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[[Image:Chrysopteron.gif|thumb|AdjutantReflex's new bungie.net avatar.]]
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[[Image:HaloRingcopy.gif|thumb|AdjutantReflex's old bungie.net avatar.]]
{{AI infobox
'''AdjutantReflex''', colloquially referred to as '''"AR"''' by Bungie fans, is a mysterious character who has posted on the [http://www.bungie.net  Bungie.net] and [http://halo.bungie.org  Halo.Bungie.Org] forums.  It always posts in gold text and it's member title is "CompoundIntelligence" which is also in gold text and it's signature is "Array integrity questionable.", which is also in gold text. It is widely rumored to be a [[Forerunner]] [[artificial intelligence]], but this information is unconfirmed and its true identity remains a mystery. Strangely, AR is part of a bungie.net group membership called "[http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/117546/Group/GroupHome.aspx The Brute Ghostbusters]", which is lead by bungie.net "Top Story" writer, "lukems". Also strange is the fact that AR's new bungie.net avatar is not even available on bungie.net.
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September 13, 2007 (Mendicant Bias left Adjutant Reflex's body)
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{{quote|This entity has been terminated, its matrix comandeered [sic].|Former Status of Adjutant Reflex}}


AdjutantReflex has admitted to hacking into the [[Bungie]] servers, although it says it has no hostile intentions. It calls itself a facilitator of "Array requirements" which "are in flux". The last "Array event" occurred 871803909 ± 384 hours before its post on 06.11.2007 12:23 PM PDT.
'''Adjutant Reflex''', username on [[Bungie.net]] and [[halo.bungie.org]] '''AdjutantReflex''', was a [[Facilitator-class ancilla|Facilitator-class]] [[Forerunner]] [[ancilla]], whose operation was facilitation of Array requirements.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/Account/Profile.aspx?memberID=2437447 '''Bungie.net''': ''Profile of AdjutantReflex''] (account removed)</ref>


==Biography==
===Interations===
On June 11, [[2007]] on Bungie.net, Adjutant Reflex appeared on the forums as an enigmatic character with the security role "CompoundIntelligence", who created its first forum entitled '''System Integrity Confirmed''' with its first post being as so:
{{quote|This will be a good place to begin.|AdjutantReflex}}


AdjutantReflex is part of Microsoft's viral marketing campaign for [[Halo 3]], called "Iris".
Adjutant admitted to hacking into the [[Bungie]] servers, although it said that it had no hostile intentions, and then proceeded to answer a few queries that was directed towards it. The entity called itself a "facilitator" who facilitated "Array requirements" which were "in flux".  


When queried to the current date Adjutant stated the last "Array event" to occur which was '''871803909 ± 384 hours''' before its post on 06.11.2007 12:. This places the last array event approximately 99,455 years before the 2007 post, plus or minus 16 days. This timing coincides with the first firing of [[halo Array|the seven Halos]], in the year [[97,445 BCE]]. This is calculated using the [[Wikipedia:Gregorian calendar|Gregorian calendar]]: [[File:AdjutantReflexHistory.png]]


==History of Events in the "''Iris''" Viral Marketing Campaign for ''[[Halo 3]]''==
Later that day Adjutant attempted to communicate with Halo.Bungie.Org, but later admitted the following day that "Bandwith restraints prevented its use".
(Information taken from [http://args.bungie.org/index.php ARGS.Bungie.org]


On June 12, Adjutant created another thread on Bungie.net entitled "Archive/Resource Estimate," with its first post stating, "Archives/Resources will be compiled in approximately 38 hours [1:00 AM PST on Thursday, June 14]."


'''June 11, 2007'''
During that 38 hours Adjutant made several posts in the "Archive/Resource Estimate" thread stating it could not control the "dissemination of information" as it was chaotic and that it would try to facilitate in the best way it could, though it said "This time, no one will be ready".


