I find it convinient that the game they bring in a device that turns organic into digital and vice versa cortana dies. My original theory was chief is on a hunt for two things (cortana fragment & another composer) especially since she shows her affection at the end it just all seems to convinient.
convenient** lol
It’s not confirmed that it is vice versa from organic into digital.
They have tried to go back from digital to organic beings but failed utterly so as the librarian stated in Halo 4.
> They have tried to go back from digital to organic beings but failed utterly so as the librarian stated in Halo 4.
What if… that’s how the flood were created? Dun dun dun! Crazy theory.
Maybe the ancient humans had a similar device and created the flood that way accidentally and that’s why they were fleeing.
> > They have tried to go back from digital to organic beings but failed utterly so as the librarian stated in Halo 4.
>
> What if… that’s how the flood were created? Dun dun dun! Crazy theory.
>
> Maybe the ancient humans had a similar device and created the flood that way accidentally and that’s why they were fleeing.
Nope, read halo cryptum, primordium and silentium.
I don’t think it’ ‘continent’ as the original post puts it’ doesn’t work well anyways.
Didn’t the reverse use of composer make monsters or abominations. I don’t remember what word Librarian used.
Not sure if I want to see Cortana like that.
> Didn’t the reverse use of composer make monsters or abominations. I don’t remember what word Librarian used.
> Not sure if I want to see Cortana like that.
“The stored personalities fragmented, and our attempts to return them into biological states created only abominations”
Doesn’t say they used the composer to reverse the process, but they probably did
Although normally I am totally against Cortana returning in any case except through flashback or visions, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing her return in an organic form. It would still give value to her digital death because we are saying bye to Cortana the AI but still give Chief a near impossible goal. If Chief has gone rogue loooking for a composer then he knows the risk if he uses it on a fragment of Cortana (assuming a fragment still exists). It would add to their relationship a lot as her death scene is then used as a pivotal where Chief “loses” her for a time being. Plus if she returns as human, then the lovey-dovey side of Chief and Cortana’s relationship would I dunno…not be weird.
> > > They have tried to go back from digital to organic beings but failed utterly so as the librarian stated in Halo 4.
> >
> > What if… that’s how the flood were created? Dun dun dun! Crazy theory.
> >
> > Maybe the ancient humans had a similar device and created the flood that way accidentally and that’s why they were fleeing.
>
> Nope, read halo cryptum, primordium and silentium.
>
> I don’t think it’ ‘continent’ as the original post puts it’ doesn’t work well anyways.
Reading the Forerunner Saga will shed quite a bit of light on your ponderings. The extended fiction is amazing- go check it out!
> > Didn’t the reverse use of composer make monsters or abominations. I don’t remember what word Librarian used.
> > Not sure if I want to see Cortana like that.
>
> “The stored personalities fragmented, and our attempts to return them into biological states created only abominations”
>
> Doesn’t say they used the composer to reverse the process, but they probably did
Wait… weren’t those ‘abominations’ the Knights…? 
Oh, and Andyu5 has recently got me stuck on a theory that Cortana is now stored in the Didact’s Ancilla Receptacle…
But, even if the Composer could bring digital life into organic ones, let’s remember it’s been blown up by a nuke, and that what was left of Cortana went with it.
> Although normally I am totally against Cortana returning in any case except through flashback or visions, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing her return in an organic form. It would still give value to her digital death because we are saying bye to Cortana the AI but still give Chief a near impossible goal. If Chief has gone rogue loooking for a composer then he knows the risk if he uses it on a fragment of Cortana (assuming a fragment still exists). It would add to their relationship a lot as her death scene is then used as a pivotal where Chief “loses” her for a time being. Plus if she returns as human, then the lovey-dovey side of Chief and Cortana’s relationship would I dunno…not be weird.
It wouldn’t make sense in any way you look at it. For a start, there is no evidence that any fragment of Cortana survived. There is also the fact that 343i seems pretty insistent that she’s dead.
Secondly, for all we know, there is only one composer to have been conceived into existence, and the only one that we know about, is destroyed. Even if there was another composer lying somewhere in the abyss, it’d be hard to convince the viewers that Chief’s former AI girlfriend was somehow successfully converted into organic form, because as others have already mentioned, there was never a perfected method to re-compose matter into organic form.
There is just no believable way for this to happen.
> > Although normally I am totally against Cortana returning in any case except through flashback or visions, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing her return in an organic form. It would still give value to her digital death because we are saying bye to Cortana the AI but still give Chief a near impossible goal. If Chief has gone rogue loooking for a composer then he knows the risk if he uses it on a fragment of Cortana (assuming a fragment still exists). It would add to their relationship a lot as her death scene is then used as a pivotal where Chief “loses” her for a time being. Plus if she returns as human, then the lovey-dovey side of Chief and Cortana’s relationship would I dunno…not be weird.
>
> It wouldn’t make sense in any way you look at it. For a start, there is no evidence that any fragment of Cortana survived. There is also the fact that 343i seems pretty insistent that she’s dead.
