- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
reading into the books, there was a mandate (Cole Protocol) to destroy all AI and info on Earth before the Covies can get a hold of it. Well, seeing how they drilled through Reach, they may have obtained Cortana's sister/cousin.
I forget which book I read it from -- probably the third -- but while on a Covie ship, Cortana says an on-board ship AI was familiar to her but didn't know what it was. Perhaps it was the same AI?
I'm not looking at the dates written in the book and any thing percepted through gameplay. I'm just using my basic knowledge of the books to make speculation.
edit: I remember in the first book, specifically the first or second chapter into the MJOLNOR section, that Halsey describes the Covenant as immitative, not innovative. That should contribute a bit to any discussion of the Covies using human AI, eh?
[Edited on 5/28/2006]