- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well...
There could be several resons/theories that Cortana is speaking like this.
1. Cortana has been overshadowed by Gravemind and has become corupted, howelse would she get into the desert plains? Something had to be controlling the Cheif's armor from outside of it, which Cortana can not do. So who or what generated the image? Most possibly Gravemind.
2. Cortana is coming close to her final stages of life, and is not 'thinking' clearly snce AIs think themself to , as mentioned in The Fall of Reach. She may be overshadowed by Gravemind, but it's not an absolute for the final game, is it? (I better do more reserch on that...)
3. Gravemind and Cortana may have become one. Strange I know, but it may be true, anyways this was just a crazy theory.
4. What everybody else said. No AI corruption and Gravemind has pure control over her.
But that doesn't answer this one not-so-simple question:
How did Cortana get out onto the desert plains without a holo-transmmitter!? Or, if it was by using an external holo-emmiting unit on the cheif's suit, how did Cortana use it if she's half-way across the galaxy?