- DecepticonCobra
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After re-reading Cryptum, World War Z, the Zombie Survival Guide and Atlas Shrugged, unrelated Halo books ftw, I decided to re-read First Strike. I've gotten to the part dealing with the Covenant AI, who I've taken a liking to calling it "Tracker" since it liked to keep tabs on Cortana's every move, and I really have to wonder how the Covenant made their own AIs.
Prior to 2552, they had a taboo against AIs due to Mendicant Bias turning on the Forerunners long ago, but here we are with some new Covenant AIs like my pal "Tracker". I believe it's Cortana who concludes that Covie AIs are former human AIs that were copied so much they became corrupted. I have to ask though, how did they copy AIs and why did they copy AIs?
Did the Covenant believe they needed their own AIs to compete with humanities? Did the Huragok have a hand in this practice? We know Huragok can house an AI, or at least it's data as seen in Halo 3: ODST with Vergil and the Superintendent and with Mo Ye in Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian being forced from the mainframe of the ship of the stories namesake.
Personally, I have a feeling the Covenant forces who boarded the Midlothian had two tasks, retieve the NAV data from a ships computer and/or capture a human AI before the Cole Protocol could be enforced. I don't have much proof for that, but that's how I see it now all things considered.
Any ideas folks?