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Subject: My theory on Cortana's Words
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I (like many others here obviuosly) believe i have a logical axplanation for all of it.

"i have defied Gods and Demons"------
as someone else said earlier, Gods refer to the forunners most likely, and the Coveneant call MC a Demon. i cannot recall the Actual things that gravemind said when he spoke to the arbiter and MC, but i beleive he called him a demon of metals and some other stuff.(hold on....everything ties together soon) Now, Like someone else said, Cortana spent lots of time with Gravemind, and has been able to speak with him about his beliefs and the covenant's beliefs. Her reference to "defying the gods" can be that she feels somehow responsible for the death of the prophets that died. Her reference to "Demons" could be referring to MC. She may be feeling guilty that she left him to go to earth and she is not with him any longer.

"I am your Shield, i am your sword"---
this can be interpreted in many ways. i think that it can be read as Cortana helping Him to disrupt the mechanics of Great Charity and shielding him from his death on the covenant mothercity.

"i know you, Your past,Your future"
this is what everyone's been saying. She knows his past and the project he was in, she knows how he thinks. and the your future....its becoming infamous.lol. Gravemind Stated that he saw through time...allowing him to be able to see what would befall the MC and covenant.

"this is the way the world ends"
she didnt specify that THE world ended. she simply stated that a world is going to end. this could mean that she is about to die,(her world, which explains her going berserk if she really is) or, which i seem to find VERY likely seeing as to how bungie thinks...did anyone notice that the "forerunner" object was WAAAAY to big to be a weapon iunder the surface of the planet?it would disrupt the earth's core!! i think that a possibility might be that the forunner built a city under the Earth. it would explain why the forunner simply "dissapeared" and the enourmous size and "locking mechanisms" that it seemed to have...

SOOOOO.......feedback on my theory please? anyone?

  • 05.11.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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omfg put this in the other thread!!!! u think ur the only one with theorys

  • 05.11.2006 1:24 PM PDT
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i tried but i was getting N ERROR so i made a new one...sorry

  • 05.11.2006 1:24 PM PDT
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pink grunts with shotguns would be nice

  • 05.11.2006 1:26 PM PDT
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When did Cortana defy MC? If he is in fact the "demon".

  • 05.11.2006 1:31 PM PDT
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'The number you've reached is not in service....'

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she did not "defy" as u said, MC. but she did owever lerave him to go to EArth, and durin the game, she says that she needs him and shell stay with him i believe.

  • 05.11.2006 5:57 PM PDT
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something that is missing is the flood, what is going on with them homies? anyways this new thing beneath the earth's surface looks to me like either another "beacon" so to say, maybe earth is another halo? or we may all be totally incorrect.

  • 05.11.2006 6:08 PM PDT
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i pretty much agree with everything you said except i dont look into it as much as you do lol sorry.

  • 05.11.2006 6:12 PM PDT

I already thought she was being controlled by the gravemind and this re-affirms it.

  • 05.11.2006 6:23 PM PDT
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ok i had a friend point this out to me, but the words before the logo are a quote from a poem. read the whole thing and get some literature in your caffine addaled brains.

The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot (1925)
I


We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar


Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;


Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.


II


Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.


Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --


Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom


III


This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.


Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.


IV


The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms


In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river


Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.


V


Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.


Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow


For Thine is the Kingdom


Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow


Life is very long


Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom


For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the


This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

  • 05.11.2006 6:30 PM PDT