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ilovebees - halo connection
Posted By: webshift <webshift@gmail.com>Date: 9/27/05 12:44 p.m.

Recently, I took on the daunting task of reordering (or reloading) the ilovebees story. When this idea was released last year in reference to the Halo 2 marketing campaign, there was a lot of speculation about how much ilovebees actually tied into the Halo 2 story line. It was undeniably Halo-related once it brought up elements that we are all familiar with, (i.e. the spartan program, Smart AI's, Section 3, Oni, etc). I still come across people that don't believe that the ilovebees story ties in at all with the direct story line of the games. For that reason I am going to write out some of my speculations about how the two are more intertwined than you might see at first glance.

We realize early on that, Durga (Melissa) is a powerful AI, that just happens to have crash landed on Jersey's chatter. She starts pulling in all this information about him, his parents, his friends, etc. It turns out that Jersey's father is in the Signal Corp attached to Naval Intelligence on assignment in deepspace. Not a sure sign, but we have heard of the Office of Naval Intelligence before (ONI). This is happens in week 1.
In week 3, Herzog, the old spy, is talking to his aide about the Apocalypso. He mentions that the ship was operating cloaked and deep in Covenant space. This fact establishes that we are in the same universe here as Halo. He also establishes that while they were in covenant space, they found the artifact that causes all the problems at the beginning of the ILB story.
Now, there is a big jump to week 12. There is a meeting at Jersey's apartment, where Durga tells them more about what was going on. She explains that the artifact that the Apocalypso was carrying, was also something that was related to Halo. Read below (got this from <http://www.thebruce.ca/ilovebees/> transcripts of the actual wav files.)

[ Scene - The Truth ]
(opens the door)
Jersey: Thanks for coming eveybody.
Everyone: Yeah, no problem, sure thing Jersey.
Rani: Thanks for getting me out of jail.
Durga: (on chatter) I've learned some things I think you'll all want to hear. There will soon be a ceremony honoring John 117, a Spartan 2.0, who escaped the fall of Reach, and discovered a strange artifact that seems to be related to the one on Chawla base. Except the one he found was the size of a planet.
(shocked exclamations)
Jan: A planet?
Kamal: Do they know what the artifacts were supposed to do?
Durga: Mhm, destroy life.
Jan: So, it's a weapon.
Who: No, not kill enemies - destroy life, all life in the galaxy.
(shocked exclamations)
Kamal: All life?!
Jersey: In the entire freakin galaxy??
Durga: Mhm
Rani: Wow! So maybe...
Jersey: So... we did save the world! Woohoo! Yeah!
(relieving laughs)
Kamal: It doesn't get much better than that
Jersey: Yeah, you know, the only way it could be better is if we'd used my plan.
Jan: *sigh*
Rani: Your plan? Why your plan?
Jersey: *tsk* Cuz... we would have saved the world, and had Jan in a slinky red dress with a gun in her garter belt!
Jan: (shock) What.ever...
Kamal: Hey, that's a good point.
Jersey: Uh oh. Jan's got that look in her eye. Like if she had that gun right now, I'd be history.
Jan: Oh, Jersey. If I had the garter belt, I wouldn't need a gun.
Jersey: ...whoah...
Rani: Durga? What exactly happened to you while we were in Chawla base? After we shut down the artifact I mean.
Durga: Uhm... now that's a long, strange story.
Rani: You were the ship's AI on the Apocalypso.
Durga: Yes! I was a top shelf ONI mission specialist AI, and my name was Melissa.
Jersey: I like Durga better
Kamal: I kind of like Yasmine
Durga: But my nickname was the Operator.
Jan: The Op! McKaskill talked about the Op! That was you?
Durga: Mhm... apparently I had a reputation for getting people to do what I wanted.
Rani: Uh huh...
Durga: Cloaked and running deep in Covenant space, we intercepted communications that implied a Covenant attack was coming--
Rani: --Troy. That's when they decided to run a covert evac.
Durga: Yes.
Jan: But the Covies figured it out.
Durga: Yes. And then--
Rani: Oh! They built a trojan horse.
Durga: They hid a virus buried in a transmission I was meant to intercept. Nothing big, nothing smart, just the smallest, effective piece of code.
Jan: And what was it supposed to do?
Jersey: Gain control of the ship?
Kamal: Find the location of earth?
Durga: One or the other, or both. But most of all, it wanted to find the artifact.
Jersey: Looks like these Covies are very interested in these artifacts.
Durga: Captain Greene knew something was wrong with me. She aborted our mission and headed home. But not far from earth, something triggered the artifact. There was a giant rip in the slipstream and--
Jan: Yeah, and all the alarms went off in the base when I was trying to stick a gate pass back in the motor pool office.
Kamal: I was on a date. My chatter connection failed.
Jersey: And that's when you crashed onto my hardware!

