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[[WMG: Cortana went Rampant shortly after Chief put her into Halo's systems, and her rampancy changed her mission from protect humanity to protect Master Chief]]
Think about it, since Smart AI's apparently "think" themselves to death after rampancy, wouldn't something as advanced as Halo be a huge amount of information? Put yourself in Cortana's position. You would want every single piece of data from that place and integrate it into yourself for later use, which she DID with the index. The overload of data however messed with her, and she almost immediately went rampant. She managed to hold herself together though, and found out her commanding officer was walking into a trap and ordered Chief to go and save them. She watches Chief's entire battle to get out once he gets there. She loses track of him when Guilty Spark takes him, but she assumes that Chief has been killed and falls past her [[DespairEventHorizon Despair event Horizon]]. She thinks she's not only failed Chief and those who were on the Pillar of Autumn, but humanity as a whole, and fails her primary mission. However, when Chief is suddenly brought back to her in the control room, she has fallen so far that when she sees Chief, she is overcome with joy and anger at the same time, seeing a human alive and fairly well, yet angry because some other AI (Guilty Spark) is watching over him. She feels that Guilty Spark took Chief from her, so she takes the index from him as a sort of revenge. She had found out what Halo does, and was going to let it happen, until she saw Chief. At this point she has the overwhelming desire to keep Chief alive. Afterwards everything she does is to keep Chief alive. Blowing up the Pillar of Autumn was actually a way to get Chief onto the Longsword and off of Halo and the Flood. The Echo 419 pickup was when she realized that there might be a better way to keep him safe, but failed and fell back to her original plan. Cortana didn't care about Echo 419 in reality, but acted like she did so Chief wouldn't be nervous toting her around with him. When they got back to Earth, Chief was safe and Cortana felt she possibly didn't need to be with him every waking moment. However, once the Covenant attacked, she took the first chance she could to get back into his head, and "protect" him. When Cortana tells Chief to leave her behind on High Charity, it was so that she would in her mind commit a noble sacrifice and once again protect Chief. Then we reach the Cortana moments that were abundant in Halo 3. Cortana left her main self on High Charity, but not before leaving a fragment of herself still in Chief. As mentioned in Dr. Halsey's journal, AI's can fragment themselves and leave parts behind to work on something if the main "body" is needed somewhere else. However these fragments are unable to sustain themselves for extended periods of time without rejoining with the main AI. The part she leaves behind starts to speak to Chief throughout the game. Trying it's best to guide him with it's limited ability. This piece stays with Chief throughout the game until he finds the real Cortana back on High Charity. The Cortana moments previously in that level show Cortana growing more and more unstable, eventually giving into the gravemind. This is actually just the fragment losing it's ability to maintain itself, and it "dies" just before Chief reaches the main Cortana. This Cortana was no longer as far rampant as the previous one, as that fragment held quite a bit of data, so Cortana had less data to think herself to death with. This one was able to guide Chief through the rest of the game, and eventually settle into what she has wanted for most of the trilogy. Once Chief is alone in Cryosleep, Cortana just stands there, watching over him.
Think about it, since Smart AI's apparently "think" themselves to death after rampancy, wouldn't something as advanced as Halo be a huge amount of information? Put yourself in Cortana's position. You would want every single piece of data from that place and integrate it into yourself for later use, which she DID with the index. The overload of data however messed with her, and she almost immediately went rampant. She managed to hold herself together though, and found out her commanding officer was walking into a trap and ordered Chief to go and save them. She watches Chief's entire battle to get out once he gets there. She loses track of him when Guilty Spark takes him, but she assumes that Chief has been killed and falls past her [[DespairEventHorizon Despair event Horizon]]. She thinks she's not only failed Chief and those who were on the Pillar of Autumn, but humanity as a whole, and fails her primary mission. However, when Chief is suddenly brought back to her in the control room, she has fallen so far that when she sees Chief, she is overcome with joy and anger at the same time, seeing a human alive and fairly well, yet angry because some other AI (Guilty Spark) is watching over him. She feels that Guilty Spark took Chief from her, so she takes the index from him as a sort of revenge. She had found out what Halo does, and was going to let it happen, until she saw Chief. At this point she has the overwhelming desire to keep Chief alive. Afterwards everything she does is to keep Chief alive. Blowing up the Pillar of Autumn was actually a way to get Chief onto the Longsword and off of Halo and the Flood. The Echo 419 pickup was when she realized that there might be a better way to keep him safe, but failed and fell back to her original plan. Cortana didn't care about Echo 419 in reality, but acted like she did so Chief wouldn't be nervous toting her around with him. When they got back to Earth, Chief was safe and Cortana felt she possibly didn't need to be with him every waking moment. However, once the Covenant attacked, she took the first chance she could to get back into his head, and "protect" him. When Cortana tells Chief to leave her behind on High Charity, it was so that she would in her mind commit a noble sacrifice and once again protect Chief. Then we reach the Cortana moments that were abundant in Halo 3. Cortana left her main self on High Charity, but not before leaving a fragment of herself still in Chief. As mentioned in Dr. Halsey's journal, AI's can fragment themselves and leave parts behind to work on something if the main "body" is needed somewhere else. However these fragments are unable to sustain themselves for extended periods of time without rejoining with the main AI. The part she leaves behind starts to speak to Chief throughout the game. Trying it's best to guide him with it's limited ability. This piece stays with Chief throughout the game until he finds the real Cortana back on High Charity. The Cortana moments previously in that level show Cortana growing more and more unstable, eventually giving into the gravemind. This is actually just the fragment losing it's ability to maintain itself, and it "dies" just before Chief reaches the main Cortana. This Cortana was no longer as far rampant as the previous one, as that fragment held quite a bit of data, so Cortana had less data to think herself to death with. This one was able to guide Chief through the rest of the game, and eventually settle into what she has wanted for most of the trilogy. Once Chief is alone in Cryosleep, Cortana just stands there, watching over him.
