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Subject: A whisper in the trailer
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I've been reviewing the e3 trailer in WMP at half-speed and the volume turned all the way up. I noticed that, not only does it make the word "sword" more clear, but it seems that the trailing "sss" sound is a separate word -- sister. Has anyone else picked up on this, or is it just the disruption caused by slower playback?

  • 05.26.2006 3:58 PM PDT
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i just rewatched the trailer and ur right i heard the whisper 2 but i think they put that in thier just as an effect

[Edited on 5/26/2006]

  • 05.26.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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Your think Cortana is saying that she is Spartan-117's sister?

  • 05.26.2006 4:25 PM PDT
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Cortana is AI, she can't be MC's sister.

uh der.

  • 05.26.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: OdinVII
Cortana is AI, she can't be MC's sister.

uh der.


I was BSing. Besides she was literally created from Dr. Halsey's brain.

  • 05.26.2006 4:33 PM PDT
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I'm not saying anything for sure, I was just mentioning the weird whisper, which to my ears sounds a bit like "sister." Cortana is an A.I., so she obviously isn't a physical sister, although she sometimes behaves as if she were a sister. If we run with the "sister" idea, it at least makes some sense when you consider the whole protection idea emblazoned in her saying "shield" and "sword." Of course, protection could just as easily be applied to a motherly figure.

Its all just more nitpicking at Bungie's often cryptographic media.

  • 05.26.2006 4:40 PM PDT

Elites, Spartans, Flood... They're all the same.

They all end up falling to me!

K15

maybe she found info that the flood has his sister...

  • 05.26.2006 4:44 PM PDT
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Sounds a bit far-fetched, but hey, whatever makes sense.

  • 05.27.2006 6:50 AM PDT

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only child from birth and I swear to this day gravemind is still talking during 'I am your shield. I am your sword'.

  • 05.27.2006 8:31 AM PDT
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Master Chief's home planet got glass in like 2531 there's no chance his sister survived.

  • 05.27.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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My It's feedback from the word Sword.

  • 05.27.2006 8:49 AM PDT

I'm blue da ba di da ba dai!

I think its just an effect but cortana did have a sister before.

  • 05.27.2006 9:01 AM PDT
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Bungie said it was Sword on one of the weekle up dates

But that would be freckin' FUNNY!! lol

  • 05.27.2006 9:05 AM PDT

Posted by: Eyeshine
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...if you didnt read what i said read it again!

Posted by: Jimmy01
Do none of you have a sense of humour?
We do, this just isn't funny.

I cant hear it, it in the books, it doesnt say anything about Harlsey being Johns sister.....

  • 05.27.2006 9:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: slade24 If we run with the "sister" idea, it at least makes some sense when you consider the whole protection idea emblazoned in her saying "shield" and "sword." Of course, protection could just as easily be applied to a motherly figure.

And Cortana was created literaly from the brain of Dr. Hasley, who is considered the Spartan's mother figure.

  • 05.27.2006 9:13 AM PDT
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I thought I heard one voice say Sword (which we know is Cortana) and another say Source wihich sounds like Gravemind.

  • 05.27.2006 9:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sergeant Boon
maybe MC had a sister in the spartan program, and she is one of the spartans still alive. and maybe thats not master chief at all, its a completely different person entirely.


Bungie said the Spartan in the trailer is the Chief.

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  • 05.27.2006 9:40 AM PDT
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but would it made more sense if she said i am ur shield i am ur soul

  • 05.27.2006 9:42 AM PDT
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no

  • 05.27.2006 9:44 AM PDT
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Anyone else have any input? It might help if you review the trailer again, and at a slower speed.

  • 05.28.2006 7:01 AM PDT
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What if she is talking about Cortana's sister. (this is all dumb theorizing) That could not be Cortana it could be Cortana's sisters, or a different AI.

  • 05.28.2006 7:11 AM PDT

Halo's a hell of a drug.

I think it also whispers "Hurley".

  • 05.28.2006 7:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: Icabacon
What if she is talking about Cortana's sister. (this is all dumb theorizing) That could not be Cortana it could be Cortana's sisters, or a different AI.

ok! all i know is that cortana has a cousin inside the 3rd Halo Book. Plus, MC doesnt have a sister, she would've died at 2531 when the Covenant glassed that planet. If she did join the UNSC before that, (not the spartan program) then she would have also died when the Covenant glass Reach.!

  • 05.28.2006 8:05 AM PDT
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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]

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