Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25847372-20150826054648

I am new to this wiki (and I'm rewatching RvB for the first time in ages) so I have no idea if this topic has been discussed or not. (If it has, please. Indulge me my theories and questions, I'm not looking back forever through topics and old forums to find something considering this season is from years ago. I'm almost afraid to post this, seeing some of the rude interactions that go on on this wiki, but I'm going to post it anyways). I'm finishing up Reconstruction, and ran into the scene where the Alpha shows himself and the A.I. that the Meta has acquired. It shows only 7 A.I., although the Meta has acquired 8 at this time. None of the pages on here gave a possible explanation why, so I thought for a while and came up with maybe the yellow A.I. is Eta and Iota merged?

It could be an oversight on the Rooster Teeth's part, but it does lend itself nicely.

Going off this pic, and the idea that the whole Freelancer storylines had been thought out ahead of time, it would be as follows:

Starting with the red/blue and moving clockwise:

Theta, Beta, Delta, Sigma, Gamma, Omega, and then Iota/Eta merged.

This caption came on the picture I just used: "Xi is believed to be the yellow AI located at the bottom right of the Meta's faceplate", but I don't see a reason for it to be Xi. We are never introduced to a Xi except for when Sigma uses the Greek letter to make up the Meta's symbol. However, as the Meta's page notes, the Meta's symbol itself has been made twice, once with Theta and Iota and the other time with those being replaced by Lambda and Tau. I think it's more reasonable to assume that the bright yellow A.I. is Iota/Eta fused together, especially considering we already know the Meta stole both (Season 10, Episode 9, Party Crasher), and that the twin A.I. do merge (I don't remember this, but it's on their wiki pages, so I'm going off that).

Again, maybe this theory is old and already talked about, but it's not on the wiki and I'm curious. 