070809-Server04-Log4

From Halo

"Log 4"

The video itself is found by clicking on a symbol on the rotating Forerunner entity in Server 04
Accompanying the video is a text transcript file also served by the rotating Forerunner entity

Scenes

Below is a 'scene' by scene analysis of the video...

The video itself can be download as the raw FLV

Note the scrolling binary in the footer (translated below)
Note the frame by frame appearance of DNA sequences. 899 frames each contain a 10 nucleotide sequence.
The first 20 sets of sequences are:
GGGTTGAGGG GTTTTGGGGG TTTGCGGGGT TGCGAGGTGG CGAGTTGGGG AGTATGGGCT GCTTTATCGG TTTGGCGGAG TGGTGGAGCG GTGGGGCGCA GGGAAGCACG GAAAGACGGA AAGGTGGACG GGTGCACGCG TGCAGGCGGG CAGGGGGGCC GCCTAGGGAC CTAGAGACGA AGAGGCGAGG AGGTGAGGGT
Note the slowly increasing numeric counter in the middle - its purpose is unknown (as is the soundwave to the right of the middle)

(The red background below was used just in case translucent foreground detail might get lost on a black or white background)

	001 (frames 1-70)
	002 (format of entire video) (note barren, moon-looking planet)
	003 (message 1) The Conservation Measure is the only sweet note in this discordant symphony we've arranged. (scrolling binary) 01001001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00101110 00100000 It's the only constructive activity in decades of destruction.
	004 (message 2) (scrolling binary) 01010010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100100 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110100 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01111001 00101110 Researching the adversary as we protect the worthy. We know that the Flood's biology is alien enough that it must be extragalactic in origin.
	005 (message 3) But where did it come from? (scrolling binary) 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00111111 And why did it come here?
	006 (final message frame 969) (note a more life-supporting planet)
	007 (frame 970)