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I think you'll find that she is actually reading from some Forerunner text... those aren't her own words...

  • 05.09.2006 3:19 PM PDT
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I think that the Flodd Leader(Lord Hood I think was the name in the credits???Helppl0x?) Has something to do with Corts state of mind. Obviously Bungie showed the Flood were smarter then mindless killing monsters with the presence of the leader so maybe that "Wierd AI" that put up a fight against her is something controlled by that Flood creature.

She talks about it in the high charity level where MC first encounters the Flood.(Also cant recall its name) She says how its the most formidible "Covenent AI" she has ever come across. Anywho just a thought.

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i read a few chapters in one of the books (It was between Halo1 and Halo 2) and Cortana was hacking into a Covenant ship to do something and something happened to her, like she was infected by the Covenant AI or something. I just think that could have something to do with cortana becoming rampant.

  • 05.09.2006 3:19 PM PDT
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I think when she stayed behind, she told Gravemind everything, on purpose. If she has gone rampant, then it is the fact she knows the end is coming. I think she wanted Gravemind to know the end is near, to let him know that his control of the flood will be lost forever.

  • 05.09.2006 3:27 PM PDT
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lol one question though...

since the general consensus by people that design ai is that ai wouldnt have the ability to rebel since all actions by the ai would have to be painstakingly implanted via programming, it is scientifically impossible for an ai to react this way, unless the programmers wanted the ai to kill them, and purposely designed it to do so =)

bungie, being game and ai developer afficianados would obviously recognize this impossibiliy (having coded ai themselves) and would be loath to include it, else join a myriad of poorly thought out concepts ie terminator... and my brain is broken... there are many more =)

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  • 05.09.2006 3:27 PM PDT
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Remember that Cortana's personality is taken partly from Dr Halsey. The Doctor loved John most of all Spartans, and was the only one who called him by name. Cortana shares some of these ideas and feelings, so perhaps her care for the safety and success will only grow to fanatical levels during her aooarant fall into rampancy. Who knows, with all the knowledge she's gained it could well push her over the edge, or perhaps there is some forerunner knowledge that will keep her together long enough to help the chief save humanity. On the other hand, he could be truly alone..

  • 05.09.2006 3:27 PM PDT

I do it for Ada

I have returned

Shes been reset and her memory banks erased by the gravemind she was datawashed!!!!!!

  • 05.09.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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"I have defied gods and demons.
I am your shield, I am your swords,
I know you, your past, your future,
This is the way the world ends."
-Cortana



She says "I know you, your past, your future"
In the books it was mentioned that Cortana learned something about time travel(havnt read them latley but something i remembered). What if she somehow used time trravel to see what would happen to john and came back in time to hibernate on the ship john used to get off halo at the end of halo 2. This way she could deactivate the installation in halo 2 and still help john after he left. She is, afterall, programmed to do whatever she must to help john whern she can and she shows a love for humanity. Purely specualtion but tell me what you think

  • 05.09.2006 3:29 PM PDT

You say tomato; I say potato.

she isnt rampant. shes completely insane. she shows signs of OCD and scitzophrenia(sp). she probably thinks she is johns mother. in a way she is because shes a copy of halsey.

  • 05.09.2006 3:32 PM PDT
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With all the information she has in her from the Halo computer, and all that time with the gravemind, it would be astounding if she has not gone rampant.

  • 05.09.2006 3:33 PM PDT
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well, the voice isn't great proof. It is possible though. However i don't think so because in the article they give hints of cortana helpin the chief

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I'm getting ready for the big boss battle with Cortana.

  • 05.09.2006 3:36 PM PDT

I don't think she is rampant or sound. I think she is on the fence. She was programmed to complete their mission at all costs. What Dr. Halsey really made it who knows. Her second priority is to protect John. And in the books she cares about him alot. I think she knows what will happen but I think she might still be good. Yet her speech is off. She says "I am your shield. I am your sword" So she is protecting the Chief then right? So I don't think she's completely lost it.

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also, i believe she says I am your shield, i am your sword. But it dooes also sound like source

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Could Cortana be going evil? Is she "dying"? Cortana is a smart AI, and smart AI's only last for 7 years before they go crazy. Are cortana's 7 years up? Sure seems like it. Or is something else up, is the Spartan going crazy? Why is he forgetting Cortana.

Cortana's gone rampant.

  • 05.09.2006 3:40 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

SOURCE NOT SWORD!

  • 05.09.2006 3:41 PM PDT

You say tomato; I say potato.

I have defied gods and demons. ----------spartans that lived and died
I am your shield, I am your swords, -----she will protect and defend john
I know you, your past, your future, ------she knows every thing about john
This is the way the world ends. -----------a prediction of flood on earth?

  • 05.09.2006 3:42 PM PDT

It is. "I am your swords" SO she is helping john fight then?

  • 05.09.2006 3:45 PM PDT
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She says SWORD not swords, the extra S at the end is the result of echoes. Listen carefully and repeat until you hear it.

  • 05.09.2006 3:53 PM PDT

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This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.

There is a difference she is speaking ( as she did in the cortana letters) of a PAST that she "defied gods and demons" and she knows master chiefs past and future.

She cannot be rampant as she has always been the way she is think back SHE had to follow protocol and make a blind jump BUT instead she used the star map to take YOU to halo. SHE has the index! She told you she would blow IAC if halo was about to fire and SHE DIDN'T. It's perfectly common sense SHE could not get into IAC AT ALL. So she just all around lied to you. Also she claims to be our "Shield" and "sword" as with durandal ,cortana is the name of a sword. In the song of roland we are told cortana was amde by the same sword maker as durandal. I could go on and on about plot connections between the two but I won't. The thing is Durandal claimed he would become god and now in the halo universe based off a book about gods word and the actions of god cortana states to have "defied gods and demons".

In marathon durandal merges with Thoth the egyptian god. There is a deep connection between the two universes and after playing halo 3 and reading the next book more will become clear. So if durandal is god and an egyptian god is an Ai then we can make a statement that AI's are gods in the haloverse. They are immortal. In the book two AI names are exactly as two of the fallen angels. So now we can tell Angels are AI's to.

One might ask then how might one become an angel as the bible states humanity is all supposed to become that of like angels. The anwser is simple when one becomes an angel they must die first correct? So where in the haloverse have we heard about away of becoming an AI but you must die first? Simple thats how were told cortana is made. Supposebly Dr hasely cloned her self and then used a technique to copy the clones neural brain patterns. The result was the clone dieing and cortana being created.







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  • 05.09.2006 3:53 PM PDT
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shes fliping rampant fr shore

  • 05.09.2006 3:57 PM PDT

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This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.

Again when an AI becomes rampant there has never been a report of them making up past lives.

  • 05.09.2006 4:02 PM PDT
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Hope not...

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  • 06.02.2006 9:56 PM PDT
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maybe she has, i think cortana and grave mind found a way to give her a flood body (we might be able to play as flood in halo 3) that's what gave her the gravemind voice and maybe that's what gravemind is, a forerunner a.i. put into a flood body to try to control the flood but sent the flood after the forerunner's.

  • 06.04.2006 4:45 AM PDT

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