- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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.