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My apologizes for the late reply.
But, as far as the Halo Universe storyline goes, Cortana V, the Master Chief and Cortana actually met just prior to the events on Reach. When asked by Dr.Halsey to choose a "carrier" Cortana chose the Master Chief. Together, they went through a test that was actually sabatoged by Colonel James Ackerson.
Cortana was orginally supposed to be a temporary AI for the Pillar of Autumn, but ultimatly took responsiblity and action once the events on Reach began.
Not much has yet been said more in detail if anything else happened besides what we know.
-I am reserving my "Edit" for when I look into this a bit further to see if there is any connections. I can't seem to remember reading/seeing anything in resemblence to this.
Edit #1: I seem to have left out some more information on Dr.Halsey. My apologizes once again. It is rather late for me.
One thing that was not mentioned in Halo:Reach was Dr.Halsey's subordinate, Laszlo Sorvad. Not much is told about Sorvad other than that he worked for ONI as a Xenoarchaeologist.
Xenoarchaeologist - Xenoarchaeology is a hypothetical form of archaeology concerned with the physical remains of past (but not necessarily extinct) alien cultures.
Because of Kat-B320 always trying to gain access to ONI's restricted/classifyed intel Dr.Halsey was able to discover that Sorvad's "Latchkey" discovery - way to decipher data found in an underground Forerunner facility beneath Sword Base. She immediatly began the decryption process of the "Latchkey" data in the Forerunner complex.
The complex itself is known as the Babd Catha Forerunner Complex. Dr.Halsey then loaded the information of the Forerunner complex into a fragment of Cortana and then had Noble 6 deliver it to the Pillar of Autumn.
I know other AI's were mentioned and the only one I've been able to scrounge up was the AI Kalmiya, Cortana's "older sister" and also , Déjà.
Again, not much is said about the AIs Kalmiya and Déjà.
~As to what exactly Dr.Halsey found still remains a mystery.
I hope this helps somewhat, Cortana V; As I said earlier, I still must do some further research to see if there is any parrallelism to European History.
Edit #2: This might totally irrelavent to what was asked, however, I found this little bit of information about AI Rampancy that I don't think I've seen anyone comment on.
There are three chapters of Infinity called Despair, Rage, and Envy which is parallel to the three documented stages of Rampancy - Melancholy, Anger and Jealousy
Edit #3: Cortana V, you have me staying up later then intended because of research. Sleepy, though very enjoyable.
Again, this might not exactly pretain to the OP or your request stated above, but once again I came across something that I have seen before is the phrase - The King Under The Mountain.
A real-life use of the phrase, or a similar one, is King In The Mountain, a common european folklore belief that a legendary or mythical hero lies asleep beneath a mountain awaiting the day they shall reawaken and return to lead their people, notable King Arthur and Merlin of British Arthurian legend, Emperor Charlemagne of France, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, and the Aztec hero-god Montezuma. In this second interpretation, the crystal would symbolise a relic intentionally left there to be recovered eons later for an important use.
-Now, in relation to the Halo story - this KUTM (Abv for King Under The Mountain) was a file contained in Colonel James Ackerson's computer within CASTLE Base. This contained files related to Onyx, and other material related to the Forerunners. Most specifically, the Forerunner Crystal.
King Under The Mountain
-Now, in relation to European History. In Danish legend, Ogier becomes the "King Under the Mountain" to sleep until Denmark is in mortal danger in which he will then rise and deliver his nation.
-There is a second interpretation where Morgue le Faye (Morgan le Fay) takes him to Avalon, from where he returns after two hundred years to save France.
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Edit #4:
This definatly does not relate, but this is yet one last thing I have found in my research tonight.
In the fantasy novel Three Hearts and Three Lions relates to these legends in European History yet also alters them. Where as, the protaganist, is transported to a fantasy alternate history where the Matter of France is historical. He eventually learns that he is Ogier the Dane, sent to our universe to remove him from the conflict between humans and Faerie in that one.
Now, I am retiring for the night.
[Edited on 10.22.2010 12:16 AM PDT]