May 13
Sorry for the late update today, gang. I’m a bit under the weather.
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Viper still standing in the stasis field.
VIPER: We already know what Archimedes does. We had intended to use it as a method of undermining the UNSC - especially ONI - accessing top-secret project files, and turning that corrupt organization on its head.
VIPER: For all I know, we already have.
Looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: How many others from my squad did you capture like this?
CAVALCADE: Two.
VIPER: Ah. And by the way you're interrogating me, Archimedes must have been retrieved successfully.
Left side of Viper.
CAVALCADE: Indeed. I was unable to restore my systems to adequate functionality in time to prevent its escape. I was not even aware of its presence here until your blundering about caught the attention of what few subroutines I had running at the time.
VIPER: And we're not bitter about this, of course.
Close in on Viper from the right.
CAVALCADE: I am perturbed, but not because it was you - Viper - who was able to steal Archimedes away. That was hardly my fault. No, it is because you have no idea what trouble you have started, the danger that Archimedes poses to all sentient life in the universe.
Back away from Viper a bit.
CAVALCADE: Not that Viper would have any idea how to use it.
VIPER: I already told you we did. We were going to turn one of ONI's little toys back on them, force them out into the open, make them answer for their crimes in human experimentation.
CAVALCADE: FOOL! Archimedes is no device of human construction. It is not even Forerunner. It is far, far older than that.
Up and away from Viper.
CAVALCADE: Ferial played you all for fools - and now Viper belongs to his growing army of mind-slaves.
CAVALCADE: You have opened the metaphorical Pandora's Box.
VIPER: We already know what Archimedes does. We had intended to use it as a method of undermining the UNSC - especially ONI - accessing top-secret project files, and turning that corrupt organization on its head.
VIPER: For all I know, we already have.
Looking up at the Viper soldier.
VIPER: How many others from my squad did you capture like this?
CAVALCADE: Two.
VIPER: Ah. And by the way you're interrogating me, Archimedes must have been retrieved successfully.
Left side of Viper.
CAVALCADE: Indeed. I was unable to restore my systems to adequate functionality in time to prevent its escape. I was not even aware of its presence here until your blundering about caught the attention of what few subroutines I had running at the time.
VIPER: And we're not bitter about this, of course.
Close in on Viper from the right.
CAVALCADE: I am perturbed, but not because it was you - Viper - who was able to steal Archimedes away. That was hardly my fault. No, it is because you have no idea what trouble you have started, the danger that Archimedes poses to all sentient life in the universe.
Back away from Viper a bit.
CAVALCADE: Not that Viper would have any idea how to use it.
VIPER: I already told you we did. We were going to turn one of ONI's little toys back on them, force them out into the open, make them answer for their crimes in human experimentation.
CAVALCADE: FOOL! Archimedes is no device of human construction. It is not even Forerunner. It is far, far older than that.
Up and away from Viper.
CAVALCADE: Ferial played you all for fools - and now Viper belongs to his growing army of mind-slaves.
CAVALCADE: You have opened the metaphorical Pandora's Box.
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Ah, just what I need right before my last and most difficult final, another mind teaser from the dark recesses of Jim's little world…
haha, I'll definitely have to look closely at all the recent events in the next few days, AFTER I've recovered myself from finals
Good luck!
Hehe sounds like a quote from Gandalf LOTR
nice JIM!!!!!!!
"Fly, you fools!"
What unspeakable evils will be unleashed upon the heavens and the earth now? And all from one skull, none the less?
Well, not all.
Awesome.
Ah… I've been wondering when we'd hear of old Archi again.
makes me think of Indigenous as a deep wise voice a bit like an elite's (close to the arbiter)
Not a bad characterization, actually.
guess that explains what the marines where gettin infected by and being killed earlier on is archamidies going throught the radio transmissions of the UNSC and some how causing there brains turn into mush
How painful that must be..
just like how cell phones cause brain cancer
Only much faster
Well, infected, anyway.
just read the latest comic and im suprised i got it right wooooo im on a role this week lmao
n got a reply off the famous Jim swoon lmao
loved it Jim, keep cranking out the awesome comics!
Thanks, doing my best.
So, basically, Archimedes is a more refined version of the Flood. Instead of physical infection, mutation, and control, it's the mental version. Makes a lot more sense now, with the Flood being a "failed experiment" and then using this more refined version. I wonder, is Archimedes capable of "infecting" the Flood?
Wow…never thought of that… it is now time to ponder the possibilities
The pieces, they begin to fall together.
Methinks I've figured this out, Jim. Archimedes' virus is how Ferial plans to control the flood (and everything else)
Isn't it the Virus causing all the trouble, not actually Archimedes? Didn't Archimedes only release the Virus? I'm a little lost.
The "Metaphorical Pandoras box" Love that.
The Cavalcade – ever and again with the technicalities.
Jim- The Catchphrase Queen
cough....urm….you're going to Banhammer me aren't you?
Hehe, only time will tell.
I think you mean "proverbial pandora's box". I don't know that you can actually say the metaphorical pandora's box.
Does this AI actually get angry?
Nope, I definitely meant 'metaphorical'. It's a subtle distinction from 'proverbial' but one with very specific intent.