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Posted by: Spartan319
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Spartan319
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Posted by: TallestSpark
Not sure about Halsey, she belongs to Parangosky now
How long do you really think that's going to last? Everyone knows that in the end the villains never really win, eventually they will get their comeuppance. Parangosky might have Halsey under her thumb right now, but do you really think she's going to remain their for the rest of her life?
What with the way the leaders of ONI are being set up to be villains, or at best antagonistic, I'm thinking that Chief is probably going to have some sort of confrontation with ONI in Halo 4 at some point.
I dont think so. Chief take orders from Cortana, Cortana take orders from Halsey, Halsey take orders from ONI. Without Halsey, in the usually events, Cortana (and the Chief) take orders from ONI like all other members of UNSC corps.
Actually Chief doesn't take orders from any one person, and he's not some mindless drone either. Spartans aren't going to follow orders that subvert the UNSC as a greater whole. And Chief trusts Cortana the most out of any other entity around, like in Halo 3, he trusted her call even though he knew what condition she was in. I'm willing to bet that even if Hood had decided not to send anyone through the Portal Chief would have gone through with the Elites for Cortana anyway. If Cortana told him Parangosky and other members of ONI were dangers and had plenty of good reasons to convince him he would trust her call on the matter. And he'll especially hunt ONI down if the UNSC proper declares them as operating outside the law and to be brought to trial or disbanded for overstepping their bounds more times than I can count.
Oh, and Cortana most definitely is not some mindless puppet who takes orders from anyone and everyone. She's even more free-thinking than the Chief is. If he doesn't spot something wrong or suspicious with an order, she will. And ONI is not the head of the UNSC, despite what Parangoski might think. Chief and every other member of the UNSC personnel only take orders from ONI if ONI has been given command of a mission or is sending them on a mission.
Master Chief and Cortana are weapons. And Cortana have 7 years. When she go in rampancy, you think Master Chief listen her or the UNSC/ONI?
That may be what they are used as, but neither one are mindless tools to be used and completely exploited by whoever happens to hold more authority. They're intelligent beings, and while Chief might be the more compliant of the two, they're not going to just sit around doing nothing at all and waiting for someone to give them a job, especially not Cortana, and neither one will blindly follow any order given without question, again, especially not Cortana. Cortana is the brains of the outfit and John trusts her explicitly, as I said before, if she told John that ONI or any one particular person was operating outside their bounds and posing a danger to humanity and the UNSC as a whole then John will act on it and follow her lead.
And rampancy is irrelevant to this, as I pointed out before, Chief trusted Cortana in Halo 3 before he recovered her even though it was obvious that she was breaking under the torture of the Gravemind, he'll trust her even if she is rampant, most likely a cautious trust but he will trust her nonetheless. And in any case, there is no definite time-table for when rampancy occurs. The only definite thing about is that it can happen anytime during a Smart AI's 7th year or any time after. And even if an AI is rampant that doesn't mean that they're completely off the wall, bat--blam!- insane, case in point being Julianna in Cole Protocol, she was quite clearly rampant, yet she was not totally insane and completely untrustworthy. Plus I personally think that Cortana has moved past rampancy into meta-stability or is quickly moving toward that point.