Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-09-2017 6:15 PMYou know everything about the Phobos Short directed by Toby Dye, but what about the phrase Phobos? At first I thought that Phobos was used to refer to the Mars moon, but now I think that it is the name of a Weyland-Yutani AI, to be more precise, a VS – a Virtual Synthetic. I hope I’m not wrong.
Look at the stills from the Phobos video:
First image: Walter’s full name is 37WYS / Walter. I think WYS = Weyland-Yutani Synthetic. (Not surprising!) But what about 37? Is he 37 years old?
Second image: Ok, the female technician is an android as well, a D Class Synthetic. But look at the information after the name Phobos! We see: VSN: WY19.37. Obviously, Phobos is the name of the male voice from the video, but I think he is not an android. I believe that VSN means Virtual Synthetic Name, revealing that Phobos is an AI similarly to Mother from Alien or Father from Alien4. But what about 19.37?
What do you think?
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-09-2017 6:18 PMIs there a connection between the two numbers in the names?
Walter: 37 and VS: 19.37?
VivisectedEngineer
MemberChestbursterAug-09-2017 6:26 PMThat's awesome that the tech was a synthetic! But, how could you all tell? I guess I'd be really bad at identifying synthetics.
Also, I thought the test was called "phobos" because it's the Greek root for "phobia" meaning "fear" and the test was intended to determine each participants fears.
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-09-2017 6:31 PMVivisectedEngineer - 'That's awesome that the tech was a synthetic! But, how could you all tell?'
:)
It is written in the image:
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-09-2017 6:38 PM:D Yes!
And next to Phobos there's a Scandinavian name, the name of the voice actor, and after that you can see: VSN: WY19.37.
That's why I think that Phobos is the name of the Virtual Synthetic WY19.37.
VivisectedEngineer
MemberChestbursterAug-09-2017 6:51 PM@Ati
VSN, virtual synthetic. That makes sense. The voice did generate questions based on the participants' responses. I guess I assumed the tech was a typing using a text to speech program or something.
So, I guess the tech didn't actually do much besides supervise.
drucea
MemberFacehuggerAug-10-2017 12:01 PMCould be Virtual Serial Number? I usually think of Screen Name or Serial Number when I see SN.
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-10-2017 2:50 PMdrucea - Yes, of course, I had wanted to add that 'name' can be 'number' as well, etc.
BigDave
MemberDeaconAug-10-2017 4:52 PMNice Theory... i am not sure we can read to much into this as they are using the Cast Members real names...
i.e
WALTER MICHEAL FASSBENDER CREW CV-07 [SYNTHETIC]
And so we are getting hints at those behind the Video as far as Cast and Production.
Shea is usually a Boys name but then sometimes a Girl can be called Shea... Hlynur is a Scandinavian Boys name.
So these are likely the Names of those cast as the Technician and Voice of the Computer
The interesting parts are the D Class Synthetic and indeed the as you had assumed Virtual Synthetic... i cant argue with that and indeed it is likely a Computer like MUTHUR
The WY19.37 is interesting and maybe a Easter Egg?
As we did have in ALIEN Special Order 937
R.I.P Sox 01/01/2006 - 11/10/2017
Seph7
MemberFacehuggerAug-11-2017 12:51 PMMaybe 37WYS is his run number? He's number 37 off the production line?
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-11-2017 8:00 PMBigDave - 'Shea is usually a Boys name but then sometimes a Girl can be called Shea...'
In that name O'Shea is the surname and Geeves is the first name. You can visit her instagram page, in one of the photos you can see her (with a dog) as well:
https://www.instagram.com/msgeevious/
And Björn is a male first name, no doubt. :)
Ati
MemberPraetorianAug-11-2017 8:04 PMPhobos - an Alien Covenant Story is available on the Blu-ray (August 15th).
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