Wow, the ARG is really heating up!

Server_05_0.jpgAt around Midnight Eastern Time, the site 206.16.223.65 had an update. What it was is that people recieved a "key" instead of that countdown timer. They had to take that key up to www.unlock.msgamestudios.com and be one of the first 100 to help unlock "Server 5" (Of which we would see server 1 on www.halo3.com). Once unlocked, the "Server" starts to show up on 206.16.223.65 and you were able to download 4 things, and watch a video of which seems to be AR's final transmission before being completely compromised.

Screenshots and a whole lot more after the jump!

The site 206.16.223.65 before the Unlock provided by Ibeechu of ABO

At the top of the page, you see the audio picture, getting a clip that says

Quote:
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.

Download Clip

The Video Provided by CrashWave


Transcript (This is also "Log5_Transcript.txt" on the 206.16.223.65)

Quote:
THIS IS MY FINAL ENTRY, AND I AM LEFT WITH ONE HOPE
THAT ONE DAY, SOMEONE, ANYONE IS AROUND TO WITNESS THIS WARNING
{//}
KNOW THAT A THOUSAND OTHER PLANS WERE TRIED AND FAILED
{//}
KNOW THAT ENERGETIC AND TENACIOUS AS LIFE IS
IT HAS AN ANTITHESIS JUST AS POWERFUL
IT IS THAT THING THAT WE MUST OBLITERATE

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Array_Recorder_Data.txt

Quote:
Halo array –System Data Recorder

[ 3 minutes 5 seconds]
{c-match-reconfirmed}. Sphere secure to .1889 of passing fleet. Offensive tactics confirmed.
Feint tactics in limited push.

Sys//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////{online}
Index: {check}
{D-com} There is no peace left. No place where the parasite cannot reach. You were right about it
all. Let us hope the final measure is not too late.

[ 1 minutes 12 seconds]
Confrm: Array burn radium {check} 3.0
Confrm: Array sync …1…2…3…4…5…6…7…{check}
Commence…_{ }

[ 60 seconds]
Commence…_{check}
Confrm: -00-00-00-59-0999-
{c-match-line-hold} acceptable losses confirmed
{D-com} It's done. By my hands. The pyrrhic solution is ignited. All I have left is the quiet of
space to lull me to sleep. I will dream of you.

[ 49 seconds]
Authorize -00-00-00-48-0999-
Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array
Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_
Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_ Array
Authorized…_ Array Authorized…_{check}

[ 23 seconds]
fire: -00-00-00-22-0999-
Confrm: wpnt {auth}
Core sequence <%> <%>

[ 11 seconds]
fire: -00-00-00-10-0999-
{c-match-burn} effectiveness of enemy core fleet negligible
{D-com} I feel no peril.

[ 5 seconds]
fire: -00-00-00-04-0999-

{D-com} No pain. No remorse. Is that normal?

[ 0 seconds]
fire: -00-00-00-00-0001-
Reversion Sequence…{negative}
Array Authorized…_{Activate}
Rings online…_{Activate}

[ 7 seconds]
+00+00+00+07+0001+
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..
reset…………………………..


I cut alot of the reset part because it would take the whole page...
How many resets there are : 104 (For Future Refrence)

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Alright, now that we have this new information, where do we go from here???

Unr3alChi3f's picture

Comments

chuckiej's picture

What if you weren't one of

What if you weren't one of the first 100?

Unr3alChi3f's picture

You would just see what you

You would just see what you would see at 206.16.223.65 now...

sTr8 IRI4IPI3I's picture

im lost what is this

im lost what is this

Crunchman's picture

The audio clip seems to be

The audio clip seems to be talking about the current situation in Halo 3, how everyone can learn from their mistakes and prevent the activations of the Halo. I guess that clip is talking specifically to Master Chief(I guess???)because it describes two enemies, which would be the Covenant(who want to activate the rings, I guess?)and the flood.
Now when it describes the keys, I'm thinking this clip may be present in the game(definitely related :P), because according to the achievements released on Halo 3, one of the levels was name "The Key"(or something like that).

