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Posted by: Badseed_666
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Actually, Juliana would be considered rampant to the UNSC, she was older then 7 years.
Halopedia has several ways listed to prolong rampancy, such as what Loki and Sif(I think that was their names?) did on Harvest.
Also, I believe Cortana was metastable shortly after John recovered her, being forced into rampancy by the gravemind and recovering. In orgins she was dealing with processing ALL the forerunner data, which could explain her 'flickerings'.
Edit: Besides, the UNSC has never let a smart AI go past seven years, so could they honestly know exactly what would happen?
It's Loki and Mac bud. Anyways, Cortana couldn't what those two did due to the fact that there was no other Ai to switch with. Meta-stabilization takes a LONG time, Mendicant Bias took a 100,000 years. Not to mention that all that data takes a long time to process and even so it would take up a lot of her available storage space. Once again, an rampancy occurs when an AI has retained too much information and/or has sustained major damage to it's construct. I never said the Gravemind made her rampant, but he definetely pushed her pretty close to it. And yes, Legends IS canon except for Odd One Out. Anyways, borderline insaity does not equal rampancy. Rampancy equals insanity and/or "death." Once again, recall what Dr. Halsey said. It is statistically more likely than not for an AI to "die" due to rampancy, more so than surviving it and "living" on to be happily insane.
Metastability does not take any set amount of time. Next you are going to tell me that the Bargaining stage of the seven stages of grief takes exactly 3 days. It is a psychological process that is unique to each AI and it allows an AI to stay stable after a point at which most AIs fail.