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Subject: Is She really dead? (spoilers)

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Expect an even weaker story in H5 and 6. Know knowing 343 and microsoft, theyll probably bring her back somehow.

Also, how the hell did chief escape anyway in the end?

[Edited on 12.03.2012 6:56 PM PST]

  • 12.03.2012 6:52 PM PDT

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My theory of what's going to happen started at the beginning when Halsey mentions the thing about "providing the tools to maintain that stability."

I think that what's going to happen is this:

In Halo 5, Master Chief will get a new AI; however, because of what Cortana said during the seventh mission of H4: "you know it's not going to be me right? it'll look like me...," I believe that Master Chief will realize that he doesn't want just any AI, he wants Cortana back.

Realizing that Cortana can never be replaced, Chief will reject his new AI and receive intel from some other source.

However, because his "efficiency" will slowly be declining due to his lack of an AI, he will become weaker or homicidal.

(I honestly don't know which. Spartans are trained killers and due to the massive amounts of testings that were performed on them, they may not be able to stay sane without an AI; however, I do not believe the new Spartans have AI's. But, other Spartans are not the Chief, he is one of a kind so his becoming insane or homicidal could be justified, although only loosely, in this way. There is also the point that he may get depressed leading to inefficiency in combat.)

So that's Chief's breakdown, which will occur in 5. At the end of 5, Chief will receive knowledge of or hear Cortana somehow and realize that he needs to search for her.

Halo 6 will occur with the UNSC not approving of Chief going out searching for Cortana, leading to him going solo without an AI or any other support. This will, in turn, lead to his overall decline until he either finds Cortana or has to make some sort of sacrifice in order to defeat the new enemy.

In 5 and 6 it will be Chief fighting against time and his decline in order to defeat whatever enemy is also searching for Cortana. (Or the enemy already has Cortana and is using her for some nefarious deed. Cortana may even willingly help the enemy because of her breakdown; part of her will resist of course, but the other parts may be evil at their core.)

The end.

  • 12.03.2012 7:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Haloroach
Hopefully not. Though I'd love to see how Master Chief would interact with a replacement Cortana.


I wanna see him paired with Roland. Endless potential.

  • 12.04.2012 12:16 AM PDT

In a gameplay perspective, I wonder if the lack of an AI will affect the way Master Chief acts.

  • 12.04.2012 2:35 AM PDT

Posted by: SCORCHHEAD

Expect an even weaker story in H5 and 6. Know knowing 343 and microsoft, theyll probably bring her back somehow.

Also, how the hell did chief escape anyway in the end?

Cortana manipulated the hard light shield to protect Chief from the nuke. Apparently, hard light is the outer covering shield they use for those indestructible Forerunner environments.

  • 12.04.2012 3:32 AM PDT


Posted by: BlackKnightKanos
Posted by: SCORCHHEAD

Expect an even weaker story in H5 and 6. Know knowing 343 and microsoft, theyll probably bring her back somehow.

Also, how the hell did chief escape anyway in the end?

Cortana manipulated the hard light shield to protect Chief from the nuke. Apparently, hard light is the outer covering shield they use for those indestructible Forerunner environments.


The funny thing is Cortana actually tells you right before that sequence that a nuclear bomb would be useless on a hardlight shield. She also teleports him out of the ship, because if you look closely through the shield, he's in space.

So why people are still confused about this is beyond me.

  • 12.04.2012 4:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: BlackKnightKanos
Posted by: SCORCHHEAD

Expect an even weaker story in H5 and 6. Know knowing 343 and microsoft, theyll probably bring her back somehow.

Also, how the hell did chief escape anyway in the end?

Cortana manipulated the hard light shield to protect Chief from the nuke. Apparently, hard light is the outer covering shield they use for those indestructible Forerunner environments.
Okay, thanks man. Glad thats been cleared up.

  • 12.04.2012 5:15 AM PDT
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I actually Liked it that way in 3,
Cortana was lika a damn baby sitter,
and to be able to rescue her at least once,
I think they did that in a good way.

  • 12.04.2012 5:44 AM PDT

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I thought the ending showed her as an organic.

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Posted by: SCORCHHEAD

Expect an even weaker story in H5 and 6. Know knowing 343 and microsoft, theyll probably bring her back somehow.

Also, how the hell did chief escape anyway in the end?


I love how you're calling the story weak when you're asking questions that you would know if you just paid attention.

  • 12.04.2012 10:30 AM PDT

I doubt she's dead.

I bet the Librarian has made a copy of her. After all: Cortana offers the Librarian the most complete database of mankind and our history and progress that she can get her hands on in her isolation.
Her splitting up in the Forerunner network also leads me to believe there are pieces of her scattered around.

Will we see her return in her recognizable shape? Doubtful. Although the glimpse of the "Promethean" AI we've seen in this week's SO episode did look remarkably similar to Cortana...

My guess however is that she will play an important background role. Working from within the Promethean/Forerunner network to aid Chief during H5 and 6. With her actions being revealed during H6.

  • 12.04.2012 11:43 AM PDT

You just lost the game. Now facepalm yourself for clicking this :P

it's possible she'll spend her time in slipspace trying to make the Didact see reason and join humanity.
Impossible. The Didact is still alive. After the credits when it showed the monologue of Didact, it was him facing a court of other Forerunners. I have no idea where this might be, but he's still alive. As are other Forerunners. And Chief's out for bloody revenge.

