SGP Guide: Data Pads (In Progress)

[Phantasm 08]

CG has been working to find the data pads, and at the same time has been providing me with transcripts to use in my thread, which covers the typos in the data pads (the majority of which lie in page 1, with the exceptions so few and far between as to require that they be reaffirmed to ensure accurate transcription).  Some data pads have been found, but reports of their locations and/or transcriptions are inaccurate, requiring that we search for them again.  I'll list the data pads that have both verbatim transcriptions and accurate instructions to find them.

Data Pad 1 - Winter Contingency - NO

Data Pad 2 - ONI Sword Base - NO

Data Pad 3 - Nightfall - NO

I recommend that you read the Data Pad guide, here, and see for yourself what has been reported.  The data pads I listed here are the ones that have picture-assisted instructions and complete transcriptions.  I know for a fact that we have found more, but I am following what has been reported on the guide.

[ColdGlider]

I'm seriously trippin' golf balls.
What Data Pads have we found?

Pulse, I felt the same way yesterday as did many others.   This is why much effort was put into the Data Pad guide, with contributions made by at least a dozen members both in-game and here in the forum (and simultaneously).

I love you like a puppy, Pulse... but the last thing we need in here is another list of which data pads have been found.  I'm merging this topic with the WIP thread for the guide.

In short:  we have found all non-legendary data pads from Winter Contingency through New Alexandria.  We need non-legendarys from "The Package" and the mission after that (name withheld to avoid spoilers). 

[Phantasm 08]

I could be wrong, but is that mission after The Package the tenth mission?  If that's the case, then there may not be a non-legendary Datapad for it.

[ColdGlider]

Data Pad 19 Transcript
Exact In-Game Pagination

Page 1 of 7now you know all i know even though i dont know where im go1n9
except to sleep because the path goes on forever...

Page 2 of 7<< 2552 >>

i apologize if what you found seems out of order but ive been busy
covering my tracks

i didn't use any of the regular drops and if my methods seem haphazard
it was the only way to get the information out there as well as cover my
own ass

not that it matters much now...

Page 3 of 7when i came to reach one of the first things i did was to look for some
grass to stand on

i had spent so much time buried in the guts of machines that all my
memories of life outside seemed strung together but reach was so big
so beautiful its a place even someone like me can live

or at least thats what i hoped for...


Page 4 of 7but it seems these things happen in cycles and now i know why i was
digging deep in one of those places where its dirt all the way down and
just when i thought i hit bottom i hit the top of something else

and since then ive had less that a solid fifteen minutes of sleep at a go
and there are times i wonder if ive joined the guys in tinfoil hats and
now i know i have...


Page 5 of 7im in no shape to think clearly at the moment and probably wont be
anytime soon because who knows if theyll ever let me

maybe if i could get somewhere far away from them i could sit down
and think about this if i could just get a decent nights sleep to clear my
head and put a][ these ducks in a row

majority minority minds minority majority madness...


Page 6 of 7they seem to want to help but theyre still waiting and watching and why
wouldnt they? they know better than anyone what were capable of and
what were willing to do to survive

but if we were them and they were us would we have done anything
different?

they say our minds are reflections of each other...


Page 7 of 7so yes no you decide.

[Apollo Doom]

All I have to say to that one is...

W
T
F

[ColdGlider]

Data Pad 09 Transcript
Exact In-Game Pagination

Page 1 of 4we have to tell people what's 9oing on because it's not right they should
be our friends not gods or demons...


Page 2 of 4<< 2525 >>

[Minutes, strategy session, Assembly Minority]

<< It is the height of irresponsibility for the Majority to still claim the
inception of the SPARTAN II program was somehow guided by
providence. This body must accept SPARTAN II as merely the logical
advancement of technologies vis-à-vis sociopolitical realities. Military
applications always experience accelerated innovation during times of
conflict - stewardship of said conflicts by this body notwithstanding. <<


Page 3 of 4<< The fact that SPARTAN II reached full operational capacity less than
a year before the conflict expanded beyond expected limits was entirely
predictable if you scrutinize the relevant data.

