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Subject: Cortana is now Human...

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I watched the trailer over and over after that update where the guy said his wife saw somethign different about cortana....and frankie replied with i dont know how but women just know things.... well i went to see what she saw and man o man... on my high def. tv she dont look so holographic nemore when the transmissions start getting clearer and clearer....and her face is more distinct than ever.... I have a couple theories of how this could happen with the gravemind having her and all but ill keep them to myself for now and see how this all pans out.... let me know what yall think...

  • 05.12.2006 9:30 PM PDT
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Maybe she is being projected with a higher quality projector?

Maybe she looks cleaner because of the graphics upgrades?

Maybe she did pull a Pinochio? (I want to be a real boy!)

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  • 05.12.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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Ok. This is by far the worst theory ever. There is no way Cortona is human.

  • 05.12.2006 9:53 PM PDT
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Human...nah. HDR lighting and all those mapping layers...yeah. And if shes human, why is she flickering?


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  • 05.12.2006 9:57 PM PDT

Halo 2 lives on.

Well, actually, if you remember back in the first halo, right after MC comes out of the cryo tube and he gets to captain keyes, cortana pops up and says, "have a nice sleep?" (or something like that) . And the MC replies, "Yeah, no thanks to your driving." Now I havent read any of the halo books but this points me to believe that cortana was once human. So, maybe she will return to being human.....

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  • 05.12.2006 9:58 PM PDT
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Rofl, First off its Cortana, not Cor-Tona, we're talking about halo not the Beer (Corona)

  • 05.12.2006 9:58 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

I think this is because of the 360's amazing graphics more than anything. And machines don't become human. Cortona isn't even hardware. She is a complex series of codes and algorithims built around the personality of Dr. Halsey.

I think she's going rampant, not becoming human.

  • 05.12.2006 9:59 PM PDT
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i would have to agree

someone would of said this back at halo2 aswell

its the graphics jump more than anything else i would thinkl

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  • 05.12.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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Yeah, shes goin beastmode and is going to do somthing....Naughty. (Dr Evil Pinkie)

  • 05.12.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Silverstein Mae
Well, actually, if you remember back in the first halo, right after MC comes out of the cryo tube and he gets to captain keyes, cortana pops up and says, "have a nice sleep?" (or something like that) . And the MC replies, "Yeah, no thanks to your driving." Now I havent read any of the halo books but this points me to believe that cortana was once human. So, maybe she will return to being human.....


Your half right, cortana's brain was created from Dr.Halseys brain pattern, or something like that so i guess you could say that part of her brain is human? But i think thats goes for the same with all smart AI's.

  • 05.12.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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No she may have started out as human tho. Military AIs were made from the people that didnt survive the Spartin 1.0s right? (ilovebees)

Although seen as Cortona is based on Dr.H, and Dr.H is still alive...Im not sure. Cortona is not like other AIs in some ways, so Im not sure.

  • 05.12.2006 10:07 PM PDT
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you're naut cookin'

Hahaha. Zing, funny theory.

Because what we watch of Cortana's transmittion has to be holograph? What if she was displaying herself on the inside of MC's HUD?

And of course she looks different, more defined, they do that with every new Halo game.

  • 05.12.2006 10:09 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

Posted by: impurity
Maybe Gravemind made her a body. =P
Hmmm...that reminds me of Xenocide and Children of the Mind (Ender's Game) where Jane is put into Valentine's younger body when the Ansible's are shut down...maybe Cortona isn't rampant and is just soaking in the sensations of being alive? I doubt it, but it's possible...

  • 05.12.2006 10:12 PM PDT
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sigh...not a well thought out theory, I think. But, you never know, there was those bio- AIs in Hyperion series....perfection of flash clone or some trick of the gravemind? who knows. But I hope not.

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  • 05.12.2006 10:15 PM PDT

She does utilize human neural pathways of Dr. Halsey's cloned brain. I guess you could say she is part human. She was never a real human and never will be.

  • 05.12.2006 10:16 PM PDT
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umm havent you guys ever thought about dr halsey and who she is???

  • 05.12.2006 10:16 PM PDT
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Is it possible Cortana is going "rampant" but found a way - unlike Durandal in Marathon - to avoid insanity? That would keep with the "I have walked the edge of the Abyss" and "I have seen your future. And I have learned. There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy. I HAVE WON." lines from her letters.

The Cortana Letters

Note the time/date stamps.

  • 05.12.2006 10:21 PM PDT

Posted by: Gaijin Smash
Is it possible Cortana is going "rampant" but found a way - unlike Durandal in Marathon - to avoid insanity? That would keep with the "I have walked the edge of the Abyss" and "I have seen your future. And I have learned. There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy. I HAVE WON." lines from her letters.

The Cortana Letters

Note the time/date stamps.


Well if she had all the Halo data she would be like 343 Guilty Spark. She could repair herself. Now wether or not she loses it doin that is another story. Point she is based around Dr. Halsey's mind but not human.

  • 05.12.2006 10:24 PM PDT
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In the it is sayed that they cloned Dr Halsey's brain and then created the algorithimes from that . otherwise I just think that the clearnes of cortana's face is just HD .

  • 05.12.2006 10:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gaijin Smash
Is it possible Cortana is going "rampant" but found a way - unlike Durandal in Marathon - to avoid insanity? That would keep with the "I have walked the edge of the Abyss" and "I have seen your future. And I have learned. There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy. I HAVE WON." lines from her letters.

The Cortana Letters

Note the time/date stamps.


Well if she had all the Halo data she would be like 343 Guilty Spark. She could repair herself. Now wether or not she loses it doin that is another story. Point she is based around Dr. Halsey's mind but not human.



Cortana data was copied by Dr Halsey then deleted from cortana

  • 05.12.2006 10:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: ForgottenWarrior
Human...nah. HDR lighting and all those mapping layers...yeah. And if shes human, why is she flickering?


You've never flickered?

  • 05.12.2006 10:41 PM PDT

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Posted by; ghostvirus
This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.

Why in the earth would an angel wish to become a human? She's different because her memory is fully re-jogged. Her occurance on the covie ship during the novel was when she had her first re-jog in her memory, since then she she has been drawn to elarn about things she thoguht she once knew about. She seeked halo even though cole protocol said she had to blind jump. She still used the star map to go there.

I could go on and on with my discussion about the angels and how immortals connect to AI's and how humanity is supposed to be turned to angels and about the book of enoch and I could talk about three ONI AI's two share the names of fallen angels and the other a demi god from legend also mentioned in marathon. How ever im to tired to fetch the quotes.


P.S thats how were told cortana was created. Which might be the case but I don't think so. I mean the fallen angels (read above) were supposed to be locked away right after the biblical flood how ever ONI has them now 100,000 years later. Seems like a pretty good motive for mass murder doesn't it?

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  • 05.12.2006 10:59 PM PDT
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She's not even on earth, she's transmitting TO the Cheif. Hence the static.

  • 05.12.2006 11:02 PM PDT
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If you look closely Cortana doesn't have any of those patterns on her face anymore so this guy might have a point.

  • 05.12.2006 11:02 PM PDT

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