THE CORTANA RESURRECTION THEORY WARNING CONTAIN HALO 4 SPOILERS
I hate the fact that Halo 4 ends with Cortana’s death scene. It tore at my heart strings. As Cortana said her goodbyes to The Master Chief, I couldn’t help but feel hurt. Angry. Betrayed. 343 promised that The Reclaimer Trilogy would help evolve the relationship between Chief and Cortana. And I find it a little hard to do this when one of them is ‘dead’.
So it got me thinking and I have came up with this. I call it “The Cortana Resurrection Theory” which is really just an obnoxious way of saying, “Please 343 don’t kill off Cortana.”
Cortana’s ‘death scene’ takes place on the Didact’s ship during and after the Didact battle. The Didact is about to unleash a dreadful weapon known as the Composer that we see the Didact use against the people of Ivanoff Research Station.
Let’s take a few steps back. Earlier in the game, Master Chief meets the Librarian. The Librarian discuss with Chief many things. From The Didact, to her million years of planning and the part must importantly to this theory. The Librarian states that the Composer is a weapon capable of transforming living beings into mindless digital A.I. She then continues to say that a reversal of that process had been attempted but that only abominations had resulted.
Being that Cortana was created by flash cloning Halsey’s brain, in essence she was at one point human. What if a reversal of the Composer process is perfected and Cortana is brought back to life as a human? I know that this draws parallels to the fairy Pinocchio but maybe this is where 343 is drawing some creative inspiration from. But this theory explains 343 statement of evolving the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana.