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Cortana is still alive at the end of Halo. Foehammer aka Rawley was the female character who died in the first, her pelican was shot down by banshees during 'The Maw' and if she survived that, which i don't think she did, the huge explosion from the pillar of autumn would. Cortana is in Halo 2 but like many have said she only has a lifespan of 7 years and no-one knows how old she is during the fall of reach and halo incident. Also it is beleived the information from Halo, that is quite clearly slowing her down, has shortend her lifespan to who knows how long. Therefore her 'death' in Halo 2 is highly possible, though smart A.I's die by too much 'thinking' as it we're. A good analogy is if we we're to think too much we wouldn't breathe so would ultimately die.
I have no idea how long a dumb A.I lives for, does anybody know?

  • 06.20.2004 1:01 PM PDT
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When she's in her holographic form she has 'fingers'.

  • 06.20.2004 6:19 PM PDT
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All AI systems must eventually shut down. I might have it backwards but I'm pretty sure the smart ones live longer


no, the 'dumb' AI's can live an almost unlimited amount of time. only the 'smart' AI's have a life span, 'cause only they have the capacity to expand the amount they think, and thererfore die. the specific reason is alredy posted, so i won't repete it

  • 06.20.2004 7:00 PM PDT
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only bungie can decide her fate. and she did have haligraghic fingers so shut up about that already!

  • 07.10.2004 12:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: umm
only bungie can decide her fate. and she did have haligraghic fingers so shut up about that already!

Disembodied Voice: Silence boy! Let the grown-ups talk!
As people have said before Cortana began to go slightly rampant while in Halo's mainframes. When she found out about the Flood on Halo she began to over-react. She was puzzled, frustrated, and angry all at the same time because she knew that what the Humans and Covenant on Halo were all blind to the fact that the weapons locker in the swamps that they were looking for had warning signs telling them not to enter. Since both races were ignorant they went in and released the Flood, sending a wide-spread plague throughout Halo, but luckly the Master Cheif saved them all by destroying the ring-world before the Flood, Humans or Covenant had a chance to leave Halo and spread the Flood to other places in the universe. Cortana knew she couldn't help contain the Flood anymore but she could help destroy them, and so her and the Cheif worked together to destroy Halo and the Flood.

Little did they know was that Guilty Spark survived Halo (wait until the end of the credits to clarify this). So now (if you have read First Strike) you know that along the way their way to Earth, Cortana was amazed by many new things she discovered. Such as the fact that some Spartans were alive, Dr. Halsey was alive, the Covenant were looking for a special artifact on Reach and then that artifact would later alter their journey, but then Marine Lockhart destroyed himself and the artifact with explosives.

After researching all of this information and seeing all of this unfold, Cortana was amazed and excited. But she also knew there was too much information for her to handle so she then again became frustrated. All of this will hopefully lead up to something interesting and exciting in Halo 2, but for now we can only speculate.

  • 07.10.2004 12:50 PM PDT
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i fort she is dead in halo. someone please tell me

  • 06.11.2004 12:58 PM PDT
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ok, the truth of it all(i think) is that cortana is getting rampant, probably at the melancholy stage. since she was exposed to all off the knowledge from the control room, she has only a short time until she gets to the angry stage. then something drastic may happen.

  • 07.11.2004 11:53 AM PDT

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