The Widow is believed to be an allegory for the TheSPDR working to repair TheOperator.
In TheOperatorsMonologue fom Phase 2, TheOperator refers to TheSpider once as "Widow":
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"Widow stuck in her pin and I threw up a memory: only I retched it out through the network tentacle."
All other references in the Monologue are to TheSpider only. -- UserShadow 20:11, 30 Jul 2004 (PDT)
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this yet, but it may be because it's so glaringly obvious. There is a missing word in our exploration of the Widow/TheSPDR character: Black. This word addition would make our TheSPDR character a Black Widow, and research on that particular species of arachnids may prove... useful in the long run, neh?
UserPericles 22:21 (PDT) 3 Aug 2004
Pericles:
While it's the most widely known, Black Widows aren't the only Widow type spider. There's also Red Widow Spiders and Brown Widow Spiders The only thing that's definitional about a spider being a Widow is that the female will eat the male when mating is over. My interpretation of the title "Widow" is the way the Widow is reconstructing TheQueen, which from what I've gathered is none to pleasant for her...
UserKaziel 16:14 (EDT) 20 AUG 2004