Can someone explain to me in full detail how Cortana saved John? It was always a little fuzzy to me in the scene. I just assumed that Cortana shielded John in Hardlight? I recently watched the cutscene again, and I had to just laugh at the dramatic Nuke pull.
Also, did Cortana physically touch John and become bigger by becoming Hardlight?
Well size is not a set thing but, yes touch.
Teleportation!
> Well size is not a set thing but, yes touch.
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> Teleportation!
I remember her saying that she got John off the ship, but Teleportation o_O?
I don’t even… sigh
I buy the teleportation and hardlight shell idea.
An early concept art panel of the ending shows Chief watching Mantle’s Approach from afar, meaning he was teleported outside.
The final ending seems to combine this and encase him in a hardlight box projected by what was left of Cortana. That’s how she appeared and touched his armor too.
I always thought that Cortana protected him in hard light.
> > Well size is not a set thing but, yes touch.
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> > Teleportation!
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> I remember her saying that she got John off the ship, but Teleportation o_O?
> I don’t even… sigh
How else? Slip space
You can thank the new HTC ONE Windows phone for Johns survival.
AKA, Cortana.
Teleport/Hardlight
> > > Well size is not a set thing but, yes touch.
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> > > Teleportation!
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> > I remember her saying that she got John off the ship, but Teleportation o_O?
> > I don’t even… sigh
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> How else? Slip space
Halo’s had teleportation grids from the beginning. Seeing as how the Mantle’s Approach is bigger than the first death star, and already has at least a portal style teleportation system, I don’t see it as a stretch at all.
Remember the teleportation portals during the campaign? I like to think that Cortana opened one of those and Chief got transported to a safe distance, with Cortana encasing John in Hardlight for extra protection.
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I assumed that he died. Earlier the Didact had scanned Chief with the rest of the humans on the space station, it didn’t disintegrate him, but that is not reason enough to believe that it didn’t still download him. We already know the Didact used similar technology to create the Prometheans from humans affected by the librarian. The way that I saw it Cortana used that data along with her own files to actually reconstruct Chief after he died and that is why they were able to physically interact in the scene; they weren’t both solid together, they were both virtual constructs.
> I assumed that he died. Earlier the Didact had scanned Chief with the rest of the humans on the space station, it didn’t disintegrate him, but that is not reason enough to believe that it didn’t still download him. We already know the Didact used similar technology to create the Prometheans from humans affected by the librarian. The way that I saw it Cortana used that data along with her own files to actually reconstruct Chief after he died and that is why they were able to physically interact in the scene; they weren’t both solid together, they were both virtual constructs.
> > > Well size is not a set thing but, yes touch.
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> > > Teleportation!
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> > I remember her saying that she got John off the ship, but Teleportation o_O?
> > I don’t even… sigh
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> How else? Slip space
I was kinda imagining a slip space teleport o_O, seeing how Cortana was in the system, that made more sense than just teleport. Unless she used Promethean knight teleport technology, or she picked up a few tips from Gravemind xD. To this day, I will never know how Gravemind could teleport Chief N Arbiter.
> > I assumed that he died. Earlier the Didact had scanned Chief with the rest of the humans on the space station, it didn’t disintegrate him, but that is not reason enough to believe that it didn’t still download him. We already know the Didact used similar technology to create the Prometheans from humans affected by the librarian. The way that I saw it Cortana used that data along with her own files to actually reconstruct Chief after he died and that is why they were able to physically interact in the scene; they weren’t both solid together, they were both virtual constructs.
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> Wat.
Rofl
> To this day, I will never know how Gravemind could teleport Chief N Arbiter.
Now that you mention it… yeah… how did he do that?
Cortana’s save at the end of the campaign was a bit murky to me for the first few viewings. The hardlight was the obvious answer but the teleport wasn’t clear at all. And the pacing of all of it made it feel more like a BA hardlight bubble, no real teleport involved.
