- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Vertigo540
Posted by: masta_chief117
Posted by: Vertigo540
Maybe I missed something from CE, but why was the level called "Two betrayals?
excelent point! betrayed by the orbiter and perhaos cortana
Ha, I've been trying to figure it out since I read the level name.
Isn't it called Two Betrayals, because the Master Chief was betrayed by Guilty Spark and Captain Keyes? After all, in that level you discover that the Captain has been infected by the Flood-he is now a Flood, so technically he betrayed the MC because he is on the Flood's side, instead of the Chief's.
A bit of a flimsy theory, but probably true. Still you might have a point there.
And about Cortana being evil. Maybe she is hacked by Gravemind and turned "evil" in Halo 3, but if you have read the books, they're are many times in them, and in Halo 2, that Cortana could have left the Chief to die. Like when a Flood combat form hacked off the MC's neck armour, and an infection form nearly infected him. Cortana used his shields to generate an electrical charge that killed the Flood. If she was evil then, why would she save him from being infected?
And when she made a slipspace jump from inside Threshold's atmosphere to avoid crashing into its surface. She could easily've done nothing, and let the MC and his companions plummet to the their death, couldn't she?
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And maybe she isn't evil in Halo 3 either. I mean Cortana is, even with the burden of the data from Halo's data banks, a very clever AI. Why would she let Gravemind hack her? And I also agree that " I am your shield, I am your sword" isn't a very threatening message. And think about this. Gravemind is partly evil, yes, but if he was entirely evil, wouldn't he just kill the Arbiter and the MC?
[Edited on 5/13/2006]