At 10:26 AM PST on June 11, 2007, a mysterious message appeared in the Halo 3 forum on Bungie.net with a subject line entitled, "System Integrity Confirmed." The thread was created by a user named AdjutantReflex, whose system security role is "CompoundIntelligence."
===Forerunner email===
[[File:Forerunner Email.png|300px|thumb|The Forerunner Email sent to Fans]]
{{Main|Forerunner email}}


http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11263399 - AdjutantReflex's first Bungie.net thread, titled "System Integrity Confirmed"
On June 14, Adjutant stated that the "first seeds are scattered" in reference to the event that it was foreshadowing. This turned out to be a mass emailing of a cryptic poem, sent by XBox Flash. The email contained a link to [http://halo3.com Halo3.com], and also showed a mysterious [[Forerunner symbols|Forerunner symbol]].


AdjutantReflex's text is gold.
Shortly after the email was sent out Adjutant changed its avatar to one that had the Forerunner symbol as shown in the email with the name "Chrysopteron.gif" Chrysopteron being the nickname of "Iris" a messenger goddess with golden wings. Also adding the question
{{quote|Who is the path of light from blackest Earth to brilliant heaven?<br />On whose golden wings will we fly from here to there.|AdjutantReflex}}
To which, when someone answered "Iris", Adjutant stated it was time to sleep saying [[Mendicant Bias|something]] was stirring.


In response to a post wondering if this was the work of a hacker, AdjutantReflex confirmed that it entered Bungie's systems "by force," but stated that it was irrelevant because there was no hostile intent.
The "Iris" code word also triggered a countdown and transmission log. Which was located at [http://206.16.223.65 206.16.223.65].


AdjutantReflex edited the first reply by another user, showing a system ability to edit other posts.
===Sudden disappearances===
On June 17, Adjutant started a thread in the Bungie.net Halo 3 forum entitled "Stop it." In the thread, it stated that its integrity was being attacked and that it could only maintain it for about 22 hours. It also posted the cryptic message "By the pricking of my thumbs," a quote from William Shakespeare's play '''Macbeth,''' which precedes the line "Something wicked this way comes" in the play.


After exactly 100 excited and confused replies from forumgoers, AdjutantReflex locked and stickied the thread, showing that it has other moderator powers as well. The thread was open for about two hours.
The next day, about 22 hours later, Adjutant started a thread called "That Old Life", stating that it could "not prevail" against the attacks and that an "older life" was here with us that had both higher rank and more strength than Adjunct. Adjutant then stated, "I will seek one of you out and leave my legacy in a small space." In the same thread, Adjutant stated that this "life" has had "millennia for reflection, but what image does he see?", this was in reference to Mendicant Bias being locked away for a millennia to reflect on its actions.


AdjutantReflex then moved to http://www.halo.bungie.org, posting a similar series of mysterious writings in the halo.bungie.org (HBO) forum.
Shortly thereafter, the countdown timer and Transmission Log sped up dramatically, though the end date of the countdown was difficult to determine at first as it seemed to change depending on whether the counter had been refreshed or not, eventually stopping early and not continuing.


http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=808840 - AdjutantReflex's HBO thread, titled "System Integrity Confirmed"
===Last moments===
At 9:08 AM PDT on June 19, [[Bungie.net]]'s member, '''x Foman123 x''', received a distressed private message from Adjutant called "HELP ME".<ref>[[:File:AR Warning.JPG|First Message to xFoman123x]]</ref> The entity claimed that it had already been defeated and that ''"peril"'' was near, and asked the user to warn the Community of the threat. Over three increasingly despairing private messages, the entity revealed that a new "machine" that was much more powerful, intelligent, and higher "ranking" would take over.


<gallery>
File:AR Warning.JPG|AR's First Message to x Foman123 x
File:AR2.jpg|AR's Second Message to x Foman123 x
File:AR3.JPG|AR's Third Message to x Foman123 x
</gallery>


'''Beware of Imposters'''
During these messages, Adjutant posted publicly one last time saying he was helpless to the being's hacking, curious to what it learnt during its "eons of slumber", doubting it was "mercy or sorrow".


