> A) the numbers are a Beale cipher, i.e., every number refers to a
> particular word in a particular text, and encodes the initial letter of
> the word.
> Problems to be solved:

> a) which text?
> b) how can one encode the two zeroes which are in the glyphs (G3, G5)?

> The answer to a) has been suggested: the text of the terminals in
> "Arrival", the first M1 map. I've tried, but the text is messed
> up: where do we have to begin it? Which terminal (we need one with at
> least 113 words, in order to deal with the 113 in G4)? Suggestions,
> anyone?

I know I was the one (or one of several) who suggested this approach, but based on Claude's comments here and there, I don't really believe that detailed knowledge of Marathon -- even just the text of the terminals -- is required to solve this. Note that not a single one of the glyph center symbols required knowledge of any Bungie product to solve.

Also, as you point out, 0 is hard to reconcile in a Beale cipher.

> B) Take the numbers "pointed to" by the letters
> "ARRIVAL", as if they were clock hands.

This one has potential, but I have some difficulty seeing how the Cs and the G really point to any letters. If we have to use the letters again -- and this is by no means certain -- I think there is probably a different way.

> I'm assuming here that
> both user&pass are 'intelligible' words