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Subject: Why did Cortana not blow up Halo in the end?
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Why did Cortana not detonate Halo in Halo 2? Has she gone crazy or something? Please add your facts and/or opinions on this matter.

  • 07.18.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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She is in the High Charity computer system. Not Delta Halo.

EDIT: Actually she needs to be in the computer system of a big ship. She cant self-destrust Halo inside its computer systems. Sence In Amber Clad was used by the flood to get to High Charity, there are no know ships big enough on Delta Halo to destroy Halo.

[Edited on 07.18.2007 10:19 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2007 10:16 PM PDT
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This is a fact as well as an opinion. The character probably didn't do that because the writer didn't write his fictional character to do it.

I know, I'm an A#0le. Couldn't help it.

Before you flame me, have pitty. My wife writes X-Files Fic on the Web. And, she has me read it sometimes. I'm going through therapy but the scars won't heal. I lash out because I need love. Will somebody love me?

Preferably, an asian chick with big hooters. That would probably help my condition tremendously.

ETA: My attorney's have cautioned me that my comments regarding Asian women with big hooters may have been insensitive and crass. I have been told to issue a retraction. I therefore retract the comment....


... but it would still be cool.

[Edited on 07.18.2007 10:33 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2007 10:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: C Moth
Before you flame me, have pitty. My wife writes X-Files Fic on the Web. And, she has me read it sometimes. I'm going through therapy but the scars won't heal. I lash out because I need love. Will somebody love me?

Preferably, an asian chick with big hooters. That would probably help my condition tremendously.


haha man this guy is funny

  • 07.18.2007 10:33 PM PDT

because if she did there would not be a halo 3

  • 07.18.2007 10:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: boney golem
because if she did there would not be a halo 3


Actually there are 7 Halos. And there would still be 5 more.

  • 07.18.2007 10:44 PM PDT
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Cmoth's gettin' his GEEK on....

...If memory serves they proved that there were a veritable cornicopia of Halo for which they could blow all our asses up. So, if Cortana would have (fictionally speaking) blown up the one she was on it would; One, be a cheap repeat of the first Halo and, Two, not make a lick of difference.

Of course, that's if you are going with the video game cannun bersus the written fiction. As all novel readers of great trilogy know, what show up on film and what show up in de book are seldom related except in title.

HAH, see, I can be an uber geek too...

...love me...

ETA: DAMN, beat to the punch line again. Too verbose I guess. Short and sweet, must remember.

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  • 07.18.2007 10:44 PM PDT
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Hate to say this, but I did not understand some of the words in your vocabulary. And F.Y.I., "Cmoth's gettin' his GEEK on...."? There is a difference between geek and smart. To lazy to explain it. And yes im a geek.


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  • 07.18.2007 11:45 PM PDT
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Then you would know the following (humor function ON) you probably meant ''TOO lazy.."

Geek: Smart and mostly obsessed about a specific topic (I apologize for the posted links from Dictionary.com that I KNOW are coming).

My father is highly intelligent but he's not a geek, he's a nerd. Not a joke, He's an engineer, pocket protector and everything.

I am a Smartass. I choose to use what intelligence I have for evil and my own amusement.

I can be a geek. I know way too much useless information about topics that have no bearing on reality.

Besides, why would you say, "..I don't understand some of the words in your vocabulary." And then try and counsel me on the difference between geek and smart? Especially when you could have slammed my butt by saying "bersus" instead of "versus". Missed opportunities are never recovered.

Kidding with you brother.

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  • 07.18.2007 11:55 PM PDT
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The Ninjas are back. Quick, somebody post something relevant.

  • 07.19.2007 12:28 AM PDT

Well, in all actuality, Cortana did say she'd blow up the ring if it was activated. It was never really fully activated and so Cortana did only what she said she would. Also, older AI's seemingly tend to develop a mind of their own and try to save themselves from deletion (or destruction) no matter the cost - thus Cortana would not do it unless it was necessary (hence Endless Summer (was it?) in Ghosts of Onyx).

Yeah, and it makes the story for Halo 3 more involved.

[Edited on 07.19.2007 7:36 AM PDT]

  • 07.19.2007 7:35 AM PDT
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My assumption from watching the ending in H2 was that Cortana voluntarily stopped to listen to what Gravemind had to say. I thought that since Cortana is a holographic construct form taken by an AI that she would be immune from possession or contamination by the flood.

Of course, I haven't read any of the books so I'm making an ass out of umption again.

  • 07.19.2007 2:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kex
Why did Cortana not detonate Halo in Halo 2? Has she gone crazy or something? Please add your facts and/or opinions on this matter.


becuase the halo didn't activate

  • 07.19.2007 4:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gamer137
Posted by: boney golem
because if she did there would not be a halo 3


Actually there are 7 Halos. And there would still be 5 more.


Listen to him he has a point!!

  • 07.26.2007 9:32 PM PDT