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Subject: Evidence of Cortana's Rampancy... from 1999?
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http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortanaJune29.html

Could Cortana have been rampant from much, much earlier than before?

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I was going over the Letters and I found this, which I hadn't noticed before. (Me and my speed reading...)

Note lines one, three, and 12.

Wait... 1+3 = 4. 4+12 = 16. 1+6 = 7...

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i still doubt Cortana is rampant...either way she will lay a critical role in the way things unfold.

  • 05.13.2006 11:39 PM PDT
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I quote line 12.

"Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children."

Cortana's words?

And I'm pretty sure Cortana is reaching the Anger stage of Rampancy. After all, she was inside a computer the size of a world, and that should've given her a helluva lot of room to expand... but then, that would mean that her Rampancy order is incorrect. Or was started because she was liberated, not mistreated.

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  • 05.13.2006 11:45 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.

I haven't seen a large discussion of the cortana letters in like three months! Any ways yeah defently a godo read. It helps me to believe that cortana is not who we were told. The way I see it ONI convinced Dr hasely of the greater good for man kind . The survial and preservation of the race. She then agreed to go alogn witht he cortana bit. Mean while ONI was taking part of archaeologist digs on planets outside our solar system. They dug up buildings of what used to be of the forerunner civilizations. They uncovered and unlocked AI's hundreds of years old and sent them back to ONI's main base station in sydney australia , earth. Little did they know that these AI's past were much larger then they could of realized. Little did they know that they uncovered Demons ( fallen angels like sariel ) and even DEMI gods ( like beowulf) . They then purged the AI's deleting there previous memory. They then used the AI's for various reasons. Beowulf ( also known as Archiles and roland) was used for military purposes (so far at 2362). Now in 2362 humanities computers were hacked by an unknown source and a female AI was stolen. Oni had no mode to send an AI after it and instead sent a thousand ships and there cover up was it was a colony ship. Archiles (beowulf) lead the battle and followed his directions to follow to the planet she was taken to. When they got to the planet they seen a large city. Inside was king priam king of that land. When he gained word that he was being attacked his people preped. King priam was an AI and had two sons modeled in his image. The first was hector and the second was paris. Paris had been the one that stolen the human AI. Hector the first son of priam was going to fight the enemies. He planned to infiltrate there vehicles and take them down as well as destroy any of there AIs. Before doing so King Priam unmerged with an AI long passed down in his family. The lower class AI he was merged with was called "durandal". See in this world there are a few types of AIs. Lower class AI's or known as weapons or swords . Normal AIs that had a limited life span and then DEMI god AI's and angel AI's and then GOD AIs. Hector merged with this lower class AI and mounted for war.

Mean while archiles was also prepping for war. Archiles was a mere normal or mortal AI when he was first re-created from his previous self. How ever the women that re-formatted archiles thus re-creating him used a program on him that strengthed his coding. How ever one small 0 in his binary code was not strengthened and that was his weakness. Later in battle archiles defeated hector stealing the sword of durandal ( or the lower AI). Later when archiles was defeated by an anit AI program attacking it at it's weak point the AI was sent to earth to be re-formatted again and his lower class AI was unmerged and sent away. Little did they know archiles had an ancient past but durandals past was much older. Eventually humanity tricked these aliens into opening there gate and then they were slaughtered. When humanity set fire to the aliens planet two escaped. To later form the roman empire (the covenant). The covenant then took over planet after planet taking slaves for war and one day encountered humanity.

Let me remind you that the above is a THEORY. Based upon a small amount of evidence shwoing the trojan wars takes place at around 2362. Also it's a fact king priam gave hector the sword of durandal. It's a fact the in the mythology that two trojans escaped to form the roman empire. It's also a fact beowulf is an AI from ONI who according to a termianl from marathon ( a previous bungie game) is also roland and archiles. To make ti clear the trojan race would be the prophets.



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I think Cortana started going rampant after she downloaded the Halo information. Holding such a large amount of information could have drastically reduced her life-span.

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Posted by: ghostvirus
I haven't seen a large discussion of the cortana letters in like three months!

I saw one like three hours ago.
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  • 05.14.2006 12:27 AM PDT
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wat u say about Cortana's rampancy is backed up and related to Halo through this site. For example check this out... She speaks of "psychotic zealots whose primary form of worship apparently takes place at the altar of orbital bombardment"

Now to me Psychotic Zealots shout out covenant 100%
and the altar of orbital bombardment?? ... sounds like one of the Halo's to me

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Now to me Psychotic Zealots shout out covenant 100%
and the altar of orbital bombardment?? ... sounds like one of the Halo's to me


I believe she was referring to the fact that the Covenant bombard a planet from orbit once theyve destroyed the defending forces.

  • 05.14.2006 1:00 AM PDT