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Posted by: Zk315
You know, Mathers said, that the three pelicans crashed after takeoff, not during landing. So we know that they landed at least once, then probably on the next time they tried to do a takeoff, they were sabatoged. And we don't know exactly when that was, so Endiku very well could have been rampant by then.
We do know that the pelicans crashed before Enkidu's garbled transmission to the UNSC Lebanon telling JD that Enkidu was soon to be put in the planetary network... Therefore no foul-play by Enkidu.
That leaves the Covenant who hadn't made themselves noticed at that time... or some sort of planetary defense mechanism. I can't think of anything else...
Posted by: Tartarus
I have quoted a lot from the Cortana leters and have drawn some connections. Here is Cortana from the second letter where she seems to be talking from Frigid:
From: "Cortana" <cortana@bungie.com>
To: <hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie>
Subject: Your Mortality (My Summer Vacation)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:04:41 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Priority: 3
I get the strangest transmissions sometimes. Especially when it comes from you people.
Have you missed me? Things are great here. The weather is good, the suns are shining, and I'm making lots of new friends. Of course, I always do.
The multiple suns that are shinning? Friend talk? Good weather? Let me just say that this sounds exactly like the place we see in the Enkidu terminal, FRIGID. Cortana is infact somehow on Frigid. Note that the title is also references "My Summer Vacation". Isn't one of the Enkidu terminals titled, "How I spent your Summer Vacation". The letter references these Enkidu events on Frigid. Furthur more, these Enkidu events take place before the events of Halo.
Personally I don't think this sounds like Frigid.
1) "Good Weather" - doesn't sound like a place in the middle of a glacier excavation on cold planet
2) "Friend Talk" - everybody talks about their friends some time - and there were plently of "friends" both Covenant and Human on Halo
3) "Multiple Suns" - there are suggestion that Frigid has multiple suns and Halo doesn't - but Cortana may not even be refering to suns within the solar system, she could be talking about stars as well...
I don't think this is solid evidence that Cortana is Enkidu... hardly a Fact yet.
[Edited on 5/4/2004 9:54:49 PM]