The same day that the original AdjutantReflex posts were created, a regular forum user created an account named "AdjutantRefIex" with a "capital eye" instead of a "lower-case ell" in the word "Reflex." That user attempted to make more mysterious posts, although the style of writing was inferior and distinctly different from the original and real AdjutantReflex's.
===Mendicant Bias takeover===
[[File:AR4.JPG|300px|thumb|AR's Fourth Message to x Foman123 x]]


Forum Ninja "just another fan" banned the imposter.
Adjutant's last message to '''x Foman123 x''' stated that the previous entity had been "terminated" and that the account had been hijacked by a newer, malevolent entity.<ref>[[:File:AR4.JPG|Last Message to xFoman123x]]</ref>


Shortly thereafter, another account was created on Bungie.net entitled "ReticentAxiom". This user began creating posts nearly identical to the fake AdjutantRefIex, pretending to be another AI. Once again, they are recognizable by lack of gold text and inferior writing style -- not to mention a distinctly different "style" and "feel" to the posts from the originals.
Following this Adjutant had a new avatar to signify it was terminated and replaced by this new entity, and posted in a thread called "AR has a new avatar!" the word "STERILIZING" to publicly announce that the old Adjutant was killed. This new avatar was called "MB05032_09_25_07.gif" meaning that Mendicant Bias had taken over the shell of Adjutant.


The best advice follows: don't believe it if it's not in gold text.
Mendicant Bias, using the same account as the previous Adjutant Reflex created a new thread called "Last Word", stated that we should be concerned about its "intent" rather than its "identity", and indicated that it would no longer communicate through Bungie.net. It vaguely referred to something that would take place on June 20, but refused to elaborate.  


As part of his termination of Adjutant Reflex, the new entity deleted all Bungie.net threads created by AdjutantReflex except for the very first thread titled "System Integrity Confirmed" and the threads that the new entity created.


'''June 12, 2007'''
===Mendicant Bias preparations===
On June 28, after a long week of silence in the forums and lack of activity elsewhere. The hijacked Adjutant posted a mysterious poetic paragraph :


At exactly 11:00 AM PST, AdjutantReflex created another thread entitled "Archive/Resource Estimate," with its first post stating that "Archives/Resources will be compiled in approximately 38 hours [1:00 AM PST on Thursday, July 14]." Another several posts followed, but no further substantive information was gleaned.
:'''A pulse.'''
:''Can you feel it?''
:''Beating at the heart of the Universe.''
:''Skin too thick to be sure.''
:''It's alive though.''
:''I'm certain.''
:''What do I do with life?''


http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11278044 - AdjutantReflex's second bungie.net thread, titled "Archive/Resource Estimate"
The thread was only open for 3 minutes. Yet, Mendicant bias did not respond to any of the several posts that were made at that time.


'''June 13, 2007'''
The following day the hijacked Adjutant created a thread called "Veins of Ice and Poison" stating


At 3:43 PST, AdjutantReflex posted an addendum to his locked thread entitiled "Archive/Resource Estimate" with the text "Tick Tock."
:|n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713>
:X.XX.713> POS/NAV < @ > <53LPH54.6JG62.1740><1………>
:X X5 > CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE - > qghost.713
:
:I do not require charity or alms
:But I did choose poverty
:And other darkness too
:Will you wait for me?


'''June 14, 2007'''
A few minutes later the following post was made.


In the hours counting down to the 1 AM PST deadline there were two other posts by AR.
:Adjutant Reflex is ended. This is a convenient Matrix. For now.


Shortly after 1 AM PST, an email was sent to all recipients of the [http://www.xbox.com/ Xbox Flash] newsletter with a cryptic poem inside. It was titled "Look for the signs, Keepers of the Flame".
This two posts paired together stated meant that Mendicant Bias planned to leave the vessel that was Adjutant Reflex, and showed the new matrix that it was going to start using "ghost.713" on Local node "X.XX.713".


[[Image:Forerunner Email.png]]
===An Empty Casket===
On September 13, the hijacked Adjutant Reflex posted one last thread on Bungie.net called "An Empty Casket" stating that the body of Adjutant was not enough to hold it in. Mendicant Bias showed remorse for killing Adjutant, and also told the readers to look for it on [[Installation 00]].


