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As usual, very excellent stuff. That was a rather detailed set of posts.

Couple of things: I thought you were against the notion that Gravemind is the Beast?

Also, is the fourth not a reference to the fourth, yet-to-be-discovered stage of rampancy?

  • 07.15.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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I've never been against Gravemind being the Beast. The Beast is the Antichrist is Abaddon and could be Azazel, so I see Gravemind as fitting that role. As for the "fourth", we have never gotten a definitive answer to that. Nathan Bitner didn't aswer it, Matt Soell didn't answer it, no one has given us a straight answer. It could be a fourth stage of Rampancy, could be a fourth AI on the Marathon, could be the "fourth island" that Bitner once mentioned. That, of course, was a reference to the Ringworlds as described by Niven. We can't be sure... I've already forgotten what I speculated it being... did I even give a thought?

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Although... if the blurred line is the "fourth", it is likely that she is speaking of the meta-stable state of near-godhood that Durandal reached before the closure.

[Edited on 7/16/2006]

  • 07.16.2006 11:35 AM PDT
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Well, if Cortana is speaking to Humanity as a whole, then when she says
"There was a fourth. YOU couldn't have known." She might have been saying Humanity didn't know of the fourth stage of Rampancy. Though why she says "and I haven't forgotten." doesn't mske sense to me.

If anyone could link me to a place where I could read the Marathon storyline, that would be nice too. 7hanks

  • 07.24.2006 7:40 PM PDT

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