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So, then depending on how much Cortana knew, she could've either been TheChessmaster pulling the strings to ensure humanity's victory, or just a convenient SpannerInTheWorks.
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So, then depending on how much Cortana knew, she could've either been TheChessmaster pulling the strings to ensure humanity's victory, or just a convenient SpannerInTheWorks.SpannerInTheWorks on humanity's side.
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[[WMG: Cortana Was Behind it All--Part III]]
Okay, apparently the secrets Cortana deciphered from that "latchkey" discovery led to Halo, right? So why did Keyes think that they blindly jumped and just happened to exit slipspace near Halo? Because he never knew what Cortana was up to.
That said, it's apparent either Cortana's a ''very'' good actor, or she did not know the full story of Halo (there is no way she would've allowed Keyes to go to where the Flood were if s had the whole story). Since Halsey was certain what she had deciphered was humanity's only hope of beating the Covenant, it would suggest that they knew it was some type of weapon. Cortana seemed to know alot about Halo's purpose the very moment Master Chief plugged her into the control room; it's possible that she knew something of it's capabilities. However, her tone when she told the Chief that it "is not a cudgel", would suggest she had an idea it was an aimable weapon, rather than galactic death machine. Immediately after Chief returns to the control room, she is exceedingly pissed off. Perhaps it was all just because Chief had been following the Guilty Spark's lead, but she generally seems to be fairly patient with him; finding out that Halo wouldn't stop the Covenant without killing humanity is possibly the reason for her outburst.
So, then depending on how much Cortana knew, she could've either been TheChessmaster pulling the strings to ensure humanity's victory, or just a convenient SpannerInTheWorks.
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[[WMG: The Rookie is [[Scrubs John Dorian]].]]
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[[WMG: The Rookie is [[Scrubs John Dorian]].Dorian from Scrubs.]]
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[[WMG: The Rookie is [[Scrubs John Dorian]].]]
His initials were confirmed to be JD, and the reason he never speaks is because he's intimidated, narrating internally and/or daydreaming. The "flashbacks" are all actually daydreams, too. "Upon reaching the top floor of the building, I noticed a strange helmet jammed really hard into a TV screen. What could have placed it there? Hmm..." *queue Buck sequence #1*
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* Actually, Foe Hammer and what was left of the ''Autumn's'' crew knew exactly what the Master Chief was going to do. In fact they captured the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' in order to escape the ring; Cortana and the Chief would rendezvous with them later. Unfortunately they never bothered to clear out all the Flood, and Lt. Melissa McKay [[HeroicSacrific knew what had to be done]].
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* I think you need to go read the Terminals in ''Halo 3''. It's pretty clearly spelled out that the Forerunners and humans are two distinct species. And the idea of "inbreeding" is ridiculous; not only are we an alien race, but there is evidence of ''homo sapiens'' existing up to 250,000 - 140,000 years ago. The Forerunner were last on Earth around 100,000 years ago. What IS clear is that the Forerunners intended humanity to be their successor, explaining why only humans can activate the Halo Array.
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**** '''NO'''. Humans are ''not'' Forerunner. It's confirmed in the Terminals. Didact knew that by activating the Array, he would kill Librarian (living on Earth), who was prepared for it. This is not ''BattlestarGalactica''.
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** All but confirmed. Most of the geographical features have Hungarian names, and you actually meet a group of them in the first mission. In fact, one of Noble Team is Hungarian and from Reach: Jorge.
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** '''[[BigNo NO!]]''' Read the wiki, or at least look at the Terminals in ''Halo 3''. The Forerunners are explicit ''not'' humans. We were just considered [[HumansAreSpecial more special than the other races]].