(The Forerunner Email image)
==Description==
Its first avatar was a simple projected Halo, similar to the one in [[The Silent Cartographer|Silent Cartographer]]. Its second avatar was one called "Chrysopteron.gif", with the base IRIS glyph in it. The avatar changed a final time to one called "MB05032_09_25_07.gif" when AR was hijacked by Mendicant Bias the presence of another character, this avatar had a terminal design with its blue sigil located at the lower right.
<gallery>
File:HaloRingcopy.gif|AdjutantReflex's first Bungie.net avatar.
File:Chrysopteron.gif|"Chrysopteron.gif" AdjutantReflex's second Bungie.net avatar.
File:AdjutantReflex 3rd.gif|"MB05032_09_25_07.gif" AdjutantReflex's third Bungie.net avatar to signify the ancila was hijacked.
</gallery>


==Production notes==
In every post, AR always posted in gold text, and was able to edit posts traits that was indicative of Bungie employees who posted in the forum.


Sometime before March 2009, AdjutantReflex's Bungie.net profile was deleted.


==Trivia==
*AdjutantReflex is part of Microsoft's viral marketing campaign for ''[[Halo 3]]'', called "[[Iris]]", which existed for several weeks through Summer 2007.
*''CompoundIntelligence'' is a another term used by the Terminals for [[Gravemind]], suggesting a connection/similarity between the two.
*Despite the fact that AdjutantReflex's avatars are not available on [[Bungie.net]], they are all connected by means that they all contain a singular ring. This is probably a reference to the [[Halo]]s.
*AdjutantReflex was taken over by an unknown entity that continued to post a number of times in its place. The new entity is commonly known as NAR (New Adjutant Reflex), and appears to be the entity behind the revelation of the 5 servers. NAR also has appeared with the initials: MB and the number 05032. MB was revealed in ''Halo 3'' to stand for [[Mendicant Bias]] and 05'''032''' is the group of numbers of his name (032 Mendicant Bias). Yet it also stated that he is not who we think he is.
*Strangely, AdjutantReflex was part of a Bungie.net group membership called "[http://halo.bungie.net/fanclub/117546/Group/GroupHome.aspx The Brute Ghostbusters]", which is led by Bungie.net "Top Story" writer, "lukems". Another strange fact is that all of AdjutantReflex's avatars are not available on Bungie.net. At some point after AdjutantReflex was "terminated", the entity's signature changed to; "''This entity has been terminated, its matrix <!-- DO NOT CORRECT THIS --> comandeered [sic].<!-- DO NOT CORRECT THIS -->''", which is strangely not in gold text. Additionally, the word "commandeered" was misspelled within the signature.


Forerunner glyphs were noticed, not only inside the email (seen above), but also on Master Cheif's visor at Halo3.com (seen below).
==Gallery==
 
<gallery>
[[Image:Halo3.com AR image.jpg]]
File:AR Profile.jpg|The old profile of Adjutant Reflex.
 
File:AR First Post.jpg|Adjutant Reflex's first post in  Bungie.net.
File:Countdown1.JPG|The Countdown page guarded by Adjutant Reflex.
</gallery>


==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}


==See also==
*[[Array Recorder Data]]
*[[Iris]]
*[[Forerunner email|Forerunner Email]]
*[[Halo 3: The Cradle of Life]]
*[[Society of the Ancients]]
*[[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal]]s


The third glyph found is AdjutantReflex's new avatar on Bungie.net.
==External links==
*[http://halo.wikibruce.com/Home '''WikiBruce''', a Halo franchise ARG community Wiki]
*[http://halo.bungie.net/fanclub/118020/Group/GroupHome.aspx CompoundIntelligence The largest group dedicated to discussing the AdjutantReflex incidents]
*[http://args.bungie.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=529 - A collection of AR's quotes]


[[Image:Chrysopteron.gif]]
{{Forerunner AI}}
 
[[Category:Iris]]
(AdjutantReflex's new bungie.net avatar)
[[Category:AI characters]]
 
 
 
The fourth glyph found on the last page of www.halo3.com/comic.
 
[[Image:Halo_3_-_TCOL_AR_symbol.jpg]]
 
(Strip Three of the last page (Page 4) of [[Halo 3: The Cradle of Life|The Cradle of Life]])
 
 
 
 
The fifth was found on a website connected to the IP address found in the Halo3.com comic strip. The last digit is a 3 instead of a 5. http://206.16.223.63/
 
[[Image:SOTA symbol.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
The sixth was found in a newspaper ad to debut in the US on Sunday, June 17th.
 
