When Apollo Doom and I play ODST online, he is usually subjected to me mumbling under my breath like a crazy person. I'll remember about 49 different observations I wanted to discuss with him and the poor guy practically gets hit with a fire hose of information. We get to talk about maybe a dozen of them and then he politely excuses himself and wonders why he sent me a party invite in the first place. Poor guy.
One of the many things I bring up in these conversations is "this number that appears a lot that I have in my notes somewhere now where is it hang on I think I ... hey did you see that Enigma posted about the plinths and where is Kenji in his pajamaz again? ... wait... did you want to play Firefight?" Like I said... poor guy.
Well, that number is 55.6992.3840 and I first jotted it down while looking at the Coastal Highway overhead vid displays. Apollo drew my attention to them because the displays also read "subliminal message <6>" which he thought was hilarious.
It was funnier than me dying for the tenth time in a row while jotting down numbers, anyhow.
The number turns up in Mombasa Streets as well... above the district doors on the "Route Open" and "Route Closed" vid displays:
I thought I saw it on a sign in either NMPD HQ or Data Hive. I didn't have any luck substantiating this claim while looking through the collection of 1,000 images I haven't posted in our gallery yet, but I did find
this:
No, it's not me trying to be a Photoshop
Artiste again... it's the result of trying to take a snapshot of an in-game cinematic in Theater Mode (did you know you could do that, by the way?)
I was trying to capture all of the text that appears in "SI View". (We need a good term for this. SI Overlay? SI View? SI Console?) Anyhow... the snapshot gets corrupted whenever you try to capture that view. I figured it was either due to a glitch with the SI View or intentional censorship on Bungie's part. I paid it little mind until now... because as you can see the number 55.6992.3840 appears on the right. Huh? What in the name of
Dante's Inferno is
that doing there?
But wait... there's more...
"The Happy Emo" made a
post over on the Big Forum in which he linked a photo of the ODST game controller:
SOMETHING NEW FOUND! I hope...
This picture is taken from an ODST controller. It is said the controller has clues on it. Well... The numbers right below "Kikowani" I believe is the time. Military time of course which would make sense. The ACTUALLY time. Now... Everytime you go to a load see, You see in the bottom right corner:
MBaraki
(and the time it is)
On the controller it says: 23:03:28:30
That would mean at roughly about 11:03pm something happens. I dunno what and I dunno where. But honestly... I think I might be on to something.
10.27.2009 10:30 AM PDT
That's right. Emblazoned on the bottom right of the controller is our mysterious number again: 55.6992.3840.
So I decided to check out the opening cinematic of NMPD Headquarters in Theater Mode. I paused in SI View. Among the
numerous amounts of dynamic numerical content in this view are these appearances:
Lower Left:
ACTION//
AAR CONTROL
55.6992.3840
Bottom Center Right:
BITRATE THRESHOLD:223
55.6992.3840
SYNC>>NOMIN
55.6992.3840
Bottom Right:
82002 383832 727777 777
55.6992.3840
The last quote contains a string of numbers which also appears on the controller.
Of course when I tried to take a snapshot, I got
this:
Our new favorite number doesn't appear... instead the text "LINK FAIL..." appears on the right. This same text was appearing under the SI Icon in the upper right when I took the image. Seems like glitched theater mode images are just that- glitches.
Nevertheless, I humbly submit that the number 55.6992.3840 is somehow significant. Perhaps all of the numbers within the controller's artwork are. Might it have something to do with the J Banners? With the Siege of Madrigal? With the story behind the SI?
Please keep your eyes peeled for more instances of this number, and don't be shy about providing screenshots of them!
...and I'd like to make a request: if you have the ODST controller and a digital camera can you please take a photo similar to the one that Happy Emo linked? I'd like the SGP to have their "own" photo of it in the gallery.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for reading! Apollo isn't returning my party invites. I hear he wearz pajamaz these days and mumbles under his breath. Poor guy...
All SGP images in this post are living in the gallery.
