Vesuveus wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

"???" = Actually Danielle Wright in "Oligarch"-style shell, but I'm not going to positively ID her here, just leave hints like her behavior, and the alphadecimal code found in Zion 11.1.5.

 

Computer
24810219.
>

Though I can't seem to crack it.

I don't think there's anything to crack. The link is simply that it's the same kind of code that was used by Wright in the creation of the new red pill. As far as I remember.

Dudes, that one isn't any tougher than the others.

"error," convert from base 10 to base 36.

Fascinating. The planning for what was to happen and my memories of what actually did happen, plus the ideas behind the story which some people got close to stumbling on fairly accurately but not quite.

I am both very pleased about being able to see the thoughts behind each crit and event, but at the same time saddened at the very real possibility that we won't experience anything quite like this again. The scope, imagination and frankly all of the official storyline related posts by everyone on the boards, I will miss very much.

Just realised I totally called some stuff in my various speculations, huzzah!

"Question the machines ability to have 'evolved' to their current intelligent state by themselves and suggests an early realiance on human beings."

"-Each Oligarch works on a purely self contained basis, able to operate individually within the substructure of the group as a whole.

- Each could be a physically dead bio-mort like Halborn, controlling everything at the colony by their thoughts and suspended counciousness alone. They would be the very first creators of the machine AI, a sort of immortal elder-council.

- The self containment of individual Oligarch members may result in more internal conflict within the Oligarchy than we suspect, there could be internal power struggles going on all the time behind the scenes (See Carlyne wanting to get rid of Halborn)."

"In the intial character outlines before MxO's launch they made the point of the mind still managing to survive moments after the death of the physical body (specifically speculating the return of Trinity). Well, lets say for instance the experimental device the Assassin witnessed on her body (specifically on the cortex jack) was making a digital "backup" of her mind."

   Rarebit, what was your ideas about Operation Dark Storm?  During chapter 10, it seemed that neither the humans nor the Machines knew how it worked.  And if I remember correctly, CAR80N said that the pre-Matrix human civilization didn't have access to nanotechnology.  It seemed like you were going to make some kind of revelation concerning Dark Storm.

Othinn1 wrote:

   Rarebit, what was your ideas about Operation Dark Storm?  During chapter 10, it seemed that neither the humans nor the Machines knew how it worked.  And if I remember correctly, CAR80N said that the pre-Matrix human civilization didn't have access to nanotechnology.  It seemed like you were going to make some kind of revelation concerning Dark Storm.

Hm... I don't think I was going to try going into it in detail. After the Merv seeded the storm you pointed out that...I think it was the director's commentary for the Next Renaissance said it was nanomachines or something, which I hadn't been aware of, but it's all just some flavor of sci-fi magic anyway since as far as I know there's no currently known or even theoretical way that something like a perpetual Dark Storm would be possible. As far as that kind of thing goes--how is the Earth not frozen, what's this crazy fusion power with humans, etc--it's usually the less said, the better.

So much information, soooo much to read . . . . arghhh!  Overload.

With all thoughts of the original 2-year storyline, circa Jan 2005, put to the side, did YOU, Rarebit, invisage an ending for all this?

Rarebit wrote:

Othinn1 wrote:

   Rarebit, what was your ideas about Operation Dark Storm?  During chapter 10, it seemed that neither the humans nor the Machines knew how it worked.  And if I remember correctly, CAR80N said that the pre-Matrix human civilization didn't have access to nanotechnology.  It seemed like you were going to make some kind of revelation concerning Dark Storm.

Hm... I don't think I was going to try going into it in detail. After the Merv seeded the storm you pointed out that...I think it was the director's commentary for the Next Renaissance said it was nanomachines or something, which I hadn't been aware of, but it's all just some flavor of sci-fi magic anyway since as far as I know there's no currently known or even theoretical way that something like a perpetual Dark Storm would be possible. As far as that kind of thing goes--how is the Earth not frozen, what's this crazy fusion power with humans, etc--it's usually the less said, the better.

 

   Ah, okay.  I thought you were going to reveal that Dark Storm was something else, or created by someone else like the Oligarchs or something.

Rarebit wrote:

Mach: (after Zion event) Cypherites, Cryptos, and the Morph sim; Morph sim eventually agrees to listen when Cryptos offers to tell him why Morpheus was so obsessed with obtaining the One's remains--they go off for a little private chat [note that players are *not* going to be told what they talk about...and actually I still have to figure that out at some point, but it can wait for a later subchapter]

Was this ever "figured out"?

cloudwolf wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

Mach: (after Zion event) Cypherites, Cryptos, and the Morph sim; Morph sim eventually agrees to listen when Cryptos offers to tell him why Morpheus was so obsessed with obtaining the One's remains--they go off for a little private chat [note that players are *not* going to be told what they talk about...and actually I still have to figure that out at some point, but it can wait for a later subchapter]

Was this ever "figured out"?

Oh, that's a good question. Seconded.

oh I remember that event... I can picture the screen shot of them now both looking in at the camera.

deimoslvov wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

Mach: (after Zion event) Cypherites, Cryptos, and the Morph sim; Morph sim eventually agrees to listen when Cryptos offers to tell him why Morpheus was so obsessed with obtaining the One's remains--they go off for a little private chat [note that players are *not* going to be told what they talk about...and actually I still have to figure that out at some point, but it can wait for a later subchapter]

Was this ever "figured out"?

Oh, that's a good question. Seconded.

Morpheus actually told people why he needed the body.

"Neo may even have a new RSI, and walk the Matrix in a fog of forgetting.  Or one of false memories.  It may be you.  Or you.  Yes, Neo may now have a woman's RSI.  Anything is possible.  But that question waits upon the return of his body.  That is the first step.  We have devices that can inquire whether downloading has occurred.  But we need the body, and it's jacking-in sockets, to use them."

EDIT:  Screenshot!

Fen wrote:

deimoslvov wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

Mach: (after Zion event) Cypherites, Cryptos, and the Morph sim; Morph sim eventually agrees to listen when Cryptos offers to tell him why Morpheus was so obsessed with obtaining the One's remains--they go off for a little private chat [note that players are *not* going to be told what they talk about...and actually I still have to figure that out at some point, but it can wait for a later subchapter]

Was this ever "figured out"?

Oh, that's a good question. Seconded.

Morpheus actually told people why he needed the body.

"Neo may even have a new RSI, and walk the Matrix in a fog of forgetting.  Or one of false memories.  It may be you.  Or you.  Yes, Neo may now have a woman's RSI.  Anything is possible.  But that question waits upon the return of his body.  That is the first step.  We have devices that can inquire whether downloading has occurred.  But we need the body, and it's jacking-in sockets, to use them."

EDIT:  Screenshot!

    Exactly.  And even if Morpheus found that no downloading had occurred he felt that, at the very least, Neo's body belonged in Zion, as he stated in Cinematic 1.2

Too obvious. Besides, if it was as simple as something the real Morpheus had said in speeches, the General's sim would've already had that knowledge. Not to mention Rare would've just included it in those notes instead of saying "i'll think of that later".