- Wra7hofAchilles
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Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."
Nice one Blade, and I am glad someone brought up Cortana. I would like to interject my own theory though as to her role in H2. Bear with my people, this is a Rampancy theory. I beleive that Cortana goes Rampant in H2 and I would like to show you my reasoning and the eveidence. Here goes. AI's go Rampant for unkown reasons though perhaps this time we can infer why. Cortana is a smart AI designed to think herself to death in 7 years. In FS it was stated, either by someone else or Cortana herself to herself that because of all the data she DLed from the control room she dramatically reduced her life span. Now, seeing as she is the clone of Halesy with a full array of human emotions and feelings, I would think it right to assume a want by her to live. All Sentient life have a yearn to survive, why not her? She could copy herself, though in FS she could not control it, and with each copy thier were errors. Another possible answer? She grows. Meaning she expands to sustain her thinking capacity in order to live, the only way to do that is to take over a large network. AI's can only go Rampant when they can expand, like Tracus IV did on Mars, (Marathon people, I'll show you my tie in, in a sec since it seems Bungie is really tieing this game together), and Durandal along with Tycho went rampant. Thier are 3 stages, Depair, Anger and Jealousy. Cortana had a huge access to a planetary network, like Halo for 12 hours, when we come back to her after the library she seems a bit different, she claims of being cooped up in there, though I doubt she is really cooped up. When she is pulled from the mainframe in TF, I beleive she does mention the slight loss of such a huge network, I could be wrong so forgive me on that. Though in the game we do see she has changed colors, from her dark blue/purple to green. Why the sudden change? She has so much knowledge and power now, she is in AI heaven, would you want to leave that? I would think you would want to return. In FS we seem her in the beginning stages of Despair and even a bit of Anger though more so toward herself. We can infer this by the way she is when she discovers how slow she is at performing tasks or thinking now due to the data she has stored of 04. MC even notes to himself her change since Halo, a change he wasn't to happy with it seemed. She was angered at herself for being in such a weaker state, and when someone is like that they are depressed and against themselves. Now for the Marathon tie in. The Marathon storyline is similar to that of Halo, but here's what I mean by the AI tie in. Durandal is the name of Count Roland's infamous sword, also the sword belonged to Hector before Achilles felled him at Troy and this is higher overlooked, anyway, on the sword it says, "I am of the same temper as Cortana and Joyeuse". This is in the 'Song of Roland'. Cortana was a blade given to the prince of Denmark by Charlemagne and beared this inscription: "My name is Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durindana." Now, we have 2 of 3 names used, Both VERY important AI. They are tied in, if both Durandal and Cortana are made of the same temper, why would they not share the same fate of going Rampant? This also brings to light the name Joyeuse. I persoanlly beleive this will be a new AI we encounter in H2. What is his purpose, how we meet him, under what circumstances etc. I don't know. What I can surmise though is perhaps he takes Cortana's place when she goes full-blown Rampant? Or is he against us in some way? Again this is real speculation on him, just thought I'd throw it out. If I think of anything else I'll post. Later.
Achilles