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The Cortana/Gravemind/Rampancy Thread

The purpose of this thread is mainly to compile as many different facts, ideas, theories, and information regarding Cortana, her going rampant, and the possibility of gravemind controlling/influencing her.

My Theory:
I just developed this like 5 mins ago, so it might need some help lol.

Ok. At the end of Halo 2, Cortana was left at High Charity. While MC was still at High Charity, cortana repeatedly talks about the presence of another AI in the system. I don't think it's gravemind, i'll get to him, i think it's a Covie AI. Cortana has encountered a covie AI before, once on the covie ship, The Uneven Elephant. Sothe possibility of another covie AI is almost garunteed.

Now it's only natural to think that since Cortana is an intruding presence on the covenant battlenet, the covie AI would try to attack and remove the intruder. So i think a sort of battle or 'rootwar' took place between the two AI forces. Originally i thought that Cortana would win this battle, but then i got to thinking about what if she didn't. cortana never complained about the first covie AI she encountered, she kind of just worked around it without much of a problem. I think this covie AI is different. stronger. better than cortana.

So IF cortana were to be destroyed by this AI, could something similar to what happened to John and the arbiter take place? I mean where they are transported somehow to be with the gravemind. If cortana is pretty much defeated and almost killed like MC while running off the structure after killing regret, could she too be put into the presence of the gravemind? If this were to happen it would explain the lines from the trailer, "I know you, your past, your future. This is the way the world ends.". Cortana see through the gravemind what was happening. Simply put, Cortana gets the sight of Gravemind.

This new 'sight', added to the unsorted info from the halo ring(s) and her battle with the covie AI could easily lead to Cortana's rampancy. and for those who don't know, rampancy is where an AI collects and retains sooooo much information and tries to learn and make sense of all of it, that the AI basically thinks itself to death, and has no more memory capacity to take in anyhing new, and therefore the thought process stops. cortana has show early signs of rampancy when she sometimes repeats things, or gives unnecessary info. Also, we know that cortana has the ability to go rampant because the copies of herself that she made to combat a covie AI became rampant because there were too many fo the same AI in one place.

if cortana is rampant, it would explain her seemingly starange messeage, presumeably to John-117. If she's not, then her message is just a show of what she's seen, and her attempts to warn, and prevent "the way the world ends"

While i know this theory is far-fetched, i think it has some very good points, especially the possibility of Cortana being with the Gravemind at some point.

you guys let me know what you think!

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  • 05.13.2006 12:48 AM PDT
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bump.

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  • 05.13.2006 12:09 PM PDT
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When Cortana mentions that there's a presence in High Charity, fighting back, she says something similar to "for a Covenant construct, it's unusually formidable." I got the feeling that it was a Forerunner AI, and while I don't remember the exact context, if the construct was in the Forerunner ship's system, I think it's quite possible that it's a Forerunner AI.

I will go look up context, but I felt like mentioning my interpretation, even if I have nothing to back it up with.

  • 05.13.2006 12:23 PM PDT
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If you read the books you would know that AI's have a lifespan based on the amount of knowledge they compile. Once an AI has reached a certain limit to their knowledge they go crazy and die. That's probably what's happening along with the fact that gravemind has control of her.

  • 05.13.2006 12:28 PM PDT

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bump.

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  • 05.13.2006 12:28 PM PDT