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Subject: Cortana

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ok i personally believe that cortana isnt going to betray the human race. let me tell you why.


firstly when aboard the POA Capt. keyes tells her to jump from reach to a random location, she obeys this, but with intent to fulfill her curiosity by plotting the co ordinates to the halo ring because as an AI she is curios with the idea of a welth of knowledge.
Now cortana staying with gravemind might not be a sign of betrayal but more of way stayin to find and get more knowledge about the flood and forrunners, also her life is nearing her end, so she maybe determined to get as much knowledge for the human rce as possible.
now the hole idea about her being the shield and sword, she is a key to the human race and defender of it (shield) and she is on her personal mission to seek knowledge (sword)

just an idea, insight and critisism is welcome :)

  • 07.14.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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who knows what she picked up from downloading the first Halos databases?

  • 07.14.2006 4:03 PM PDT

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true, we dont no, and that also got me thinkin maybe she picked up a virus?!

  • 07.14.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: MasterChef1013
who knows what she picked up from downloading the first Halos databases?

maybe the thought of power corrupted her, through insanity she would want to manipulate the flood.. maybe?

  • 07.14.2006 4:26 PM PDT
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I just think she'll go Corrupt... she'll be messed up and won't know what she's doing when she betrays humanity!

  • 07.14.2006 4:34 PM PDT

AS a AI Cortana has been alive for 4 years and can only live to 7 or 8 years old being with gravemind has taken its toll on cortana she is getting destryoed in her mind and gravemind might get control over her

  • 07.14.2006 4:46 PM PDT
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Well, we can conspire that Cortana has ambitious visions of power and then denial possibly to hide her inner thoughts.

"If I was a megalomaniac, which I'm not, that's where I'd be."

Translation: If I was a power hungry maniac, which I'm not(a quick denial, could be trying to avert attention), that's where I'd be.

  • 07.14.2006 4:57 PM PDT
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ive just thought, maybe a serperate AI from halo is now inside her...

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bungie did say that

".....................and the willingness of Cortana, the next move is certainly his."

when they described tthe GM

  • 07.14.2006 5:01 PM PDT

Old School

but nothing she has said forwards the idea of betryal, just the lust for wisdom and power...and survival, mayb with her new information, shes found a way to survive for longer?

  • 07.14.2006 5:14 PM PDT
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You know what I miss?
In Halo:First Strike, Cortana figured out a way to create clones of herself. Although yes they had replication errors. Cortana could have created a quick replica of herself to detonate the reactor on High Charity.

Besides, she's a Smart AI. She killed a covenant AI in that book. I doubt that the gravemind would take control of her. Its just not very practical as far as the storyline goes.

  • 07.14.2006 5:46 PM PDT

hmmm u could be right

  • 07.14.2006 5:50 PM PDT
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It's entirely possible. Gravemind wasn't just on High Charity, he got within the system(e.g. over High Charity's broadcasts) as well as Cortana. One of the storyboards depict Cortana in agony, the end of Halo 2, and Gravemind's subtle presence in her voice of the Halo 3 trailer.

It's undeniable.

  • 07.14.2006 5:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
bungie did say that

".....................and the willingness of Cortana, the next move is certainly his."

when they described tthe GM


Link.

  • 07.14.2006 5:53 PM PDT