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Posted by: qordii
Cortana was created on Reach as the planet fell. The age of Cortana is continually stated as 7 years but when the fuel gauge runs empty at the end of Halo 3, shes had just struck 2, if not 1 and a half years old. She is stated to be dieing because of the maddening amount of Forurunner, Covenant, Flood and Human knowledge she possesses. But for Halo 4, she is back to nip that on the backside as well.
Sources: Stated as 7 in Halo Legends and most other relevant data and post-Reach, known to be almost 2 years old.
From qordii :)
Its hard to believe that the ship floated to another celestial body (while on the furthest edges of our galaxy) in under a year. It did not have significant momentum to do so unless the Ark was orbiting a star and was already in a sytstem (which makes you wonder what a shield world was even doing there if that is the case). As such Cortana being alive at that time makes little sense.
What would be far more interesting and IMO desperate could be two alternatives:
1) Master chief awakens due to a subroutine written by Cortana which notifies him of her death, thus leading you into the shield world alone.
2) You awaken to find that Cortana is nowhere to be found and discover you have already been taken in by the shield world. You search for Cortana and discover the history of the human race (and information on the Precursors) and also find that Cortana has transferred herself to the sphere's systems to sustain herself until you were awake.
While not the most detailed or dramatic explanations these ideas would make more sense and hold the mystery and intrique that Halo, in my opinion, has lacked for some time (Halo CE did a great job, Halo 2 destroyed it and Halo 3 did an okay job with the terminals).
I was under the impression that the FoD made it completely into the Portal and the back end was cut off as they were coming out at Earth >_>
What I'm saying is that the aft end of the Dawn was still in Slipspace and then taken who knows where when the Portal collapsed in on itself and was not left at the Ark. If they were still meant to be in the same system as the Ark or near it I think Halo 3's ending would have either said so or shown so.
Meh, I'm not really a fan of those ideas, the second one sounds much better and is the better option of what you listed. The first would just be a major disappointment and I think would piss a lot of fans off. Opening the game and just having Cortana be dead would be a little too callous to the people who've been here since the beginning and have a much larger interest vested in all the characters, and it just wouldn't be a fitting death for a major character. If Cortana or Chief were even killed off I'm sure 343i would have them die in a meaningful and more emotional way than just finding them dead or finding out they died.