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Sorry, 343 guilty spark couldn't exist in this ARG (unless he gets sent back in time). He didn't encounter humans until Halo 1 (the human history line)/

You sure AR isn't in the forerunner installation left behind? And that IRIS doesn't stand for * * * System? or Service? That perhaps AR is an AI bringing online the IRIS system?

The second part could be hex. Translates to the following in decimal: 205,170,053,150. That is the same amount of numbers as an IP address, but it's not owned by MS. Speaking of that, I would recommend people going to http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl looking up microsoft and scanning all of the p...

"when he gave us the date he was saying from that exact moment in time that was how many hours it has been since the last time th rings have fired, not when was the last time the rings were fired if we lived 500 years in the future." Exactly. They were fired in BC 97,447 on June 15th (give...

I found out about it through digg, and decided to start snooping, and came up with a more accurate date... 6/11/2007 - 12:23 PM PDT State todays date please. Sufficient contextual data acquired. 871803909 ± 384 hours since event. Compiling local archives/resources. [Hibernating] until next incident ...

Most likely, the 2 IP's in the game are IP's that microsoft assigned to the ARG. The IP that the reply came back from is most likely the microsoft web server IP address. I'm surprised they haven't made it deeper. Why not be able to telnet into one of the game IP's and have a chat with AR? Why doesn'...

I found out about it through digg, and decided to start snooping, and came up with a few things... 6/11/2007 - 12:23 PM PDT State todays date please. Sufficient contextual data acquired. 871803909 ± 384 hours since event. Compiling local archives/resources. [Hibernating] until next incident I did th...