Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
It's all said at the end of The Fall of Reach.
There's a contradiction, canon wise there because in TFoR Cortana get's the coordinates from the crystal from Sigma Octanus IV, and Reach apparently shows she got it from the Forerunner construct.
Anyways, Cortana put the coordinates in for Alpha Halo, not knowing exactly that there would be a Forerunner installation, but since it followed Cole Protocole and was a jump away from Earth, she put it in because her curiosity got the best of her. She never admitted it openly to Keyes. Not even to Chief, that I know of.