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Subject: What does the "Two Betrayals" title mean?
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I only counted 343 Guilty Spark's betrayal unless something happened to Cortana.

  • 07.17.2004 10:41 AM PDT
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And Cortana betrayed 343GS.

  • 07.17.2004 11:14 AM PDT
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You are betrayed by 343 guilty spark, and by the Halo gnomes that will come sometime in the very near future to -blam!- you while you're sleeping.

  • 07.17.2004 12:08 PM PDT
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To 343 guilty, you betrayed him, he believed you were helping him doing what was needed to be done. Plus cortana totally bagged the index from him. It was a double betrayal, happned at the same time. Dont strain yerself.

  • 07.17.2004 12:12 PM PDT
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Yes but didnt -blam!- keyes betray u also?

  • 07.19.2004 7:15 AM PDT
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Posted by: tmone17
To 343 guilty, you betrayed him, he believed you were helping him doing what was needed to be done. Plus cortana totally bagged the index from him. It was a double betrayal, happned at the same time. Dont strain yerself.


How did Cortana betray 343? She didn't even know him...I mean, she may have known of him, but I think she didn't meet him. So how does taking the index count as a betrayal?

  • 07.19.2004 1:12 PM PDT
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The two betrayals are:

1. 343 Guilty Spark betrays you by attempting to get you to blow yourself (not to mention the entire galaxy) up.

2. From Guilty Sparks point of view YOU betrayed him by inserting Cortana into Halo's system and shafting his plans.

So Guilty Spark led you to unknowingly initiate the "Galaxy Destruct" sequence; while you were simultaneously (via the proxy of Cortana; and, again, unknowingly) disabling the trigger for that destruct sequence. You and Guilty Spark were simultaneously sabotaging the other's purpose. Sometimes 2 "wrongs" do make a right!

EDIT: No, Keyes did not betray you. He held out to the very last. And you did not betray him: You did exactly what he would have wanted you to do.

[Edited on 7/19/2004 3:34:31 PM]

  • 07.19.2004 3:29 PM PDT
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Yep, all sounds right to me (NobleNick explained it very well). It is basically MC betraying 343GS and 343GS betraying him. The betrayal only really happens because there is a misunderstanding of each others goals. Well in 343GS's case, an assumption to what MC is here for.

  • 07.20.2004 4:30 AM PDT