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* Nope, one of the Forerunners in the ''Halo 3'' Terminals talks about documenting all the sentient races in the galaxy in case the Halo Arrays were fired. They might have had to clone new individuals, but they didn't create all new species. And, again ''humans are not Forerunner''.
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* The Insurrectionists had a good deal of support back in the day. This was before they started using terror tactics (IEDs, kidnapping civilian starships, stealing nukes, etc.). While the UNSC could easily go military dictatorship, we won't be fighting on the side of the Innies. And we have no real idea what the situation in the UNSC was. It was created (and supported) by the Unified Earth Government, which would suggest that Earth held all the power, and the UNSC acted as its enforcer. The UNSC is really just the military and colonial administration.
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* The UNSC has already mastered terraforming. Mars is blue and green, and Reach required a lesser degree of terraforming before it was suitable for human habitation. As a matter of fact, the Covenant do not possess the ability to completely glass a planet; it's propaganda spread by a secret Council of human [=AIs=], in order to motivate their Creators in the fight against the Covenant. They're actually benevolent, but that's a story for another time.
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** Of course, there is Admiral Whitcomb, and his little band of collected remaining SPARTAN IIs still on Reach. Plenty of time to pull a BigDamnHeroes rescue between the Fall of Reach, and First Strike.
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** This actually tends to happen in fanfic. If the writer wants Six to survive, Jun turns up at the last moment and saves him/her. Go, Jun, go!
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[[WMG: The Master Chief went insane at the end of Halo 2 after the earth was glassed by the Covonant.]]
After achieving victory in the space battle there would have been no reason to not glass the entire planet and dig up the forerunner technology with no resistance.
After achieving victory in the space battle there would have been no reason to not glass the entire planet and dig up the forerunner technology with no resistance.
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* Maybe Jun snipes them just before they finish off Six. It'd make for a good fanfiction.
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* To be fair, you never actually see the Elites run him/her through with a sword. It stops just before that. Enough time for a miracle to happen, I suppose.
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* Sort of confirmed, a re-done part of the opening cinematic plays before the credits, but it's on all difficulties.
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* I hereby call the posting troper as subscribing to [[HesJustHiding a certain river in Egypt]][[hottip:*:in case you don't get the joke - de Nile (say it aloud).]]
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[[WMG: Noble-6 is just hiding.]]
We never saw the body and SPARTANs never die. 6 beat up the elites, left the helmet behind since it was busted, and, being so tired of all the senseless death, deserted (since nobody had ever seen 6's face, this was pretty easy). Halsey erroneously believes 6 to be dead.
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According to his/her dossier Noble-6 has singlehandedly broken up multiple organizations and made entire colonial militias vanish. Altair has killed at least that many by the end of Assasin's Creed. Noble-6 also falls from orbit and walks away from it with little more than a limp. The Master Chief at least needed someone to unlock his armor after such a fall. Six probably landed in the water and, like Ezio, didn't get hurt because of that. Lastly, is it only coincidence that this game gave you the ability to perform assassinations on anyone you happen to get behind in a fight?
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According to his/her dossier Noble-6 has singlehandedly broken up multiple organizations and made entire colonial militias vanish. Altair has killed at least that many by the end of Assasin's Creed. Noble-6 also falls from orbit and walks away from it with little more than a limp. The Master Chief at least needed someone to unlock his armor after such a fall. Six probably landed in the water and, like Ezio, didn't get hurt because of that. Lastly, is it only coincidence that this game gave you the ability to perform assassinations on anyone you happen to get behind in a fight? fight?
[[WMG: The UNSC has mastered {{Terraforming}}.]]
There is no other way Reach could have gone from "lifeless ball of glass" to "standard life-bearing world" by 2589 AD. Historically, when a planet has to create an ecosystem out of nothing but bare rock, it takes ''billions'' of years, not 35. This is backed up by the presence of a ship in the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s cradle, just visible in the far left of the shot: mankind has returned to Reach, and evidently they brought an ecosystem with them. (Amusingly, it seems to be a Halcyon-class cruiser, the same as the ''Autumn'', despite Cortana describing the class as being mothballed. [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hopes that the ship [[LegacyCharacter shares a name]] as well as a home port with the ''Autumn''.)
[[WMG: The UNSC has mastered {{Terraforming}}.]]
There is no other way Reach could have gone from "lifeless ball of glass" to "standard life-bearing world" by 2589 AD. Historically, when a planet has to create an ecosystem out of nothing but bare rock, it takes ''billions'' of years, not 35. This is backed up by the presence of a ship in the ''Pillar of Autumn'''s cradle, just visible in the far left of the shot: mankind has returned to Reach, and evidently they brought an ecosystem with them. (Amusingly, it seems to be a Halcyon-class cruiser, the same as the ''Autumn'', despite Cortana describing the class as being mothballed. [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] hopes that the ship [[LegacyCharacter shares a name]] as well as a home port with the ''Autumn''.)
