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Subject: Why does cortana look so ridiculously different?

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She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

  • 06.08.2011 12:40 PM PDT


Posted by: MegaMuffin16
She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

Technically, she shouldn't even BE "alive" remember? She went rampant at the end of Halo Legends and rampancy almost always ends in the "death" of said rampant AI.

[Edited on 06.08.2011 12:43 PM PDT]

  • 06.08.2011 12:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

Technically, she shouldn't even BE "alive" remember? She went rampant at the enf of Halo Legends and rampancy almost always ends in the "death" of said rampant AI.
She's meta-stable now, she can live MUCH longer.

  • 06.08.2011 12:43 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

It's tradition.

  • 06.08.2011 12:43 PM PDT

When did this happen? I seriously don't remember that happening. Did it happen in one of the novels? I've read most of them but haven't seen anything suggesting she's stable. Maybe I missed something in one of the books...*begins rifling through book pages*

  • 06.08.2011 12:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: Badseed_666

Posted by: MegaMuffin16
She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

Technically, she shouldn't even BE "alive" remember? She went rampant at the enf of Halo Legends and rampancy almost always ends in the "death" of said rampant AI.
She's meta-stable now, she can live MUCH longer.


There I'd no evidence to suggest she is meta-stable. It took Mendicant Bias 100,000 years to reach metastability, how could it take a less advanced construct just a few years?

  • 06.08.2011 12:50 PM PDT


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Posted by: Badseed_666

Posted by: MegaMuffin16
She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

Technically, she shouldn't even BE "alive" remember? She went rampant at the enf of Halo Legends and rampancy almost always ends in the "death" of said rampant AI.
She's meta-stable now, she can live MUCH longer.


There I'd no evidence to suggest she is meta-stable. It took Mendicant Bias 100,000 years to reach metastability, how could it take a less advanced construct just a few years?

EXATLY. And there's NOTING that states that she's meta-stablized. Looks like there's a -blam!- up in the mythology my fellow Floodians.

[Edited on 06.08.2011 12:53 PM PDT]

  • 06.08.2011 12:52 PM PDT

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Keep in mind that Legends may have only hinted at her slipping into rampancy. It doesn't mean she completely lost it then and there.

  • 06.08.2011 12:54 PM PDT

The glyph that flashed in her eyes is associated with rampancy. Not to mention that the Gravemind pushed her very close to it itself. So, there's not much of a chane for that. Besides, the damage that has been dealt to her construct leaves her dangerously unstable. Even John said she was a little "quirky."

  • 06.08.2011 12:57 PM PDT

Fatal

You guys know that if you know anything about Halo, AI's only live a certain number of years til they die. Its like if a computer u use dies from being to old, its understandable why she is able to change, Halo 1, she was a new AI, she was young, Halo 2, been a little while, she got older, Halo 3 she got even OLDER, it goes on.

  • 06.08.2011 1:03 PM PDT

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She looks like someone designed her based from a text description, rather than on her current halo 3 look.

  • 06.08.2011 1:04 PM PDT

7 years is the max but technically, with the amount of data and damage caused to her she should be dead. Ah hell, everyon who knows what I'm talking about head to my thread.

  • 06.08.2011 1:07 PM PDT

The reason she'll eventually be meta stable is because she IS Cortana. She's a badass AI just like MC is a badass spartan. Technically after all chiefs been through he should be dead, same goes for Cortana. They're epic characters and thats why they aren't bound by the typical rules. Nobody wants to see MC grow into an old man and die. No one wants to see Cortana go fully rampant and die. Therefore neither are gonna happen until LONG after they "should" have.

  • 06.08.2011 1:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: HaI0Fighter92
(smart AI's are only supposed to live 7 years,

7 years is an AVERAGE. Could be much longer, could be much shorter. I don't know how many times I'll have to point that out.

  • 06.08.2011 1:31 PM PDT
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I don't understand how you people see pick up all these frickin' details... I didn't even notice a difference...

Anyways you could also say how did John upgrade his armor?

Well I think the answer to all this is that this a is a new trilogy by a new company...nothing will be [i[exactly[/i] the same.

  • 06.08.2011 1:34 PM PDT

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I'm still curious as to why we're making all of these assumptions off of seeing her for only a few seconds. And not even up close, at that.

  • 06.08.2011 1:50 PM PDT

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Don't AI's change their avatars based on their current state of mind and age?

Cortana has looked progressively older as the games continued. Why can't she start looking old now?

  • 06.08.2011 1:56 PM PDT

Jesus Christ, AIs can change their physical appearance at will...

  • 06.08.2011 3:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: HaI0Fighter92
(smart AI's are only supposed to live 7 years,

7 years is an AVERAGE. Could be much longer, could be much shorter. I don't know how many times I'll have to point that out.


Factor in that some AI's are so dedicated to their objectives they hold on for much longer.

  • 06.08.2011 3:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
She can change her appearance whenever she likes.

Technically, she shouldn't even BE "alive" remember? She went rampant at the end of Halo Legends and rampancy almost always ends in the "death" of said rampant AI.


We don't know how long after Halo 3 that Legends short takes place, and this trailer could be almost immediately after that Legends short for all we know.

Among a lot of other factors we know nothing about. Chief's armor looks different. Not just damaged, but different. Frankie said that while there may be asthetic reasons for this, there is also a story reason that his armor is different, so there's probably A LOT going on here that we don't know about.

[Edited on 06.08.2011 3:57 PM PDT]

  • 06.08.2011 3:55 PM PDT

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there's probably A LOT going on here that we don't know about.

  • 06.08.2011 4:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: Fearing
We don't know how long after Halo 3 that Legends short takes place, and this trailer could be almost immediately after that Legends short for all we know.


Given that Cortana was created in 2549, and smart AIs typically have a lifespan of 7 years before becoming rampant I'd say Origins takes place around 2556 - as we see her pretty much go rampant in the end.

  • 06.08.2011 4:10 PM PDT

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I wonder if they will retconn Origins. It would be a shame if they did, Origins is the best Halo Legends episode and a great piece of storytelling.

  • 06.08.2011 4:14 PM PDT

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