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Subject: www.Ilovebees.com -- Your guess
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Like the Cortana letters preceding Halo, the messages in the Ilovebees site are trying to give something about the plot of Halo2 away. What do you think it is?

I think that these are the thoughts of the AI of a private vessel that was boarded and captured by the Covenant, which is now trying to repair the damage that was done to it so it can reveal Earth's location. The frequent references to attempts to navigate but no information to use, the mention that she would do anything for the crew and she's calling for them, but they're dead, the disorientation coupled with the sense that something is working on her but at the same time she is isolated, it all seems to add up to this idea. It seems that they're trying to coax her into revealing Earth's position by accessing her procedural memory (if AI's have those) because she keeps trying to navigate, even though she lacks the information to do it. She knows on some level that she's dealing with hostiles because of the references to enemy lines, and ponders suicide, although she's trying hard to fight for clarity. Finally, I think the countdown is an estimated time of repair for the construct, when the Covenant will be able to figure out where Earth is. Give it a couple of months and then the seige of Earth is underway when Halo2 hits the shelves.

Flaws? Suggestions? Better interpretations?

  • 07.25.2004 6:19 PM PDT
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wow thats good realyl good

  • 07.25.2004 6:27 PM PDT
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right on, i agree that is good, yeah i agree that its trying to give some plot away

  • 07.25.2004 6:28 PM PDT
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same here

  • 07.25.2004 6:30 PM PDT
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I think there are several entities in there, that's why one refers to the other as being a subject, and why it would otherwise appear to have "mood swings." Also notice when it is quoting Gulliver, on the first paragraph it misses out the letter A, on the second it misses out the letter I. AI. (Please don't quote RvB here)

  • 07.25.2004 6:30 PM PDT
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If you wached the trailor it says Halo 2 is gonna be released on August 24th . is this true?

  • 07.25.2004 6:31 PM PDT
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I figured that the AI was "overhearing" other entities "on the table" as it were.

  • 07.25.2004 6:38 PM PDT
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this is the best explanation i have heard yet. but if you read the text that is hidden within the corrupted pictures you will find all over the web site. all of them are here. http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Corrupted_Image _Text
and are organized into a story here
http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Story
it seems like the so called spider is changing the programing of the queen here
http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Widow%27s_Journ ey_-_Computer_Text_Comparison

what if it is not human ship but something of the forerunners and the covies are hacking it. my guess is it is on earth but most likely inside it. If u read the bottom of this page http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Story
it describes the manticore. maybe it is guarding something inside earth. so if the covies kill it and they find the queen they can reprogram it and use it for themselves.
i have also noticed that on the honey page it says
"At this time, I am unable to sell honey because of an infestation of varrao mites in my hives. I hope to be back in business soon!"
Flood anyone? then i read this
"Honey has healing qualities, too! Ancient Egyptians used it on wounds because germs cannot grow in honey."
there have been many parallels between the forerunners and egypt. and some suspect that in the halo universe the forerunners built the pyramids. maybe there something in egypt that the forerunners left there and the covies want because they r infected by the flood.

  • 07.25.2004 7:25 PM PDT
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Ha! How did you get the text out of the pictures? I figured it might be there, but I don't know anything about the JPEG text compression, only that it exists.

  • 07.25.2004 7:55 PM PDT
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Open the file with Notepad, and you can see all the characters. I guess there is text hidden in some of them.

  • 07.25.2004 8:03 PM PDT
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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
ha
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lor: b
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wn

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]

  • 07.25.2004 8:31 PM PDT
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Very nice... Well here's my spin on thing's. A crew of fourty was on a special mission, doing somthing somwhere (Cover:criuse ship). Many of the oni ship's were using unsespecting cover, like the Circumference. But anyway, the ship came into contact with a covenant, and as per the cole protecall purged thier navugational databases and destory thier onboard ai. Well upon capturing the vesell, the covenant killed the crew, and searched through the ship's systems, and attemted to repair the ai. Well the covenant wer'nt exactaly sire how to put it together,(sewing my feet to my soldire's) so the ai was somewhat together but still all messed up and incomplete. The covenant wer'nt just trying to put it back together, but turn it to thier side. The queen, Must represent the ai's core or earth, and the widow represent's the ai's mind, trying to repair itself. Al of the queen's body guard's dead, and nothing but the manticore to stand guard. The manticore representing evil, Aka the covenant's presense inside her. As she stuggles to find what she need's to fix her queen and return her to power, she finds herself in hell, with only fire fly's to giude her. Fireflies being the little bits of info she can grasp before they disapear.
Idk maybye? Maybye not? But that's up to you guys to decipher.

  • 07.26.2004 10:31 PM PDT