- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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.