Looking at the "Array Recorder Data", it seems those are reports recorded before and while the Halos were activated. Now, with all this Halo-lore, it seems that the main controls to activate all the Halos is found on earth(that thing in the announcement trailer?). Now, when it says the repeated "reset, reset", that could be just saying that their resetting their past mistakes with the flood(destroying all life in the universe so that they cannot spread), which looks like a subject being touched on with one of the pictures.

I'm going to go ahead and say that the picture with the stars is a map to earth, and the pictures of the flood "infectious study" is of course the engineering of the Flood.

X1764's picture

I still think that the

I still think that the picture of the flood, which gives a Reference number of 070507, is a clue that there will be a vidoc or something flood related on July 05 2007.

Unr3alChi3f's picture

Thanks for the "Break"

Thanks for the "Break" command krunk, that was really needed...

Duffman X18's picture

?

:? ?

chuckiej's picture

Hehe, yeah a much needed

Hehe, yeah a much needed addition for long posts like this. Does it look for the words "after the jump" or "break" in your post or did you put some sort of tag in there to tell it what to do.

Duffman, it means the post will be longer than what is seen on the front page. You have to click "Read More" to see the whole article or comment on it.

drive_c's picture

Notice that the Slide is

Notice that the Slide is named "Slide_Ref070107.jpg" but the ref number in it 070507. Odd... Does anyone know about the star Image?
-drive_c

Unr3alChi3f's picture

Some french halo community

Some french halo community site found some information about the star picture and posted it to ABO, let me find it...

Found it: http://args.bungie.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=489

ClownX's picture

Oh, ho ho! Now, for the fun

Oh, ho ho! Now, for the fun part!

ftgnomes's picture

(This is just my thoughts,

(This is just my thoughts, im not saying that any one else's ideas are wrong) That cannot be Earth. Earth is too near the our sun for you to see part of the sun out of that dot. It would have to be a difforent system. Also, note how all the other stars surround that particular one. The star is not the largest of any of them, but it seems like all stars are going around that point, and the other random ones outside could drawn to that point. If this is indeed right, the object would have to have a mass of grand proportions. That would create a large gravitational field, sucking everything else into one point of infinate mass. eventually it would implode or explode creating the same thing that scientists call the big bang starting the universe over and also whipeing out the flood but giving life another chance. Perhaps, each ring would not destroy sentint life, but move one tumbler in a lock that would destroy everything. In that case, each ring would have to be activated. In Ghosts of onyx, Onyx is called a shield world , and the spartans were put into something like an alternate dimesion. This could allow them to live and they would be released onto a habitable world to repopulate it after this big bang thingy.
this is most likely wrong, but i guess its a stand point to look at it from. I highly doubt that bungie would want to pull evolution and the church and stuff into a fight about how the universe started

Lancelot59's picture

Maybe that is how the Halo's

Maybe that is how the Halo's work in the first place. The Halo's could just be gigant PSDs (Point Singularity Devices). Because if you remember 343GS used the term "blast radius" in Halo 1.

N FOX6's picture

IS it just me or do all of

IS it just me or do all of the silluets on Halo3.com look like the same huvering server but at a diffrent angle relative to one of the buttons? Could this mean that the next 4 buttons function will change every time there is an update, or will there be new huvering server thingys?

Duffman X18's picture

The Bungie interns strike

The Bungie interns strike again!

chuckiej's picture

This is an official Bungie

This is an official Bungie project. Sounds like it was written by Frankie and Joe.

Lancelot59's picture

a thing about the flood

a thing about the flood bacteria image. It looks like the image is just showing one cell. The smaller things inside could be the nucleus. Or it could be showing the Flood virus attacking a cell. The cool thing's about viruses is that they aren't really alive. Really we have no clue what controls them. They are basically DNA and useless other things wrapped in a protein shell. Completely non-organized. What's suggested by these images of the Flood Virus is that the flood are at a higher evolutionary stage where the virus can communicate with other's of it's kind.

Warlock6.66's picture

yeah its probobly when a

yeah its probobly when a infection form of the flood bit a marine or something like that.
it that shows how it looks and how the cells change

Lancelot59's picture

or it could be one of the

or it could be one of the original forerunner experiments.