>
> Secondly, for all we know, there is only one composer to have been conceived into existence, and the only one that we know about, is destroyed. Even if there was another composer lying somewhere in the abyss, it’d be hard to convince the viewers that Chief’s former AI girlfriend was somehow successfully converted into organic form, because as others have already mentioned, there was never a perfected method to re-compose matter into organic form.
>
> There is just no believable way for this to happen.
I didn’t say it was very probable. It be plausible at best. However, I am not quite sure 343 is the intended on keeping her dead. I want her to stay dead, except in this weird nearly impossible situation.
> > Although normally I am totally against Cortana returning in any case except through flashback or visions, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing her return in an organic form. It would still give value to her digital death because we are saying bye to Cortana the AI but still give Chief a near impossible goal. If Chief has gone rogue loooking for a composer then he knows the risk if he uses it on a fragment of Cortana (assuming a fragment still exists). It would add to their relationship a lot as her death scene is then used as a pivotal where Chief “loses” her for a time being. Plus if she returns as human, then the lovey-dovey side of Chief and Cortana’s relationship would I dunno…not be weird.
>
> It wouldn’t make sense in any way you look at it. <mark>For a start, there is no evidence that any fragment of Cortana survived.</mark> There is also the fact that 343i seems pretty insistent that she’s dead.
I’d argue otherwise.
Once the Didact has been firmly pinned to the hardlight bridge, two more fragments appear to directly enter his armor. And a few moments later, his ancilla receptacle starts glowing orange.
However, although its quite evident that two fragments have hitchhiked the Didact’s armor, the Cortana that we may see again certainly won’t be the Cortana that we once knew. These are rampant fragments. They have mind’s of their own. It’s very possible that these specific fragments intentionally hitched a ride on the Didact due to prior influence form the Gravemind… Which is very unsettling.
> <mark>Secondly, for all we know, there is only one composer to have been conceived into existence, and the only one that we know about, is destroyed.</mark> Even if there was another composer lying somewhere in the abyss, it’d be hard to convince the viewers that Chief’s former AI girlfriend was somehow successfully converted into organic form, because as others have already mentioned, there was never a perfected method to re-compose matter into organic form.
Not true. Both Silentium and Primordium make reference to the use of multiple Composers. However, whether or not those other Composers are still intact seems a bit unlikely.
OT:
Having Cortana return in organic form would be pretty pointless. For one, the only role that she’d be able to offer in gameplay is to soak of bullets, given that she’s restricted to a physical form.
An organic Cortana already exists, her name is Dr. Halsey.
I’m warming to the idea of Cortana returning, if only because I just replayed Halo 4 and reminded myself how incredibly weak her death scene was. Perhaps 343 could do what Bungie originally planned and have Cortana go mad with power, serving as a surprise antagonist. It would certainly be better than the pseudo-romance angle they tried with Halo 4.
So basically you want to take away the peace she got from being briefly alive and saving Chief to making her the bad guy because…reasons.
> So basically you want to take away the peace she got from being briefly alive and saving Chief to making her the bad guy because…reasons.
I want to retcon the weak and unsatisfying removal of a popular character in favour of something interesting happening to her, yes. This isn’t a fairy tale. Every good guy (or girl) shouldn’t get a happy ending. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Halo’s in-game dividing line between good and bad is far too blatant and inviolatable. There isn’t a single character with the slightest shade of grey to them.
> > So basically you want to take away the peace she got from being briefly alive and saving Chief to making her the bad guy because…reasons.
>
> I want to retcon the weak and unsatisfying removal of a popular character in favour of something interesting happening to her, yes. This isn’t a fairy tale. Every good guy (or girl) shouldn’t get a happy ending. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Halo’s in-game dividing line between good and bad is far too blatant and inviolatable. There isn’t a single character with the slightest shade of grey to them.
And how does going from somewhat happy ending to one of complete misery make things grayer?
> > So basically you want to take away the peace she got from being briefly alive and saving Chief to making her the bad guy because…reasons.
>
> I want to retcon the weak and unsatisfying removal of a popular character in favour of something interesting happening to her, yes. This isn’t a fairy tale. Every good guy (or girl) shouldn’t get a happy ending. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Halo’s in-game dividing line between good and bad is far too blatant and inviolatable. There isn’t a single character with the slightest shade of grey to them.
ONI?
> > > So basically you want to take away the peace she got from being briefly alive and saving Chief to making her the bad guy because…reasons.
> >
> > I want to retcon the weak and unsatisfying removal of a popular character in favour of something interesting happening to her, yes. This isn’t a fairy tale. Every good guy (or girl) shouldn’t get a happy ending. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Halo’s in-game dividing line between good and bad is far too blatant and inviolatable. There isn’t a single character with the slightest shade of grey to them.
>
> And how does going from somewhat happy ending to one of complete misery make things grayer?
“Misery is sweetness.”