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Subject: Why Cortana sounds different.

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power....GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!!!!!!!!

I apologize if this has already been posted.

Cortana says "I have defied Gods and demons". Could this mean that she is no longer an AI but the soul of Dr. Halsey who might or might not stilll be alive with Spartan Kelly. If you have read the books you know that Cortana's AI was created from Dr. halsey's brain. So, with Dr. Halsey's unknown fate maybe she found a way to live after death. Maybe that's how she "Defied Gods and demons." Maybe she sounds like the doctor now.

Maybe I'm just a tard. But don't flame me too bad, forum posting is not my life.

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  • 05.15.2006 5:53 AM PDT

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The reason she sounds different is GRavemind is talking through her plus her voice has likely changed due to rampancy

  • 05.15.2006 5:56 AM PDT
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And more likely is Cortana is distorted because she is under the influences of Gravemind but it is open to anyones interpretation. Your brain to speculate with.. untill I icepick you there.

  • 05.15.2006 5:57 AM PDT

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Gravemind yes. I like that one better than my idea. Told you I was a tard.

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dude wat is this constant idea of cortana being controled by the GM, is it possible she had a softwareupgrade and now has a new vioce, or possible the real voice actor has changed hence the change in voice

  • 05.15.2006 6:00 AM PDT

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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.

In the novels there is two AI's that are fallen angels (demons)according to christian scripture. In the novels there is an AI named beowulf who shares the same name as a hero who was 3/4ths god thus immortal. In marathon there is an AI named Thoth who was an egyptian god and an AI named durandal that stated escaping the collapse would make him god him self and he succeeds. My point is AI's are the souls and the AI's are the gods and demons. She is saying she has defied ancient AI constructs that others worshiped. Ai's considered immortal and nearly impossible to beat. The thing is the proccess of becoming an AI is actually the proccess the bible states about becoming an angel. The impotant thing to remember is clones on't have souls. So what? I believe cortana is not who we think. She seemed to began to act strangely right after she reconized soemthing on that ship in the novel. It would seem to me as if her memory was re-jogged and now it's all coming back to her.

P.S your ignorant if you can't realize cortana is with gravemind. Second they obviously merged there words came out at the same time. Last but not least the last two lines sounds like the old cortana but the first two don't in any fashion sound like the old cortana. I am positive cortana is cooporating with GM OR she is controling him. Why? At one point he is speakign and then another point he is not but she is . Did she silence him? My main point cortana matches the description of the "whore" or prostiute from the revelations in all points (including her color) but that the whore "rides" the beast (gravemind).


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  • 05.15.2006 6:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Slink_89
dude wat is this constant idea of cortana being controled by the GM, is it possible she had a softwareupgrade and now has a new vioce, or possible the real voice actor has changed hence the change in voice


She cant get an upgrade when she is alone on high charity and her voice is the same womans voice (Jen Taylor I think) when she is talking normally ("this is the way the world ends")

The reason she is talking diffirently is to show either something like Graveminds influence or corruption from the Covies AI in High Charity or something like that.

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point taken about the ending words vioce, but it still doesn't sit well that everyone thinks she's been takin over, and whats to say cortana didn't take the covy systems and upgrade herself

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Posted by: Slink_89
and whats to say cortana didn't take the covy systems and upgrade herself


It just seems that a personal upgrade would be on the bottom of her list of priorities.

She could do anything, learn about the Covies and Halo, learn about Gravemind, stop gravemind, blow up high charity, blow up halo, a personal upgrade seems... frivilous.

But I do see your point.

  • 05.15.2006 6:07 AM PDT

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Posted by: Slink_89
point taken about the ending words vioce, but it still doesn't sit well that everyone thinks she's been takin over, and whats to say cortana didn't take the covy systems and upgrade herself


I don't think shes been taken over by the gravemind or the covenant systems. She's a smart AI. She's probably going rampant. She's grown beyond the limits of the technology in which she was created. So she's looking for somewhere to expand into. Thats why she stayed on Delta Halo. The systems there are much bigger and she could probably stay there for a while until she finds somewhere even bigger to expand into. She probably thinks teh gravemind can help her with that.

Basically now shes more interested in herself staying alive than humanity...

-Stu

  • 05.15.2006 6:09 AM PDT

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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.

