the Widow is cannibalizing people (systems?) to restart the Queen is kind of bizarre. The constant appearance of sand, being surrounded by sand, sand in the her head, being fed cakes of sand, building sandcastles (I'm a smart girl) and so forth, it's key. My first thought was that sand represents ruined electronics, useless circuits, what the AI is surrounded by.
Mmm, no, I'm certain she's not Forerunner. At one point she says "Survive, Evade, Reveal, Escape.. This is all you know.. or all you need to know."
This is a corruption of SERE, which is, as I recall, Navy SEAL training. But the R is "Resist." It suggests her will to fight has been subverted, that the Widow did a bad job.
[Edited on 7/25/2004 8:44:40 PM]