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Posted by: UnfitFatbill
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: GuN
Cortana was created on November 7th, 2549.
Can't be 2556+ because then she'd go rampant.
Minus the fact that Gravemind -blam!- her up, so it's possible her lifespan got reduced.
There is no set date for when an AI goes rampant, it becomes a fairly big possibility when they're just about 7 years old, but it's not like they immediately become rampant the moment they reach their seventh year. And in any case, if they have something of high priority to focus on (like say, oh I don't know, guarding/helping the Chief who's all alone and stranded God knows where), they can stave off rampancy for quite a while. Like that one AI did in the Cole Protocol, she was older than seven, yet she wasn't really rampant at all (rather quirky maybe and definitely not normal, but not really rampant either).
And rampancy doesn't really have anything at all do with lifespan, we don't know how long a Smart AI could live because the UNSC has never tried to find out, they always delete (make sure you understand that, it's not the AI just naturally "dieing out", they're being deleted by the UNSC) them after about 7 years because they're afraid of them going rampant, but other than that rampancy is not directly tied to lifespan. For all we know a UNSC Smart AI could live just as long as one of the Forerunner AIs.
And being in the Gravemind's clutches wouldn't mess with Cortana's life-span either, that would mess her mental stability.
I was under the impression that in the clutches of the Gravemind, she had already gone rampant.
I have a feeling the she has reached Meta Stability in Halo 4 or soon after it. Also it'll give 343 an interesting character. More human.
That's what I think as well, that she already experienced rampancy while in the Gravemind's clutches and is either now in the early stages of meta-stability or the later stages of rampancy and quickly working her way out of it. I was merely explaining rampancy as best I understood it to GuN since he didn't really seem to understand how it all worked.