Superintendent
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The Superintendent is a Bungie-created profile on Bungie.net. The Superintendent has the profile name of what appears to be seven vertical bars: |||||||. Viewed in a serif font, these bars are actually four capital I's followed by three lower-case L's. The Superintendent appears in a green box and has green text, the only such profile on Bungie.net known to date.
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[edit] Origin of The Superintendent
The Superintendent made his first appearance on Bungie.net on 5/29/2008 at 5:44 PM PDT. Since then the Superintendent has been making regular posts. The Superintendent's post are normally brief, always in caps lock, and usually inform forum goers to KEEP IT CLEAN!
However, If one checks the Superintendent's signature, it does say "Keep it clean!" but in lower case.
[edit] Multiple Superintendents
There is so far 6 Superintendent's, and a seventh that may or may not be involved (he lacks Superintendent status and the special avatar, how ever was made at the same time as all the others) each of them has a different variation of the original Superintendent avatar. Each of their names are made up of multiple upper case "i"s and lower case "L"s
The other Superintendents to date were found by Exiled Legend who found several after using combinations of eyes and ells and then later, Ruc360 who discovered a few when trying different member IDs.
[edit] Avatar
The Superintendent's avatar is a circle with two eyes that appears to be holding a plunger and giving a thumbs up. The avatar has been seen on Bungie.net web cam and Frank O'Connor (Frankie) has been photographed wearing a shirt with the the Superintendent avatar.
Originally several different avatars were found for each of the different users, however since the 9th of June all the Superintendents avatars have returned to the default image and no emotions seem to be present.
On July 3rd, the default Superintendent avatar was spotted in Bungie's "And on the Seven7h Day.." ViDoc.
On the Bungie Day '08 theme the Superintendent is on the "Games" blade.
[edit] Speculation to the Superintendent's Identity and Purpose
Since the debut of the Superintendent there has been some speculation as to the true identity of the Superintendent, his role on Bungie.net, and the possibility of the Superintendent's involvement in another ARG. In a thread started by Bad Time 2 Die various points have been made for the purpose of the Superintendent.
[edit] Possible Identity
It has been speculated that The Superintendent is Frankie. There is little evidence supporting this theory, and like many other Bungie mysteries, Bungie has not revealed any details.
The only evidence supporting Frankie as the Superintendent has been the photo of him wearing a shirt with the Superintendent logo.
On 6/15/2008 Luke Smith was also photographed wearing the Superintendent shirt at the MLG tournament in San Diego. 1
On 7/3/2008 Bungie issued a contest called Recon Road Trip where an unnamed Bungie employee wearing a Superintendent T-shirt in public may be found. The person who finds this employee will be issued Recon Armor if they have their copy of Halo 3. This article was posted by Luke Smith.1
In the August 15th weekly update, employees gave simple statements as to what they are "currently working on" and Joseph Staten's statement was "KEEP IT CLEAN!"
[edit] Possible Bungie.net Role
It has been speculated that the Superintendent is a "super mod" although, to date, no one has received any disciplinary action from the Superintendent. Like the Forum Ninjas and Bungie employees, the Superintendent does not have a report feature on his post, thus adding to the speculation that the Superintendent may have moderation powers.
[edit] Possible ARG
It has also been speculated that the Superintendent may be the start of another ARG. So far this has proven to be unlikely because the Superintendent has yet to post anything other than simple Bungie.net tips and warnings to keep things clean. Support for the possible involvement of an ARG lies in the distinctness of the Superintendent's color, similar to the appearance of AdjutantReflex.
There is also a "broken" superintendent, whos avatar is the default. But he is legit.
[edit] Sightings
The Superintendent has made several apperances.
- On several Bungie employees, most notable Luke Smith and Frank O'Connor (Frankie).
- On an unknown man during the E3 demonstration of Halo Wars. 2
- On the Recon Road Trip
[edit] Contact
On June 18, 2008 at 9:52 Am PDT, IIIIIII, the Superintendent, posted in the Superintendent Discussion thread by stating "PLEASE REMAIN CALM!". Duardo, attempting to contact the Super, replied with "Why? Is there something wrong?" at 10:58 AM PDT. Duardo then sent the same thing via PM to the Super.
At 11:10 AM PDT, IIIIIII replied to Duardo via PM with "IN CASE OF FIRE, USE STAIRS".
[edit] Superintendent Misspells "KEEP IT CLEAN"
The Superintendent has frequently replaced letters in the phrase "KEEP IT CLEAN" with numbers. The first instances of this is when he replaced the K with a 0.
Since then, he has also replaced other letters, as shown here:
- K7EP IT CLEAN
- KE1P IT CLEAN
- KEEP IT 1LEAN
- KEEP I8 CLEAN
- KEEP IT CLE0N
- KEEP 0T CLEAN
- KEEP IT C0EAN
- KEEP IT CL3AN
- KEE4 IT CLEAN
Combined, the phrase becomes "0714 08 1030N".
It was believed that he was writing out a date and time. This appears to be 07/14/08 10:30 which was when Microsoft's slot at E3 2008 was. Fans were exited to hear the announcement at E3, but were taken by surprise that there was no announcement. Instead a mysterious page substituting the Bungie.net homepage with a countdown to 7:07:07 AM, July 16th, 2008.
[edit] Cancellation
At 7:00 PM, Pacific Time, Bungie fans were disappointed to hear the bad news delivered by Harold Ryan that Bungie's publisher, Microsoft, delayed what would have been an announcement during the week of E3. The message, which replaced the SI homepage until late in the morning of July 16th, can be found here.
A day after the message from Harold Ryan, the Bungie homepage was back to normal.
[edit] Links
- The Superintendent's Bungie Profile
- Bungie.net Superintendent Discussion.
- Superintendent Group
- Multiple Superintendent #1's Bungie Profile
- Multiple Superintendent #2's Bungie Profile
- Multiple Superintendent #3's Bungie Profile
- Multiple Superintendent #4's Bungie Profile
- Multiple Superintendent #5's Bungie Profile
