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Subject: Cortana at the end of her life
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Somewhere it was mentioned that cortana and similar AI have a life span of about seven years. Many people think that gravemind has corrupted cortana or something, but it think it is just because it is that cortana is reaching the end of her life span. Halo 1 came out in 2001, and halo 3 comes out in 2007. That is almost seven years right there. i don't know if that makes any sense, but could explain what is up with cortana. sorry if this has been mentioned before, didn't see it so thought i would post about it.

  • 05.11.2006 3:00 PM PDT

Hmm, interesting. The Gravemind may have corrupted her. He may have given her more knowledge. And remember why AIs die: They overload with too much knowledge. So I think that she is corrupted, but is dying from the knowledge overload.

  • 05.11.2006 3:02 PM PDT
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Yeah, but all three games take place within the period of one year.

Halo 3 may take place within the spring of 2553. So you are probably looking at Cortana being around for about 4 to 5 years, not seven.

  • 05.11.2006 3:02 PM PDT

wht he said up there ^^^

Just becasue 7 years have passed since the game came out does not mean that 7 years in the game has

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  • 05.11.2006 3:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mr Merciless
Hmm, interesting. The Gravemind may have corrupted her. He may have given her more knowledge. And remember why AIs die: They overload with too much knowledge. So I think that she is corrupted, but is dying from the knowledge overload.
That was another thing i was thinking about, how in the trailer she says that she knows your future. i remember in another thread that someone mentioned about a time loop. i think that that could have something to do with her knowing the future. Gravemind probably know what is going to happen, as in the saying history repeats itself, and gave cortana thousands of years of information. That and the number of years that she was in existance could be what is causing her to act so differently.

I know the time period in which the game takes place, but i was just thinking that how long halo been out and how cortana is acting has something to do with each other. Maybe that is what Bungie may be thinking. But who knows....

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  • 05.11.2006 3:09 PM PDT