The above transcription happens after the assualt on Chawla base, and after the group turns off the Artifact. Some interesting points here.

Durga: and discovered a strange artifact that seems to be related to the one on Chawla base. Except the one he found was the size of a planet.

Durga relates the smaller artifact to Halo. Then she describes what they were supposed to do.

Kamal: Do they know what the artifacts were supposed to do?
Durga: Mhm, destroy life.
Jan: So, it's a weapon.
Who: No, not kill enemies - destroy life, all life in the galaxy.

This allows for some interesting speculation.
The artifact was counting down to exploding. Since it was related to halo, and would probably function the same way halo did. Destroying all life on Earth. This would make sense with the beginning of Halo 2 when Admiral Hood comments on the size of the covenant fleet. And also when you're going thru the highway tunnels, Cortana makes a comment that the covenant were sounding like they didn't expect us to be here. This make sense. The Apocalypso picked up the artifact in covenant space. This could easily mean that the Covenant wanted them to find it and take it back to earth.

Rani: Oh! They built a trojan horse.
Durga: They hid a virus buried in a transmission I was meant to intercept. Nothing big, nothing smart, just the smallest, effective piece of code.
Jan: And what was it supposed to do?
Jersey: Gain control of the ship?
Kamal: Find the location of earth?
Durga: One or the other, or both. But most of all, it wanted to find the artifact.
Jersey: Looks like these Covies are very interested in these artifacts.
Durga: Captain Greene knew something was wrong with me. She aborted our mission and headed home. But not far from earth, something triggered the artifact. There was a giant rip in the slipstream and--

So we know the Covenant wanted to find the artifact. They wanted to know the location of earth.

A different turn on this.
Perhaps the artifact was just out there in space. The Covenant didn't leave it out for the Apocalypso to find. But when the covenant found out about the evacuation of Troy, they sent out the transmission to disable Durga/Melissa. When the artifact was activated it sent a blast thru Slipstream, it caused the chatter net to go down. It was basically like a big flare/kick me sign. That's how the Covenant found earth.
Now this might be an offshoot.
So the covenant are attacking Earth. Truth flys back to earth, and we all assume that this is the location of the Ark. Perhaps the artifact in Chawla base is more than just a bomb. Perhaps that's the art. This would have destroyed life on earth if it was set off.
Hmm…questions, comments?

God what I wouldn't give to read the Halo Bible :)


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ilovebees - halo connectionwebshift 9/27/05 12:44 p.m.
     Re: ilovebees - halo connectionDr. Strangelove 9/27/05 1:46 p.m.
           Re: ilovebees - halo connectionwebshift 9/27/05 2:13 p.m.
                 Re: ilovebees - halo connectiontheBruce 9/27/05 7:58 p.m.
                       Re: ilovebees - halo connectionTabris 9/30/05 5:07 p.m.
                             Re: ilovebees - halo connectionWhisp 9/30/05 5:08 p.m.
                             Re: ilovebees - halo connectiontheBruce 10/2/05 8:08 a.m.
     [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filesSpazrocket 9/27/05 4:01 p.m.
           Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filAI Construct 9/27/05 7:55 p.m.
           Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filLouis Wu 9/28/05 6:04 a.m.
                 Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filtheBruce 9/28/05 9:29 a.m.
                       Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filLouis Wu 9/28/05 9:53 a.m.
                             Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filSep7imus [subnova] 9/28/05 12:06 p.m.
                             Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filtheBruce 9/30/05 4:15 p.m.
                                   Re: [offtopic] Re: ilovebees - mp3-encoded wav filLouis Wu 10/1/05 6:22 a.m.
     Re: ilovebees - halo connectionSAS _Spartan 10/1/05 3:30 p.m.
           Good point...Plural Is Moose 10/2/05 9:15 p.m.
                 Re: Good point...SAS _Spartan 10/17/05 3:01 a.m.



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