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* [[spoiler:Sort-of Confirmed. Except it's not Firefight, everyone else has already evacuated, and it's only Noble Six (you) all by his[=/=]her lonesome]].
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** '''Answer''': [[spoiler:Depending on whether you consider the post-credits LastStand the final boss or not, the "final boss" is either A: using a mass driver to one-shot a Covenant Battlecruiser (pre-credits), or fighting as Noble Six, alone, against an unending wave of Covenant until you inevitably die (post-credits)]].
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* [[spoiler:Confirmed: Jorge]].
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*Alternatively, Player 2 is an alternate version of [[spoiler: Noble Six, who successfully escaped to the Pillar of Autumn (by either Skyjacking a Banshee after hitting the Covenant cruiser, or due to Emile not [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice winding up a Spartan Shiskebab]] and remaining to operate the turret).]]
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[[WMG: Noble-6 is an [[AssassinsCreed Assassin]]]]
According to his/her dossier Noble-6 has singlehandedly broken up multiple organizations and made entire colonial militias vanish. Altair has killed at least that many by the end of Assasin's Creed. Noble-6 also falls from orbit and walks away from it with little more than a limp. The Master Chief at least needed someone to unlock his armor after such a fall. Six probably landed in the water and, like Ezio, didn't get hurt because of that. Lastly, is it only coincidence that this game gave you the ability to perform assassinations on anyone you happen to get behind in a fight?
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*[[HijackedByGanon The Flood.]]
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*** The UNSC dossier ''The Flood'' is a carefully crafted UNSC counter-intelligence document intentionally disguising Master Chief’s true identity. Master Chief is obviously black, and any data being used in have this truth Jossed is merely flimsy UNSC misinformation.
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[[WMG: The Precursors are [[DoctorWho Time Lords]].]]
It's pretty clear that they are, so the most likely are.
[[WMG: The next game to feature John will have him fighting some new alien race while Cortana, who we saw go Rampant at the end of Origins, goes [[{{Marathon}} Durandal]] on him.]]
That is to say she tries to use him to become immortal.
It's pretty clear that they are, so the most likely are.
[[WMG: The next game to feature John will have him fighting some new alien race while Cortana, who we saw go Rampant at the end of Origins, goes [[{{Marathon}} Durandal]] on him.]]
That is to say she tries to use him to become immortal.
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[[WMG: Noble-6 is actually AU [[MassEffect Shepard]]
Both are completely customizable player characters who kick so much ass it is acknowledged by every person, as evidenced by Shepard's status as Spectre and Noble-6's classification as "hyper-lethal", which is alluded that even among spartans there is only one other with that rating (John). Also, then we can cross our fingers that Jennifer Hale could be the female Noble-6
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** Jossed. The novel ''The Flood'' describes Master Chief with his helmet off: he is pale and has greying red hair.
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* An arbiter
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* Technically, fighting the Covenant did prepare the player and the rest of humanity for fighting the Flood. by developing and practicing space combat tactics and skills against the Covenant, Humanity (plus the player) were effectively toughened up and their chances of survival against the Flood were greatly increased, so this WMG does make sense.
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[[WMG: Sergeant Johnson is Commissar Yarrick and Sgt. Reznov]]
Being extremely [[Badass]], Yarrick, while at the head of the Black Templars Crusade devoted to chasing Warboss Thraka, chased Thraka close to the Eye of Terror. A warp storm hit, and Yarrick's ship was transported to Terra circa 1940s. After fighting on the Russian side under the name Sgt. Reznov, Yarrick encountered the Emperor sixty years later, and in between commanding one Army Ranger to [[MemeticMutation do everything]], the Emperor gives Yarrick immortality. Yarrick lives until the mid 2500s, fighting alongside the first Space Marine, where he is nearly killed during the operations on the Ark, but lives on to enlist in the Ultramarines 38,000 years later, and working as a Scout Sergeant with an excellent mustache.
Being extremely [[Badass]], Yarrick, while at the head of the Black Templars Crusade devoted to chasing Warboss Thraka, chased Thraka close to the Eye of Terror. A warp storm hit, and Yarrick's ship was transported to Terra circa 1940s. After fighting on the Russian side under the name Sgt. Reznov, Yarrick encountered the Emperor sixty years later, and in between commanding one Army Ranger to [[MemeticMutation do everything]], the Emperor gives Yarrick immortality. Yarrick lives until the mid 2500s, fighting alongside the first Space Marine, where he is nearly killed during the operations on the Ark, but lives on to enlist in the Ultramarines 38,000 years later, and working as a Scout Sergeant with an excellent mustache.
