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Subject: Picking up where we left off....

If you all played Halo 3 you pretty much understand where we "left off". If any of you have watched Halo Legends: Origins part 2, you would also know that Cortana has become regular Human size and is descending into rampancy.Before I go on let me explain rampancy. A Rampant AI will feel as if they have God-like power and will begin to try to become Human and will usually develop a hate fopr its former friends and its creator and will most likely go Mad and hurt itself/those around it. Most AI will become rampant when they are treated harshly, abused by thier creator/others, or they are given tasks to complete that are a waste of thier true abilities. Cortana begun undergoing rampancy when she tried to speak to the Master Chief with no answer from him of course, and then continued to speak, recounting the events of the galaxy while fully aware he could not hear her. Eventually she became human-size and begun to flicker into red images of herself with different expressions on her face ( signs of undergoing rampancy) and her eyes turn red with the Forerunner Iris symbol as she says, "No. There will always be war." Now the only known AI to have tunred himself around from rampancy was a forerunner AI who was said to have helped insure a safe escape for the Master Chief (His story is in the Terminals, Halo:3), in an effort os apology for betraying his creators. Other AI that go rampant must be destroyed or will go on that way forever. Now that 343 has confirmed a direct sequel to Halo:3, I wonder that when Master Chief is awakened from cryo, will he have to destroy Cortana? Tell me what you think.


P.S: sorry about the long thread, I like to be thorough so I don't get too many questions. My sincerest apologies if I bored you in anyway.


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  • 04.17.2011 6:04 PM PDT
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Its a good, hard question

[Edited on 04.17.2011 6:05 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2011 6:05 PM PDT
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Hopefully Cortana will go a bit crazy. After all she likes crazy.

Would make for an interesting plot-twist, but I doubt they'd make the Chief destroy her.

Maybe she'll "assist" the Chief Durandal-style.

Either way, she won't end up as one of the bad guys.

  • 04.17.2011 6:15 PM PDT

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Cortana has become regular Human size
Artistic license.

We don't know if Cortana is rampant after Halo 3. One theory is that she went rampant aboard High Charity and is now meta-stable.

  • 04.17.2011 6:19 PM PDT

I like the replies so far keep em' coming! and the reply right above mine, 4 years after Halo:3 it is revealed that she has become rampant.

[Edited on 04.17.2011 6:33 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2011 6:30 PM PDT

I could do without MC dieng with Cortana, and I doubt all the brutes would come back for revenge. There must be 7 Halos! One for every ring. Then the gaming community will never ask for more ever again.

  • 04.17.2011 6:47 PM PDT
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The brute arent in any position to really enact revenge anyways

  • 04.17.2011 6:59 PM PDT
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If anyone on here still remembers, Cortana was originally supposed to be the bad guy of CE, but was changed rather late into development.

Not that 343 is smart enough to come up with a decent plot.

  • 04.17.2011 7:04 PM PDT


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Halo 4 would probably be something like this...

Cortana's signal is found, but found by the Brutes which still are seeking revenge. They board the ship (half of the Forward Into Dawn) and Cortana wakes Master Chief up. You fight them off the ship and hijack a Phantom or a Spirit. You then use its slipspace to get back to Onyx to rescue Halsey (Not sure if MC even knows about what happened to Halsey and the other Spartans on Onyx). If he goes to Onyx, the Brutes would likely follow and your mission would be to break into the shield world and fight past the sentinels while Brutes chase you. You make it to Blue Team, join up with them, and fight your way out. You (MC) then attempt to get on one the UNSC ships there, but you realize that the Brutes glassed them all. Halsey then makes a plan to get off, then she makes it off with the other Spartans (hijacking another Covenant ship), but MC and Cortana stay behind to blow up Onyx from the center of the planet, since Dr. Halsey already has the data from there. Boom. It explodes, the last remnants of the Covenant Brutes are dead, the trillions of sentinels are destroyed, and of course, that was MC and Cortana's last stand. Dr. Halsey and the rest of Blue team make it to Earth to tell the story of MC and whatever else they did.


Onyx was already destroyed in Ghosts of Onyx, or did you perhaps means the Shield World and not the outer shell that was made up of Sentinels?

Anyway, OT.

I think it highly unlikely that Cortana is rampant, she already went through rampancy if you ask me (in the clutches of the Gravemind).

I think it much more likely that she is meta-stable, or at the least quickly working her way there.

  • 04.17.2011 7:05 PM PDT

they are gonna keep ce the same just make the graphics halo reach style did anyone else not that on halo ce warthogs were indestructuble

  • 04.17.2011 7:07 PM PDT