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typical of microsoft to develop a character who will crash and become obsolete in 7 years :)

  • 05.21.2006 12:04 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
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: Cpt Commie
typical of microsoft to develop a character who will crash and become obsolete in 7 years :)


Well, it's better than the MAC's. They look all cool and powerful. But they suck ass. They couldn't even kill the covenant.

  • 05.21.2006 12:14 PM PDT
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maybe she will have her period and die.

  • 05.21.2006 12:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
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: Coolio
maybe she will have her period and die.

oh yeah...she'll bleed to death.

  • 05.21.2006 12:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Master Cheif4490
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"


Its like a computer. The more information you give it the slower and usually lower life span it has.

Try filling up your hard drive and see how long your computer will last compared to one maybe 25% filled up.

  • 05.21.2006 12:21 PM PDT
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she's probably going rampant as a result of her older age. i remember on "Assault on the Control Room" i thought she was going rampant cuz she was pleading for me to stop keyes. i thought she wanted the guy dead. i say she's going to be an antagonist in halo 3 and will potentially "die" from her older age.

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  • 05.21.2006 12:30 PM PDT
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We first find out about cortana in 2542, Fall of reach, lets say she was created then. By halo 1 the year is 2552, so she is already 10 years into her 'lifespan'. Say Halo 2 was a year later at the least, she is 11, way over the average lifespan of a smart AI.

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  • 05.21.2006 12:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: cadab
We first find out about cortana in 2542, Fall of reach, lets say she was created then. By halo 1 the year is 2552, so she is already 10 years into her 'lifespan'. Say Halo 2 was a year later at the least, she is 11, way over the average lifespan of a smart AI.


Wow. Good work. The books also say Smart AIs die/go rampant in 7 years. Do we have a rampant AI on our hands?

  • 05.21.2006 1:04 PM PDT
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Cortana's age, difficult because shes already cloned herself because of her information load, I defintley think it has something to do with her state of mind, but listen to her first line in H3 announcment trailer and you can hear the Gravemind chanting with her.

  • 05.21.2006 1:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: cadab
We first find out about cortana in 2542, Fall of reach, lets say she was created then. By halo 1 the year is 2552, so she is already 10 years into her 'lifespan'. Say Halo 2 was a year later at the least, she is 11, way over the average lifespan of a smart AI.


We find out about Cortana in 2552, not 2542.

  • 05.21.2006 1:09 PM PDT
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So really, we don't know Cortana's age at all.

  • 05.21.2006 3:13 PM PDT
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Well Dr. Halsey says smart AI's USUALLY go by 7 years not all of them so Cortana could be special or its because of her cloning. The reason they go is because smart AI's are able to learn and do things like actually think which the "dumb" AI's are just programmed to pretty much do one thing and when a "smart AI" dies its pretty much from thinking too much. So I really doubt that Cortana is going crazy because of that but it is always an option. Also I think Gravemind has something to do with Cortanas current state because of the obvious double voice going on. And I wander if there is a woman on this planet that looks like cortana.... she would be hot.

  • 05.21.2006 7:07 PM PDT

Ah, but if youve read the books you would now that Cortana out performs most if not all of her AI counterparts. So i find the 7+ years beleiveable, tho i cant remember what the actuall age is.

  • 05.21.2006 7:09 PM PDT
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shes about a year old

  • 05.21.2006 7:18 PM PDT
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Maybe Gravemind offered her a longer lifespan if she helps him?(whatever he may need)

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  • 05.21.2006 7:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bodanarko
Johnsons clone? What are you talking about?


what? you think johnson can make it from next to PoA when it blows, back to earth...without dying? sheesh...he's not Chuck Norris you know!

so obviously the one we meet is a clone.

simple as.

  • 05.21.2006 7:53 PM PDT
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Posted by: Bodanarko
Johnsons clone? What are you talking about?


what? you think johnson can make it from next to PoA when it blows, back to earth...without dying? sheesh...he's not Chuck Norris you know!

so obviously the one we meet is a clone.

simple as.


The legendary ending was a joke.

  • 05.21.2006 7:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: johnny_deg
Posted by: Bodanarko
Johnsons clone? What are you talking about?


what? you think johnson can make it from next to PoA when it blows, back to earth...without dying? sheesh...he's not Chuck Norris you know!

so obviously the one we meet is a clone.

simple as.


Read the books, this is halo not starship troopers...

On Corty's age, I just know any pornographic material containing Cortana would be considered Child -blam!-...

  • 05.21.2006 7:55 PM PDT
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oorrr... in the books he gets off on a pelican with like 3 other people one is an ONI.

that is the "classified info"


johnson is a helper for that ADMIRAL YI SHIN or whater his ADMIRAL name guy i cant remember

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  • 05.21.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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Actually, if anyone bought the Collector's Edition (honestly, who didn't?), and read the Conversations from the Universe booklet, Cortana was AT LEAST 2 during the events of the games. So, either way, she had LESS THAN 5 years to live. Oh, and Master Chief was 6 in 2517, making him either 41 or 42 during the events of the games. Just a little tidbit of info.

  • 05.21.2006 8:07 PM PDT
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We find out about Cortana in 2552, not 2542.

We find out about cortana in 2542, i have the book in front of me, Fall Of Reach. So she is deffinatly older than 10, but we dont know when she was created so it could be anything over the 10 year mark.

When she cloned herself, didnt she just clone a small part of herself? Rather than a complete clone.

  • 05.22.2006 7:44 AM PDT
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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?


Yes, she does.
Her sister helped to program Cortana, her sister was also a copy of Dr. Halsey.
But now, when Dr. Halsey's lab collapsed, she set off a self-destruct for three minutes, when it exploded, Cortana's sister went bye-bye.

PS: to the persone who said microsoft would make a character that died in seven years, your rong.
Eric Nylund did, he doesn't work for microsoft, or bungie, and we can't realy trust him...

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  • 05.22.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: cadab
We first find out about cortana in 2542, Fall of reach, lets say she was created then. By halo 1 the year is 2552, so she is already 10 years into her 'lifespan'. Say Halo 2 was a year later at the least, she is 11, way over the average lifespan of a smart AI.


Wow. Good work. The books also say Smart AIs die/go rampant in 7 years. Do we have a rampant AI on our hands?

no bad work, i just reviewed the book and the actual fall of reach was in 2552 NOT 2542. and i agree that she is 4 or 5 and it also says in the books that her lifespan was shotened by storing the data from Alpha halo.

  • 05.22.2006 8:33 AM PDT
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"I have defied gods and demons. I am your shield, I AM YOUR SWORD. I know you, your past, your future. This is the way the world ends." --Cortana, Halo 3

If you think about the quote, and the first speech of the clip (the gravemind talking over/with cortanna) then could this be the gravemind talking through Cortanna without any of his voice coming through?? So therefore could this lead to Gravemind having an important role in halo 3???

  • 05.22.2006 9:09 AM PDT

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Smart AI's tend to go rampant (not die, but go insane) at 7 years of age. However, this is because they've used up their core memory. So, conceivably, an AI that took in too much information (such as an AI that was left in Halo's data core for 12 hours) could go rampant before 7 years.

  • 05.22.2006 9:12 AM PDT

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