  • 12.04.2012 3:34 PM PDT

You just lost the game. Now facepalm yourself for clicking this :P

She's dead.
Chief's pissed.
You don't want Chief pissed.

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Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

I hope she stays dead. The ending was a well executed and sad scene, one of the better in the series. Brining Cortana back would cheapen it, especially because it is said repeatedly that Cortana is dead, having been on Didact's ship when it blew up.

  • 12.04.2012 3:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: I Lucky PunkI think you are on the right track. I envsion a scenario like Spock's in Star Trek 2, 3, and 4. This part is the important forshadowing:

In Halo 5, Master Chief will get a new AI; however, because of what Cortana said during the seventh mission of H4: "you know it's not going to be me right? it'll look like me...,"

  • 12.04.2012 4:51 PM PDT

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Does anyone else agree that we'll most likely see the Master Chief turned into an outcast almost in Halo 5 and Halo 6? Remember, we heard that they (the interrogators, whoever they are) are trying to replace the Master Chief and essentially all SPARTAN-II's. At least, this is my thought process.

With the attempt to decommission the Master Chief, I really do think he will almost go rogue. Apart from having what little help Lasky will most likely give him. Remember, Lasky's past will continue to play a huge part in aiding the Master Chief. That bond that was made in the past will continue to hold strong.

I do agree with I Lucky Punk in the fact that he will have virtually no help from the UNSC. His only help will come from Dr. Halsey though, if at all any, and whatever remnants there are from Blue Team.

We have to take into consideration that if Dr. Halsey made it off of the Sphere that the rest of Blue Team did. What their status is, we don't know. We can only assume that they've been debriefed and possibly forced into decommission. But, what will happen once they get word of their leader being back on Earth?

Just open speculation from me..

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She is alive that's for sure I think.

  • 12.05.2012 9:22 AM PDT

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My theory is that another Cortana will be created for him, the same or at least similar way as before, from Dr Halesey's own DNA. Then this new cortana will eventually somehow re-gain her memories.

  • 12.06.2012 9:35 AM PDT

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for sure ... I think.


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  • 12.06.2012 9:36 AM PDT

Unsuccessfully trying to bring science and reason to The Flood...

I think it would be pretty deluded of 343 to kill a main character off in the first game of a trilogy. And personally No Cortana =/= Halo.

I think it is pretty certain she will be back, considering they hyped her up being this purposefully seeded ancilla, if they then U-turn and just kill her off I will be laughing for ages.

  • 12.06.2012 2:42 PM PDT


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Posted by: Terren_117
In my personal opinion, I do not believe she is dead. There is no way they would kill her off. That along with the dual-nature of the Composer, there is a high probability in my mind that she is alive.

This dude is right, the composer turns organic into AI, such as humans into knights. But it also turns AI's (like i dunno Cortana) into organics.

I think we may see an organic Cortana before the end of halo 6.


"Our attempts to return them to organic forms, created only abominations."

Composer could never return AI's to biological.


Yes, but what if they find a way. What if the librarian isn't telling the whole truth. My best guess is that there is more to the story, and that something else happened when the librarian "kidnapped" cortana during the halo 4 campaign.

  • 12.06.2012 9:26 PM PDT

Yes, I'm sure she's dead. And it'd be really stupid if she came back somehow.

  • 12.06.2012 11:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: I Lucky Punk
My theory of what's going to happen started at the beginning when Halsey mentions the thing about "providing the tools to maintain that stability."


However, because his "efficiency" will slowly be declining due to his lack of an AI, he will become weaker or homicidal.

(I honestly don't know which. Spartans are trained killers and due to the massive amounts of testings that were performed on them, they may not be able to stay sane without an AI; however, I do not believe the new Spartans have AI's. But, other Spartans are not the Chief, he is one of a kind so his becoming insane or homicidal could be justified, although only loosely, in this way. There is also the point that he may get depressed leading to inefficiency in combat.)


You are utterly mislead. You might be correct about the developing of the story, however: Spartan 2's do NOT need AI's to be kept sane. AI's are there to improve their reflexes and to hack into enemy systems (the intel part doesn't really require an integrated AI)

If for some reason Chief would go "insane" it would be because he has a special bond with cortana. But that would just be his human part, to be more precise: "love".

I really don't understand where you got the idea that spartan 2's need AI's to stay sane. The first time cortana was integrated within the chief was in 2552 (correct me if i'm wrong) just before the fall of reach. That also was the first time any smart AI was integrated within a spartan 2 (also correct me if i'm wrong here), either way: spartan 2's functioned perfectly fine for at least 30 years without the help of any integrated AI.

  • 12.07.2012 6:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: Mister Rollback
Yes, but what if they find a way. What if the librarian isn't telling the whole truth.


Er... how exactly would this make any sense? The Librarian was about to explain everything to John before the Didact showed up. Why would she lie about the Composer? The Terminals and Primordium depict its usage pretty damn clearly, not to mention the scene at the end of the penultimate mission where everyone has their flesh gradually burned off them while their bones disintegrate into piles of dust.

"Such moral concerns faded from the Didact's attention," because the Composer would grant him "his solution and his revenge".

You're twisting facts to theories rather than theories to fact.

  • 12.07.2012 6:07 AM PDT

I'm just saying it's she said that they deemed it impossible for the composer to revert composed data back into a biological form. There may be a way.

  • 12.08.2012 12:03 PM PDT

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