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Subject: Will Cortana "Die"?
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It would so stink if Cortana would "die", as described in Fall of Reach and First Strike. She is too cool, and she makes the campaigns really fun.. what do y'all think will happen to Cortana eventually?

  • 06.22.2004 7:34 PM PDT
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She'll eventually go rampant, and then maybe she'll try and kill the MC instead of helping him.

  • 06.22.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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She'll live forever and control the world with the MC after the war is over.

  • 06.22.2004 7:35 PM PDT
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i think they will run into some forunner aftifact OR dismantle 343 to fix the "bug" that cuases AIs to think themselfs todeath after roughly 7 years.

  • 06.22.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: jharbst
She'll eventually go rampant, and then maybe she'll try and kill the MC instead of helping him.


Hehe, I could just see her doing that!LOL

  • 06.22.2004 7:40 PM PDT
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I still remember my first time playing halo and the assault on the control room level. The ending cinematic... I thought Cortana had gone crazy for sure! lol

  • 06.22.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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I think that Cortana will probably remain relatively sane, but she's definitely going to change. I think a cloaked Forerunner AI under orders from Guilty Spark may have attached to her while she was in the core - he's a rather sneaky robot. Even more interesting is the reference to a 'Miranda' entity made by Joe Staten in the "Making of Halo 2" video released a while back. It is the name of another legendary sword to go along with Durandel and Cortana, but Joe also desscibes a scene made by Jason in which Miranda straps a bomb to the Chief and "pushes him down a hole," something that would be rather difficult for a disembodied entity like an AI to do.

  • 06.22.2004 9:38 PM PDT
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no, cortana will not live forever.
in the books they say cortana is a "super" AI which means she thinks and "increases" her thinking rate. They say she will think herself to death...... Although that is not for at least 30 years or so. Although, they said in First Strike with all of the information she has stored she has become slower and may reach her "suicidal" death much sooner.
Cortana even admits that she feels more sluggish and that she may not last long.

  • 06.22.2004 9:41 PM PDT
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Yes, TheSpartan is correct. That's why I mentioned Miranda - I think it may be an evolved form of Cortana, perhaps after she comes in contact with a Forerunner AI. Since there was a proposed scene in which it betrays the Chief, we know that it is on his side. Or it may just be fresh from Dr. Halsey's PC. Cortana v2.0 if you know what I mean.

  • 06.22.2004 9:54 PM PDT