Since early May, 2000, the fabled Halo fansite, The Core, has been suffering a bit of a meltdown! Are we witnessing Web Server Rampancy? :) As the site 'degraded' more and more, eventually, on May 6, 2000, its forum suffered a a particular 'malfunction' and we were privy to some very interesting forum posts. Are these for real? Who knows! But it sure is fun to speculate.
The purpose of this page is to preserve these posts. Since a forum, by its nature, will scroll posts offline eventually (or at the very least make it difficult to find), it would be a shame to see these posts suffer such a fate. For the sake of brevity, only posts that come from these two 'fictional' characters Munifican and Ogrier have been preserved here. You can currently read the entire thread which includes 'real' replies at The Core. Some very astute dissecting going on by several folks. Hat's off to B-Sharp for being there first. My simpleton comments appear below.
Here is the entire message thread so far today (5/7/00 1PM EST):
Posted By: Munifican on Saturday, 05.6.00, at 8:36 p.m. Remote Override<319.520.76.792>
Re: Request Pomed By: Ogier on Saturday, 05.6.00, at 8:56 p.m. Response to: Re: Request (Munifican) Remote Override<286.913.73.182>
Fare well my old friend,
Re: Marvin Minsky... Pomed By: Ogier on Saturday, 05.6.00, at 9:30 p.m. Response to: Marvin Minsky... (B-Sharp) Remote Override<294.379.91.642>
I too use an obvious pseudonym, but I can assure you that it
has nothing
Re: a little more on Ogier the Dane Pomed By: Ogier on Sunday, 05.7.00, at 6:56 a.m. Response to: a little more on Ogier the Dane (B-Sharp) Remote Override<286.913.73.139>
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Taking the obvious hints, and adding what I noticed at a site B-Sharp mentions: http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/1195.html
That particular page contains a list of Famous Sword Owners and the name of their Sword(s). Cut and paste time:
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[...]
(16) EDWARD THE CONFESSOR'S was called Curtana (the cutter), a blunt sword of state carried before the sovereigns of England at their coronation, emblematical of mercy.
(17) ENGLISH KINGS' (the ancient) was called Curtana.
[...]
(27) OGIER THE DANE'S, Courtain and Sauvagine, both made by Munifican. "He [Ogier] drew Courtain, his sword, out of its sheath."- Morris: Earthly Paradise, 634.
[...]
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So I put the obvious stuff together and declare: The entity known as Munifican in these emails is the creator of Cortana and Durandal... or Cortana/Durandal like things... Ogier is the the 'wielder' of this weapon/thing. And they are not happy with each other :) M threatens to expose O, blackmailing him in exchange for a guaranteed position in some new project. O agrees, giving him preferential treatment. Now notice the time and date of these postings WITHIN the Core forum itself. Heh, the Core's meltdown is causing a rip in the fabric of time and allowing us to communicate with folks 200 years in the future! :) Anyone seen the movie Frequency that just opened here in the states? Hehe, eerily similar. As proof you'll notice that Ogier's reply to B-Sharp's inquiry seems normal enough... except that Ogrier does mention TIME alot. I give you select snippets of his first correspondence with B-Sharp, with the important phrases in bold:
[...] The consequences of this
information being public now, though I doubt any person of this
time
could understand, may have an impact on future events, which I am unable
to predict.
Marvin Minsky is a very wise man and if it was n~t for his work, I might
not be where talking to you.
Slight spelling goof there? Did he mean to say
"when" or "here"?
[...] You
may want to use another source or read some books which are more
appropriate, but currently some people track my node time, so I
find
myself unable to give you pr%35cise data.
There's alot more to be gleaned from these posts, but I'll let the real experts now chime in and take a stab at them :)
- Mig