There is a lot of debate on whether or not Cortana is dead, but why would 343i kill her off?
In one of the ViDocs, 343 explains the importance of the new trilogy as a personal journey for the chief. Cortana plays a key role in chiefs development. 90% of the time shes the only reason Chief speaks at all.
If I had to guess, i’d say chief is going to get paired up with a new AI, hate him, and at some point in the next game, possibly the end, discover that Cortana in some way, shape, or form, is alive. Rampant or not, good or evil, who knows.
> There is a lot of debate on whether or not Cortana is dead, but why would 343i kill her off?
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> In one of the ViDocs, 343 explains the importance of the new trilogy as a personal journey for the chief. Cortana plays a key role in chiefs development. 90% of the time shes the only reason Chief speaks at all.
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> If I had to guess, i’d say chief is going to get paired up with a new AI, hate him, and at some point in the next game, possibly the end, discover that Cortana in some way, shape, or form, is alive. Rampant or not, good or evil, who knows.
Perhaps Chief will have to go AWOL to get her back… He already displayed a tendency to disobey orders for her sake, as well as that of everyone on Earth. In spartan ops, it shows Dr. Halsey conversing with, what we assume is the Librarian via the doctor’s data-pad, using the Artifact as a bridge for that connection. I think we’ll see some good things coming from this, maybe even in regards to Cortana or a new AI for Chief, similar to how NOBLE team delivered Cortana to the POA. Many people are bringing up Jul M’dama but I think he will be taken care of by the Infinity crew, unless he were to escape somehow to be an Antagonist in another game.
Yeah I agree with this post, its the same thing at the Didact. He’s been such a major character in the books and hinted at in Halo 3 and Anniversary that there is no way they’d just kill him off in 4. My own guess would be that MC gets paired up with a new AI who is fundamentally different from Cortana and perhaps rampant Cortana will appear as the Didact’s ancilla. Remember how at the end of Halo 4 the Didact asks why Cortana is fighting for humanity? In her rampant state she says that its just for Chief. This, in my opinion, suggests that Cortana is ready to turn her back on humanity, but not Chief. So with this logic, I think MC will get a new AI, I think MC will continue to get berated by the UNSC or ONI or that mysterious guy who imprisoned Halsey, and I think it would make sense for rampant Cortana to side with the Didact become his ancilla and try to convert Chief over to their side. Of course, this is just my speculation
I disagree that cortana is necessary to develop the chief.
Not when there are at least three other S-IIs still alive.
Chief spent virtually his entire life with them, they’re basically his family. Whereas he has spent all of 3 months with cortana (real time, not in cryo).
They could help develop chief a million times more than cortana ever could.
I expect Cortana will be absent for the duration of Halo 5, but will probably return in Halo 6. Chief will probably resist getting a new AI, and… heck, I can’t even begin to guess at what will happen in Halo 5 other than in very broad strokes.
> I disagree that cortana is necessary to develop the chief.
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> Not when there are at least three other S-IIs still alive.
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> Chief spent virtually his entire life with them, they’re basically his family. Whereas he has spent all of 3 months with cortana (real time, not in cryo).
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> They could help develop chief a million times more than cortana ever could.
> I disagree that cortana is necessary to develop the chief.
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> Not when there are at least three other S-IIs still alive.
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> Chief spent virtually his entire life with them, they’re basically his family. Whereas he has spent all of 3 months with cortana (real time, not in cryo).
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> They could help develop chief a million times more than cortana ever could.
Honestly, how many people read Halo novels? Not many people know presence of other Spartan 2s.
> > I disagree that cortana is necessary to develop the chief.
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> > Not when there are at least three other S-IIs still alive.
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> > Chief spent virtually his entire life with them, they’re basically his family. Whereas he has spent all of 3 months with cortana (real time, not in cryo).
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> > They could help develop chief a million times more than cortana ever could.
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> Honestly, how many people read Halo novels? Not many people know presence of other Spartan 2s.
This is largely bungies fault, cause even halo 3’s manual refers to master chief as the last spartan.
I can see why they said it in the first game’s manual, but why continue the trend with so many works saying otherwise?
We may have to prepare ourselves that cortana may actually really be gone…personally id love to see her come back but you know it wouldnt surprise me to find out shes actually dead.
> There is a lot of debate on whether or not Cortana is dead, but why would 343i kill her off?
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> In one of the ViDocs, 343 explains the importance of the new trilogy as a personal journey for the chief. Cortana plays a key role in chiefs development.
Her death also deals a huge blow to the chiefs development. How does he handle her loss? What inner struggles will face him? What will he do to fill the emptiness… How does this affect his calm personality and his decisions on the field? This brings a whole new level of depth to the chief that we have not yet seen in the games.
On a different note, it think Cortana will return, maybe not alive… but at least in the form of flashbacks.
The core of Halo 4’s campaign would be undermined if Cortana came back. Her death is supposed to symbolize a transitional phase for the MC, and her return would ruin this completely. It’s time to let go guys.
If they have so many plans for her, why kill her off? And why make such a big deal of it? And why make it so -Yoink!- final and so -Yoink!- good a death, if she will come back to muck it up? There are no hints that she is alive, no post credit scene, no legendary Cortana ending, nothing. And there is plenty lead up for the Chakas AI (aka the original Guilty Spark) in SpOps and the Forerunner Saga, so he might become Cortana’s replacement.
> If they have so many plans for her, why kill her off? And why make such a big deal of it? And why make it so -Yoink!- final and so -Yoink!- good a death, if she will come back to muck it up? There are no hints that she is alive, no post credit scene, no legendary Cortana ending, nothing. And there is plenty lead up for the Chakas AI (aka the original Guilty Spark) in SpOps and the Forerunner Saga, so he might become Cortana’s replacement.
Do you not remember killing him off? There was only one 343 Guilty Spark, which was also Chakas, they’re the same AI.
> The core of Halo 4’s campaign would be undermined if Cortana came back. Her death is supposed to symbolize a transitional phase for the MC, and her return would ruin this completely. It’s time to let go guys.
This. Bringing her back just kills any impact her death had. She’s gone and I hope she stays that way.
> Honestly, how many people read Halo novels? Not many people know presence of other Spartan 2s.
Didn’t stop them from throwing in the whole Forerunner Saga into the game.
I highly doubt that we’ve seen the end of Cortana. And I would be superised if she doesn’t make a return in one form or another in Halo 5. I do, however, believe that we have seen the end of Cortana as she appeared in previous games. The discovery of the prometheans could provide a unique oppertunity for Cortana if she can overcome her rampancy. She could potentially create a physical body for herself if she could find a way to utilize the technology that the composer used to turn human beings into the part digital part biological promethean knights.
And if Cortana was in fact able to create a physical body to exist in this would hugely impact relationship she has with the Chief.
I feel like the effect this could have on Chief could be bad, I may not be correct on this but wasn’t Cortana one of the main reasons Chief continued on? wasn’t she somewhat of his drive?
with her gone I’m not sure Chief will have the same drive as he did before, which would make a large impact on his decisions making Cortanas death more of an impact. If she does happen to return id feed as if nothing has changed throughout the games, as much as i like Cortana as Chiefs AI i think the fanbase of Halo should be ready for a change, it would simply give the game a new twist and could possibly lead to a more in depth view of Chief, letting the fans get closer to him in a sense.
