Apocrypha

2004

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2004
21st century

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2004 was a year in the 2000s in the 21st century. It was the year a United Nations Space Command AI, Melissa, was somehow sent back to via a temporal rip in space-time.

Events[edit]

  • A temporal rip in space-time somehow sends part of the UNSC Apocalypso's AI, Melissa, as well as a Covenant AI, the Seeker, back to the year 2004 and onto the web server for a website called "I Love Bees".
  • Melissa is so fragmented and malfunctioning that she is split between the Operator, the fragment named by her crew on Apocalypso and rooted in the Spartan training of her brain donor, and the Sleeping Princess, the fragment rooted in her childhood and sees everything through the lens of a fairy tale.
  • A built-in program called the System Peril Distributed Reflex (SPDR) engages to repair her, recognising the Seeker as a harmful foreign application and attempts to kill it. The Seeker successfully convinces Melissa that it is an updated version of the SPDR and to disable the "outdated" SPDR. While the Seeker did work to repair Melissa, it also works towards destroying both halves of Melissa's personality.
  • Desparate for a friend, the Sleeping Princess befriends the Covenant AI, naming it the Pious Flea. She would teach it human concepts such as fear and humor, while the Seeker would protect the Sleeping Princess from Melissa, who attempted to drag her back into her code.
  • Melissa manages to imprison the Sleeping Princess, but the Seeker goes against its programming and absorbs the Princess instead. This leads to Melissa and the Princess fusing back into one, who sees the Seeker as the Covenant AI it is and tries to kill it before the space-time rip closes and throws her back into the 26th century.
  • Left behind on the I Love Bees website, the SPDR promptly kills the Seeker and waits for the next 548 years until it too returns to the 26th century.

May[edit]

Unknown

  • Dana Awbrey purchases an All-Asia Air Pass out of discontent for her mundane life and hope for the extraordinary to kick in.[1]

July[edit]

July 13

July 16

  • A fragment of Melissa hijacks a countdown on I Love Bees that Awbrey originally put in to commemorate her trip to East Asia.[3][4]

July 19

July 20

  • Awbrey wakes up on to an alarming email from Efendi's email address that was hijacked by the broken Melissa AI. Other people who initially sent emails to Efendi also received this email.
  • Awbrey speaks with Efendi, who alerted her that all of her emails disappeared. After testing, Awbrey finds out that the email address was incapable of receiving emails, concluding that it too was hijacked.
  • Before requesting Hotmail to delete Efendi's email, she was persuaded to leave the hacked website and email alone.[6]

July 27

  • The System Peril Distributed Reflex (SPDR) takes control of the I Love Bees site.[7]
  • The Operator takes several photographs of Awbrey through her webcam while gathering information on what she considers a "killer", since she inadvertently did attempt to kill her by trying to fix the I Love Bees website. These images are inserted into the site, which freaks out Dana and prompts her to give up recovering the site.[8]

July 29

  • Awbrey flies to Beijing, China to begin her preplanned backpacking trip across East Asia.[9]

August[edit]

August 6

  • Staying in a Beijing hostel, Awbrey is persuaded to return to the site as the issue occupies her minds and she continuously checks her emails.[10]

August 10

  • The Seeker manages to pass itself off a more up-to-date System Peril Distributed Reflex program and fools the Operator, who permits it to delete the seemingly outdated, yet real SPDR.[11]

August 12

  • Awbrey visits Jinshanling (金山岭), a section of the Great Wall in Heibei Province, 125 kilometres (78 mi) from Beijing, where the lack of internet prevents her from accessing her emails and messaging the Sleeping Princess.
  • A typhoon strikes the coast of Zhejiang Province, moving just south of neighbouring Shanghai but injuring nearly 2000 people and destroying 42,000 homes.[12]

