Breaking a 67 day streak of silence, The Superintendent finally made a reappearance yesterday in the form of a top story at Bungie.net. The mysterious transcript, posted at 7:07 PM PDT, appeared as follows:
UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
CLASSIFIED SIGNALS ARCHIVE [ONI.SEC.PRTCL-1A]
> NOTATION KEYWORD SEARCH: “EMERGENCY” “DATA” “CORRUPTION”
>> (…) ~ QUERY RUNNING
>> (..)
>> (.) \ VTT TRANSCRIPT AS FOLOWS…[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER–!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We know. Personnel are en route. Can you–”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “DETOUR! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “–put Kinsler on the line?”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: [UNITELLIGIBLE > DOG GROWLING(?)]
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Sorry, what?”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Oh, come on… ”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “METROPOLITAN EMER–!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Listen. We have a report of core data corruption.”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I need you to upload your–”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “PARDON OUR DUST!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER] “–logs for the last twenty-four hours!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “KEEP IT CLEAN!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: [UNINTELLIGIBLE > PROFANITY (?)]
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “We’re sending a team, alright?”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Until they arrive, all additional comm needs to route through me.”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “Repeat and acknowledge.”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “OBEY POSTED LIMITS!”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “YIELD TO UPHILL TRAFFIC!”
[COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]: “I’ll take that as a ‘yes’…”
[SUPERINTENDENT]: “PLEASE REMAIN CALM!”\ ~ QUERY COMPLETE
\ ARCHIVE CLOSED \>
Begin speculation, interpretation, and discussion … now.
Posted by Das Kalk on September 20, 2008 at 1:38 pm
notice this little quote at the beginning…”\ RECEPIENT: PROWLER “TOKYO RULES” [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER] ” perhaps the “tokyo rules” is a reference to a possible announcement at TGS? Go my minions, elaborate.
Posted by CrazedOne1988 on September 20, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I really have no idea what is going on over there at bungie studios……
but we’ll know soon enough.
Posted by Disco on September 20, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Maybe it’s a decoy? Probably not, but you never know with those guys.
Posted by Nid on September 20, 2008 at 2:21 pm
IT’S A TRAP!
Posted by PikminGod on September 20, 2008 at 2:21 pm
“tokyo rules” is some worldwide political term….google it…and SI dissapeared when thy canceled the last reveal and now reappears just before tu2…intersetting
Posted by Doc on September 20, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The last part of Thursday’s Weekly Update is:
“Outtro in Go Minor
Earlier this summer, my bipolar, crazy landlord told me, “The night is darkest just before the dawn.”
Dawn is about to break.”
Then this story came out on Friday night. I believe we will be hearing news soon, but I can’t begin to imagine what.
Posted by SonofMacPhisto on September 20, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Doc – agreed. Seems all we know is that something has started up again. We’ll see soon enough!
First step is TU2… then we’ll go from there, I guess.
Posted by kroden3d on September 20, 2008 at 2:50 pm
outtro in go minor sounds like a guitar hero reference. I wonder if there’s anything to do with that.
Posted by BBJynne on September 20, 2008 at 3:16 pm
*rabid expectations*
Posted by agdtinman on September 20, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Wow, it’s been 67 days? Time flies when you’re busy I guess.
Posted by thehandmadehero on September 20, 2008 at 3:35 pm
the COMM officer and the superintendent come off as c-3po and r2d2 to me; a dynamic duo of sorts.
Posted by Handmade Hero on September 20, 2008 at 3:36 pm
p.s. sorry about the name spelling
Posted by CrazedOne1988 on September 20, 2008 at 4:30 pm
maybe they are planning to give everyone a FREE COOKIE!
Posted by Ken Raves on September 20, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Fangasm detected, failed to keep it clean….
Posted by Dan (tehviruss) on September 20, 2008 at 4:41 pm
New game announcement!
*quickly fills paypal account with money to whore game-related domains*
Posted by gruntkiller99 on September 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm
OMGWTFBBQ!11!!one!1!
I think there planing on announcing a new game, and I cant wait for whatever may be.
Posted by AusQB on September 20, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Well obviously the game that this is alluding to is going to be set in the Halo universe, there was never any doubt about that. From the SOURCE and RECIPIENT lines, which angel seems to have omitted, we can tell that the Superintendent is an AI (codename or real name) that manages urban infrastructure in a city on an unknown planet, and the “Tokyo Rules” is a Prowler class Corvette crewed by ONI officers. From the transcript there seems to have been some incident involving data corruption, which could mean corruption of the SI, which could have led to a break down of the city’s infrastructure systems (METROPOLITAN EMERGENCY). Other possibilities are that it is going rampant or that it is being corrupted by alien forces.
Posted by CancaN05 on September 20, 2008 at 10:25 pm
this stuff is all crazy to me…i hope its a new game announcement tho!
Posted by Bryan Ojeda on September 20, 2008 at 10:34 pm
OMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQOMGWTFBBQ
I CAN’T WAIT!
DONT LET US DOWN IIIIlll
Posted by Bryan Ojeda on September 20, 2008 at 10:44 pm
please don’t let it be another delay….
Posted by ashame on September 20, 2008 at 10:59 pm
They are going to stop all H3 updates and are going to work on Oni 2 :mrgreen:
Posted by AusQB on September 21, 2008 at 1:49 am
I wish for that every day ashame. If only they still had the rights to it.
Posted by Matoro3311 on September 21, 2008 at 7:17 am
I was lost after “UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE”.
Heh….[UNINTELLIGIBLE > PROFANITY(?)]
:D
Posted by frogger on September 21, 2008 at 11:46 am
do a barrel roll!
Posted by MR Jones93 sk8 on September 21, 2008 at 12:56 pm
No do a flip :D
Posted by McFarland on September 21, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just a new map, e.g. Moonbase Alpha/Space Camp.
The Title Update 2 will download on Tuesday. I can’t wait!
“The night is darkest just before the dawn.”
Posted by RIFT on September 21, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I’ve been saying what Das Kalk said.
I think this is a preceeding to the a new game announcement, and I think it’s going to be made at the TGS this year. I had heard rumors before, but I felt this was just more wood to the fire.
Technically, M$ hasn’t really made any big announcements at TGS… ever. So, if they announced a new game that was quite popular, despite it not being popular in Japan, it would be a first for M$. Hell, they might even steal some of Sony’s thunder there, but I doubt that.
Posted by A Shaky Shotgun on September 22, 2008 at 6:36 am
This might have a tie-in with the new book and Grey Team.
Just a thought.