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Subject: based on what you have seen, has she gone rampant?

Poll: cortana rampant?  [closed]
for sure!:  25%
(5 Votes)
no way!:  20%
(4 Votes)
perhaps, i need to see more.:  55%
(11 Votes)
Total Votes: 20

As most of us know bungie has a history of AI turning rampant (going insane for lack of a better term) so based on what you have seen in the trailer do you think she has flipped? will she betray the chief and the earth and reveal our location to the gravemind? tell me what you think.

  • 05.09.2006 1:37 PM PDT

"My dreams of empire for my frozen queen will come to pass."

Seems like she has a virus

  • 05.13.2006 10:39 AM PDT
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Maybe she is a twin. mmmm

  • 05.13.2006 10:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: Big Sexxy
Its possible, but i think its gravemind controlling her. As others have mentioned, when she begins speaking, you can hear graveminds voice synched with hers. -blam!-, for all we know that could be a copy of her, like they say in the books.
O sh1t! I think you're right!

  • 05.13.2006 10:43 AM PDT
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She has adware and every time she flickers a popup comes along.

  • 05.13.2006 10:44 AM PDT
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There is already a thread in the "Threads of Interest" sticky. I'll even link it for you:

Tracing Cortana's Words

  • 05.13.2006 10:44 AM PDT
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Also the whole comment I have survived gods and demons. Sounds like gravemind to me. Surviving gods forrunners and surviving demons could be covenant or humans, MC is referred to as demon enough.

  • 05.13.2006 10:47 AM PDT
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What I find interesting is that she quotes the bible. "I am your shield, Iam your sword." If this voice reflects her true thoughts, uncorrupted by Gravemind, it could mean that she has taken another step closer to rampancy. Remember that she has watched over the Chief, over humanity. She has been the central coordinator of humanity's defense during Halo CE and throughout Halo 2. Taking this fact into acccount as well as the fact that an AI can live forever, and obtain infinite knowledge, perhaps she sees herself as God, or some kind of God. I know this contradicts her statement, "I have defied Gods and Demons." So, even worse, it could also mean that she is superior to God.

However, if Gravemind is using Cortana as a puppet to relay his messages to the chief it could mean that Gravemind is above God. A symbol of Satan.

Relating this to biblical terms, perhaps Cortana and Gravemind are symbols of God and Satan. Cortana trying to save humanity, and Gravemind trying to corrupt and destroy it. This thought is the most interesting to ponder.

However, even if you don't believe my theory, you must at least concede the fact that Cortana has changed dramatically since Halo 2.

  • 05.13.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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Or she could be dying (which would explain the overload causing her to freak out). Remember, according to Doctor Halsey, she only has a 7-year lifespan. How long has she been active? Since 2552 right (maybe even slightly before)? Halo 3 takes place during what year?

  • 05.13.2006 10:52 AM PDT

Like you said, Gravemind probably being a Devil figure, maybe it is the exercism (?) of Cortana.

[Edited on 5/13/2006]

  • 05.13.2006 10:52 AM PDT
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i dont think gravemind can control ai like that. Remember, he captured the guilty spark from delta halo

  • 05.13.2006 10:55 AM PDT
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no,i dont think so becuase it looks like a bad connection of a tranzmition or him remembering something she has said in halo 3 past tence.

  • 05.13.2006 10:55 AM PDT
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I think Cortana is somehow communicating with the Gravemind, and she is directing more and more of her thought process to this so it may seem as though she is losing her mind.

  • 05.13.2006 11:01 AM PDT