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Posted by: JCTehPro
By Cortana equivalent I did not mean another Cortana, I meant a level equally as bad as the pen-ultimate level to Halo 3's campaign. Also Cortana does not have a "sister", moreover a mother, the women (Dr Something or other if I remember correctly, who initiated the Spartan Project) who used memories of her brain to create the AI that became Cortana and her "sisters".
To adress your second point some Spartans may still be alive, but I happen to know the Spartan on the left, Sam, who was John's best friend, died activating a nuke on a Covenant ship, as his helmet was pierced and suffocated or something
I don't like you criticizing Cortana as being a bad level. I'm assuming, like most people, you didn't like the level mainly because of it's insane difficulty. I'm also going to take a gander and say that you didn't like Halo:CE's Library level either. The point of the level, beyond your objective, was to really fight the flood as they are: an endless flood of enemies. Unlike the other species, or parts of the game, you can eliminate everything and not have to worry about respawning enemies. What Cortana and The Library did was keep players on their toes. It reminds us, on a Halo storyline level, that the flood truly needs to be stopped.
Cortana, the character, has one sister. Her older sister was a prototype. Speaking of which, if the game takes place during Reach Cortana and the Master Chief are alive and well. Of course, the best we get from these two is probably a cameo as this game is not part of the story arch from the Halo trilogy.
Which brings me to the silhouettes. I don't think it is entirely fair to confirm who is who mainly because we don't know who they really are. Keep in mind that all of the Spartan Mark V armor is identical. Those people are clearly not identical. You could try and make a guess off of their weapons, but most Spartans didn't have a preferred weapon as their standard armament consisted of the assault rifle and pistol. The only Spartan that doesn't necessarily follow this pattern is Linda mainly because she is also described has having a sniper rifle.
Point is, Bungie didn't half-@ss the level Cortana and we can't be sure those silhouettes are who we think they are. A lot of things happened on Reach that weren't addressed in the books, and that's pretty much the only knowledge we can base it off of. Bungie can throw whatever they want at us because it is their story. If I recall it threw a lot of people off when they saw marines with a battle rifle in Halo Wars and Brutes present at Harvest.
Just be careful in what you think you know.