I think Cortana has inadvertently cured herself of Rampancy
While she was splitting into many parts to help defeat the Didact and save the Chief
The one part of her that spoke with the Chief at end game is the one we will be tracking down in Halo 5 and probably mending in Halo 6
Just my take - Thought I’d throw it out their
You do realize the station ship she was on blew up…right? I don’t really see how we could go on a search for her unless she pulled another Halo 3 ending out of her -Yoink- which is possible but I don’t see how.
Cortana is dead. I’m sure she’ll be back before the Halo brand becomes unprofitable. Perhaps as a Zombie AI.
Cortana must return it was fool of 343 to kill her.
No way cortana is dead. She is too much apart of chief and his story. As me and a friend were discussing. Chief will struggle with himself and finding out who he really is in halo 5. Cortana is a big part of chief as she should be. If u have are used to having someone to talk to 24/7 and then their just gone this is a connection lost. I think the librarian had plans for her or I’m sure some interesting way they will explain she is alive
> Cortana must return it was fool of 343 to kill her.
Why?
> > Cortana must return it was fool of 343 to kill her.
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> Why?
Because you can’t kill a MAIN character of a show/play/anything from the first episode…if they wanted to kill her they should do it in Halo 6.
Well spoiler alert!
OT, I don’t even understand how she saved Chief in the first place.
However, I have a feeling that whatever part of her spoke to Chief after the nuke was not rampant: if you pay attention, she looks more like her Halo 1-3 self (with lines running down her body). That said, I don’t see how she could have survived. 1) The Didact disentegrated the terminal that her chip thingy was in before Chief could remove it–so she’s entirely in the ship’s computer network. 2) The ship blew up–which leads me to my first question of, HOW did chief survive? Could someone please explain? I’m not complaining about the ending at all–I was crying and I think it was fantastic, I just don’t see how it’s possible. Unless the Librarian’s genetic enhancements made him and his armor impervious to nuclear weapons, in which case was he imagining Cortana?
Anyway, if she did manage to escape the ship somehow, she’s probably floating through space and not rampant. But I doubt it. The only chance we have of getting Cortana back is a replacement from Halsey or (if I remember correctly) a copy she made of herself at some point.
I think that the original Cortana is gone, but it seems likely that she will remain part of the story, since she can be recreated. Even if the Composer was destroyed, that it was able to transform digitized beings into physical form seems like something that could be laying the groundwork towards a happy ending for the Chief and Cortana.
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> OT, I don’t even understand how she saved Chief in the first place.
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> However, I have a feeling that whatever part of her spoke to Chief after the nuke was not rampant: if you pay attention, she looks more like her Halo 1-3 self (with lines running down her body). That said, I don’t see how she could have survived. 1) The Didact disentegrated the terminal that her chip thingy was in before Chief could remove it–so she’s entirely in the ship’s computer network. 2) The ship blew up–which leads me to my first question of, HOW did chief survive? Could someone please explain? I’m not complaining about the ending at all–I was crying and I think it was fantastic, I just don’t see how it’s possible. Unless the Librarian’s genetic enhancements made him and his armor impervious to nuclear weapons, in which case was he imagining Cortana?
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> Anyway, if she did manage to escape the ship somehow, she’s probably floating through space and not rampant. But I doubt it. The only chance we have of getting Cortana back is a replacement from Halsey or (if I remember correctly) a copy she made of herself at some point.
John suvived because Cortana teleported him off of The Composer as the Nuclear device was activated, when she is interacting with him is during the fraction of a section transmission.
It should probably be noted that technically the Emergency Teleportation System that Cortana activated; would under normal circumstances have created a Lightpod Bubble around the Occupants who have been moved a minimum safe distance from a ship with a catastrophic failure then fall to the nearest gravitational Class 5 Planet.
This however did not occur as Cortana (little more than ghosting sub-routines) was only able to temporarily have this system teleport the Chief enough distance away to survive the intial blast and protect him until her link with the ship was abruptly seveared.
Something key to note here though is that the Composer itself was originally designed to be run by an Contender-Class Construct, which was no longer present; but rather ghosting sub-routines… it also was never designed to locally store large numbers of digitised people.
