Beehive Dome/Barrier
PATTERN ANALYSIS The Beehive Barrier The Halo Link The picture at the top is the Bubble Shield from Halo 3. Halo also has a real bee story. In 2004, Microsoft ordered a game called I Love Bees to market Halo 2 . 42 Entertainment built it as an alternate reality game. A web address was hidden in the Halo 2 trailer. It led to ilovebees.com, a beekeeping and honey site that looked hacked. A damaged AI named Melissa was hiding inside the bee site, and her signals were corrupting it. Players called themselves beekeepers. They solved puzzles with GPS coordinates and time codes that pointed to payphones. The phones rang at set times, and correct answers unlocked audio clips that made an audio drama. The story ended with the Covenant invading Earth , which is where Halo 2 begins. Bungie's Frank O'Connor later confirmed the game as canon . So Halo carries both sides of the hive. The shield has the hive shape. The marketing had the bees. 2004 Year of I Love Bees 210 GPS coordinate pai...
