2004

2004 was a year in the 2000s in the 21st century, it was the year when a temporal rip in space-time somehow sends part of the 's AI, Melissa back to this year.

Events

 * As shown in the i love bees viral campaign, a temporal rip in space-time somehow sends part of the UNSC Apocalypso ' s AI, Melissa back to this year. A Covenant AI known as the Seeker follows them through. Melissa was so fragmented and malfunctioning that a built-in program called the System Peril Distributed Reflex was engaged to repair her. The SPDR recognized the Seeker as a harmful foreign application and attempted to kill it. The Seeker knew it could not kill the SPDR itself, so it convinced Melissa that it was an updated version of the SPDR so Melissa would disable "the old version". The Seeker did the SPDR's work in repairing the Melissa and accomplishing various tasks for her, but it also corrupted her goals with its own. Melissa was so fragmented that a buried personality, from the human brain her mind was built from, broke off into another being. This childlike personality called herself the Sleeping Princess and preferred to see things as a fairy tale. The Sleeping Princess, desperate for a friend, befriended the Seeker, whom she named the Pious Flea. The Seeker, who sought the truth, would ask the Princess for information; the Princess taught it human concepts such as fear and humor. In return, the Seeker protected the Princess from Melissa, who wanted to bury her in code. When Melissa managed to imprison the Princess, the Seeker went against its nature and absorbed the Princess without killing her. Instead, it joined the Sleeping Princess' and Melissa's minds together. The resulting being recognized the Seeker as a hostile Covenant AI and attempted to kill the Seeker, but it managed to hide. When the Slipspace rip closed, Melissa was thrown back to her own time. The Seeker, however, was left in the server with the SPDR. This time, the SPDR promptly killed the Seeker.

June

 * Unknown: Dana Awbrey bought an All-Asia Air Pass because she was 22, and still waiting for the extraordinary to kick in.

July

 * July 13: Dana Awbrey first reports about the "I Love Bees" website being broken.
 * July 16: A fragment of Melissa hijacked a countdown Dana Awbrey put on the I Love Bees website.
 * July 19: Dana Awbrey went hiking in Claremont Canyon to clear her head over the broken website. It took her 3 hours.
 * July 20: Dana Awbrey woke up on to an alarming email from her Aunt Margaret's email that was hijacked by the broken Melissa AI, sending a lot of people messages.
 * July 27: The Operator takes several images of Dana Awbrey though her webcam, this freaks Dana out prompting her to give up on the site for a time.
 * July 29: Dana Awbrey left to go to on an open-ended backpacking trip through East/Southeast Asia, where she first headed to Beijing.

August

 * August 6: Dana Awbrey is persuaded to come back to work on the site by always thinking about it and over 1000 emails telling her people were thinking about it also.
 * August 12: A major typhoon hit China where 2000 people were injured.
 * August 13: Dana Awbrey was almost arrested for walking on the grass in Yu Yuan Gardens in Shanghai. She was so flustered after the police encounter she accidently ordered two sugary meat puffs for her lunch at the Mister Donut thinking they were chocolate creme-filled. The Operator also set up numerous Axons in America.
 * August 20: Dana Awbrey enters a small deserted cafe in Jin Xian Lu, only to find out it was the front for an illegal DVD racket.
 * August 23-24: Dana Awbrey went to Zapata's in Shanghai. She then ditched it to join everyone when the countdown ended on the I Love Bees website.

September

 * September 4-6: Dana Awbrey spent a weekend in Hangzhou, spending it intoxicated by Xi Hu.

November

 * November 9: The book, The Castaway Theory, by Dr. Jonas Volman is released.