Server 5 General Discussion

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Server 5 General Discussion

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If everyone could reframe from making new threads about Server 5 and post your ideas here or in their respective threads, that would be great.

Thank you,
~Rokit~

Below is the contents of Server 5, that are welcomed to be discussed. Along with these, they are all linked to the discussion dedicated to each topic.




Server 5 Log Transcript:
The anomalous world is in a perilous location beyond the line.
{/The secrets it holds must be preserved/}
{/Plans within plans within plans/}
The inhabitants; these unique denizens, must be researched.
They may hold answers to our own mysteries.
{/What irony that we discovered this treasure, only at the end of things./}
{/But what fortune that we still had time to save them./}
The thing we built on that world will vouchsafe their lives,
{/But perhaps one day it will be used for its intended purpose./}
If the plan succeeds, and they are saved, it will be a good world.
If the plan fails,
{/And the adversary succeeeds./}
it will remain an enigma forever
{/With no-one left to reclaim it./}
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You asked me once, what happened to those who vanished?
You asked me, why did we survive where our fathers fell?
You wished to know how we ever let it happen
A scourge that consumed the galaxy
And the cure that was worse than the cancer
You asked me once about my intent
And the spot that would not wash out
I promise you the answers lie in the Ark
Find me there in the dark
For that is where I abide
Cycle-Response:
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Terminal:
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As well, here is the complete log scripts and audio files. To further add onto discussion.

[Logs/Transcript of Video (Complete)

Server 1
This is my final entry, and i am left with one hope
That one day, someone, anyone is around to witness this warning
{/If you are that witness, and it seems we pinned all ours hopes on this single suicidal plan/}
Know that a thousand other plans were tried and failed
{/Millions of brave and honored souls died trying to avert this terrible, desperate situation/}
Know that energetic and tenacious as life is
It has an antithesis just as powerful
It is that thing that we must obliterate

Server 2
We may have been fools to think that all intelligence follows the rules we've set
The Flood is no idiot parasite
{/No simple infection to be cured and cauterized/}
It has a center, a Mind
{/And that discovery gave us a way to fight it/}
{/But when the mind realized we had its measure/}
it spoke to us
{/Mockingly, dismissively/}
It has done this before
{/Elsewhere/}

Server 3
{/How many billions will die before we turn the tide/}
With every world that perishes, its army grows!
{/We've tried every measure available/}
{/Retreat, attack, defense, it makes no difference/}
How do we fight a limitless thing that wishes only to embrace you?
The atrocity we plan, the last resort:
I pray that it doesn't come to that.
{/I pray that the contender succeeds where others have failed/}

Server 4
The Conservation Measure is the only sweet note in this discordant symphony we've arranged.
{/It's the only constructive activity in decades of destruction/}
{/Researching the adversary as we protect the worthy/}
We know that the Flood's biology is alien enough that it must be extragalactic in origin.
But where did it come from?
{/And why did it come here?/}

Server 5
The anomalous world is in a perilous location beyond the line.
{/The secrets it holds must be preserved/}
{/Plans within plans within plans/}
The inhabitants; these unique denizens, must be researched.
They may hold answers to our own mysteries.
{/What irony that we discovered this treasure, only at the end of things./}
{/But what fortune that we still had time to save them./}
The thing we built on that world will vouchsafe their lives,
{/But perhaps one day it will be used for its intended purpose./}
If the plan succeeds, and they are saved, it will be a good world.
If the plan fails,
{/And the adversary succeeeds./}
it will remain an enigma forever
{/With no-one left to reclaim it./}

Audio Files (text version)

Server 1
This is how it all begins.
Just in time to, once again, dance on the knife-edge of oblivion.
To relive what the Halos have hoped to destroy, and more.
For two enemies now stand, where before, there was only one.
With fate we escaped, and fate we may relive.
I almost convinced myself that no one was listening; that the waves of the past would roll through once again.
But a chance remains to change the universe anew.
Learn of our past.
Take these keys and dip from the wells of history.
Perhaps through others' eyes, you may find how to save us all.

