- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I have a question that may have already been asked, but here it goes.
As soon as the Flood get out, 343GS approaches MC with the assignment of wiping the Flood out. Stating that "I will need your assistence". 343GS seemed in quite a hurry, did he not? He was in such a hurry it makes me wonder why he didn't use Halo himself as soon as the Flood got out. That is a question he answers himself by saying this...
"Unfortunately, my usefulness to this particular endeavor has come to an end. Protocol does not allow units with my classification to... perform a task as important as the reunification of the index with the core. That final step is reserved for you, Reclaimer." - 343 Guilty Spark (Two Betrayls)
Exactly. This means that MC's purpose is to use Halo to combat the Flood. Got it. So, in that case, 343GS can't use Halo even if he wanted to. Cortana knows this, doesn't she? She was inside of Halo, so she knows all of it's dirty secrets. So then, here comes the real question. Why was Cortana in such a hurry to blow up Halo? I thought it made sense at first. I figured her reason was she didn't want anybody else coming there and using it, but if she had the Index, then nobody could use it except the Forerunner since 343GS can't. But thats not Cortana's reason. She tells us her reason for wanting to blow it up, and during all the excitment it's quite easy to look past it...
"We can't let the monitor activate Halo. We have to stop him. We have to destroy Halo." - Cortana (Two Betrayls)
What the hell is she talking about? The monitor can't activate Halo. It's not in his classification to do so. He even said that he'd have to "find another", so whats the rush? Also, Cortana has the Index, so why the hell didn't she just tell MC to gather some survivors and then take the ship off Halo. Not only would it have been more humain, but also would have made more sense. I then thought that maybe she wanted to blow up Halo to wipe out the Flood, but nope, she clearly states something else that makes that assumtion automatically incorrect. She says...
"The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death." - Cortana (Two Betrayls)
So then...Wouldn't destroying an installation fling the Flood into space thus it would cause far more harm than any good? If the Flood can only be killed by starvation, then they can survive living in space. Sure, bullets and explosives kill them, but whos to know their virus-like puddles of blood don't reform after a period of time. This means that Cortana basically sent the Flood into space. If a piece of Halo 04 lands on a planet with Human or Covanent life, then the whole galaxy is at risk of infestation. Not very smart, Cortana. The best form of action would have been to just leave with the Index. If the Flood can in fact fly ships, then the best course of action would have been to use the data Cortana has to search out all ships and make them un-usuable, and then flee Halo 04 using the last ship, NOT setting off the PoA fusion reactors to blow the damn Halo 04 instillation into pieces all over the solar system!
Either Cortana is a really sloppy planer, or she's just flat out evil.
[Edited on 8/6/2004 6:51:21 PM]