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Subject: Cortana a Forerunner/Part-Forerunner Construct?

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum (deal with it).

The way Bornstellar's 'Ancilla' is described in Halo Cryptum makes her/it sound very similar in appearance/personality to Cortana. Could they be connected? Be the same Construct some how?

The fact that Cortana seems to have overcome rampancy (as far as we've seen anyway...unless she faces it more severely in Halo 4) makes it seem ever more likely that she either is a Forerunner construct, or that she has some how acquired elements of Forerunner design into her own core.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

  • 09.07.2011 1:53 AM PDT

maybe...

  • 09.07.2011 2:07 AM PDT

no shes not forunner when she taped into the forunner controle senture she got like all the info about the 4runners

  • 09.07.2011 2:14 AM PDT

I don't get where Cortana being made from forerunner tech comes from if that is what you imply.

However, I don't doubt in the vast array of forerunner data she's absorbed that she's found ways to overcome rampancy.

  • 09.07.2011 2:28 AM PDT

maybe in H4 she goes completely blaming insane and trys to kill you.

  • 09.07.2011 2:32 AM PDT

We believe that the universe is unbounded: this is not the same as infinite: the 2-D surface of a sphere, wrapped around a 3rd dimension, has a finite size, but has no end. If you start off in a given direction on the surface of a sphere, you could return to your start point without having to turn around -- you simply go all the way around. But wouldn't that mean the universe has an escape velocity like the earth?

You could say that her experience at The Artifact on Halo: Reach could qualify for the fact that Cortana was further developed using it, however thats as far as it gets, unless you constitute the information she has received. She should have reached Rampancy much earlier, considering the huge amount of data absorbed, potentially as much as 1.5Mx the amount a normal AI receives over a lifetime of 7 years.

~B2

  • 09.07.2011 2:47 AM PDT
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:)

Well all of those references to a "blue lady" got me curious too.

I doubt it though.

  • 09.07.2011 2:48 AM PDT


Posted by: Bungie2
You could say that her experience at The Artifact on Halo: Reach could qualify for the fact that Cortana was further developed using it, however thats as far as it gets, unless you constitute the information she has received. She should have reached Rampancy much earlier, considering the huge amount of data absorbed, potentially as much as 1.5Mx the amount a normal AI receives over a lifetime of 7 years.

~B2

7 years...
the ultimate number.

  • 09.07.2011 2:52 AM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

Have you play through Reach's campaign? Dr. Halsey had the remaining members of Noble Team deliver a part of Cortana that had Forerunner information acquired from years of research to the Pillar of Autumn that landed on Reach while The Chief was in Gamma Station.

  • 09.07.2011 2:55 AM PDT

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Cortana was created purely from Human tech.

The only possible way she could have "changed" is from the data she absorbed either from the Artifact on Reach or from Halo's control center. They might have influenced her programming, or she might have used the info in it to do it herself.

  • 09.07.2011 3:34 AM PDT