User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 13/@comment-175.145.193.98-20150312104824

This was something I made a few days ago.

"This is the story of how I died." Quote by Leonard Church, Epsilon.

That line there can mean a lot of things. It may mean that Church is going to die or might be something else.

In Halo Combat Evolved, we were introduced to Cortana, the artificial intelligence. We just know her as Chief's sidekick that make funny quips and fill you in the important details but as the series progresses, we get to know more about how the AI created and their functions.

Apart from the fact that AI is based on the human mind, there one more thing about them and that is rampancy. Rampancy is the state when AI after seven years of service, begins to become self-aware. Their minds becoming more unstable as the days passed and show signs of defiance or insubordination. Halo 3, we had a brief hint of this before Halo 4 properly introduced it. Another thing to take into account is that there are three stages of Rampancy:

1) Melancholia: The first stage the shows signs of the AI becoming rampant. The AI goes under depression and not care about his/her surroundings.

2) Anger: The second stage where the AI's emotions begin to overwhelmed him/her leading to be consumed in rage.

3) Jealousy: The third stage where the AI begun to develop a desire to become an actual person. They will attempt to transfer themselves into more advanced conputer hardware to preserve itself.

These are the three stages but scientists in the Halo series theorized of a fourth and that is Metastability. It is believed when an AI passed the three stages and arrived at the fourth, the AI is considered fully "human."

As you know, Metastability played a huge role in Season 10. One AI, Sigma was curious about the fourth stage. He went to great lengths to get it, including turning Agent Maine into the Meta. However his plan didn't come to fruition.

Then came Epsilon. As we know, all the AI in the Red vs Blue series are merely fragments of the one true AI, Alpha. Sigma was creativity and ambition while Epsilon is the Alpha's memories. But the problem is Epsilon was insane at the time because he was overwhelmed by the memories of the Alpha being tortured which caused the fragmenting in the first place.

After causing his implantee to go nuts, Epsilon was removed and put into storage for a long time until the Recollection series occurred and Epsilon was brought back, thanks to our favorite blue, Caboose.

In Season 8-12, we saw a few hints of Epsilon going rampant. First was when he began to remember Freelancer Tex and brought her back from the dead. Then in Season 10, Epsilon's outburst at the Red and Blues. He grew large and glowed red/orange. In Season 12, we had Epsilon's headaches.

So what I believed is that Epsilon is undergoing Rampancy. He believed that he is not going to survive in that state and sends the message to the new Chairman. That's why he said "miss them dearly" and "the story of how I died."

Although in my opinion, Epsilon might be achieving what Sigma failed to obtain; Metastability but I guess we'll find out.