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Subject: A doubt about Cortana

I was watching halo legends the Origin episode and it shows cortana knows alot about the forerunners and the flood. She said she got the information when she was born, I thought that when cortana was created nobody knew anything about the flood and the forerunners until she was in the halo in halo 1 so where did she got all this information from?

[Edited on 08.18.2011 5:50 PM PDT]

  • 08.18.2011 5:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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umm you need to listen because she was talking about the human knowledge.

  • 08.18.2011 5:50 PM PDT

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She said she got the entire record of HUMAN history when she was born, she got her knowledge about the Forerunners and the Flood from the control room on Installation 04.

  • 08.18.2011 5:50 PM PDT

oohh didnt noticed that

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Posted by: ajw34307
she got her knowledge about the Forerunners and the Flood from the control room on Installation 04.

Actually she got a massive wealth of Forerunner knowledge from the artifact seen in Reach.

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Posted by: ajw34307
she got her knowledge about the Forerunners and the Flood from the control room on Installation 04.

Actually she got a massive wealth of Forerunner knowledge from the artifact seen in Reach.


Um no she didn't. we don't even know what that thing was so you can even say anything about it.

  • 08.18.2011 6:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
she got her knowledge about the Forerunners and the Flood from the control room on Installation 04.

Actually she got a massive wealth of Forerunner knowledge from the artifact seen in Reach.


No she didn't. There is nothing to even suggest what they got from the Babd Catha artefact, none of it plays any part in the Halo story, it was just a way to conveniently shoehorn Cortana in to try to weave a plot before the -blam!- hit the fan.

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  • 08.18.2011 6:21 PM PDT

Thought cortana was forerunner tech... Or at least was able to decode forerunner info and that was why she was so important. Because as an ai she could determine what info was important instead of having lots of decoders trying to figure it out, she did.

Im willing to accept that im wrong though.

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Thought cortana was forerunner tech... Or at least was able to decode forerunner info and that was why she was so important. Because as an ai she could determine what info was important instead of having lots of decoders trying to figure it out, she did.

Im willing to accept that im wrong though.


you could clearly tell she wasn't a forerunner AI in halo CE because she never heard of the forerunners -_-

and yes like anything else with a brain she can work out forerunner stuff.

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I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.

  • 08.18.2011 8:38 PM PDT

I see your point, but then what made her so special? Couldnt they make a copy of her? And email it? ( you understand )

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Posted by: swordfishmaster
I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.


cortana was created long before humans had any idea of what a halo was.

  • 08.18.2011 8:39 PM PDT

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  • 08.18.2011 8:41 PM PDT

Could cortana be one of the whatevers from the datapads? They talk about needing to seperate an ai from them to communicate with the humans... Or i interpreted it way off.

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Yes but they did know that the Forerunners existed because Halsey explained them to Noble team in The Package. And in that level it seems that Cortana is a Forerunner AI but we all know that isn't the case. So there lies my confusion.
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Posted by: swordfishmaster
I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.


cortana was created long before humans had any idea of what a halo was.

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Posted by: swordfishmaster
Yes but they did know that the Forerunners existed because Halsey explained them to Noble team in The Package. And in that level it seems that Cortana is a Forerunner AI but we all know that isn't the case. So there lies my confusion.
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Posted by: swordfishmaster
I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.


cortana was created long before humans had any idea of what a halo was.


You do understand that humans didn't even know about the forerunners until the sigma crystal? which was obtained about 1 week before reach? and they didn't truly know of the forerunners until halo.


Halsey never said nothing about no forerunners in that level.

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Posted by: swordfishmaster
Yes but they did know that the Forerunners existed because Halsey explained them to Noble team in The Package. And in that level it seems that Cortana is a Forerunner AI but we all know that isn't the case. So there lies my confusion.
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Posted by: swordfishmaster
I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.


cortana was created long before humans had any idea of what a halo was.


You do understand that humans didn't even know about the forerunners until the sigma crystal? which was obtained about 1 week before reach? and they didn't truly know of the forerunners until halo.


Halsey never said nothing about no forerunners in that level.

I'm sorry but I'm going to tell you now I have not read any of the books. But in The Package as Noble Team is heading down the elevator and they see the Forerunner artifact Halsey refers to an ancient, extinct race of aliens. I don't have the exact quote but Halsey at least new the Forerunners existed.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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Posted by: swordfishmaster
Yes but they did know that the Forerunners existed because Halsey explained them to Noble team in The Package. And in that level it seems that Cortana is a Forerunner AI but we all know that isn't the case. So there lies my confusion.
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Posted by: swordfishmaster
I'm still confused, did Halsey use Forerunner tech to create Cortana? Because in her journal I didn't remember reading anything about the Forerunner artifact.


cortana was created long before humans had any idea of what a halo was.


You do understand that humans didn't even know about the forerunners until the sigma crystal? which was obtained about 1 week before reach? and they didn't truly know of the forerunners until halo.


Halsey never said nothing about no forerunners in that level.

I'm sorry but I'm going to tell you now I have not read any of the books. But in The Package as Noble Team is heading down the elevator and they see the Forerunner artifact Halsey refers to an ancient, extinct race of aliens. I don't have the exact quote but Halsey at least new the Forerunners existed.

you don't need to read the books to understand that you can clearly tell in the fist game she is a human AI.

Halsey didn't say that so look up the transcript and stop paraphrasing. she just said "birthright". and no she didn't; you understand that there are billions of extinct alien races right.

  • 08.18.2011 8:56 PM PDT

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Cortana said she got some forerunner info from the halos but most of it was guess work for forerunners history.

  • 08.18.2011 9:57 PM PDT

Ok in the origonal Halo game im pritty sure you hear cortana talking about the "ring" being forerunner in origin. Meaning they might of come by this tech before ,explaining why they made this deduction.

  • 08.18.2011 11:11 PM PDT
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I find this funny.

She had gained lnowledge from the forerunner structure that Halsey's lab was next to.

  • 08.18.2011 11:59 PM PDT

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Also, keep in mind, Cortana knew the coordinates of Installation 04. Cortana knows much that she leaves to herself.

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Listen up everybody. This is important.

1. Cortana is not Forerunner tech. She was made from the brains of flash-clones of Dr. Halsey herself.

2. The object in reach was a fragment of Cortana. In Halsey's journal, from the Legendary Edition of Reach, it states that Cortana can fragment herself (this is also done in First Strike when the Spartans attack the Unyielding Heirophant), and upon re-assimilation, gain the knowledge that both fragments, the original and new one, obtained during the split.

  • 08.19.2011 6:41 AM PDT

Actually *Puts on Nerd glasses* Cortana was from a Forerunner structure on Reach and Dr.Halsey decriptited it and created Cortana

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Posted by: ImpishFountain
Actually *Puts on Nerd glasses* Cortana was from a Forerunner structure on Reach and Dr.Halsey decriptited it and created Cortana
you are flat out wrong and read the post above you.

  • 08.19.2011 8:36 PM PDT