- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
People have been saying that this is a human AI and that it is trying to warn Earth etc about the invasion etc, but it just does not add up with the two marines talking about the AI as everything is happening. If anything, the AI IS a shipboard AI, but is either a Covenant or Forerunner AI that the humans are using anc converting for their own ships.
It makes sense -- why do AI's only last 7 years before going insane? Because they learn too much, think too much etc? No, it's because that's how long that the engineers are able to "guarantee" that they can suppress the original pesonality of the original AI. That is why the humans marines/techs are around the AI, why they are talking about classified bits. What would the troops think if everyone knew that their shipboard AI's were scavanged from 3X4 boxes found in space or scavanged from ships? There was a mention of 3X4 gray boxes, yes?
Also this ties in with the indignation of the AI as it was translpanted from its original medium to a lesser one, ie the Forerunner/Covie tech to a human tech computer. Talk about a downgrade! And then the SPDR would be the new programmed personality for the AI. Cortana would be one of those, a personality with a Forerunner/Covie AI trying to get free.
I think the AI in the messages is the original AI that Cortana is based off of. Here is why: Comatas. big deal, right? Did you ever squint your eyes when looking at a r and an n next to eachother? rn looks a lot like an m. So still, it would be the Myth of Cornatas, right? Dyslexics have to work around things like this, letters jumbled around a bit, or even people using puzzles to hide the truth. MYTH OF CORTANAS.
So with that as a beginning we can begin with the gray box being found, the techs suppressing the original AI and a new matrix being formed over it, namely the Cortana personality. Cortana tried to "kill" the original AI when her matrix was overwriting it, and of course it saw her as an assassin, and it would of course want to deleter her for trying to kill it.
The shipwrecked sailor, Odysseus, was the hero of the story. The hero of the game is MC, and he too was shipwrecked on Halo. The new info said that Odysseus had a bee with him, and that bee is Cortana, trapped with that shipwrecked sailor, the MC. It also goes along with the Spartan reference with the fillings... Some deadpanning from the MC to try to calm a scared soldier.
When MC uploaded Cortana into the computer something happened, the AI that was trapped was freed from the restrictions and protocols and decided that it was time to attack her, kill her. Unfortunately, by the time he had found her and was able to attack she had rejoined the chief again. So using Halo he decided that he could track Cortana and the chief, but he needed a body, one that could move him around so he would not be trapped in the library's computer. So he built one, hopped in and began to move. Unfortunately Keyes thought there was a weapons cache on Halo which, in reality, was a Flood observation lab, and the Flood was released.
The AI's body was infected with the Flood, and slowly the body was being consumed, it's mind being turned to sand. It was able to react to everything, observe what was happening, and could even watch, trapped, as the Halo was destroyed, as Cortana and the MC escaped unharmed from the ruins. There are new references to watching her escape from the ruins, as well as the AI in someone's head who is being consumed.
As far as how the AI would be able to control someone, well, all that it/he would need to do would be to coppy the architecture that the MC has in his head/suit/// Even Cortana was surprised at how similar it was to her own architecture, and the MC tells her to not get "Any funny ideas." If Cortana would have wanted to, she probably could have taken over MC and completely controlled the interface of not only his suit, but his body as well. So it nothing else it could have used one of the Forerunner armor suits in the Library (ties into the Mjolnir/Forerunner theory), made a human/forerunner body and ran amuck in it, controlling it.
So what do we have now? We have the origianal AI that was the basis of Cortana, and it is in a body being consumed by the flood. It saw itself being forced into a new body against its will, being attacked and erased by a horriffic enemy (humans), that its assassin was able to escape the ruins of Halo and now all it needs is a method to do so since its human host is now almost entirely gone. My theory of what will happen is that the AI will somehow learn to control the Flood form that it is imbedded in, and once it learns to control that then maybe it will learn to control the rest of the Flood. THIS COULD BE THE NEW RACE: A FLOOD MODIFIED RACE CONTROLLED BY AN INSANE AI. One that could have reasons to hate both humans and Covies (especially if it was a Forerunner AI that still had a thing against the Covies after their 900,000 year war -- mentioned in the makings of H2 video in the game of the year edition of XBox Halo), and would give a new angle to a race whose sole purpose before was to spread and infect.