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Subject: Cortana in the Trailer
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In the trailer when we see Cortana say "I have defied gods and demons" is it really cortana? Could it be the gravemind or some other higher AI using Cortana's image and voice to speak with the master chief? Think about it.

Maybe humans are decendants of the Gods and if Cortana and the Gravemind did duke it out then perhaps she lost and as such could be seen to be a demon. The gravemind also defied the Gods (being the Forerunners) as their attempts to whipe out the Flood in the past failed.

She also says "I am your future" and "I know you" amung other things that seem to imply an all knowing/powerful spirit behind the words.

  • 07.09.2006 3:48 AM PDT
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Forerunners are the angels and humans are the Fallen angels/demons I believe.
I mean what do the covenant call MC?
As for the future thing I got no idea, I'm hoping time travel stayed out of this one, things are complicated enough.

  • 07.09.2006 3:53 AM PDT
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Yes I am thinking something like that.

The futre bit could be something this intelligence (likely to be the Gravemind) thinks is going to happen. The Gravemind might see no alternative than to activate the Halo rings hence knowing that humanity is doomed to destruction. In that way the Gravemind knows our future.

The rather jumbled nature of the Cortana we see in the trailer could be a result of the being corrupted as the Gravemind assimulates Cortana.

Some people have speculate that it might even be a clone of Cortana that we see and not the original.

  • 07.09.2006 4:07 AM PDT
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well my whole thought about cortana is like this:
in the halo 2 movie after the credits gravemind says something like now i will speak and you will listen and in the halo 3 trailer she suddenly knows a lot. now that makes you think doesnt it

  • 07.09.2006 4:11 AM PDT
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well my whole thought about cortana is like this:
in the halo 2 movie after the credits gravemind says something like now i will speak and you will listen and in the halo 3 trailer she suddenly knows a lot. now that makes you think doesnt it


dude are your retarded? obviously you can infer time has passed by.. MC goes from the forerunner ship to walking on africa.. i don;t think you can do that in about 3 seconds.


also even if you couldn't use logical thinking.. bungie has stated that the trailer is not from the beggining of halo3.

  • 07.09.2006 4:15 AM PDT
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I think he meant time had passed by.
"I will speak and you will listen" if Graveming starts going on and on about stuff Cortana is bound to learn a thing or two, and by the time she contacts chief she seems to know a lot.

  • 07.09.2006 4:55 AM PDT
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...only in The Flood

*smacks self in face*
Next time I'll stay in The Flood

  • 07.09.2006 4:58 AM PDT
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To play or not to play....

Noone said it was instantly after H2. In any case the MC probably hasn't taken all that long to get where he was going. The ship he was on at the end on H2 was heading right there. Fair enough it may not be instant but the point is Cortana knows a hell of a lot more than could be learnt or absorbed within that time. Also she is acting very weird.

It doesn't take to long for a ship to fly down out of orbit and land near its target.

[Edited on 7/9/2006]

  • 07.09.2006 4:59 AM PDT
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sorry

[Edited on 7/9/2006]

  • 07.09.2006 5:07 AM PDT