August 13

  • Awbrey almost gets arrested for walking on the grass in Yuyuan Garden (豫园), Shanghai.
  • Awbrey heads to Mister Donut on West Nanjing Road (南京西路, Nanjing Xilu (sic)), where she accidentally orders sugary meat puffs instead of chocolate creme-filled donuts.
  • The Operator begins to set up axons in the United States.[12]

August 20

  • Awbrey accidentally discovers a pirated DVD store behind an empty café along Jinxian Road (金贤路, Jin Xian Lu (sic)).[13]

August 23-24

  • Awbrey visits Zapata's, which she notes as an "expat hang out" in Shanghai. She feels just as ordinary compared to the other English-speaking tourists as she did back home in San Francisco.[1]
  • She ditches Zapata's for an internet café to join the rest of the "Beekeepers" in watching the countdown on the "I Love Bees" website.[1]
  • The Sleeping Princess meets the Seeker.[14]

September[edit]

September 3-5

  • Awbrey takes a train southwest from Shanghai to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province to unplug, where she takes in West Lake (西湖, Xi Hu (sic)).[15]

September 6-7

  • Awbrey returns to the internet café in Shanghai to try and connect with people who can reach the more isolated axons in the United States.[15]

September 12

  • Growing too familiar with Shanghai, Awbrey packs up and flies to Tokyo, Japan.[16]

September 24

  • The Sleeping Princess gets captured by the Operator with assistance from 'Lieutenant Weephun', and separates her from the Seeker.[17]

September 28

  • The Sleeping Princess manages to escape from the Operator's imprisonment.[18]

September 29

  • The Operator tracks down Awbrey's location as she cancels Awbrey's bank card while she is at Tsujiki Fish Market, Tokyo for breakfast.[19][20]

October[edit]

October 5

  • Awbrey expresses upset that the Operator now knows her whereabouts.[21]

October 12-15

  • The Sleeping Princess and the Seeker reveal that the Operator is attempting to target Margaret Efendi by putting her into a diabetic coma since she cannot directly retaliate against Awbrey.[22]

October 15

  • Awbrey announces she's returning to the United States in response to the Operator's threats.[23]

October 22

  • The Operator decides to use Awbrey for her purposes instead of eliminate her, tasking her to neutralise the Sleeping Princess, with Efendi's life as collateral. Awbrey sees the Operator's message and asks for help in neutralising the Sleeping Princess.[24][25]

October 26

  • Awbrey successfully assists in luring the Sleeping Princess to the Operator, allowing her to destroy the Princess.[26][27]

October 30

  • The Seeker manages to merge the Sleeping Princess with the Operator, repairing Melissa into a more stable state. [28]
  • Margaret Efendi takes Awbrey out for dinner at the Yank Sing restaurant in San Francisco to hear about her Asia trip. [29]

October 31

  • Melissa, composed of both the Operator and the Sleeping Princess, returns to the 26th century. Despite this, Awbrey is still unable to regain control over the I Love Bees website.[30][29]

November[edit]

