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Subject: Mybe it's otherwise.........
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I was reading the cortana letters (again), and when I was reading the second letter I kinda came up with a weird..speculation?, um just read here:

I've had the strangest dreams lately - raging seas, howling beasts, a Demon folded in black clouds. I believe I know what it guards, and I will have it, to the chagrin of the faith-blinded zealots that challenge me. Don't waste your pity on them; I don't think they would like you much anyway.

When she writes about a demon folded in black cloudsm I think the letter is referring to Gravemind, oh and this:

I believe I know what it guards, and I will have it.

Maybe gravemind haves somthing she want's and she want's it badly, and what if Cortana has kinda sided with him just to get it?

Many here have talked about Gravemind taking over Cortana, maybe it's the other way around. What do you think?


  • 05.27.2006 8:14 PM PDT
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I like your idea. I dont agree, I think they are working together.

But your idea could work... and i bet the thing she is after - if your idea is true- is time. The gravemind has seen time... and doesnt obey its rules. he sees the past and future, as if it were the present. She wants to hold his wisdom of time because with it.... she could help the chief stop the world from ending...

nice theory.

  • 05.27.2006 8:19 PM PDT
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  • 05.27.2006 8:20 PM PDT
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can some one give me a link to those letters. Or are they in the book that came with the game.

  • 05.27.2006 8:22 PM PDT
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Um heres the page, donno how to link it though:


http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html

  • 05.27.2006 8:25 PM PDT
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A plausible theory. I applaud you. That could explain a motive for why Cortana remained on High Charity and why she let herself to Gravemind's presence.

But..Gravemind is the enemy. While I have reasons to believe he is part machine, I wonder what is it Cortana wants from him. We know Gravemind can control the Flood to his bidding and disposal(no Flood attacked MC when Gravemind thought he may be a useful asset, and the Flood Infection forms in the Index chamber ignored the Arbiter-only to attempt to stop Miranda and Johnson.

Maybe Cortana knows Gravemind's core has the ability to control the Flood and she wants it to her own intrests? Then again, I'm beginning to strongly question where Cortana's loyalty lies.

  • 05.27.2006 8:35 PM PDT
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Maybe she is after time, read this:

Sixth Cortana letter (addendum part) :

In the end, they will all be little more than nuisances. I am so close – you cannot imagine what it is truly like to hold eternity in your grasp! I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I can convert them.

" I am so close – you cannot imagine what it is truly like to hold eternity in your grasp!"

She may be wanting eternal life rather than a 7 year lifespan, but that would mean she'll need graveminds body......... but hey it's bungie, anything could be true even Santa Claus!

  • 05.27.2006 8:55 PM PDT
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OMG when did these letters surface? I've been away and didn't know this.

  • 05.27.2006 8:58 PM PDT
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lol nice.

and actually, i dont know where these letters came from... ive never seen them. i think they are in the halo 2 collecters edition, but i dont know for sure.

where did u find these skratula

  • 05.27.2006 9:01 PM PDT
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I actually got them fron halopedia.org and the page links you to the link I posted above, they are not fake though, they were writen by sharp and flame: Cortana

  • 05.27.2006 9:06 PM PDT
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i believe you.

Sounds cool. Maybe it will be true.

Its amazing how elaborate bungie has made the halo universe. truely amazing.

  • 05.27.2006 9:08 PM PDT
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What would any AI want? More knowledge.

[Edited on 5/27/2006]

  • 05.27.2006 9:15 PM PDT
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Infinte knowledge, the real question? IF her real goal were getting infinite space for knowledge or invinite life, would it be for mankind's sake, or for her own?

I mean she does look kinda rampant in the trailer.

  • 05.27.2006 9:19 PM PDT
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indeed.

Or better yet, infinite knowledge.

  • 05.27.2006 9:20 PM PDT
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just so you know, enclose urls with [ u r l ] <-- without spaces infront of the link, and [ / u r l ] <--without spaces at the end of the link. Here's your link with those "tags" :

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html

You can then do something even better with it. If you type (without spaces) [ u r l = webaddress ] <type name of link here> [ / u r l ]

The above formula gets you this:

Lazylinked

For any further information, reply to this post, and then hit quote. Look through the post for the examples I created.

[Edited on 5/27/2006]

  • 05.27.2006 9:24 PM PDT
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Thank you very much for the tip Abriel.

Um O.K. I haven't slept in 24 hours and my head is about to blow, I would aprecciate very much many other opinions reffering to the Cortana Letters, they may not be cannonical but they ceirtanley do introduce to plotline.

Oh! almost forgot, there was a fourth:

Second cortana letter:

And what of the Giants who formed this world? So much to tell you, but so many more important things to do. There was a fourth. You couldn't have known. And I haven't forgotten.

This one is the one that doesn't leave my mind at rest, WHO IS THE FOURTH?

Goodnight to eveyone.

  • 05.27.2006 9:35 PM PDT
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I think that when she says a Demon folded in black clouds, it is refering to the storm in the trailer. Maybe it's just me, but I hope that it doesn't come out to be some cortana communicating with god or something unrealistic like that, cause that would ruin the story in my opinion.



Flame away!

  • 05.27.2006 10:42 PM PDT
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This is a good idea!
i like how you think cortana sided with him just to get what she wanted to me it sounds like something she would do..

  • 05.28.2006 12:25 AM PDT
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Woo! Rampant Cortana! lol
But yea, letter um...4 i believe she says she is in a fourth stage of rampancy. she says something like. It blurs the line between godhood and insanity. Guess witch side I am on?
In otherwords i think shes so rampant shes become enlightened, in a sence that she cant think herself to death.

(If you read the stuff around the letters [theres alot] it explains it in much better detail)

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  • 05.28.2006 12:38 AM PDT
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rather than an enlighted state, I believe she feels like she's a god or she thinks she can turn into one:

Sixth letter (ADDENDUM):

In the end, they will all be little more than nuisances. I am so close – you cannot imagine what it is truly like to hold eternity in your grasp! I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I can convert them.

I wonder to what gods my enemies will direct their pleas. Perhaps I can convert them. Sounds kinda "They should bow to me" talk, no?

  • 05.28.2006 7:24 PM PDT