Literally is incapable of it. Also keep in mind that at that point in time the Diadacts Cryptum Battleship would only have enough space to keep a few hundred while also maintaining a localised Domain.
The only place with enough storage for an entire civilisation would be The Domain or perhaps the Great Ark (there’s a second oen bigger than the one that exploded in Halo 3) … as such this is why a Slipspace Event is formed underneath it as it was “Fired”
It would also be where those who got digitized (as seen in the final cutscene, that the UNSC sends a team to investigate) would’ve gone rather than being lost.
I would also note that while the grenade exploded in Bornstellars’ chest, his suit entered a lockdown ‘suvival’ mode. There is a good chance as it’s a Class 12 Combat Skin, it’s shields are rated for Slipspace travel.
Final point I will make here is with a Domain link active it is standard practise (think of this as a Forerunner variant of the ‘Cole Protocol’) that all Ship Data is downloaded at the moment of destruction to prevent any fragment being aquired by others.
Personally, depending on what happens in the Final Book of the Forerunner Saga; still I guarentee it isn’t the last we’ve seen of Cortana, but I don’t think she make much if any appearance in the next Chapter … no my money would be on a new forgetable Smart AI until we meet Mendicant Bias, he’ll likely end up as our Durandel.
Look, this is what i think is going to happend
343 cant just kill one of the main characters, there is basicaly no master chief whitout cortana, so i agree that in halo 5 or 6 we will be seeing her again, now, i think that 343 industries didnt really fully completed what the halo players expected for halo 4, they should have created a LOT more equipaments, a LOT more weapons, A LOT of a lot of things, now, what i don get is that they said that a new triology began, so that means 3 more games, the didact after you put the granade in his chest, he falls into what seems a black hole, my prediction is that he somehow survives and returns, but if you saw until the end of the credits, you will have seen that at the end, master chief gets back to earth and gets his armor off, WHY WOULD 343 INDUSTRIES HAVE DONE THAT???, is his spartan ca rrer over or something!!!.,!
343 industries needs to improve, this is their first halo game, but they needed to do something really massive to please the halo players, i still dont really know what happend to hal,o that became part of 343 industries instead of bungie
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Look, this is what i think is going to happend
343 cant just kill one of the main characters, there is basicaly no master chief whitout cortana, so i agree that in halo 5 or 6 we will be seeing her again, now, i think that 343 industries didnt really fully completed what the halo players expected for halo 4, they should have created a LOT more equipaments, a LOT more weapons, A LOT of a lot of things, now, what i don get is that they said that a new triology began, so that means 3 more games, the didact after you put the granade in his chest, he falls into what seems a black hole, my prediction is that he somehow survives and returns, but if you saw until the end of the credits, you will have seen that at the end, master chief gets back to earth and gets his armor off, WHY WOULD 343 INDUSTRIES HAVE DONE THAT???, is his spartan ca rrer over or something!!!.,!
343 industries needs to improve, this is their first halo game, but they needed to do something really massive to please the halo players, i still dont really know what happend to hal,o that became part of 343 industries instead of bungie
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> I think that the original Cortana is gone, but it seems likely that she will remain part of the story, since she can be recreated. Even if the Composer was destroyed, that it was able to transform digitized beings into physical form seems like something that could be laying the groundwork towards a happy ending for the Chief and Cortana.
The Librarian told the Master Chief that the Forerunners created only abominations when they tried to return the composing and make physical beings of the digitized forerunners again.
I also wondered how the Chief could have survived the blast. I mean, the nuke detonated IN HIS BOTH HANDS. If Cortana had teleported him, she must have been VERY quick in doing so.
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> <mark>Because you can’t kill a MAIN character of a show/play/anything from the first episode…</mark>if they wanted to kill her they should do it in Halo 6.
Halo: CE, Halo 2 and Halo 3 all say hi, as well as the novels The Fall of Reach, First Strike, the short story Human Weakness, etc. From Halo 2 onward and after First Strike, her deteriorated condition have all been major story elements. It was coming and it finally brought out the humanity in Chief.
I’m glad she died for that reason.