Reading the Amazon Preview, it’s clear as day the Cortana we see in Halo 5 is a Rampant fragment she uploaded into the Mantle’s Approach.
The Cortana we knew from CE through 4 is not the same one we see in Halo 5. She left herself to say goodbye to Chief at the end of her life in Halo 4.
Now we know why she behaved differently. So the Cortana from the rest of the story is dead, and this rampant fragment made it into the Domain. So that means the Domain DOESN’T cure rampancy. Now John should have no problem curb stomping her.
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> Now we know why she behaved differently. So the Cortana from the rest of the story is dead, and this rampant fragment made it into the Domain. So that means the Domain DOESN’T cure rampancy. Now John should have no problem curb stomping her.
It could have delayed the death of her rampancy with that fragment. Its nice to hear that it wasn’t the Cortana we all know and love that changed so much in 5, but I still don’t like that they used her in the story.
Not that I don’t believe you or anything, but could you state the exact line where this was said? I know it was on Amazon but I’m too lazy to look it up myself.
If this is true, however, then this is a very interesting bit of information. I’m particularly interested about 1.) What this fragment, and more importantly the fragments as a whole, were doing between the fall of the Didact’s shield in Midnight up to the detonation of the Havok. 2.) The nature of the fragments and if they behave as one or with separate personalities, similar to the Starscream Clones in Transformers: Animated. 3.) Why this fragment is so hell-bent on the idea of peace. I’d love to know more once Slipspace and Halo 6 are finally released.
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> Not that I don’t believe you or anything, but could you state the exact line where this was said? I know it was on Amazon but I’m too lazy to look it up myself.
> If this is true, however, then this is a very interesting bit of information. I’m particularly interested about 1.) What this fragment, and more importantly the fragments as a whole, were doing between the fall of the Didact’s shield in Midnight up to the detonation of the Havok. 2.) The nature of the fragments and if they behave as one or with separate personalities, similar to the Starscream Clones in Transformers: Animated. 3.) Why this fragment is so hell-bent on the idea of peace. I’d love to know more once Slipspace and Halo 6 are finally released.
Basically, it’s not one, but SEVERAL fragments of her who take control of the Domain.
She sees the salvation in the Domain but Warden doesn’t let her in, and they talk about life and mind. Cortana repeatedly says she deserves to enter because all the things she lived in her almost 8 years of life (specially survive against the Gravemind) and tricks Warden into thinking she’s harmless while the other fragments of her enters into the Domain.
i so cant wait for this to come out and to learn more
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> Now we know why she behaved differently. So the Cortana from the rest of the story is dead, and this rampant fragment made it into the Domain. So that means the Domain DOESN’T cure rampancy. Now John should have no problem curb stomping her.
Fingers frickin crossed lol I’m so tried of Cortana being such a thorn in our side.
I like 343 explaining stuff and expanding lore, but people will be mad that they have to read material outside of the games to know stuff about the game. I for one am excited for tales from slipspace, fractures, and mythos too. I will get fractures as soon as i get the last volume of escalation.
Wait wait wait, dost this mean we might go in a search for regular Cortana?
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> I like 343 explaining stuff and expanding lore, but people will be mad that they have to read material outside of the games to know stuff about the game. I for one am excited for tales from slipspace, fractures, and mythos too. I will get fractures as soon as i get the last volume of escalation.
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> Wait wait wait, dost this mean we might go in a search for regular Cortana?
I don’t think the whole Cortana is alive. When she said goodbye to him in 4, that was her core self, but fragments of her made it into the Domain. Most likely rampant fragments. Would explain her being so angry and delusional.
…Oh my God…
Oh my god…
OH MY GOD
OH MY FRIGGIN GOD!!!
This is all I was hoping for, as much as I would have wanted Cortana just to have been left out of 5 entirely,(save for some hallucinations), this lets Chief have a chance of seeing that Cortana is gone, and this twisted memory is just that; a twisted memory of one of his closest friends that needs to be dealt with.
