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Subject: cortana evil?!?!? and possible halo 4?

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Posted by: xxVIPERMANxx
Cortana may very well be stuck in rampancy...or just bored, as stated previously.

Even if she's rampant, that doesn't necessarily mean she's done for. There's a theoretical "metastable" phase that AI's might be able to attain. This is the last, and hypothetical, stage of rampancy. She could very well end up being the epitome of AIs, almost human...something probably not achieved since Forerunner AI.


^ Nailed it again xxVIPERMANxx

  • 11.10.2010 8:33 AM PDT


Posted by: King Nis085
Posted by: xxVIPERMANxx
Cortana may very well be stuck in rampancy...or just bored, as stated previously.

Even if she's rampant, that doesn't necessarily mean she's done for. There's a theoretical "metastable" phase that AI's might be able to attain. This is the last, and hypothetical, stage of rampancy. She could very well end up being the epitome of AIs, almost human...something probably not achieved since Forerunner AI.


^ Nailed it again xxVIPERMANxx

  • 11.10.2010 8:43 AM PDT

I love the entire Halo series, Halo 2 being my favorite of the games. I think that the universe is compelling and the story is deep, sweeping, and powerful. The hidden layers in the Halo trilogy and rich details of the backstory in the novels are something I love to be lost in, and im greatly looking forward to the story that Halo: Reach will weave. Bungie has carefully and lovingly crafted a mythic tale that will stay etched in my mind until the end.

Where exactly is this information from? Ive never heard of this "Year 2556 where cortana tries to get a response out of Chief in his sleep" stuff.

  • 11.10.2010 8:48 AM PDT

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Halo: Legends if my mind is correct.

  • 11.10.2010 9:08 AM PDT

I had a fan-fic planned out where Cortana would descend into rampancy. It is a logical step in the advancement of the story.

  • 11.10.2010 9:19 AM PDT

I love the entire Halo series, Halo 2 being my favorite of the games. I think that the universe is compelling and the story is deep, sweeping, and powerful. The hidden layers in the Halo trilogy and rich details of the backstory in the novels are something I love to be lost in, and im greatly looking forward to the story that Halo: Reach will weave. Bungie has carefully and lovingly crafted a mythic tale that will stay etched in my mind until the end.

Posted by: King Nis085
Halo: Legends if my mind is correct.


Ah, then it doesnt exist.

  • 11.10.2010 9:50 AM PDT


Posted by: Halo biggest fan
Well she is probably going act like she did when she was captured by the Flood in Halo 3. Now I don't think Cortana would randomly become evil because she was bored!
Developers of the next Master Chief game, think of the player!

I really hated the Cortana moments in Halo 3. Sure, the first ones were Ok, you didn't expected them, but eventually they became tedious, and all of them are pretty random.

Those moments don't expand the story, they are simple references from the books and the expanded universe to please the fans (ironically they destroyed the canon in Halo: Reach).

[Edited on 11.10.2010 10:39 AM PST]

  • 11.10.2010 10:38 AM PDT

Im James,playing Halo for a long time.Im very excited for Bungie's new project HALO: REACH. I can wait for it.

That would of been cool if they made a Halo 4,but i doubt they'll make 1...

  • 11.10.2010 1:15 PM PDT
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Two things

1: What does RAMPANCY mean?
2: I have a bet going on with friends that 343 will be behind Halo 4. All I think that will be different about it is kind of like Halo 2, where we alternate levels with the Chief and arbiter. Chief lands on Reach, and starts liberating it, which attracts the UNSC's attention. The Arbiter will return home, discovering his home planet was taken over by Brutes, which are ruled by Tartarus's son.

  • 11.10.2010 1:16 PM PDT

@xMAx DaDuff666 maybe if you read the rest of the posts you would know but here is the definition of rampancy:
Rampancy is a terminal state of being for Artificial Intelligence constructs, in which the AI "develops delusions of godlike power", as well as utter contempt for it's mentally inferior makers.[2] When rampancy occurs, there is no way to restore the AI to its previous state and the only alternative is to destroy it before it harms itself and others around it. in short the AI (thats what cortana is) goes insane

  • 11.10.2010 3:02 PM PDT


Posted by: xMAx DaDuff666
Two things

1: What does RAMPANCY mean?
2: I have a bet going on with friends that 343 will be behind Halo 4. All I think that will be different about it is kind of like Halo 2, where we alternate levels with the Chief and arbiter. Chief lands on Reach, and starts liberating it, which attracts the UNSC's attention. The Arbiter will return home, discovering his home planet was taken over by Brutes, which are ruled by Tartarus's son.



the second one question you have ill take a crack at, and its not going to be nice on this one so hold onto your seats.

Are you completely oblivious to what happens on reach? reach isn't habitable anymore, its glassed over, end of story nothing living on it anymore. and the brutes have been beaten into a pulp, theres no way they could even muster up enough troops to take a single city of elites, which, by the way, are stronger in not only technology but also smarter.
hope I don't seem to much like an a-hole.

[Edited on 11.10.2010 4:43 PM PST]

  • 11.10.2010 4:41 PM PDT

Cortana is showing signs of rampancy...or is she?

The "Iris" symbol is seen for a split second in her eye at the end of the second part of "Origins", which is a telling clue.

It is entirely possible that 032 Mendicant Bias is piggybacking Cortana on the Forward Unto Dawn, which would make sense being that it was MB that (rumored) manipulated the slip-stream event that sent the MC to a different location than the Arbiter.

Also, the MB is seeking atonement for his sins of defecting to the Gravemind that ransacked the Forerunners, and his leading the MC to the Legendary Planet (possibly the Forerunner homeworld) is further evidence of this.

  • 11.15.2010 12:41 AM PDT

Posted by: xMAx DaDuff666
Two things

1: What does RAMPANCY mean?
2: I have a bet going on with friends that 343 will be behind Halo 4. All I think that will be different about it is kind of like Halo 2, where we alternate levels with the Chief and arbiter. Chief lands on Reach, and starts liberating it, which attracts the UNSC's attention. The Arbiter will return home, discovering his home planet was taken over by Brutes, which are ruled by Tartarus's son.


1. Rampancy is a terminal state of being for Artificial Intelligence constructs, in which the AI "develops delusions of godlike power", as well as utter contempt for it's mentally inferior makers.[2] When rampancy occurs, there is no way to restore the AI to its previous state and the only alternative is to destroy it before it harms itself and others around it.

2. The MC, in all likeliness, is outside of the Milky Way, or in an outer fringe section of it, far from the reach of a possible Halo event. He and Cortana were slipstreamed there under the will of 032 Mendicant Bias.

  • 11.15.2010 12:47 AM PDT

See this thread for all things Foreunner AI and his defection to the Flood and his scatterment through the galaxy.

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  • 11.15.2010 1:11 AM PDT

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