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Re: Pop
Posted By: Peptuck <peptuck3@hotmail.com>Date: 2/25/05 8:39 a.m.

In Response To: Pop (Jillybean)

: Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm not so sure.

: Except that you disarm the barrier as the Arbiter, therefore allowing you,
: and the humans, access to the Library

Jilly, I'm going to be nice, and ask you to actually read my argument.

One of the principle things that I'm fighting here is that the Flood you encounter first off are not from IAC. They are there within a matter of moments after you unlock the barrier. Even if they were from In Amber Clad, that would mean the Marines would have had to, in the time between the Arbiter unlocking the barrier and him crossing the span (which is about a minute):

-Get across the outer wall
-Get inside the Quarantine Zone
-Somehow find and release the Flood
-Get large numebrs of their troops infected
-Manage to work their way all the way back to the very beginning of the second wall where the Arbiter first sees the corpses before many of them die
-And get transformed into combat forms and start attacking the Sentinels and Enforcers.

If those Marines were from In Amber Clad then they would have had to do all that in ONE minute.

Now, I love humans, I think we're amazing, but I don't think we're quite that fast.

Now, the Flood you run into later can certainly be IAC's troops, but what of the first few dozen that you meet? There's no logical stretch of the imagination that can say those were IAC's troops unless you speculate that they had gotten inside somehow other than lowering the barrier. Since we know of no other way to get through the barrier and the shield was never lowered (that we know of) then this is probably the best conclusion I can reach.

Not to mention there's still no reasonable explanation as to why the Marines would bring boxes of boots and crates of stoves with them. :P

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The Library, Combat Forms, and IACPeptuck 2/24/05 1:15 p.m.
     Oops. ^ *Long* *NM*Peptuck 2/24/05 1:16 p.m.
           Re: Oops. ^ *Long*Spar7an119 2/24/05 1:19 p.m.
                 Thanks for the expert commentary. *NM*Peptuck 2/24/05 1:22 p.m.
                 Awesome theory, I believe you completely.Series III (MetalSilver) 2/24/05 1:23 p.m.
                       Re: Awesome theory, I believe you completely.Peptuck 2/24/05 1:25 p.m.
                             Looks like today is another day \/\/ *NM*Series III (MetalSilver) 2/24/05 5:21 p.m.
     good argument...Shinblam 2/24/05 1:27 p.m.
     Re: Col. Ackerson's pet project?GryphonOsiris 2/24/05 1:36 p.m.
           Re: Col. Ackerson's pet project?replay 2/24/05 1:53 p.m.
     Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACmrbananas 2/24/05 2:03 p.m.
           Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACgspawn 2/24/05 2:44 p.m.
           Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACPeptuck 2/24/05 3:05 p.m.
                 Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACmrbananas 2/24/05 5:05 p.m.
                       Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACPeptuck 2/24/05 10:24 p.m.
                             Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACmrbananas 2/24/05 11:59 p.m.
                                   Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACPeptuck 2/25/05 12:21 a.m.
                                         Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACmrbananas 2/25/05 11:13 a.m.
     Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACHikaru-119 2/24/05 3:02 p.m.
           Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACPeptuck 2/24/05 3:20 p.m.
     Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACRagashingo 2/24/05 10:51 p.m.
           Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACSep7imus [subnova] 2/25/05 9:13 a.m.
                 Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACAnton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/25/05 10:12 a.m.
                       Re: The Library, Combat Forms, and IACGryphonOsiris 2/25/05 10:34 a.m.
     Oops: One more thing:Ragashingo 2/24/05 10:54 p.m.
           Re: Oops: One more thing:mrbananas 2/25/05 12:02 a.m.
                 Re: Oops: One more thing:Series III (MetalSilver) 2/25/05 8:09 a.m.
                       Re: It's not a question of where it grips it!Sep7imus [subnova] 2/25/05 9:18 a.m.
                             You haven't played the game, have you?Series III (MetalSilver) 2/25/05 10:24 a.m.
                                   You haven't caught the point, have you?Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/25/05 10:36 a.m.
                                         Re: You haven't caught the point, have you?Sep7imus [subnova] 2/25/05 10:46 a.m.
                                         Neither have you,Series III (MetalSilver) 2/25/05 10:47 a.m.
                                               Re: Neither have you,Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/25/05 11:02 a.m.
                                                     Re: Neither have you,Series III (MetalSilver) 2/25/05 11:11 a.m.
                                                           Re: Neither have you,Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/25/05 2:35 p.m.
                                                     Re: Neither have you,Sep7imus [subnova] 2/25/05 11:12 a.m.
                                                           Re: Neither have you,mrbananas 2/25/05 11:19 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Neither have you,Count Zero 2/25/05 11:36 a.m.
                                                                       Crates, and other stuffscarab 2/25/05 3:47 p.m.
     PopJillybean 2/25/05 7:05 a.m.
           -tacular! *NM*BOLL 2/25/05 7:55 a.m.
           Re: PopPeptuck 2/25/05 8:39 a.m.
                 Oops! Didn't mean to sound rude....Peptuck 2/25/05 12:42 p.m.



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