Do you think Cortana will be back in the next games? She may be stored in some sort of external hard-drive for the Composer, or she may even come back in flashbacks. Or do you think she is dead for good.
Personally I believe her fragments are stored in the Composer’s hard-drive, probably the artifact in Spartan Ops.
I believe she is gone. 
So hard to even type that.
I wouldn’t bet on that Spartan Ops stuff, I’ve got a good feeling it is the Librarian inside the Forerunner artifact, not Cortana.
I don’t believe Cortana is gone for good, we’ll see flashbacks similar to Halo 3 a lot for sure in future games, and let’s remember Cortana was made from Halsey’s mind, it is possible for her to create another one, but without the memories the original Cortana AI had.
I am sure we will see Flashbacks. Maybe even a new Cortana. But our Cortana is gone.
Pretty sure that when the librarian was talking to Cortana that she took a fragment of her to re-build into a non-rampant version.
Don’t quote me on this, I only heard this from some guy who supposedly read the books.
If she is still ‘alive’ somehow, she shouldn’t be very much longer or it will break canon, less Halsey somehow manages to fix her, which is also very unlikely, but who knows, fan-service defies many points of logic.
As far as I’m concerned, she should be dead, and I’m glad she’s dead. Chief was getting too attached, he was compromising his own safety, and in some cases many other’s safety for the sake of a non-living AI. I dearly hope her ‘death’ will help him wake up and focus on the fact that there are things out there threatening the existence of all organic life, he can’t have the luxury to pick favorites to save over others.
On the other hand, I do hope he gets a new AI, as he is relatively vulnerable without one. I just hope they assign him a male one that he won’t get too attached to. Maybe an AI clone of good Ol’ Sgt. Avery Johnson or Chief Mendez. Now wouldn’t that be something? In all seriousness though, I believe it to be imparitive to the Chief’s future success that he receive a new, more professional AI.
> If she is still ‘alive’ somehow, she shouldn’t be very much longer or it will break canon, less Halsey somehow manages to fix her, which is also very unlikely, but who knows, fan-service defies many points of logic.
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> As far as I’m concerned, she should be dead, and I’m glad she’s dead. Chief was getting too attached, he was compromising his own safety, and in some cases many other’s safety for the sake of a non-living AI. I dearly hope her ‘death’ will help him wake up and focus on the fact that there are things out there threatening the existence of all organic life, he can’t have the luxury to pick favorites to save over others.
Cortana was supposed to be a character we were all attached to. The Chief included. She was supposed to show that he was only human. Cortana showed us that the Chief wasn’t just a machine, that in his core, he was still human. A human capable of complex feelings, whether be towards an A.I (The non-living part is debatable because she was made from Halsey’s DNA) or towards humanity as a whole. She was an important character to get attached to. During Halo 3 when the gravemind had her, we were supposed to feel fear and pity, emotions the Chief probably felt as well. Cortana added onto the character that is the Chief.
> Cortana was supposed to be a character we were all attached to.
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> Well with Halsey being a practically sociopathic mad scientist, and the apple not falling far from the tree, I can’t begin to understand how I was supposed to grow attached to her
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> The Chief included. She was supposed to show that he was only human.
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> That’s unfortunate again, as he’s not. He’s a Spartan. An elite super-soldier, trained from age 6. Emotions are a weakness on the battlefield, to willingly subject him to such a thing is to guarantee that he malfunctions and disobeys orders. While some of his orders needed to be disobeyed, one can only wonder how long it would be before he disobeys a truly important order. Whatever humanity he thinks he has, I hope he can shake it off before he’s knee-deep in -Yoink- that requires a Spartan, not a human
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> Cortana showed us that the Chief wasn’t just a machine, that in his core, he was still human. A human capable of complex feelings, whether be towards an A.I (The non-living part is debatable because she was made from Halsey’s DNA) or towards humanity as a whole.
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> Covered that in the above
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> She was an important character to get attached to. During Halo 3 when the gravemind had her, we were supposed to feel fear and pity, emotions the Chief probably felt as well.
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> Pity? Fear? The only reason I as a player even wanted to find her was to shut her the hell up. If I wanted to deal with nagging I’d have neglected to do the laundry, not volunteered to save the universe. If Chief did feel those feelings, then that would only prove that Cortana was just as much a weakness as she was an asset to him
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> Cortana added onto the character that is the Chief.
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> I must respectfully disagree. Cortana was a parasite, leeching off of the abundance of charisma and cool that oozed forth from the Chief. Without Master Chief, Cortana was just a sad, lonely, egotistical little AI. Without Cortana, Master Chief is still the Master -Yoinking!- Chief, he’s just short one over-glorified hacking tool.