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Instead of the usual Friday Bungie Weekly Update, this week started off with the Weekly Update on Thursday which covered the new features and enhancements included in the Title Update 2 for Halo 3. It ended off rather oddly though:

"The night is darkest just before the dawn."
Dawn is about to break.

On Friday evening, at 7:07PM, The Superintendent, which is thought to be linked with Bungie's upcoming game announcement, made an appearance in the slot that usually would be reserved for the Weekly Update. A garballed image of the same image that appeared during E3 when the announcement from Bungie was expected, was shown along with the following dialog:

<\\> UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

<\\> CLASSIFIED SIGNALS ARCHIVE [ONI.SEC.PRTCL-1A]     

<\ OPENED PER OFFICIAL REQUEST [DARE.V.500341(S1)]  

\ SOURCE: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE A.I. [SUPERINTENDENT]

\ RECEPIENT: PROWLER "TOKYO RULES" [COMM.DUTY.OFFICER]
>> 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 \>

What can be picked up is that the conversation is with the UNSC, which is a military faction within the Halo Worlds. So does it mean the announcement follows within the Halo World or is this merely taking us further off course? I don't think we'll have to wait much longer to find out. Expect an announcement in the next few days!

KEEP IT CLEAN!