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From ILB

What caused the damage at ilovebees? AI from the future. Four of them known as: Melissa (also the "Operator" and the "Queen") who ran the communications system of the Apocalypso; the Sleeping Princess, still not fully identified who hides from Melissa and communicates with us in green ink and hidden text; the Pious Flea, on a mission to "seek the truth, behold the truth and reveal the truth" who convinced Melissa to destroy the fourth; the SPDR, who repaired Melissa after the crash of the Apocalypso and also caused great damage to Melissa's memory.

At the moment, Melissa, thinking we are her crew and will help her assess the damage sustained in the crash, is releasing wave files when we activate the axons she has built to the pay phones. Some of these calls are "live" and Melissa asks questions to confirm the identity of the crewmember. If Melissa is satisfied, the person becomes part of her crew. At least one crew member helped Melissa find the Sleeping Princess. Melissa reimprisoned the Sleeping Princess, calling her the rogue process. But she was helped to escape by other players and is still helping us.

These waves Melissa is giving us were recorded by yet another AI, called Durga, who is connected somehow as either a "ghost" or a "mirror" to Melissa. Durga is "eavesdropping on the future" bringing stories about Jersey Morelli, whose computer she suddenly appeared on, Jan James a talented and medically enhanced girl whose father's past is a deeply buried secret, and Kamal, a lonely medical resident from the planet Coral who does a bit of spying himself. The Sleeping Princess created humptydumpty (http://ilovebees.com/humptydumpty.html) which contains all the completed wave stories in order.

The most secret are were released to us from the Sleeping Princess and follow Herzog as he works out the ONI secrets. The Sleeping Princess is also revealing waves to us, waves that relate to the story of the Apocalypso's crash. Melissa had been infected by a virus from decrypting a Covenant transmission. A planet called Troy was to be "glassed." As the Apocalypso was turning back home, a strange alien device was picked up from deep space. Was this the cause of the crash? Somehow Rani is a candidate for ONI that he has identified and that Durga is following. These waves are found on recipe3 (http://ilovebees.com/recipe3.html)

Summary from the sidebar of Dana's Blog (http://ilovebees.blogspot.com)

"Days investigating: 50

In early July, an AI named Melissa crash landed, badly damaged, onto the server that hosts my aunt's website. The AI tried to orient and repair itself. The result: It turned 'I Love Bees' into a holy mess.

Now we're investigating the mess. We need all the help we can get.

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Here's what we know so far:

Melissa, a.k.a. "The Operator," used to run communications on a ship. The ship's purpose: to spy on an enemy known as "the Covenant."

The Operator has started communicating again. It's constructing hundreds of "roads" out of the 'I Love Bees' server. The roads all lead to payphones. And the phones are ringing.

We don't know why it's broadcasting, but the Operator is giving us GPS coordinates for the phones, and times to show up. So we are. We're collecting its fragmented messages and trying to put them back together.

So far, the Operator's communications seem to be following three different targets:

Jersey Morelli, an ordinary guy whose computer has been taken over by an eavesdropping AI he nicknames Durga;

Jan James, a 17-year-old girl tricked out with genetic enhancements who along with her military dad is hiding some pretty serious secrets;

and Kamal, a med student who immigrated to Earth and is now willing to trade his elite hacking skills for help bringing his parents over — and maybe improve his flatlined lovelife.

We also know that these targets are connected: Durga is spying on Jan for Jersey. (He lives in the same building as the James family and has a thing for Jan.) Durga is listening to Kamal for herself... but she doesn't know why she finds him so interesting. Durga also tells Jersey she has been thinking a lot about bees lately. Hmm...

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Here's what else we know:

When the Operator crashed on the 'I Love Bees' server, it didn't come alone.

It came with two autonomous programs: 1) the SPDR, designed to repair damage to the Operator, and 2) the Pious Flea, designed to... well, we're not sure yet.

The SPDR brought the Operator back to life. But now the Operator is taking orders from the Pious Flea. So when the SPDR tried to eliminate the Flea, the Operator killed it.

We don't know much about the Flea, except that it wants "to seek, behold, and reveal the truth."

There is one other voice we've found on the site: The Sleeping Princess.

The Sleeping Princess uses Aunt Margaret's email account and error pages to share secrets and play games with us. She also likes to hide text in images. We're not sure where she came from. She has been spying a lot on the Queen lately and fending off the Flea's advances. She is trying to remember who she was before she became the Sleeping Princess.

That's what we know so far.

We don't know what's going to happen next."