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Subject: Is Cortana forerunner?

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Okay, first of all, please don't flame with: That's a stupid question! I'm asking, so for me it's a valuable one.
Well, in the Fall of Reach, I remembered that Cortana was a human construct, and for me that's the logical answer, but in Origins I and II, she knew a hell-of-a-lot about Forerunners. Anyone knows if she knew it because of her journey with 117, and getting information from perhaps the Halo control center, or is she a Forerunner AI? I remember Halsey said something like that in Halo: Reach, although I could be wrong.
Please, answer.

TL;DR: Check title.

  • 06.24.2011 12:52 PM PDT

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No, come on, everyone else knows this.

  • 06.24.2011 12:54 PM PDT

No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

  • 06.24.2011 12:54 PM PDT

"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

Cortana was made from a scan of Doctor Halsey's brain, so, no, she's not Forerunner.

  • 06.24.2011 12:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

  • 06.24.2011 12:56 PM PDT

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Why don't you do some research before asking? The answer you were looking for is a pretty simple one, Halopedian could have answered it...

  • 06.24.2011 12:58 PM PDT

@accordingto343

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Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.

  • 06.24.2011 12:58 PM PDT


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Posted by: Terror Q

Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.
You can't blame him, alot of people were confused when Halsey said Cortana was the Forerunner structures custodian.

  • 06.24.2011 12:59 PM PDT

@accordingto343

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Posted by: mojeda101

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: Terror Q

Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.
You can't blame him, alot of people were confused when Halsey said Cortana was the Forerunner structures custodian.

And such people were stupid. A little research would've cleared it up immediately for them.

  • 06.24.2011 1:00 PM PDT


Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: mojeda101

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: Terror Q

Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.
You can't blame him, alot of people were confused when Halsey said Cortana was the Forerunner structures custodian.

And such people were stupid. A little research would've cleared it up immediately for them.
Not all Halo fans bother to look up anything, they just jump to conclusion, hell I've ran into several people who thought the Covenant had 2 million ships after watching all the Covenant ships orbiting High Charity.

  • 06.24.2011 1:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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Posted by: mojeda101

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Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.
You can't blame him, alot of people were confused when Halsey said Cortana was the Forerunner structures custodian.

And such people were stupid. A little research would've cleared it up immediately for them.


i don't see where custodian translates to her being a forerunner AI. same for UNSC deleting AIs after 7 years, therefore AIs only live for 7 years.


I can't blame education but people are stupid.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: mojeda101


Posted by: DecepticonCobra
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Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.[/quote]
I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask. [/quote]
But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.
You can't blame him, alot of people were confused when Halsey said Cortana was the Forerunner structures custodian.

And such people were stupid. A little research would've cleared it up immediately for them.
Not all Halo fans bother to look up anything, they just jump to conclusion, hell I've ran into several people who thought the Covenant had 2 million ships after watching all the Covenant ships orbiting High Charity.


I hope you are paraphrasing with the 2 million ships, that looks nothing like 2 million. where they 5 years old?

  • 06.24.2011 1:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: Terror Q

Posted by: mojeda101
No, although she gathered pretty much all the information from Installation 04 when they were there.

I thought so, thank you.
And for the guy who said: Come on, everyone knows this!
Like I said, I was asking, let me ask.

But it's kinda a stupid question since we've know Cortana isn't Forerunner-made since the beginning. A simple Google search would've helped you much sooner.


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  • 06.24.2011 1:05 PM PDT

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  • 06.24.2011 1:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Terror Q
Okay, first of all, please don't flame with: That's a stupid question! I'm asking, so for me it's a valuable one.
Well, in the Fall of Reach, I remembered that Cortana was a human construct, and for me that's the logical answer, but in Origins I and II, she knew a hell-of-a-lot about Forerunners. Anyone knows if she knew it because of her journey with 117, and getting information from perhaps the Halo control center, or is she a Forerunner AI? I remember Halsey said something like that in Halo: Reach, although I could be wrong.
Please, answer.

TL;DR: Check title.


She's not a forerunner, but since she's an AI and was gathering information from the Halos (constructed by the Forerunners) she probably got a lot of information from those installations. Assuming the Forerunners put the history of their race in the Halo databanks, she probably copied all of the information from the installations and learned about them that way. Probably the main reason why we saw her start to become corrupted in Halo 3, because AI's start to become rampant after absorbing too much information and can't keep their sub-routines in check.

  • 06.24.2011 3:04 PM PDT

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hell no shes a freaking human AI!

  • 06.25.2011 10:34 AM PDT

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There was a Forerunner artifact from Côte d'Azur and the Sword Base structure gave Cortana the "location" on Installation 04.
That really didn't change her at all.
Once she absorbed all that info, she changed from purple, to blue. This is most likely because Forerunner AI's are blue.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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Posted by: ImmortalJoshua
There was a Forerunner artifact from Côte d'Azur and the Sword Base structure gave Cortana the "location" on Installation 04.
That really didn't change her at all.
Once she absorbed all that info, she changed from purple, to blue. This is most likely because Forerunner AI's are blue.

Why are you always consistently wrong?

the change of color is based off emotion.

** Mendicant bias was green, 2401 is red

[Edited on 06.25.2011 11:07 AM PDT]

  • 06.25.2011 11:06 AM PDT