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  • Subject: What if the true villan behind halo is Cortana herself?
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well one thing I do feel certain on is that she will still be hooking up with the chief. By what she says on how I am your shiled and i am your SWORD. (Wich they emphasized on in the Q and A). and how she says she knows his past and future. Im assuming she needs the Chief, so you will still be hearing her in your head wile blasting away brutes.

  • 05.12.2006 8:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: masta_chief117
arbitor isnt evil but no 1 really likes him i mean at first he trys to kill keys daughter and the chief too so no1 really likes him so they r hoping he dies in a cut scene


He NEVER EVER tries to kill the chief or Keyes' daughter. u only kill the flood & heretics & brutes as him. Plus I know a whole lot of people who think he is awesome. :P

  • 05.12.2006 8:30 PM PDT
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oh well i said what i needed to. theres no way of knowing for sure till the game comes out. (or beg and beg until maybe one of the staff members hear me and decide to tell me themselves. But im not counting on that)

I just hope she ends up on the chiefs side in the end.

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  • 05.12.2006 8:31 PM PDT
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I'm not sure about what I'm about to say, so I'll say it anyway. I feel that there may be some truth to this topic. Maybe, in a throwback to Bungie's previous FPS series, Marathon (which Bungie likes to sneak some referrences to in the Halo games), the AI, Cortana in this case, has become rampant and could be persuing her own goals.

In another sense, I find it a bit odd that, in the announcement trailer, she starts off by being shown ratherly abstractly, with definite hints to Gravemind in the background audio. However, as the trailer continues, she becomes much more defined and the audio hints are removed. Maybe this is foreshadowing a plot that would start out with her being manipulated by Gravemind, but near the end she regains a sense of herself near the conclusion? A similar plotline was seen in the ARG ilovebees.

Of course, I could be completely wrong in all of this, so feel free to point out any contradictions I could have accidentally made.

  • 05.12.2006 8:33 PM PDT
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I think that gravemind might make Cortana send the flood to Earth using the slip stream ... and that in the trailer she might be telling Chief that she is being made to do it against her will. I dunno if she is evil though.

  • 05.12.2006 8:35 PM PDT
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The trailer was awsome and danm it marty's music makes it all the better. I seriously almost shed a tear. His work compliments this game so much. I hope he does the soundtrack for the movie.

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  • 05.12.2006 8:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: RandomHero21
oh well i said what i needed to. theres no way of knowing for sure till the game comes out. (or beg and beg until maybe one of the staff members hear me and decide to tell me themselves. But im not counting on that)

I just hope she ends up on the chiefs side in the end.


I agree, it would suck if she was evil and didn't help th chief.:(

  • 05.12.2006 8:36 PM PDT
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the fact of not knowing is Killing me. or not even having the slightest hint. Its gonna take about a week to get this off my mind.

  • 05.12.2006 8:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sonic86
that trailer was so cooooooooooool man and this is coming form chick who loves to cut hair at hari dreses and likes to talk at in the moring this blue eyeed italion is off her rocker


You put too much emphasis on you being a blue eyed Italian girl.....

  • 05.12.2006 8:38 PM PDT
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Hey im italian to :) . Nothing wrong with chicks liking games. Especialy this one cause its genius. I would play it just for the story. But danm it that trailer was sooooo goood and its driving me insane with questions.

  • 05.12.2006 8:38 PM PDT
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Marty will have to do the soundtrack for the movie or that would freakin' suck.

  • 05.12.2006 8:38 PM PDT
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Yeah the trailer OWNS so badly it is amazing!

  • 05.12.2006 8:41 PM PDT
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nothing wrong witht hat. But outta curiosity am I the only one who DOESNT want to see cortana go bad???

  • 05.12.2006 8:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Skillet98
FINALLY! A new theory that I haven't heard 2,000 times today!


True. Originality.
I'm sure other people have thought of it, but you're the first one to REALLY think about it and actually post it. And the more I think about it, the more it seems plausible. It's just the kind of twist Bungie would throw in there to keep us on our toes.
But, all things considered, I don't think so. The raw emotion from here just seemed too real to be faked in the last part of H2 when MC gets on the Forerunner ship.
But I guess we'll see...

  • 05.12.2006 8:43 PM PDT
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Dang it I just want a bungie official to jump in and give me a sign. If theres one thing I know about me its that im very impatient.

  • 05.12.2006 8:45 PM PDT