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	Message: : Okay, I strongly believe that looking at other works by an author, one can : help elicite the tru7h. : With ilovebees puzzle/story/craze, when prompted by another bungie forum user : (eMCee), I began to look back at Durandal and in particular, the Gheritt : White terminal with a fresh eye. : (While I discuss ILB and some Halo story, my purpose is on explaining the : Gheritt White terminal's existence and its relevence to the Marathon game. : Up to now its been just a random story with symbolism that could only be : tangently explained). : In ILB, we have an AI by the name of Melissa. She communicates through a : hijacked website. She appears to be an Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) : probe that while on a mission, became damaged (shipwrecked she says). She : is delirious and confused. She has even forgotten her own name. As she is : being repaired, she performs "memory benchmark tests" in which : she regurgitates old memories. While this apparently serves to test the : systems and the AI's ability to recall past moments, I also believe that : in "rebooting" or "recalibrating" the AI, the AI must : go through its memory banks. : ****Experience makes us who we are (and we can also argue, genetics).**** : So if an AI becomes damaged and forgets its own identity, it must recalibrate : itself by processing old experiences and old memories. This allows it to : "rediscover" itself, so to speak and allow it to resume its old : identity. Hopefully, without too many side-effects. : Sprinkled throughout ILB is the AI's MAYDAY texts, regurgitated thought : processes as she attempts to make sense of where she is and who she is. : Some of the texts that we find regurgitated appear strikingly similiar to : Gheritt White. They contain human, not AI, characters recalling past : experiences as though they were a dream. Unrealistic thinigs happen, and : the "experience" contains many symbols and allusions. : (you can skim this quote, its not important to my point). : "totally different kind of memory all of a sudden, floating up like a : bubble from deep water, then *pop* on the surface of my mind. All in black : and white for some reason, faded out, or just time bleaching the past like : it does, time is hard that way, if you- : stop. stay on task, girl. : so *pop*, and I'm... : playing on the beach, very young, making a castle out of sand. It's a good : castle, I'm smart, I'm really smart and I'm good with my hands and the : castle is beautiful but the tide is coming up, I'm making dikes and moats : and outer walls, getting a little desperate here this castle means the : world to me it's way better than my brother's, but the tide is rising and : rising, the tide is always coming up and no matter how hard I try to save : what I have made, sooner or later the spiders wash over it and melt it : down I'm losing the memory already I can't see myself was I wearing a : dress or overalls or ...? There's a boy on the beach next to me but a wave : comes up foaming with spiders and takes away his face- : oh. : we're made of sand. : we're both made of sand. : uh-oh. : I will stand firm. I will hold my edges and remember. I can do this. I know : how to remember things, even through drugs and torture. seek evade reveal : resist. I will not dissolve." : -http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mayday_text_organized : Without going to much further into ILB I will explain the meaning behind this : here. (not in this post anyways). What is important is that this : experience *defines* Melissa, our stranded and confused AI. That the : experience never happened and is totally unreleastic is not the point. It : is highly metaphoric, and contains many things that symbolize how Melissa : feels about existence. : A final note on the Halo universe is that the AI's are often(always?) based : on real people. Therefore, an AI is a shadow or an image of someone else's : mind. Since I believe that experiences make us who we are, logic follows : that the AI contains many memories, dreams, aspirations, and experiences : from the original mind. Again, when an AI becomes damaged or confused, it : must somehow reset itself (i don't think big enough floppies exist to : backup an AI . . . ). Thus, to restate my point, the AI falls back on its : stored memories to help reset itself. : Okay, sorry about that. Now to the true meat of the post. Durandal. : I believe that Durandal, and not the player, is the source of Gheritt White. : And I will use everything above that I explained to say why. : We are told Durandal is damaged in the initial attack. I don't think we are : to doubt the tru7h to this statement, however, it is also very obvious : that Durandal is holding much back from Leela. Therefore, once Durandal : comes back online, he certainly wouldn't bother to fill her in on that bit : of information. : Being damaged - here's when I go out on my limb - Durandal must reset : himself. We dont' know *how* damaged he is, but I am going to say that he : starts going through his memory cores, in a similiar process that Melissa : does it. And in searching through his files, he regurgitates up Gheritt : White. : But this isn't [i]any[/i] memory . . . this story/experience/memory/dream : [i]entirely[/i] symbolizes Durandal's persona in every way. It efficiently : describes [i]in a single, little story[/i] the injustices of his early : days on Mars, he attitude towards others, his feelings against oppression, : and his desire to kill Strauss and willingness to destroy what stands in : his way- his ultimate goal of escapinig Closure of the Galaxy. : Perhaps Durandal wrote it sometime previous to the invasion. Instead of : cataloguing everything that has happened for the past 300 years (which : would also mean reading through every "blog" entry over that : time period), Durandal could store all that he needed to know for his : "personality reset" in a short, simple story only a few bytes in : size. : Or maybe Gheritt White was a person. Maybe that is who Durandal is based off : of (if AI's in Marathon are anything like AI's in Halo). Either way, : Durandal is damaged. Durandal must reboot. He performs personalility : resets, and he runs memory benchmark tests. The AI being damaged, Durandal : regurgitates to a random, hidden terminal a story, a memory, a dream. : source of ILB : text:http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Embedded_Text
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