So I saw this on CNN (I was eating in a pizzeria alone when I saw it, had a lot of time to let this marinate) and thought that this was extremely relevant to the things that some of you guys have been talking about and may give a new spin on things. I'll provide a few links below with facts.
To make a long story short, back in '58-'59, the US had developed a plan to stay in the space race (Russia launched Sputnik in '57, we thought we needed a nice publicity stunt). This plan? To nuke the Moon. That's right. The Moon. Now this caught my attention by itself, but what pushed me to write this was the project's name. It's name was Project A119. Those numbers remind you of something, huh?
Now I'm sure Treyarch already caught wind of this and may have already been toying with this little factoid. I think this could open some interesting doors about the future of zombies and where the easter eggs may be taking us. (Richtofen = find a way to power/re-fuel nukes, destroy Griffon (sp?) Station, kill the original crew and Samantha, seal his control of the zombies without any chance of anyone removing him from Aether, wunderbar ever after. Maxis = ...well anything hahah. Rescue the original crew from the Moon somehow, switch Richtofen and Samantha again, find a way to remotely blow up every nuke on earth to finish his initial plan to end all life on Earth - rendering Richtofen useless in Aether with no zombies to control, put a turkey sandwich through Aether because he's hungry, whatever.)
Where things get really interesting is how really well this can all play into the story. What if the crew from Five knew about Griffon Station? What if this supposed "plan" was actually carried out? Now if the US sent a nuke to the Moon, could it be possible that the nuke we sent from Ascension didn't actually go to the Moon, it was sent to intercept this theoretical nuke from Five to save the station? Richtofen knew that was the last stop to him entering Aether, so preserving the station would be his biggest priority next to actually getting there. There are other details that conflict with this, but I'll cover that in a bit.
Now since we have the year on Project A119, this gives us some excellent insight on when everything could have happened or is happening in the zombies universe (and one big red flag for me). If this plan happened (speaking theoretically, this is Black Ops after all ), this would put the events of BLOPS 1 around '58/'59 and places Tranzit at any point after this.
The conflicting details that arise from this though is when key details of Five and Project A119's are analyzed. The biggest issue here is Kennedy. JFK wasn't president until '61, and we know for a fact that JFK was in office when Five happened (Nixon lost the election. Remember Castro's line? "What's HE (Nixon) doing here? He lost."). Maybe it's possible that the plan was scraped but brought back some time in or after '61 (changing the time period of BLOPS 1 a few years forward as well) to try and eliminate the station (knew Richtofen's plans, knew there was an outbreak on the Moon, or whatever). So I guess I could have debunked my own theory here. But I guess with time travel and teleportation, anything is possible. :shock: 8-)
So.. yeah. Been lurking here since the early days of Der Riese so I finally decided to join you guys and hopefully contribute something of interest. Thanks for reading, let me know what you think, and I'm glad to be on board!
Also, YT link might not work, but I tried :roll:
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/2 ... ?hpt=hp_c1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
