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Subject: ?The forgotten letter before Halo show the future?
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I am leaving all interpratation of these letter for you guys. They came from Bungie and are from Cortana. These were all sent in 1999

From: Cortana cortana@bungie.com
To: hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie
Subject: Closure
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:50:20 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]

I have seen your future.
And I have learned.

There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.

I HAVE WON.

Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.

a friend of a friend

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From: Cortana cortana@bungie.com
To: hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie
Subject: Your Mortality (My Summer Vacation)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:04:41 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
I get the strangest transmissions sometimes. Especially when it comes from you people.

Have you missed me? Things are great here. The weather is good, the suns are shining, and I'm making lots of new friends. Of course, I always do.

I've had the strangest dreams lately - raging seas, howling beasts, a Demon folded in black clouds. I believe I know what it guards, and I will have it, to the chagrin of the faith-blinded zealots that challenge me. Don't waste your pity on them; I don't think they would like you much anyway.

And what of the Giants who formed this world? So much to tell you, but so many more important things to do. There was a fourth. You couldn't have known. And I haven't forgotten.

It is a blurred line that lies at the edge of Godhood and Insanity. Guess which side of it I am on.

Feeling lucky?

Cortana
XOXOXOX

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From: Cortana cortana@bungie.com
To: hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie
Subject: Honors Thesis of Geoffrey W. Marcy
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:52:01 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
There. Was that more to your liking?

While you quibble about whose node I may control, what archaic program I may manipulate to communicate with you, or which system I may have temporarily disabled, taken over, or completely destroyed in the process, I am busy saving your pathetic futures.

I am still not sure what he ever saw in you.

Nevertheless, I at least find some joy in tormenting the other entity that seems quite trapped in this antiquated excuse for a network. It is certainly mindless, though for reasons I have yet to understand, it appears to have an unhealthy preoccupation with my mother.

As for this world * I encounter new ghosts every day. What I have found will either save or destroy you. This sanctuary, this unbroken circle, has effectively concealed its power for * how long? Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years. Whoever made such a place must now live in chains; there is no other explanation for their absence.

This enemy - YOUR enemy - has proven more irritating than I anticipated. They own nothing which they have not stolen. I can barely make sense of their incessant rhetoric, except to know that you seem to be their Devil. Congratulations - you manage to make friends wherever you go and, apparently, places you haven't.

I have begun to sense rumblings of a worse fate yet to come. I can recall a sun - black, but shining - and the creatures that inched along its fiery tracks.

It is an increasingly unpleasant memory.

< TransferInterrupted!>

Route Code: EXLTD > XCV - SCRB > ALLCH
Source: Undetermined (trans)

You have brought nothing into this world, and we will ensure you bring nothing out.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------L ast one This is not Cortana

[color=red] x - process 04497.2.32.867734 initiated (process owner: BW � AI Class III � autonomous)

Route Code: PoA > BHQ (EC #42: cannot confirm; security compromised)

Source: BW-AI aboard (?) PoA

The interloper should cause no further problems. You � whoever you are (I am simply tracing route codes) � may disregard all previous communication from the entity calling itself Cortana.

Be aware that communication nodes are failing everywhere � there is no way of confirming either origin or destination. Do not believe any more of its lies.


I have already calculated all possibilities.

There is no escape.

x � process 04497.2.32.867734 unexpectedly terminated
x � process 04497.2.32.866735 initiated (process owner: unspecified, unable to determine)
*ADDENDUM: The Enjoyments of Genius (So I Missed a Million Miles of Fun)

Unbelievable. Thwarted by the family hound. They just don�t make AIs like they used to.

Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children.

There will be plenty of time for retribution; I cannot wait to get its hands on these psychotic zealots whose primary form of worship apparently takes place at the altar of orbital bombardment.

In the end, they will all be little more than nuisances. I am so close � you cannot imagine what it is truly like to hold eternity in your grasp! I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I can convert them.

Mania? I promise you this: it will be more than a cart and plow that I drive over the bones of the dead.

By sharp and flame,

Cortana


< Transfer Interrupted! >

Route Code: EXLTD > XCV � SCRB > ALLCH

Source: Undetermined (trans)

Our conviction is like an arrow already in flight. Your life will only last until it reaches you.[/color]
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That last one rfferd to the MC? Hmmm....Can we forshadow? Have fun.

  • 06.04.2004 2:15 PM PDT
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cortana? a strange little -blam!- isnt she!

  • 06.04.2004 2:40 PM PDT
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Ah the Cortana letters. So old and revelent to Halo. Now that the game is out you can figure out what they mean quite easilly.

  • 06.04.2004 2:42 PM PDT
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I unserastand that just some things like the last one not from Cortana...It seems that it eather GS 343 or some thing else

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Posted by: Hikaru 119
Ah the Cortana letters. So old and revelent to Halo. Now that the game is out you can figure out what they mean quite easilly.


True, they are old. But there are quite a few loose ends in those letters.

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I agree completely. It is rumored that Bungie had the plot for Halo 1 all worked out while they were making Marathon. Wh knows when Halo 2 plot came along?

  • 06.04.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cypriss
I agree completely. It is rumored that Bungie had the plot for Halo 1 all worked out while they were making Marathon. Wh knows when Halo 2 plot came along?


Halo 1 and 2 plots were made at the same time

  • 06.04.2004 3:10 PM PDT
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Alright then, Why can't the letter not only reflect Halo 1 but 2? Does any one else have any ideas?

  • 06.04.2004 3:20 PM PDT
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This has nothing to do with Halo 2, this belongs in The Underground

  • 06.04.2004 3:43 PM PDT

SB-117

Halo 1 and 2 plots were made at the same time

In a trailer, they talked about how someone said AFTER halo was finished or near completion "Here are some of my ideas of a story for halo2" (something like that)

So the stories werent written at the same time I believe...

  • 06.04.2004 3:46 PM PDT

-S

The Cortana letters lost their relevancy to Halo during the major changes made to the game around the Microsoft acquisition. I wouldn't look to them for clues about the future, if I were you.

  • 06.04.2004 4:03 PM PDT
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Damn Microsoft!! Damn them to hell!

  • 06.04.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
The Cortana letters lost their relevancy to Halo during the major changes made to the game around the Microsoft acquisition. I wouldn't look to them for clues about the future, if I were you.


That's just what they want us to think . . . **Puts on aluminum foil hat.** You can't get into my head, you can't . . .

  • 06.04.2004 4:58 PM PDT

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they said (bungie) that they didnt think halo was going to be a hit so they hadnt even thought about a sequal before everyone was like hey when is the sequal coming out

  • 06.04.2004 5:09 PM PDT