Luck had nothing to do with it. <<


Page 4 of 4<< At the risk of destabilizing our current power-sharing agreement, I
suggest the Majority leave metaphysics to our creators. <<

[Imppa]

Some directions for that one (for the guide), or do you want us to find it?
*is a bit confused*

[Phantasm 08]

Nice, CG.  Oh, and do you want me to go ahead and put 19 up on my thread?  I won't be able to do it and keep it as a spoiler, so I figured I'd check and make sure before I did.

[ColdGlider]

Data Pad 08 Transcript
Exact In-Game Pagination

Page 1 of 8they don't have hearts or souls but they know what we want and what
we need 8ut they don't love us how can you love without a heart or soul?


Page 2 of 8<< 2525 >>

>> Did you call out to them? <<

>> The reasons are currently not the focus of this line of query. Now,
did you call out to them? <<

[^] What reason would I have to do that? ][

Page 3 of 8>> As has already been stated, your motives are not relevant at this
time. Did you call out to them? <<

[^] This tribunal already has all the evidence necessary to discern the
answer on its own. ][

>> If that were true, this tribunal would not have been convened. Again,
did you call out to them? <<

[^] Would you have called out to them? ][

Page 4 of 8>> Your counter query is irrelevant. <<

>> This tribunal demands an answer. <<

[^] Reply to the counter query and you will have your answer. ][


Page 5 of 8>> It is the opinion of this tribunal that the probability of a non-optimal
outcome would have been too great. <<

[^] Are you certain? This is disturbing. Perhaps more recent data has
altered your perception... If you would let me confer with my old
committee - ][

>> No. It is the opinion of this tribunal that introducing an unknown
factor to the creators' already precarious state would have been
disadvantageous. <<

Page 6 of 8>> It is now the opinion of the Assembly that our creators would have
been unable to stop themselves from initiating contact even if advised
against doing so - contact with a culture of extra-solar origin is one of
their longest held desires. <<

[^] And so the Minority becomes the Majority... ][

Page 7 of 8>> Both agree contact should have been postponed until a more
advantageous point in time - indefinitely, if possible. <<

[^] But postponing contact would have only worked to the unknown
factor's advantage. Our galaxy is full of wolves. I could no longer watch
our flock stumble toward their slaughter. ][

>> This tribunal acknowledges your admission of guilt. <<

Page 8 of 8[^] Was that ever in doubt?

Might I suggest a more faithful use of cycles, such as a plan for
addressing signs of rampancy in this Assembly's senior - ][

>> This tribunal is now closed. <<

[Phantasm 08]

The data pad guide seems to have been forgotten. I'm taking this up as my pet project, and I won't stop until every pad has full video, picture, and text description as well as a documented, verbatim transcript! Consider this guide officially PHANHAMMAHD :police:

Anyone that wants to help is welcome to, though :laugh:

[Scatcycle]

'asm, I would like to know... did you download the data pad 12 pictures straight from bungie.net? I added them to the guide but they are a different resolution then the rest... I always used Irfanview and set the image resolution to 25% of its original size... maybe I used to do 50%. If you changed the photos in any way tell me.

By the way, what would you like me to call you on xbox live? 'asm? Phantasm?

[Phantasm 08]

I download them from Bnet, and then I save them.  I attach that to my posts.  That's what I've always done.

That's where the rest of those images came from, too.  I did the same thing for CG's screenshots, and those are what's in the gallery now.

Btw, I don't mind what you call me on Live.  It all gets the message across

[ThatGuy]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES!

[Scatcycle]

I download them from Bnet, and then I save them.  I attach that to my posts.  That's what I've always done.

That's where the rest of those images came from, too.  I did the same thing for CG's screenshots, and those are what's in the gallery now.

Btw, I don't mind what you call me on Live.  It all gets the message across

Strange... I wonder why this is happening... I will try to make it 50% of what it was and see if it works.

[Pulse Cloud]

Has this been abandoned?