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Subject: Something caught my eye from a Cortana Letter
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The website lyca.com has nothing to do with H3.
Bungie has stated this.
The letters however, are from the Marthon Story Page, and are legit.

And she IS rampant, but she is in a fourth state of it that was not known before.

She says like: There is a fourth. It blurs the line between Godhood and insanity.
Guess which side i'm on.

  • 06.04.2006 12:53 PM PDT
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this might not help but

At the end of the game, after all the credits have rolled, it is shown that Gravemind is occupying High Charity. He says to Cortana who has been separated from Master Chief and stayed behind:

Silence fills the empty grave now that I am gone,
But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on.
Now I will ask and you will answer.

To which she(cortana) answers "All right… shoot." This statement might mean that Cortana has gone fallen under its influence, or that she is using/learning from it, leaving the gamer not just with a cliffhanger but also with the sense that Gravemind may play a prominent role in Halo 3. When Microsoft showed the trailer for Halo 3 at E3 2006, many people claimed that Gravemind could be heard speaking with Cortana. "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." Gravemind is one of the six known Flood variants in the Halo universe.

  • 06.04.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Broken Dreamz
She's still in High Charity with Gravemind, so even if she did want to take it over, she'd have Gravemind to deal with.

ahhh but you see....how do you know she is on high charity still???
she could be repeating something the gravemind said to the chief
also....are we relly sure what happens when an AI goes rampant???
for all we know that could just mean their memory banks starts clearing out
another thing is...i noticed in the trailer that cortana is a broken, static filled image
but how is this possible....after all she cannot just project herself anywhere can she???
her image is also moving with the chief which i also think is quite impossible
if anyone has an explaination other than the possibility that bungie just added her
for a more theatrical and recognizable trailer....please explain

  • 06.04.2006 4:35 PM PDT
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one thing maybe she could have gotten something from the files on halo to help her stave off gravemind or to as brought up before kill him

  • 06.04.2006 6:37 PM PDT
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one thing maybe she could have gotten something from the files on halo to help her stave off gravemind or to as brought up before kill him and i think the transmision in the trailor was screwed up because gravemind was attaking her or maybe it was because she crashed the ship and killed gravmind

  • 06.04.2006 6:42 PM PDT
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Is it possible that she learned that Grave mind was a forerunner or the last forerunner and that he actually meant no harm instead caused allot.
(any one read Enders game or Enders shadow would understand a bit more about what I'm saying.)

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 6:54 PM PDT
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what is a forunner?

  • 06.04.2006 6:55 PM PDT
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It's kind of like a gofer...someone who runs for you. Duh.

  • 06.04.2006 10:12 PM PDT

Remember Eliot said that the world ends with a whimper, not with a bang. Cortana says he's wrong, so she means it'll end with some bangs.

  • 06.04.2006 10:35 PM PDT
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Ok my turn to crack this nut...no acorn puns intended...(sorry if some of this has been addressed already)

Alrighty, in the Cortana letters the entity writing them said "There was a FOURTH. You couldn't have known. And I haven't forgotten. It is a blurred line that lies at the edge of Godhood and Insanity. Guess which side of it I am on." and AJAQ posted "A forth stage implies that Cortana has surpassed rampancy." so lets put the two together. The letter implies a FOURTH and there are three stages of known RAMPANCY, so lets assume that Cortana has surpassed the 3 stages and has reached some form of GODHOOD/INSANITY RAMPANCY. Maybe the stage 4 is actually a split stage where the AI in question exceeds stage 3 and goes on to either INSANITY or GODHOOD depending on certain programing factors or multiple other factors paticular to that AI. Cortana could have reached RAMPANCY at anytime, on HALO, durring the F.O.R, or durring F.S. And since she seems to be more human than anyother AI maybe she reached GODHOOD/INSANITY durring HALO 2 or close to the end while on H.C. Kind or like Durandal...the sneaky bastard. Another thing is the scream that people hear in the begining of the trailer. I too have heard it and agree with those that Cortana is being tortured or manipulated by Gravemind, hijo de puta!!!! Listen to her voice in the begining, it sounds like someone trying to get Cortana's vocal processor just right so the words sound like hers. Also its not at all unlikely that Gravemind might have some sort of Forerunner/Flood AI coursing through his goo. Or since he is such an advanced Flood form maybe he has the ability to infect computer systems as well. He did incorporate 2401 Penetant Tangent and Regret into himself, a poorly botched job of an INFECTION if you ask me, but maybe thats how his consciousness grows. So if he did have this INFECTION/AI ability it would back up Cortana saying something about a "presence" aboard H.C besides herself and the COVENANT. So this theory leads to the possibility that Cortana aint RAMPANT but mearly INFECTED. My head is starting to get high on all of this theorizing (I love doing this btw) so thats all Im gonna say for now. But on a final note and this is my own wish, I think it would be cool if Cortana somehow became a human at the end of HALO 3 and her and Chief go off into the sunset (the romance is there people) or she could come home to me...sorry I have grown quite fond of Cortana through out the games and books and it would suck if she died, so forgive me for my deep love for a computer program within a program...hehehe

  • 06.04.2006 11:57 PM PDT

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