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I believe with the end being near, old clues shall be reborn along-side new ones.

I would love to see a large rebirth of the Cortana Letters and references to Marathon and other Bungie games.

All that is mainly seen here on the internet, are people talking and ranting about graphics, gameplay, and stuff that really make it just a videogame. But to me, Halo is more than just a few games. It's a story. A GREAT story. One that should be (and is) taken very seriously.

In Halo 3, I want to see things from the books, things we have read on the internet, things you couldn't have known unless you were really into the series like I and many others are. I want to see flashbacks of John as a child, running and playing on the space colony where he grew up. I want to see Halsey give the coin to John, with Keyes watching from the background.

I want to see his teen years, him growing up, training to be a Spartan. I want to see him along-side dozens of kids learning and progressing, to one day be a powerful war machine. Sam and Kelly, Linda and Fred, and others!

Halo's story had an amazing beginning, now let Bungie finish the great ending.

[Edited on 6/13/2006]

  • 06.13.2006 12:55 PM PDT
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ummmm lets see.
i heard something about a demon folded in black clouds or something right?
and then someone said something about Master Chief being called a demon...

soo.... Master Chief folded in black clouds? MC being hidden from something? MC emerging from something?

  • 06.13.2006 1:03 PM PDT

Twelve Large ²

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

Posted by: Wuyie
Perhaps Gravemind 12 Large?


I don't think that would be a bad guess. Or maybe there's a loop and Cortana found her memories! I don't really know..

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.

I think dreams come from life experiences. The demon folded in black clouds reminds us of the Halo 3 trailer, no? Or maybe it's the other way around - The trailer reminds us of the.. Nevermind.

I think Cortana is remembering this in a dream, because the rings were activated before - Whether or not she was around during that activation is not known. I doubt she was, but that's just me. I think she has come into contact with another AI that remembers the last activation. I also think she could be losing her battle with this AI. If you read the other letters, they just don't sound right. Or read right.

Take, for example.. The Fourth Letter..

<P>Unbelievable. Thwarted by the family hound. They just don’t make AIs like they used to.</P>

<P>Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children.</P>


That doesn't sound like Cortana to me. It also suggest two are now sharing space with MJOLNIR guy.

Also, some more "old" spec taken from the fourth letter..


Also some other observations from the other Cortana e-mails.... it seems as if three entities are talking with us in the HTML e-mail... the first part is preceded by the string:


x - process 04497.2.32.867734 initiated (process owner: BW – AI Class III – autonomous)
That message is then interrupted, and we see the string:


x – process 04497.2.32.866735 initiated (process owner: unspecified, unable to determine)
Notice the number stamp differs by one digit (......34 vs ......35). That message then ends with Cortana signing off followed by another transfer interruption followed in turn by this string:


Route Code: EXLTD > XCV – SCRB > ALLCH
seen also in previous e-mail. The first message is obviously from some AI, as evidenced by the "BW-AI Class III" in its stamp. The third message, conversely, seems to be from some non-AI entity, since it lacks a number stamp and all that and instead shows some cryptic route that an e-mail message would follow. The middle message, the one written by Cortana, is interesting, however. It too has the x-process stamp like the AI message, but in the same stamp instead of giving it an AI classification (class III, etc.) it claims that it is "unspecified, unable to determine." Some super AI?





  • 06.13.2006 1:26 PM PDT

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

I'm trying to take a pic of my screen (printscrn) and upload it right now, but the pic in the windows media player doesn't show up when I upload it to photobucket. What crap.

Basically, I have two windows open. One of Marathon, and one of a Halo cutscene.

http://halocinema.bungie.org/halo/17_aotcr_final_sm.wmv
http://halocinema.bungie.org/halo/17_343gs_intro_sm.mov

I've never seen Cortana turn green in any other scene where she isn't in the core. You, and others have mentioned the links between durandal and halo.. I'm sure this has already been brought up, but whatever!

Too bad they never did a "what's in a color," or a "what's in a picture" on the old Marathon site.

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  • 06.13.2006 2:05 PM PDT
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Whaaaaaa, I am offended!! Bring out the bibs, someone doesn't know how to think about what they read.

  • 06.13.2006 2:15 PM PDT

Twelve Large ²

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

And what about "warning: hitchhikers may be escaping convicts?"

Is this in regards to 343 Guilty Spark? Or another AI that left with Cortana?

Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children.

[Edited on 6/13/2006]

  • 06.13.2006 6:58 PM PDT

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