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Subject: Cortanas age?
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I was just wandering how long cortana has been existance because in the first halo book Dr. Halsey states that "smart AI's" only usually live for about seven years, then they think too much and pretty much overload. Can anyone answer my question because this could be the state of mind she is in now... but I highly doubt it.

  • 05.20.2006 6:02 PM PDT
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I forgot which is was. but in the halo2 forums there was a topic about this ages ago.

she was rather 9 or 11 years old when talking to gravemind at end of halo2.

  • 05.20.2006 6:05 PM PDT
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She was not 9 or 11. At 7 years old Smart AIs die.

  • 05.20.2006 6:38 PM PDT

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She is 5 years old in 2552.

  • 05.20.2006 6:40 PM PDT
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She's 5 but she got all screwed up after halo if you read the books, so it took like 2 years of her life.

  • 05.20.2006 6:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Demon Swordz
She's 5 but she got all screwed up after halo if you read the books, so it took like 2 years of her life.


Why did she get screwed up? Where does it state that it took 2 years of her life?

  • 05.20.2006 6:52 PM PDT

Because the Halo had so much information in its records

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yeah, it never said she got screwed up... I have the feeling that she'll be an AI that somehow lives past the 7 year period...

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btw it says that she was slower bc of all the info she had on her about HALO not "She was screwed up"

  • 05.20.2006 6:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Reanimation
She is 5 years old in 2552.


If she is 5 during end of halo1: CE. i think it would take along time to crozz a zazzilion billion miles, and then get back to earth to meet johnson's clone.
and then in halo2, it happens over a month.so that means 6years and a month old at end of halo2.
and this new trailer shpws her still alive, after touchdown on earth, and the uncovering of earth.

Could this ark be there only because when regrets ship left, it left that large hole?

  • 05.20.2006 6:56 PM PDT
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We don't know how old Cortana is.

  • 05.20.2006 6:58 PM PDT
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or do we...........hmmm?

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  • 05.20.2006 6:59 PM PDT
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Carrots.

Well do you mean her age age, or her AI age?

Her AI age is estimated at around 5 - 13 years, I mean, not all smart AI's brain overload, they're memory christal doesn't gain information randomly and expand, if the AI is, for example, shut off for say... two years, than they will live those extra two years, now, if she hasn't been studying or anything, she could have been alot older than Seven years old.

Her -age -age, as in her real age, is most likeley late thirties to early fourties.
Since Dr. Halsey was most likeley late thirties when she met Master Chief, now she's trained the spartans since they we're six, well, now Master Chiefs estimated age is at fourty one, so she's most likeley eighty or something, with good reason, since she has wrinkles ect...
Cortana was made when Halsey was, I'm pretty sure, in her fifties, and since Cortana is a younger version... she could be in her late thirties, and she has been a partner and friend to Master Chief since he was twenty, when Halsey gave Cortana to Master Cheeze.

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Who knew 5-7 year olds could be such a turn-on?

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Posted by: WDTSF
Who knew 5-7 year olds could be such a turn-on?


ok, thats kinda gross...

I wonder when Cortana's Birthday is...

  • 05.21.2006 9:30 AM PDT
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Johnsons clone? What are you talking about?

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i would also like to know what he means by Johnsons clone. Maybe that is how he survived Halo erupting he never did it was just a clone >.> but thanks guys i meant from when she was made to the end of halo 2 or w/e but thanks again.

  • 05.21.2006 11:09 AM PDT
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She probably downloaded all the data from Halo once she got back to Earth, and thus is back up to a normal, 7 year lifespan.

Although, I can't imagine Gravemind is helping things.

  • 05.21.2006 11:11 AM PDT
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Her exact age I dont know... but I think it comes out as about 6 or 7

  • 05.21.2006 11:13 AM PDT

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Posted by: stargaiden
Maybe Bungie will make an update containes a terrible flaw and causes you xbox to explode leaving nothing but a black outline where it used to be.

Shhhhhh. That one is still in development.

I hear the best it can manage right now is a small fire. Exploding hardware may sound easy, but they're really hard to code.


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She's over 18...I SWEAR!!!!

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I think by H3 she is on the verge of going rampant and with Gravemind assaulting her and all the halos info, im not suprised.

  • 05.21.2006 11:18 AM PDT
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Read three posts above you. Why would Cortana keep the data from the first Halo, when she could dump it and (theoretically) not have to worry about Rampancy for another year or two

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Carrots.

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Posted by: WDTSF
Who knew 5-7 year olds could be such a turn-on?


ok, thats kinda gross...

I wonder when Cortana's Birthday is...


The same time as Dr. Halsey's

  • 05.21.2006 11:24 AM PDT
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acording to the books, she was created in 2542, and down loading halo's info, "significantly shortend her lifespan"...

  • 05.21.2006 11:55 AM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

Well, you've got to remember, she also cloned herself into many rough replicas, so she may have restored her age by as much as, I dunno, a year.

  • 05.21.2006 11:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: stargaiden
Maybe Bungie will make an update containes a terrible flaw and causes you xbox to explode leaving nothing but a black outline where it used to be.

Shhhhhh. That one is still in development.

I hear the best it can manage right now is a small fire. Exploding hardware may sound easy, but they're really hard to code.


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Posted by: WDTSF
Who knew 5-7 year olds could be such a turn-on?

She's pretty hot to be 5-7 years old. Does she have a sister?

  • 05.21.2006 12:02 PM PDT

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