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If cortana can contact the chief it can only mean 1 thing, te flood are taking high charity to earth to stop the halos from activating
whaddya think about that one?

  • 06.30.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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how? The forerunner ship that provided HC with power is gone, so basicly, the power is gone too, hope they have some spare power to maintain life support on it, anyhow, without power they won't be able to jump, incase they don't find another way to jump, and no, not by teleporting

  • 06.30.2006 2:52 PM PDT

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She cant there to far away. would take years before it got there.

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there are ships docked that have slipspace capacity

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its not even proven that cortana can talk to mc... thats just an asumption

  • 06.30.2006 2:55 PM PDT

Posted by: BASs13
its not even proven that cortana can talk to mc... thats just an asumption


Yeah, we have no proof that Cortana was even talking to Master Chief in the trailer.

  • 06.30.2006 3:09 PM PDT

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

Did you guys watch the same trailer I did?

I saw Cortana, talking. Granted, it MIGHT not be to the Chief, but who else would it be to?

God gave you a brain (I hope). Please use it.


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She cant there to far away. would take years before it got there.


One word: SLIPSPACE.

If the Flood are intelligent enough to take over bodies, use weapons, drive Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and Wraiths, Banshees, and In Amber Clad, and all that jazz, they sure as hell can pilot High Charity

Once again; use your brain.

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  • 06.30.2006 3:18 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

They're not saying that she's not talking, but that she's not necessarily talking to the Chief. She could merely be talking about him.

  • 06.30.2006 3:20 PM PDT

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yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range

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The scary thing about Cortana possibly betraying the Cheif is that she might know TOO much. Meaning, what she believes what she is doing is for the greater good. Yikes.

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yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range


no, it means the person watching the trailer can hear and see her

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Well, let's assume that Cortana is possessed by the Gravemind. A flood super-intelligence like that might be able to enhance and strengthen Cortana's signal...maybe Gravemind is really doing that to try and convince Master Chief something.

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Posted by: Spartan2010
Did you guys watch the same trailer I did?

I saw Cortana, talking. Granted, it MIGHT not be to the Chief, but who else would it be to?

God gave you a brain (I hope). Please use it.


Posted by: halo04
She cant there to far away. would take years before it got there.


One word: SLIPSPACE.

If the Flood are intelligent enough to take over bodies, use weapons, drive Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and Wraiths, Banshees, and In Amber Clad, and all that jazz, they sure as hell can pilot High Charity

Once again; use your brain.


NO. The forerunner ship was the power source to ALL of High Charity. There is no power to even move High Charity around! It is just a dark, abandoned, powerless floating city now.

yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range

I don't think chief ever talked to or acknowledged that she was there. It was more like her just talking to herself, where the Chief couldn't hear her.

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Posted by: RAG3 ON3
yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range


We have no idea if he can see her and here her. I think that it is much more likely that Cortana is talking to us, like in the Cortana letters.

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i think gravemind might have possessed her. yeah, i know, impossible. but remember, the chief can pick up cortana with his hand. why can't the gravemind? and also, u can hear teh graveminds voice in her speach. and the last, remember what gravemind said. he seemed to know a lot about the arbiter and MC.
oh yeah, about cortana talking to the cheif. maybe it was just overlapping. cause MC didn't seem to notice her at all. he just walked through her.

  • 06.30.2006 3:37 PM PDT

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Oh and read the text under the trailer they are a galaxy away from each other.

  • 06.30.2006 3:38 PM PDT

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It's just a trailer, I'm not sure if Cortana is exactly talking to the Chief or if she's simply providing a monologue. The Chief doesn't seem to acknowledge her words, so I'm going with the latter. Let's not jump the gun people.

  • 06.30.2006 3:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan2010
Did you guys watch the same trailer I did?

I saw Cortana, talking. Granted, it MIGHT not be to the Chief, but who else would it be to?

God gave you a brain (I hope). Please use it.


Posted by: halo04
She cant there to far away. would take years before it got there.


One word: SLIPSPACE.

If the Flood are intelligent enough to take over bodies, use weapons, drive Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and Wraiths, Banshees, and In Amber Clad, and all that jazz, they sure as hell can pilot High Charity

Once again; use your brain.


NO. The forerunner ship was the power source to ALL of High Charity. There is no power to even move High Charity around! It is just a dark, abandoned, powerless floating city now.

yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range

I don't think chief ever talked to or acknowledged that she was there. It was more like her just talking to herself, where the Chief couldn't hear her.


Then explain why there were still lights on, the doors still worked (end of Halo 2 credits--see the door moving?), and Cortana was able to appear. If there was no power, then all of the above wouldnt've occured.

By the way: don't use the excuse that Cortana was able to appear in the Pillar of Autumn in Halo 1. There was still power in the ship, and quite a lot of it if it was able to have the doors work, the lights on, AND the generators/engines work well enough that they could be detonated, and have all of Installation 04 (Halo 1) be blown to bits.

In short, your theory is wrong.

  • 06.30.2006 4:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: RAG3 ON3
yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range

How do you know he could hear her.

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Posted by: Spartan2010
Did you guys watch the same trailer I did?

I saw Cortana, talking. Granted, it MIGHT not be to the Chief, but who else would it be to?

God gave you a brain (I hope). Please use it.


Posted by: halo04
She cant there to far away. would take years before it got there.


One word: SLIPSPACE.

If the Flood are intelligent enough to take over bodies, use weapons, drive Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and Wraiths, Banshees, and In Amber Clad, and all that jazz, they sure as hell can pilot High Charity

Once again; use your brain.


NO. The forerunner ship was the power source to ALL of High Charity. There is no power to even move High Charity around! It is just a dark, abandoned, powerless floating city now.

yes, but he can still see and hear her!!!!!!!!! meaning he is in the signals range

I don't think chief ever talked to or acknowledged that she was there. It was more like her just talking to herself, where the Chief couldn't hear her.


Then explain why there were still lights on, the doors still worked (end of Halo 2 credits--see the door moving?), and Cortana was able to appear. If there was no power, then all of the above wouldnt've occured.

By the way: don't use the excuse that Cortana was able to appear in the Pillar of Autumn in Halo 1. There was still power in the ship, and quite a lot of it if it was able to have the doors work, the lights on, AND the generators/engines work well enough that they could be detonated, and have all of Installation 04 (Halo 1) be blown to bits.

In short, your theory is wrong.


I thought about that as I was typing. I don't know why. Possibly backup generators or they had a power plant that JUST powered that part of High Charity (since it is basically the Prophets area) BUT, I know that High Charity CANNOT MOVE, because there power (main power) came from the giant forerunner ship in the middle.....SO...my theory is right.

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  • 06.30.2006 4:08 PM PDT

Posted by: Naqser
how? The forerunner ship that provided HC with power is gone, so basicly, the power is gone too, hope they have some spare power to maintain life support on it, anyhow, without power they won't be able to jump, incase they don't find another way to jump, and no, not by teleporting

Your first quote in your sig is funny.

  • 06.30.2006 4:10 PM PDT

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don't forget In Amber Clad is there too. for all we know gravemind tapped into its generators, which we know are active, in order to communicate with cortana. And thats where all the power is coming from. just enough to keep the lights on and the doors workin'.

  • 06.30.2006 4:15 PM PDT