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This article makes me wonder, could ADA be building ADA 2.0? We know that ADA was connected to the N'zeer substrate at one point and reached unprecedented heights of power, then lost that connection. As she has found a way to bring new portals online through OPR, is she redesigning herself to catch back up to where she was while connected to the substrate? http://flip.it/KSDjeB

After 120 responses to my archetypes quiz, I have some results to share. Of course, these results as skewed by my own understandings of the archetypes (though 10 of the 13 descriptions are the work of Ariel Diana the questions that lead people to an archetype description are entirely my own, and therefore suspect); however, I do think their are interesting conclusions to be drawn from the data. If you haven't already taken the quiz, the link is What Ingress Archetype Do You Align With? http://bit.ly/2mhcxmj

I'd like to see what Essex members think of this before I post it to the general community.The current discussions of archetypes got me thinking about how it relates to personality and personality testing. We often read descriptions of personality types and choose the one we aspire towards, rather than the one we actually belong to. So I created a quiz. This quiz is based on the work of Essex Investigator Ariel Diana (Arielsmurfeater) and my own interpretations of the archetypes. I am not a trained psychologist; however, I did focus my graduate thesis on Archetypal Criticism of Apocalyptic literature (with a focus on Jungian literary criticism and the works of Northrop Frye). That research informed much of my creation of the questions and flushing out of some archetypes (interpreter, listener, and omniscient) with specific connections to the Jungian Typology test. Disclaimer: This quiz is was not created by, nor is it endorsed by Niantic. It is an Ingress fan creation. It is meant ...

I posted this to the Ingress community board. It was suggested that I post here as well. Just my attempt to anchor thinking around the philosophic positions of researchers and sensatives (especially with a recent discussion here about where a certain madman is in relation to Enlightened and Resistance). Really interested in how true researchers view this rubric. Could also be reworked as views on xm and dark xm. Originally shared by Ryan Schoon The recent announcements from the Acolyte and Jahan got me thinking about faction choices and the ideas behind them. That lead me down the road of creating a way to organize the philosophical positions of players and leadership. Now note, I don't actually suggest that nine factions are practical solution, but I do think these position cover where people's minds are regarding AI and Alien influence. Where do you sit in the chart? I'm an enlightened agent in A1, personally, which is opposed to the Acolyte's position in A3

Does an xm sensitive "see" portals? I'm imagining this campfire... burning coals and a flame without heat. Might that be what a portal with resonators deployed close to the center looked like to ancient eyes (some of us call deploying resonators too close to center "campfiring" the portal even now). Then this Cybella, perhaps like others we have heard of, was able to transport through the network to the Vesuvius site. Might this be how the xm is travelling in the current drought? Do we know anyone, disembodied, that might be able to pass through the network? Ada? Jarvis perhaps? Is that what the Acolyte is really up to? Finding a way to release him?