*OFF TOPIC POSSIBILITY* CDS-MA9:Part of the Solution?

[echelon3]

Now, I haven't heard much concerning this easter egg but i'm pretty sure no one has figured out what it's about. On the map 'Headlong' there is a yellow wall with a tiled pattern of a hippo's head, the alpha-numerical [id?] tag- CDS-MA9, and a circle with the words 'Part of the Solution' inside. I may be jus 'pullin straws' but sometimes the best idea comes from pullin straws. any1 think there's any possibility of it being connected to the ARG?

[tygron]

While i'm not sure that it could be. (it could be a company slogan for who is building that building.) It does take a while to think of these things and design them so it may verry well be "part of the solution."

Pun intended.

[Sir Topham Hat]

Mark that one as highly unlikely. They haven't been writing this particular ARG since Halo 2's release.

[Coweh]

Probably not related, true, but a quick google search for "Iris Transmission" warrants a result with "M9 IRIS Transmission" in the description...

[ODST Epsilon]

I'd say it would be retroactively related, like in making this, they used personal things for different stuff that may have been used before in some other project of theirs.

[shamanistcrage]

Mark that one as highly unlikely. They haven't been writing this particular ARG since Halo 2's release.

society of the ancients was registered in october of 05, if i did my research correctly the other night (the same time i found, and got debunked on /robots.txt)

[crashMMVII]

One of the level designers' favorite animals was a hippo, if I remember correctly. I think it's in one of the interviews from a while back.

[Ma1agate]

Matt Soell's favorite animal has always been a hippo. You can find hippos in a handful of Bungie games. This thread however, belongs in Speculation.