I pretty much believed the whole Cortana protected him with hardlight.
Now, this just my theory, but here goes:
Since Cortana was able to transfer herself and copies through the hardlight bridge he was standing on, I’m guessing she could manipulate it fast enough for it to encase John. How manually detonating a nuke inches from your face doesn’t automatically kill you, I don’t know.
And, why does this thread have the ‘343’ icon on it’s little thumbnail?
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Cobra, what aren’t you telling us?
> > I assumed that he died. Earlier the Didact had scanned Chief with the rest of the humans on the space station, it didn’t disintegrate him, but that is not reason enough to believe that it didn’t still download him. We already know the Didact used similar technology to create the Prometheans from humans affected by the librarian. The way that I saw it Cortana used that data along with her own files to actually reconstruct Chief after he died and that is why they were able to physically interact in the scene; they weren’t both solid together, they were both virtual constructs.
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> Wat.
Okay, before Chief nuke’s his face, the Didact uses the Composer on him and everyone else on the space station. What the Composer does is digitize living creatures and turn them into AI constructs, with the intention of returning them to physical form later in a Forerunner bid for immortality. All of those scientists it disintegrated, they’re all AIs now. Now Chief was affected by it too, and we saw it deplete his shield and so he was obviously able to resist disintegration, but that is not to say the Composer was unable to essentially download Chief’s files. We all know that you don’t have to destroy data to copy it.
Later, Cortana is in the Didact’s computer system, it is reasonable to assume she also has access to the Composer, which contains an AI construct of Chief in stasis. Stasis because if the Didact is trying to use the Composer to imprison humanity, he probably doesn’t want them running around freely in his computer systems.
Fast forward to the face nuking and the screen fades to white. When it comes back Chief is standing in a box which could be hardlight, but also looks alot like Cortana. At that point Chief’s physical body has been destroyed and Cortana in now interacting with the stored AI inside of the Composer. Chief asks how do they get out of here and she tells him that she won’t be leaving. She never had a physical form and her flash drive was destroyed.
It is also answers the question of why, if Cortana can teleport Chief around or manipulate hardlight that effectively, why not just port Chief to safety, then hardlight manifest on the bridge and detonate the nuke herself. Instead she let Chief crawl to the nuke and die a hero. Because she couldn’t be sure of restoring him. I’m pretty sure that his having to crawl to the nuke was probably meant to show that he was already dying, or at least badly injured and not likely to make it.
> I pretty much believed the whole Cortana protected him with hardlight.
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> Now, this just my theory, but here goes:
> Since Cortana was able to transfer herself and copies through the hardlight bridge he was standing on, I’m guessing she could manipulate it fast enough for it to encase John. How manually detonating a nuke inches from your face doesn’t automatically kill you, I don’t know.
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> And, why does this thread have the ‘343’ icon on it’s little thumbnail?
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> Cobra, what aren’t you telling us?
Hell if I know why the 343 icon is on it, I think it is a bug. I’ve seen this before. I actually checked to see if maybe Catalog came in and answered it, but alas, it did not.
> I pretty much believed the whole Cortana protected him with hardlight.
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> Now, this just my theory, but here goes:
> Since Cortana was able to transfer herself and copies through the hardlight bridge he was standing on, I’m guessing she could manipulate it fast enough for it to encase John. How manually detonating a nuke inches from your face doesn’t automatically kill you, I don’t know.
>
> And, why does this thread have the ‘343’ icon on it’s little thumbnail?
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> Cobra, what aren’t you telling us?
> Hell if I know why the 343 icon is on it, I think it is a bug. I’ve seen this before. I actually checked to see if maybe Catalog came in and answered it, but alas, it did not.
Click on the icon. It’ll redirect you to this post by Phonuz
> Click on the icon. It’ll redirect you to this post by Phonuz
Huh… interesting.
And anyway, I meant it as a joke, Cobra, implying you were a 343 employee. 
