GHOST.713 Discussion *IMGS*

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YagerX
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Uhm NATO Phonetical Alphabet?

|n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713>
X.XX.713> POS/NAV < @ > <53LPH54.6JG62.1740><1………>
X X5 > CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE - > qghost.713
I do not require charity or alms
But I did choose poverty
And other darkness too
Will you wait for me?

5 3 Lima Papa Hotel 5 4 . 6 Juliet Golf 6 2 . 1 7 4 0
ideas?
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as someone else mentioned earlier, why would an alien AI know NATO shorthand?
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And the shorthand is only useful when speaking the text to someone, not when the contents are in printed form.
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X.XX.713> POS/NAV < @ > <53LPH54.6JG62.1740><1………>
could POS/NAV mean position/navigation or something and then @, and the number/letter combo is a position, then it confirms that the position is in quarentine
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spartan117 wrote:what if we get a clue in the halo uprising comic tomorrow. :o
Unfortunately, the first issue of Halo: Uprising has been delayed until August 8th. :(

At this rate, anyone who wants to read what happens between the end of Halo 2 and the beginning of Halo 3 will have a long time to wait before playing the third game... :cry:

Any takers? ;)

(Somehow I think Frankie will summarize things nicely in the manual, so I'll play the game, thanks!)

Back to the topic, lads & ladies...
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To repeat everyone else, there is some sort of program/virus named "x.xx.713 ghost" that is a "rogue process" doing "non-authorized activities"

But to go deeper, I actually think there are THREE entities involved in a sort of conversation:

x.xx.713 ghost - we all know this one
x.x1 - some kind of alert system/narrator
x.x5 - the overarching computer that is asking for input/directions. Perhaps the computer that 713 Ghost is inhabiting.

This is how the story goes so far (in order of the clues revealed: Warthog, Zune, B.net, 360):
Warthog VR wrote:x.xx.713 > ghost.713/non-auth/activity ongoing
There is a non-authorized activity named x.xx.713 ghost.713 in the system.

Halo 3 Zune wrote:108
(x.x1) H03
x.xx.713>\locl\silent
x.x1(WARNING) rogue.


x.x5>CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE
We get a new number: 108
x.x1 then alerts us to H03.
The ghost (x.xx713) goes into silent mode trying to run away.
x.x1 gives the user a warning: there's a rogue process.
x.x5 then asks if the user wants to "confirm secure quarantine" on the ghost.713. They are trying to trap it.
AdjutantReflex(PostDeath) wrote:|n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713>
x.xx.713> POS/NAV < @ > <53LPH54.6JG62.1740><1………>
x x5 > CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE - > qghost.713
The Rogue Process ghost.713 is detected.
Its position/(navigation?) is at 53LPH54.5JG62.1740 (=SELPHSA.something?)
x.x5 says the Quarantine has been confirmed.

H3 Themed 360 wrote:Lot A044-2*-9972

H3-0
1E100 0x
x.a - D34TH 4nGle 108

|n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713>
x.xx.713> POS/NAV <@> <53454.64562.12740> <1......>
X.X5> CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE -> qghost.713
Here’s where it gets interesting.
“Lot A044-2*-9972” could refer to some sector of the computer system that has been infected by x.xx.713 ghost. This may be where the “quarantine” is happening.

Remember H03? Well now we have H3-0. H03 is also written on the 360 in another area.

1E100 0x is something I don’t understand.

Then x.a tells us that the “D34TH 4nGle” (Death Angle) is 108. What shape has angles at 108 degrees? A pentagon. What shape is Adjutant Reflex’s glyph? A pentagon.

So what does this mean? That AR’s symbol represents death. It’s bad news. Perhaps his symbol being interpreted with the lunar calendar (see the thread about predicting when the servers will open) tells us how much time we have left until the end. Perhaps his symbol is a slow countdown clock of our demise.

I’m sure that we’ll see more of this weird little story written in code soon. When that happens, I’ll update this post.
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By the way, everyone keeps refering to the 1ε100. Note that it is not an E but a lowercase Epsilon (ε)

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon
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Hold on. If we treat that as an E, then it could mean to perform an exponentiation. 1E100 -> 1 x 10^100 = 1 Googol. Think it could have something to do with it?
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Do note that the x in x.a should be different than the X in any of the X.X5 or X.X.713 .
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So have we got any clues from this? Or are we spinning our wheels?
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