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Subject: Strange symbol in Cortana's message
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It looks like it's the Halo symbol.

  • 05.09.2006 10:33 PM PDT
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it could be from the forerunners

  • 05.09.2006 11:53 PM PDT
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If any one is boggled why cortana is speaking about demons god and the world its because shes been in a covenant ship for a while and then she has either been caught or the computer has done something to her... or something similar...

  • 05.10.2006 12:01 AM PDT
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Posted by: Jordan117
At the 0:54 second mark, right as Cortana says the word "am" in "I am your sword", a strange blue symbol flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second. Any idea on what it is?

Here's an i mage of it.


I noticed it too. I spent about 2 hours playing the video over and over, recording sections, playing them backwards, pausing, fastwording, etc...all in search of some interesting clues, if any. I did find that, but I couldn't think of any significance it might hold, besides the fact that it looks like the Halo 2 ring logo thing.

  • 05.10.2006 12:17 AM PDT
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yea...but maybe.........shes been givin an upgrade of some sort...by gravemind....hes been below wacthing everything happening...hes tired of seeing everyone fighting and non of them truely having knowledge...of wats going on...he knows cortana has been there for mc...and maybe he could use her for more than just intelligence?

MC doesnt know wat the hell the rings and forunners structures are all about...neither does the covenet..they both have their stories...one for destruction (humans) the other for salvation (covenant)

  • 05.10.2006 12:48 AM PDT
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I guess you're talking about the Halo symbol. That's what it looks like to me.

  • 05.10.2006 12:56 AM PDT
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Not sure if anyone noticed it - but a VERY similar symbol appears on one of the ships at 1:23.

Link here:
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  • 05.10.2006 6:03 AM PDT
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As somone said earlier in this forum. It is the picture of the Thrid halo ring! :/ Yes, Earth acctually is activating the gun that it has. So it needs the last of the Halo Rings with power so... But cortana log the picture of the installtion 004's picture of it being blasted could it be so she knows to unlock the power of the so called gun?

  • 05.10.2006 6:07 AM PDT
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In response to cortana going a bit crazy doesnt anyone remember that she was supposed to blow High Charity up when the chief left? Thats when the gravemind comes and says he wants to ask her some questions and she says shoot(after the credits). Also if you have read the books you will start to question what cortana is doing since as mentioned before she encountered the Covenent AI and it makes a lot of referances to her feeling bigger in the chiefs brian.
So i am bassicly saying that she has turned evil.

  • 05.10.2006 6:32 AM PDT
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I don't think bungie will keep Cortona alive, This will probably be the last halo game. Finish The FIght is quite the hint for that.

  • 05.10.2006 6:48 AM PDT
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It looks like what happened when the Delta Halo was activated...

  • 05.10.2006 7:02 AM PDT
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ahh thanks man!!!! i was looking for the ring pull from my can of baked beans!!! I couldn't remember where i got to... CHEERS!!!!!

  • 05.10.2006 7:03 AM PDT
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gimme a minute... i'll retouch that picture and put it back up... maybe we can work something out from it. sorry, not retouch, i meant enhance.

  • 05.10.2006 7:17 AM PDT
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It could mean that arbiter is still in the game beside MC in a symbol about a sword.

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  • 05.10.2006 7:21 AM PDT
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just so everyone knows, the main rumor out right now is that cortana is under the control of gravemind

  • 05.10.2006 7:23 AM PDT

It's the outline of a blue lemon.

  • 05.10.2006 7:24 AM 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.

Actually it sounds more like cortana merged with gravemind to become one entity.

  • 05.10.2006 7:25 AM PDT
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listen to cortana's first line, when she says 'demon'

hear a familiar voice there?

  • 05.10.2006 7:26 AM PDT
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Probably just to add art, I mean the flashing only is for like a millisecond, it probably doesn't mean anything, just adds the crackling effect. Kind of like an optical illusion.

  • 05.10.2006 7:32 AM PDT
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I don't think it's anything. You may be reading too much into this.

  • 05.10.2006 7:33 AM PDT
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I've GOT it!
The voice is not gravemind, its the arbiter. you might like to be reminded that the MC is in space at the end of halo 2 and must get to earth, and have the ODF destroyed before it can be overrun by the covenant. In that time, it's most likely that the arbiter will head back for cortana. the reason it's so distorted is because its from such a distance, and the line "I am your sword" suggests that the arbiter is saying he will metaphorically br the chiefs weapon and do the work that needs to be done there. oh yeah, and if you look on my clutter page, here, , you can quite clearly see the same pattern as the ring from the frame at 0:54 on the back of the banshee (the red mark). if you need to copy it and zoom in and stuff. She says i know your past and your future because of gravemind, who from halo 2 is clearly knowledgeable. it suits gravemind's personality to ask cortana some questions, mafia style [rhetorical]. for example, "do you know why he killed your mother". not something gramind would ask cortana, but mafia style in the sense that he has the answers in his head already. that's the most likely outcome.

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  • 05.10.2006 7:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: killer axe
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why is cortana acting so weird


I don't know, but maybe the rumors were right. Maybe Cortana is evil.


I think this might help with the Cortona evil theory.
Remember in Halo 2 when you had to kill the Prophet Of Regret?
After you killed him a covenant ship came in a blew up that large structuer. Then you fell into the water, then Grave Minde comes in and takes MC.Now is it possible that the Grave Minde could read MC mined? Could be but who knows rite? Enyway at the end of the game Cortona is still in the Covenant Holy city and Grave minde comes up to here and askes here a question correct? Maybe Grave minde asked here about MC but she didnt know enything much about him. Maybe thats why she said in the * I know your past and your futuer*. Ther for this could make cortona more interested in MC and to help him out or to protective of him. Maybe thats why she said * i'am your sheild i'am your sword*. And remember when Cortona says*this is how the world will end*? Msybe Grave Mined knows a lil bite more then enyone huh? But who knows not all of us are on the spot for being rite all the time. Hope this gives the brain a lil thinking.

Thats what my theory about this cortona eveil theroy. Hope this makes sence.


Actually, that didn't really make sense... your spelling and grammar is awful.

I believe that Cortana could be evil because of what happened after the credits come up, when you finish the game. Cortana wouldn't answer whatever question Gavemind had if he were bad. Unless, Gravemind is actually a good guy.

It's all speculation. Wait for Halo 3.

As for the "symbol"... it could simply be nothing at all... just a glare of the moving lights. This thread reminds me of those people that dedicate their lives to finding subliminal messages in songs and pictures.

  • 05.10.2006 7:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lance_yoda
Probably just to add art, I mean the flashing only is for like a millisecond, it probably doesn't mean anything, just adds the crackling effect. Kind of like an optical illusion.

That's what you call a subliminal effect. cinema chains used to use it to sell popcorn and drinks, and sales went up by over 30%. therefore it is not nothing, as bungie hire the most innovative staff they can.

  • 05.10.2006 7:39 AM PDT
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Has it acurred to annyone that she might be saying i no ur past and ur future about the covenent? Just a thought and theres is no way that bungie is gonna keep cortana alive in the final game of halo because someone has to die just like in the end of the lord of the ring.

  • 05.10.2006 7:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: Curiousgrinch24
theres is no way that bungie is gonna keep cortana alive in the final game of halo because someone has to die just like in the end of the lord of the ring.

Well if that aint 100% proof what is?

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