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> …Oh my God…
> Oh my god…
> OH MY GOD
> OH MY FRIGGIN GOD!!!
> This is all I was hoping for, as much as I would have wanted Cortana just to have been left out of 5 entirely,(save for some hallucinations), this lets Chief have a chance of seeing that Cortana is gone, and this twisted memory is just that; a twisted memory of one of his closest friends that needs to be dealt with.
Exactly, this isn’t the Cortana he knew. He should have no problem wooping her -Yoink- now, especially if she goes all Faber with that Halo.
Great news, I suppose, for those of us who hated the thought of Cortana being blatantly revived for added drama. But then it makes me worried that 343i/Microsoft are yet again revealing a very important plot detail in an EU source that should be revealed in the games themselves. This trend is driving me crazy.
If it is true then im happy her hostile takeover has some logical reason, yet at the same time it should have been in the game.
So now I wonder if that fragment actually had the feelings for John that Cortana had. Or if she was tricking him , so she could trap Blue team , knowing what kind of threat they are. That last yell for John before Cortana went through the slip space portal makes me think it would be the former
This is interesting news. Im excited to get caught up. Though I wonder if this concludes that there isn’t logic plague involved or if it is inconclusive.
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> If it is true then im happy her hostile takeover has some logical reason, yet at the same time it should have been in the game.
Exactly! This trend ever since 343i was given responsibility of Halo has really ticked me off, being someone who only picks EU novels based on whether or not I am personally interested in the story/characters/etc., and prefers to play the games. Hopefully in Halo 6 they explain it as if no one else has known of it before.
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> Great news, I suppose, for those of us who hated the thought of Cortana being blatantly revived for added drama. But then it makes me worried that 343i/Microsoft are yet again revealing a very important plot detail in an EU source that should be revealed in the games themselves. This trend is driving me crazy.
This is the third 343i villain (out of three- Jul’s Covenant, the Didact and now Cortana) that 343i explains in the EU rather than in-game, and the second in which the actual explanation released after the game did (Sillentium and this)- and that’s without counting Halsey wich was written off as a villain in Escalation.
343i just don’t understand how to build an antagonist.
I think if they should do an explanation for characters, do it in things such as mission intel or terminals. Clunk exposition is weird, especially if the characters would already know that. We have the novels, which tell a huge chunk of the story. But casual fans should be in the know, so maybe they can do a quick synopsis, but no bizarre exposition.
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> > Great news, I suppose, for those of us who hated the thought of Cortana being blatantly revived for added drama. But then it makes me worried that 343i/Microsoft are yet again revealing a very important plot detail in an EU source that should be revealed in the games themselves. This trend is driving me crazy.
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> This is the third 343i villain (out of three- Jul’s Covenant, the Didact and now Cortana) that 343i explains in the EU rather than in-game, and the second in which the actual explanation released after the game did (Sillentium and this)- and that’s without counting Halsey wich was written off as a villain in Escalation.
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> 343i just don’t understand how to build an antagonist.
The problem is splitting the knowledge up, which then can divide the community (between those who gobble up every scrap of lore regardless of the source, and those who prefer to play the video games). I’d argue that they know how to make good antagonists (evil Cortana fragment out of the blue and the Didact’s poor portrayal in H4 aside), but it is how they go about it that irritates me. No one should be forced to read novels and comics to learn important information that directly effects or explains material revealed in the video games. I still prefer how Bungie went about their lore: You could play each game consecutively without issue, but you could read the books to learn more background information. Yes, a lot of characters and events in the Bungie novels were important, but they didn’t make or break the story told in the video game trilogy. Despite the fact that Halo 5 really doesn’t rely much on any previous EU lore, it is still obvious that anything afterwards is going to be revealed in books and such instead of Halo 6 (at least, that’s my fear).
Wait didn’t we already know this?