November 9

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b c ilovebees.blogspot.com, The Extraordinary (Retrieved on Dec 13, 2005) [archive]
  2. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, The Damage (Retrieved on Aug 14, 2004) [archive]
  3. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Counting down to WHAT? (Retrieved on Mar 4, 2005) [archive]
  4. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Counting down to WHAT?: "More information: Well, first of all, yes, I did put a "...days to china" counter on the site, a tiny one below the fold. Sort of a persistent thank-you... Aunt M is the fairy godmother of my trip. But MY countdown has suddenly become this THING's countdown... it's barreling towards a different time and date now, and I've certainly never described my departure as "wide awake and physical."" - Dana Awbrey in a comment under her blog post. (Retrieved on Mar 4, 2005) [archive]
  5. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, August 24 (Retrieved on Jan 8, 2004) [archive]
  6. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Ladybee777 "odd behavior cry for help" (Retrieved on Aug 3, 2004) [archive]
  7. ^ ilovebees.com, Home: Module Core Hemmorage (Retrieved on Jul 27, 2004) [archive]
  8. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, emergency exit (Retrieved on Nov 27, 2004) [archive]
  9. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Deliquent (Retrieved on Apr 24, 2005) [archive]
  10. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, being persuaded to come back (Retrieved on Jul 31, 2005) [archive]
  11. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to 'Haunted Apiary - Let Op!' July 27th and Onwards, The Spider and the Flea: The dialogue was originally spread throughout the source code of I Love Bees as the SPDR chases the Seeker around. Wonderweasels.org arranged this in a linear form for convenience. (Retrieved on Apr 30, 2026) [archive]
  12. ^ a b ilovebees.blogspot.com, Olly Olly Axon Free (Retrieved on Dec 13, 2005) [archive]
  13. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Go Hot (Retrieved on May 5, 2005) [archive]
  14. ^ ilovebees.com, yellowbrickroad.html (Retrieved on Aug 26, 2004) [archive]
  15. ^ a b ilovebees.blogspot.com, six degrees of (Retrieved on Jan 20, 2005) [archive]
  16. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, found and lost (Retrieved on Mar 26, 2025) [archive]
  17. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to 'Haunted Apiary - Let Op!' September 21st and Onwards, Sometimes a mistake is the last thing you make: The Operator's message was originally found on I Love Bees' 404 page but it has not been preserved. (Retrieved on Apr 30, 2026) [archive]
  18. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to 'Haunted Apiary - Let Op!' September 21st and onwards: This occurred during a live call at the axons that went hot on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 in the I love bees alternate reality game. The Operator's message about the "rogue process wild" was originally found on I Love Bees' 404 page but it has not been preserved. (Retrieved on Apr 30, 2026) [archive]
  19. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to 'Haunted Apiary - Let Op!' September 21st and onwards, Recipe4 Axons: The Operator's message was originally found on I Love Bees' 404 page but it has not been preserved. (Retrieved on Apr 30, 2026) [archive]
  20. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, success (Retrieved on Mar 2, 2005) [archive]
  21. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, hide and (Retrieved on Mar 4, 2005) [archive]
  22. ^ Wonderweasils.org - Guide to Haunted Apiary - Let Op!, An Official Hint (Retrieved on Apr 26, 2026) [archive]
  23. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, making myself useful (Retrieved on Feb 27, 2005) [archive]
  24. ^ ilovebees.com, 404.html: "My crew suggested I should view the Killer as an asset to be deployed, rather than an enemy to be eliminated. Several pointed out her relationship with her Aunt Margaret... The Killer is now currently tasked with finding a way to neutralize the Rogue Process. Send any suggestions to her through the usual channel." (Retrieved on Oct 23, 2004) [archive]
  25. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, Natural Enemies (Retrieved on Jan 24, 2005) [archive]
  26. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to Haunted Apiary - Let Op!, The Last Fortress: The Operator's original message as found on I Love Bee's 404 page has not been preserved. (Retrieved on Apr 26, 2026) [archive]
  27. ^ ilovebees.blogspot.com, mission accomplished (Retrieved on Aug 6, 2005) [archive]
  28. ^ Wonderweasels.org - Guide to Haunted Apiary - Let Op!, !transmit seeker: The Seeker's original messages as found on I Love Bees' contactme.html page has not been preserved. (Retrieved on Apr 26, 2026) [archive]
  29. ^ a b ilovebees.blogspot.com, fortunes (Retrieved on Mar 26, 2005) [archive]
  30. ^ ilovebees.com, 404.html: Melissa's thank you and farewell (Retrieved on Nov 4, 2004) [archive]
  31. ^ ilovebees.com, Home: The countdown is for November 9, 2552, 06:07. (Retrieved on Oct 12, 2014) [archive]
  32. ^ Amazon.com, The Castaway Theory (Retrieved on Aug 7, 2007) [archive]
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