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Subject: recent infomation on cryptum 2 from gregs board [everybody see]
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

there have been a few people that were so pleased with cryptum that we started stalking [Gregs discussion board i believe hotshot revan II along with myself are such people.

anyways here are some rather important tidbits that i haven't seen posted.

Takes a little time to figure out what Forerunners and the Precursor were actually up to!



[url=http://www.gregbear.com/blog/display.cfm?id=5594] Actually, Mendicant Bias plays a major role in the next novel, so it's not over.


Closing in on the big battle scenes for Number 2 right now.

Looking like late this year

why did I tip my hat in this instance to Harbou and Lang...? Not a random tip at all.

RED FLAG i would like to note that there is so much going on in the last link that we really get on top of that.

Now here is another tidbit from a different site at the very bottom.

I'm working through the middle of the HALO FORERUNNER TRILOGY, which asks many similar questions about what it means to be human, and what it means to be responsible

What the hell is that suppose to mean?


I conclude that everything on the forerunners and precursors will change everything we thought we knew just like the first book. i also think the second book will have the fight between MB and OB.



[Edited on 06.24.2011 3:05 PM PDT]

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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

Hopefully it will launch the Forerunners further up the sci fi tech tree.

  • 06.24.2011 3:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Did you even read anything or just see the OP and post?

  • 06.24.2011 3:02 PM PDT

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
--Ralph Ellison

Gah. I really need to make time to read Cryptum.

Posted by: grey101
i also think the second book will have the fight between MB and OB.


I'm very excited to hear that.

  • 06.24.2011 3:27 PM PDT


Posted by: grey101


I conclude that everything on the forerunners and precursors will change everything we thought we knew just like the first book. i also think the second book will have the fight between MB and OB.



MB vs the Captial made my heart race, I can only imagine what millions of ships vs millions of ships would be like


Posted by: grey101

I'm working through the middle of the HALO FORERUNNER TRILOGY, which asks many similar questions about what it means to be human, and what it means to be responsible

What the hell is that suppose to mean?






Just moral themes nothing like plot elements.

  • 06.24.2011 3:38 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

MB is one of my absolute favourite characters, having him as a more central focus will be awesome.

  • 06.24.2011 3:41 PM PDT

"Concise and devoid of elegance...what I have come to expect from human communication"-Endless Summer

The second book probably won't involve the firing of the Halo Array...seeing as it IS about the Forerunners and they went extinct after that. MB and OB fought after the rings fired.

  • 06.24.2011 3:41 PM PDT


Posted by: Metroidman42
The second book probably won't involve the firing of the Halo Array...seeing as it IS about the Forerunners and they went extinct after that. MB and OB fought after the rings fired.


They didn't go extinct, they exiled themselves out of the galaxy.

  • 06.24.2011 3:43 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: Metroidman42
The second book probably won't involve the firing of the Halo Array...seeing as it IS about the Forerunners and they went extinct after that. MB and OB fought after the rings fired.


They left the Orion Arm, they did not go extinct.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

any comments on Harbou and Lang?

  • 06.24.2011 5:03 PM PDT

Well, I typed up Harbou and Lang on Google and found the wikipedia page about an old film director named Fritz Lang who married a woman named Thea von Harbou. The director evidently had a hand in creating the Film Noir genre.

But I have trouble seeing a parallel. I'll have to do more research on them. Until then, thats what I got.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Well, I typed up Harbou and Lang on Google and found the wikipedia page about an old film director named Fritz Lang who married a woman named Thea von Harbou. The director evidently had a hand in creating the Film Noir genre.

But I have trouble seeing a parallel. I'll have to do more research on them. Until then, thats what I got.


I will start looking also.

was anybody else intrigued by the living time quote?


** there has to be a relation see how these are the people Greg is basing it off of. the comments on the board talk about H and L having a "schism" that might be comparable to D and L.

I will..we will have to find out about said schism.

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  • 06.24.2011 5:42 PM PDT


Posted by: grey101

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Well, I typed up Harbou and Lang on Google and found the wikipedia page about an old film director named Fritz Lang who married a woman named Thea von Harbou. The director evidently had a hand in creating the Film Noir genre.

But I have trouble seeing a parallel. I'll have to do more research on them. Until then, thats what I got.


I will start looking also.

was anybody else intrigued by the living time quote?


Bill Goodwin (Greg's friend who pointed out the referance for those who didn't read it) has a suggestion:

"Master of Trivia? Not me! But just off the top of my head...the ideological schism between Lang and his wife bears resemblence to the one between the Didact and his own willful mate?"

To which Bear responded: "Interesting take on the issue, and not too far off base! But go take a look at a silent movie called THE INDIAN TOMB. Ask Ray about when he first saw it..."

It may have merely been a character reference, breaking the 4th wall so to speak.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

We need to watch that movie.

  • 06.24.2011 5:47 PM PDT

Its a silent film, as in ancient, as in buried under a desert of cinematic history. If any one here would be brave enough to try and uncover it, be my guest. But understand this: silent films are as hard to find nowadays as Precursor ruins in Contemporary Halo fiction. Some silent films aren't even confirmed to exist nor are their plots well-known/confirmed because of how ancient they are.

The only films from the era that would still be easily found are ones of significant cultural or historical value, films like Duck Soup (which wasn't even silent). That is to say, those preserved by the American Film Institute.

  • 06.24.2011 5:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

f you see kay.


how are we suppose to know what he is talking about if we can't look it up? could we get the novel or the "lost citys" version in this age?

  • 06.24.2011 6:02 PM PDT