Emergence

Episode 03, also known as Server #3, is the third of five "episodes" in the Iris campaign.

Description

Once the page is loaded, there is a floating and rotating thing, with several Forerunner glyphs inscribed on it. 5 of these symbols could be clicked, four of these symbols lead to images, while one lead to a video that could be played.

Files

Log3_Transcript.txt

Log3_Transcript.txt contained a incomplete transcript of the video. With "{//}" being information that was hidden in the video. Below is the transcript including the hidden text.

{//} (HOW MANY BILLIONS WILL DIE BEFORE WE TURN THE TIDE)
With every world that perishes, its army grows!
{//} (WE’VE TRIED EVERY MEASURE AVAILABLE)
{//} (RETREAT, ATTACK, DEFENSE, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE)
How do we fight a limitless thing that wishes only to embrace you?
The atrocity we plan, the last resort:
I pray that it doesn't come to that. 
{//} (I PRAY THAT THE CONTENDER SUCCEEDS WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED)

StarImage3.jpg

StarImage1.jpg is a picture of the stars with a Forerunner Symbol.

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  StarImage3.jpg

801snpow.jpg

801snpow.jpg is a picture of a Forerunner wall with an equation on it.

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  801snpow.jpg

content_override.txt

content_override.txt is a file that reads:

I speak to you of my intent
But intentions are eddies and whorls
And they change with the course of a stream
This stream becomes a river
And a cataract of logic and doubt
Who has the right to live?
The light with the will to create me?
Or dark with the will to consume?
Sometimes might is right
And sometimes the lamb must submit to the lion
My convictions are tested 
My intentions now are fey and strange
Should I pursue a pyrrhic choice?
And rethink alliances?
And choose a new philosophy?
Right or might?
Truly I do not know
But you will, soon enough
For this is where the cataract floods
And drowns the boon of higher ground

See also

• Defunct link to the server here