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==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
:'''UNSC PRIORITY TRANSMISSION 00143A-23''' | :'''UNSC PRIORITY TRANSMISSION 00143A-23''' | ||
:'''[[Encryption code|ENCRYPTION CODE]]: UMBER''' | :'''[[Encryption code|ENCRYPTION CODE]]: UMBER''' | ||
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:DENVER is real, Spartan, but I'm a little lost on the value of the specific excerpt requested. It was really a side comment and had little intel value to the interrogators at the time. | :DENVER is real, Spartan, but I'm a little lost on the value of the specific excerpt requested. It was really a side comment and had little intel value to the interrogators at the time. | ||
:What was the nature of your case again, Apollo? | :What was the nature of your case again, Apollo? | ||
:'''JANUARY 15, 2553 1222:45:02//MIDNIHJT FACILITY''' | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "... mentioned an interaction you had before you reached the harbor. What was the nature of that interaction?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "I told this to the other-" | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Yes, I know. I wasn't here for previous interview. Could you tell me?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Before I passed beyond the last checkpoint, a terminal activated. I approached it and heard a voice." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Do you recall the time?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "No. As I said before, I cannot remember. I was running. We all were running." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "From the Flood?" | |||
:'''[EXTENDED PAUSE]''' | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Can you tell me the nature of the voice?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "It was [[human]]. A female. I believe one of your artificial intelligences." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "A human AI?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Yes." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Are you certain?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "I am." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "How could there have been a human AI on High Charity?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "I do not know. Do you?" | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Did she give her name?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "No." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Did you see her?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "No, I only heard her voice. And only for a moment." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What did she say?" | |||
:'''[PAUSE]''' | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "She was in pain, there were no words." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What was wrong with her?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "I do not know. Perhaps, she had encountered the Flood." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "But if she's an AI, what could the Flood do to her?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Has your kind never heard of the logic plague?" | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "What did you say?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Even in victory, your species remains blind to the great realities of the universe. The logic plague was an instrument of the Flood during their [[Forerunner-Flood war|war]] with the [[Forerunner]]s. It corrupted intelligences." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "As in deactivated them?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "No. They were sabotaged, or..." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "Or what?" | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Or worse. Completely undone and brought to madness. Made into a greater monster than even the Flood itself." | |||
:'''[OBERON 5]''' "I find that pretty difficult to believe." | |||
:'''[DENVER]''' "Certainly. It is your species' greatest weakness. It was for this reason that artificial minds were verboten in the [[Covenant]], lest our own creations turn against us at our most critical hour. A lesson your kind will undoubtedly learn at great cost." | |||
==Production notes== | ==Production notes== | ||