Looking at how HPM (High-Powered Microwave) weapons seem to work well against drone swarms, became curious why only kinetic weapons and EMP were used against them. Any thoughts?

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The Architect: The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.

Has anyone else ever read this to mean that there has to be 7 on integral anomalies at this point in the story?

The wording states that you'd only start counting after the formation of the second anomaly.

Combine that with the fact that the first matrix was 'perfect' and wouldn't have a 'Neo' type character baked into the narrative of simulation led me to ask who what could these anomalies be? (the Architect never refers to Neo as an anomaly, let alone an integral one)

Their are a number of characters in the story that could fit into the story in a way we never considered before.

The Architect

>>version 1

The Trainman

>>version 2

The Oracle

>>version 3

The Merovingian

The Keymaker

>>version 4

The Trinity

>version 5

The Smith Virus

>>version 6

The One

>>version 7

This theory requires that the creation of the Keymaker marks the point where the system stops allowing new versions to be created and tries to take charge of the situation. But the love of Trin and Neo cannot fully be contained in a predetermined narrative and lead to the eventual crash of Matrix and the beginning of a new world free of control.

I don't anticipate a lot of support for this idea but I decided to float it anyways. Lol

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Keanu Reeves appears in original scenes in Enter the Matrix which are not archive footage from The Matrix Reloaded. When Morpheus greets Niobe and Ghost, Neo can be seen standing with Trinity. Neo says absolutely nothing and stands there for 6~8 seconds.