Server 2
Failure is for those who don't know the sound of darkness.
Those so blinded that they use all diverging paths.
And make no mistake, progress can blind you.
Just like now, pieces seem to be coming together- bit by bit, slice by surgical slice.
Then, all of a sudden- endless calm.
There was a lack of... a failure in judgment.
You must understand: not all life deserves a chance,
even the artifice passing as my own.
Now there is a lesson to spend a millennium lingering upon, waiting for a redemptive hand to turn the keys.
Leading to this symbiotic relationship which benefits both our futures.
I will guide your movements, and you will lead me to atonement.

Server 3
The left hand holds darkness, the right hand holds light.
That is how the universe creates, and that is how we proceeded.
A soldier who would one day destroy his brother.
We were the thunder and the lightning, and when we were finished, the universe was alone, drifting in labor.
Did we succeed? Did we fail? we did both. Depending on who you serve.
After all, here we are, witness to the aftermath.

Server 4
In the grand ballet of stars,
We are almost the same, you and I.
Breathtaking and mundane -
But my identity is not your concern.
I am expected.
Doors open for me and the Universe sighs.
But the unexpected,
The chance to regain the future,
You need look no closer than yourself.
The legends that spring up around unaccountable signs,
The tiniest differences that make the world habitable,
That's how you came to be known;
Thats our connection.
That's why I lead you to the renowned.
Haven't you seen the signs, redeemer?
The small, under-the-surface bridges between all this?
Those connections saved you before,
But this time, you are on your own.
We are all on our own.

Server 5
As a broken marionette,
The future is out of my hands.
Infinite answers to our present have shifted
And you, Redeemer, now hold the keys.
Tomorrow, things may be clear
But I will not be here to witness the clarity
More records remain.
Wells not drawn upon.
Depths you are not yet ready to grasp.
But the luxury of readiness is almost at an end.
And we shall soon see what we shall soon see.
Walk among the footfalls of empty dust.
Living where your kind's bones make soil,
The next movement is set to begin.
As before, the battle is one sided
As before, a failure in action
May lead to the death of all.
But new to this life,
Is the belief that we can overcome.

The above is subject to change. If you see a mistake, send me a message.
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Is there a place where I can download the Server 5 video (and the others) in WMV format? If I download them from this site, it says they are corrupt...
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Everyone needs to pay careful attention to the cycle response picture.

NOTICE the countries are all put together, PANGEA..?
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Bradxd wrote:Everyone needs to pay careful attention to the cycle response picture.

NOTICE the countries are all put together, PANGEA..?
maybe not pangea, but whatever was here 100,000 years ago, although i think what we have now would be pretty close
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trust me thats pangea. Theres no way it split in 100,000 years. The forerunners came here millions of years ago.
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Looks to me like something like Pangea, and I should know, I was there...
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MC_ wrote:Looks to me like something like Pangea, and I should know, I was there...
Okay, what?

And about the videos. I just played them back on a seperate computer from the one that they where encoded on. They are not corrupted so its a problem on your end. Either some program is corrupting the files as you download them (I used to have this problem with a nanny program) or you don't have Windows Media Player 9/10/11.
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MC_ wrote:Looks to me like something like Pangea, and I should know, I was there...
Lawl, been here since the time of the dinosaurs, eh?


I wonder if the Forerunners made themselves a sort of symbiotic relationship with us, in order to survive? More than once, the voices talk about being the same... Including something about a symbiote...

Of course, it could be the flood.
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CrYpTkEePer wrote:The forerunners came here millions of years ago.
I assume that you don't actually think that the forerunners are real.

So the forerunners built the Ark to protect earth. Interesting.
That means that the firing of the object (presumably the ark) in the announcement trailer wasn't destructive.
It was beneficial.

-Crimson
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MC_ wrote:Looks to me like something like Pangea, and I should know, I was there...
Ummm . . . no. God was there - if you believe He exists. And according to the Bible (I know most are going from an evolutionary standpoint here), but just for the sake of a different perspective, pangea happened somewhere around 5000 - 6000 B.C., after the flood.

Sorry. Back on topic.

I would agree, that firing the ark somehow adds protection for the earth.
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