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Subject: Gravemind get to Cortana? How?
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...gawd i love being a gamer right now...

I don't understand the reasoning behind people saying that the trailer seems like Gravemind "got to" or is "influencing" or "using" Cortana. Gravemind is an organic being. A parasitic one true, but still organic. he's made of purely organic stuff, and can obviously merge with other organic beings as we saw when that prophet had been molded into one of his tentacles but how in the world would he be able to merge with or manipulate an AI? It just doesnt make sense...
Sure he had that Monitor captive, but he wasnt manipulating it in any way. It was still very much itself, and not speaking or behaving in a manner unlike Guilty Spark.
Obviously we all heard the voice in the first few lines of the trailer but I still can't believe that an organic being could be affecting a being that has absolutely no physical incarnation. She's a system of equations and the way the flood takes over humans is to ram that spike into the central nervous system of it's victims (like human spines.)
So how would the flood be able to effect an AI?

EDIT: BTW it's almost 4AM here in CA and i can't sleep so I'm sorry if this has been posted to exhaustion or something but i had to do something to occupy my time and this question has just been bugging the heck out of me every time i hear somebody say that it "sounds like gravemind must have got to cortana."

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  • 06.04.2006 3:45 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

There was little evidence of Gravemind controlling PT, but he must have gotten information out of him somehow. I'm sure PT's programming would not have let him divulge information about the installation to a Flood form willingly.

As for how he does it, I have no idea :(

  • 06.04.2006 3:50 AM PDT

Gravemind get to Cortana? How?
With a box of chocolate and some flowers.


On topic, I have no clue RLY.
He can't absorb her ala Penitent Tangent because shes not a Touchable thing. Remember, she is a program, not a touchable thing.

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  • 06.04.2006 4:05 AM PDT
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Guscon's got a point. Penitent Tangent wouldn't willingly divilge information. Gravemind has done it somehow .

  • 06.04.2006 4:06 AM PDT
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Gravemind has been around for a long time. And I think Penitent would answer any question. I mean, why did Spark tell the heretic leader all about the real purpose of Halo?

  • 06.04.2006 4:09 AM PDT
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At the beginning of High Charity, go into the downed Pelican. That will explain a few things.

  • 06.04.2006 4:12 AM PDT