- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Since there's no current topic on the subject, I might as well post it here.
Cortana in Halo 2 was in the position to score a tremendous victory, if not ending the war. If she had detonated In Amber Clad like she said she would(but didn't, not even when Halo is preparing to fire), she would've destroyed Gravemind, the Flood, High Charity, Delta Halo, and the Covenant fleet(if not put a huge dent in their numbers) at the cost of sacrificing herself. But the MC's escape set everything out of order. He should've just nabbed the docked Phantom on the platform to go after Truth instead of going through the Mausoleum and Hierach sanctum again.
But since everything went wrong, it was a failure. The Flood is at large, the Covenant fleet is already invading Earth, and she's in the hands of the enemy.