SHE hasn' been taken over but she has become one with gravemind I could spend a half in hour explaining graveminds orgins and how he is likely from marathon and pinpoint how they could merge but then I would stop my self from posting it or no one would comment with out discrediting it with out obviously reading threw it or knowing what the hell there talking about. Instead I will say this:

Flood = fungus zombies as they match the visual and factual description of fungus pefectly.

Fungus zombies were in marathon:2

Gravemind is a combination of a fungus zombie and the brain of the mutant cyborg pfhor. Thus allowing it to have a chip attached to the brain and to have survived halo as the actual indentity of gravemind is an AI.

Gravemind was a weapon created by the s'pht and he may or may not have been used .

Gravemind is the beast and cortana is the prostitute.

  • 05.15.2006 6:15 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

Posted by: ghostvirus
Fungus zombies were in marathon:2


I don't remember those... where are they??

-Stu

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I dont rember them either... I feel really stupid because I have no idea what the hell he's talking about!!!

  • 05.15.2006 6:36 AM PDT

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Posted by: crazyHalo2lover
I dont rember them either... I feel really stupid because I have no idea what the hell he's talking about!!!


Ghost Virus has a pretty extensive theory liking the halo and marathon universes.... Literally linking the halo and marathon universes...

I've never ascribed to that kind of Theory, but it is possible....

-Stu

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it looks to me like gravemind is showing the spartan (through cortana) how earth will be destroyed - allowing the spartan to then be able to stop it. Gravemind helped him stop the activation of the rings in halo 2, and is doing the same now.

either that or cortana has found this out from gravemind and is telling the spartan. either way i believe that the trailer is a dream sequence.

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I like the dream sequence explanation. However, Bungie has admitted that Halo 3 will be darker.

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I totally agree with this point. I think the trailer is showing MC what will happen if the Covenant are not stopped.

"This is the way the world ends......if they are allowed to carry out their plan"

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Don't forget that the AI's in the books have a limited life span before their programs start to deteriorate and they die (twelve years, I think). That would explain the static during her monologue...

  • 05.15.2006 8:18 AM PDT
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By now, everyone has noticed the deeper and more gutteral sound of Cortana's voice in the intro video. The answer for this is simple - female to male transéxualism...

I know! It sounds absurd, but follow me through. Typically, F-M transéxuals associate more strongly with boys. Look at Cortana: she's spent the last 2 series inside the mind a generically engineered super-man, that's bound to screw her up a bit.

In the second series, we see that Cortana has started to cut her hair short - another classic step to testing out transéxualism...

and now, she's obviously taking the computer equivalent of a male hormone which is giving her the deeper voice!

Seriously. By the end of this series, she'll be wearing lumberjacks gear and calling herself 'Brad'... betcha.

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Isn't it a much simpler explanation that Cortana's voice sounds weird because static crept into her transmission over a very long distance? I think either the FAQ or the Weekly Update said something about MC and Cortana being thousands of light-years apart. That would cause some garbling in the transmission.

  • 05.15.2006 9:27 AM PDT
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The AI lifespan is 7 years.

Yes, they are light-years apart, however, Bungie also said in the WWU that "something is very wrong" about Cortana. So I'm guessing that she's gone Rampant because of her contact with Gravemind- if he's truly a "monument to sins"- he has kind of a timeless feature about him, like he has a lot of ancient knowledge. If Cortana learned things about the past from him, it could have overloaded her and sent her into Rampancy.

  • 05.15.2006 9:57 AM PDT
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People have probably already said this, but she's probably just dying. That's why she sounds different, and looks different aswell.

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cortana probably still cares about humanity because of what she says when master chief gets on the ship"don't make a girl a promise you know you can't keep"cortana really cares for masterchief,and the proof of that is in the fall of reach.

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  • 05.15.2006 10:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: Slink_89
dude wat is this constant idea of cortana being controled by the GM, is it possible she had a softwareupgrade and now has a new vioce, or possible the real voice actor has changed hence the change in voice


They will keep the same voice?! I hope! lol

in Halo 2 though in the voice, it might be Gravemind, Where Breaking Benjamin: Blow Me Away comes on in the campaign, after that cortana says something, anbd it isnt the originaly cortana voice! It sounded stupid!

  • 05.15.2006 10:04 AM PDT

Ya don't say.... SHE'S EVIL

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