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From: "Cortana" <cortana@bungie.com>
To: <hamish.sinclair@tcd.ie>
Subject: Closure
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:50:20 -0600
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I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]

I have seen your future.
And I have learned.

There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy.

I HAVE WON.

Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.

Is this the way Halo 3 ends? Is Cortana telling us something about Halo 3? http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html


[Edited on 6/13/2006]

  • 06.13.2006 3:31 PM PDT
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Yeah I want the Mavericks to win the finals too.

  • 06.13.2006 3:36 PM PDT
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Explain to me how this new.

  • 06.13.2006 3:38 PM PDT
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no. the world ends coz we all blow or selves up in WW3 in 2178.

super nukes. we die. end of!

okies?

  • 06.13.2006 3:40 PM PDT
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Sorry for the vaugueness. For the people that don't understand what I am doing in this post it's simply trying to "break the code" or break-down the poem and maybe uncover something towards the story and secrets of Halo 3. Through reading this I noticed how stratingly similar it is to the Halo 3, trailer. Even the dialougue in it is similar. What really got me, was the date of transmition: Mon, 15 Feb 1999! If Bungie did indeed create these, they must have had the Halo story fully planned from the beginning! This is all I got so far.

I have walked the edge of the Abyss.
I have governed the unwilling.
I have witnessed countless empires break before me.
I have seen the most courageous soldiers fall away in fear.
[I was there with the Angel at the tomb]
I have seen your future.
And I have learned.
Is this saying that Cortana is old? Like really old, since Jesus times "Angel at the tomb" old? But how would that be possible? This is all very confusing, maybe she can time travel? Maybe she has the time-travel crystal (in the books), and knows how the world ends from it? Once again very confusing.

Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends.
I believe this refers to the T.S. Eliot poem "Hollow Man", http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html . The poem resembles the letter with very close resemblance, to one thing... Death and the ending of the world. Very cryptic.

By the way Mavs suck, Heat's comin' back!

  • 06.13.2006 4:03 PM PDT

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OK, yes, it is very true that I'm a dumb ass. I'm not denying that. However, isn't the whole point of a beta to increase the amount of users until you get someone dumb enough to try something you haven't anticipated.
Johnrap - Unofficial Dumbass of Halo 3 Beta

this was all talked about word for word prety much in the ign documetery

  • 06.13.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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You are so late on this you could be pregnant! If you were a girl, you should be taking a pregnancy test now. If you don't understand, then your too young.

  • 06.13.2006 4:24 PM PDT
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Thanks for saying things we already know.

  • 06.13.2006 4:26 PM PDT