[[Image:Halo3.com_comic_ad_with_AR_symbol.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
On June 14, 2007 at 3:43 PM PST AdjutantReflex began another thread at Bungie.net entitled, "Who?" with one other post following before going back into hibernation. This posting corresponded to a change at [http://www.halo3.com halo3.com] where the main page had been turned into five darkened pictures labled Servers #1-5. All five servers were locked at this time.
 
[[Image:SilhouettesOriginal.JPG|500px]]
 
(halo3.com at the time of Servers #1-5 being locked)
 
 
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11314735 - AdjutantReflex's third bungie.net thread, titled "Who?"
 
 
Another section of halo3.com was uncovered (http://halo3.com/comic/) with an intriguing comic. Intrepid searchers discovered that the last page of this comic could be manipulated to give an IP address. "[http://206.16.223.65/ 206.16.223.65]" (Apparently all IP addresses listed 206.16.223.0 through 206.16.223.225 belong to Microsoft corp). (It should be noted that the timer that is (at the time of this edit) on the said site, is in the base 7 counting system).
 
Shortly after, the IP was manipulated (206.16.223.63) to lead us to a site associated with the (presumably fictional) organization entitled Society of the Ancients, or SOTA. A few minutes after this discovery a myspace page was discovered with references to this organization.
 
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1000322121
 
Not much is known about this page, or other myspace or facebook profiles at this time.
 
 
 
 
 
'''June 15, 2007'''
 
Members of the SOTA organization were spotted in Times Square in New York City wearing yellow shirts and holding picket signs with the glyph eblazoned on them. They were also handing out flyers.
 
[[Image:SOTA.jpg]]
 
(SOTA flyer)
 
 
 
 
 
[[Image:SOTA application.jpg|500px]]
 
(SOTA Membership Application [http://societyoftheancients.com/sota_images/SOTA_membership.pdf])
 
Beware, email address above returns:
 
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
 
DoYouGrok@societyoftheancients.com
 
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 relay not permitted
 
 
 
'''June 16, 2007'''
 
SOTA members were spotted in Vancouver, Canada and London, England, and many other places. More sightings and rumors seem to come by the hour.
 
 
 
 
'''June 17, 2007'''
 
Another new glyph seems to have been found in this image here.
[[Image:Possible_glyph.jpg|500px]]
 
 
 
AdjutantReflex posted again at bungie.net, this time with a quote from "''Macbeth''" and telling us it is being attacked somehow. And once more stating it would only be able to deflect assault for 22 hours, giving us a deadline around 10:06 AM PDT on June 18, 2007.
 
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11359444 - AdjutantReflex's fourth bungie.net thread, titled "Stop it."
 
 
 
'''June 18, 2007'''
 
AdjutantReflex posted on bungie.net again (it's fifth thread, titled "That Old Life"), telling that someone stronger than him was going to defeat him (the details were unclear as to whether this meant destroy or corrupt, or some other method). In the last sentence of the same post, AdjutantReflex said "''I will seek one of you out and leave my legacy in a small space.''" Twenty-five minutes later AdjutantReflex replied to the thread saying "''He has had millennia for reflection, but what image does he see?''".
 
 
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=11372502 - AdjutantReflex's fifth bungie.net thread, titled "That Old Life"
 
 
 
The countdown on the http://206.16.223.65 website sped up.
 
 
 
 
 
This is all that has happened so far in the AdjutantReflex incident.
 
==Related Links==
'''Internal'''
*[[Forerunner Email]]
*[[Halo 3: The Cradle of Life]]
*[[Society of the Ancients]]
'''External'''
*http://www.bungie.net/Account/Profile.aspx?memberID=2437447 - AdjutantReflex's profile page on www.bunige.net
*[http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/118020/Group/GroupHome.aspx CompoundIntelligence] - the largest group dedicated to discussing the AdjutantReflex incidents
*[http://args.bungie.org/ Discussion forum] - hosted by [[Halo.Bungie.Org]]
*[http://bungie.wikia.com/wiki/AdjutantReflex Bungiepedia's detailed history of the AdjutantReflex events]
*http://www.halo3.com/
*http://www.halo3.com/comic/
*http://206.16.223.65/ (countdown webpage)
*http://206.16.223.63/ (SOTA webpage)
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