Forum:ILoveBees info

Here's the basics. I've played the Halo games to death, and read all the books, but outside of all that I know very little, and what recently has attracted my attention was iLoveBees. Now, obviously since the entire thing went down so long ago I am a little too late to participate in the mystery, but I am interested none the less. As is I've listened to all the audio files on the mission logs page but it leaves me with alot of question when I got to the other pages. Melissa, the Pious Flea and other such things, I was just hoping someone could please help me in understanding all of this as it has been nagging and nagging me to death. So please, anyone who could help me make heads or tails of all this, it would be very much apprecated.

Ferninwolf@yahoo.com


 * What do you want to know? Have you looked at the ILB pages on Halopedia? -- Dragonc laws ( talk ) 05:38, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I've checked out the page and given it a look over, it was what infact pointed me to ILB when it came up when I pushed the random pages button. I think, it would be best to break things up into parts to here's the first bit. What, happened to Melissa, why was she fragmented, what is the Pious Flea(the covenant trojan?), and what was the bit about part of her going back in time.

Ferninwolf@yahoo.com


 * The Apocalypso was assigned to spy on the Covenant, and managed to intercept some useful transmissions. The Covenant realized this and sent out a fake transmission with a trojan horse AI, the Seeker (aka Pious Flea), to corrupt Melissa and take some unknown malicious action. The Apocalyso discovered a Forerunner artifact and started to return to Earth, but Melissa, influenced by the desires of the Seeker, got a crewmember interested in the artifact. The artifact was engaged accidentally, causing a slipspace anomoly that ripped Melissa apart, part of her landing in Jersey's computer, and the other part in the I Love Bees website in 2004. The anomoly made her fragmented, and allowed the Yasmine personality to break free.


 * That clear things up for you? -- Dragonc laws ( talk ) 06:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually yes, the clears that little number up quite well, thanks alot. ^^ After further rooting around and searching I do have a last few questions. What was was the SPDR and how did the Pious Flea affect it, was the Pious Flea the cause of the annomalies that affected Durga(Melissa) while she was in Jersey's PC and later while in the military base. What influence did ONI have in all this, what was the deal with the payphone hunting, and the various mentions of sleeping princess and Queen I keep hearing. Once again, thanks for the help in unraveling all this for me. ^^

Ferninwolf@yahoo.com


 * The SPDR is a sort of internal minor AI within smart AIs that repair them, and are only activated when they sustain great damage. Melissa's SPDR was activated when she crashed on ilovebees.com, and it recognized the Flea as hostile and tried to kill it. The Flea couldn't defeat the SPDR on its own, so it assimilated the SPDR's syntax and fooled Melissa into thinking that it was an advanced SPDR so she would deactivate the "old version." The Yasmine personality had broken away from the main AI and was living on her own as a sort of separate smart AI, but she was also fragmented and saw the world as a fairy tale. The Yasmine part named herself the Sleeping Princess because she saw herself being locked away in code similar to Snow White in her glass coffin, and refered to the main Melissa part as the Queen because of her similarity to the evil queen in the story.


 * The Queen wanted to recover and gain a new crew to help her make sense of everything, but due to the limited technology of 2004 she had to seek people out in different ways. She decided to post GPS coordinates of several hundred payphones throughout America (and some other countries), and recruit the people who answered the payphones at scheduled times (there would be a brief quiz to ensure that the people that answered were involved). For each payphone answered, a clip from the audio drama was added to the site.


 * The slipspace anomaly was responsible for most of Melissa's corruption, but the Flea did do a bit. Basically, there was a bit of a time/space connection between the Queen and Durga that both the Queen and the Flea were able to manipulate. The Queen thought about various things and unintentionally influenced Durga's decision about who to spy on (namely Herzog). Durga didn't realize she was doing this, but the audio clips floated down the bridge like the others. The Sleeping Princess convinced the Flea, with whom she had been conversing out of loneliness, to send the Herzog clips to Durga. The Flea, although Covenant in origin, was very simplistic and didn't understand about the war or that it was among political enemies (to it enemies were things that would try to kill it).


 * As for ONI, Major Standsh of section 3 tried to cover up the existance of the Forerunner artifact by killing everyone that knew about it. Colonel Herzog of section 0 suspected treason and organized a team to investigate it, but was eventually killed too. That's really all that went on with them. Except for Rani, they didn't really understand what was going on with the artifact.


 * Anything else? -- Dragonc laws ( talk ) 08:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I think, that about covers everything. Thanks alot for the help in unraveling this little mystery for me. Your help has been much appreciated Dragonclaws...Again, thanks. Well, I'm off now, peace, and good night!

P.S.Thank you for proving a friend of mine wrong, in that the Halo community is made up of only ignorant, foulmouthed, homophobic 12 year olds, fellow like you proves that there is some cool, helpful folks in there! Ferninwolf@yahoo.com


 * Sure. I love ILB, and it's fun talking about it. -- Dragonc laws ( talk ) 21:05, 10 May 2007 (UTC)