What did she know was there? Did Cortana know High Charity would go to the Ark? Why tell Chief to go there in the first place?
343 didn’t have much but a hint and he’s Forerunner about the function of the Ark.
How would Cortana know Chief would come and get her to activate the new Halo ring with the old index? was High Charity already on the way when the infected Covenant ship was sent to earth?
Questions, questions…
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> What did she know was there? Did Cortana know High Charity would go to the Ark? Why tell Chief to go there in the first place?
> 343 didn’t have much but a hint and he’s Forerunner about the function of the Ark.
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> How would Cortana know Chief would come and get her to activate the new Halo ring with the old index? was High Charity already on the way when the infected Covenant ship was sent to earth?
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> Questions, questions…
I always felt her solution was activating the under construction Installation 04 replacement at the Ark with the activation index she still had from the original Installation 04. The released flood infection teleported High Charity to the Ark and crashed it on the world’s surface in an attempt to spread further and stop Truth. By firing the incomplete ring, all flood on the Ark would be killed, but the rest of the galaxy spared as the pulse would lack the full range a completed ring would have.
The way I understood it, she knew the Gravemind had access to her database, so she had to send that message to get the Gravemind to go through the portal and commit himself on the other side. It’s not that she lied anything, but she had to make it sound like something big was on the other side… something the Gravemind had to get control of. It worked and the Gravemind was lured into the portal where the rest of the plan could then be completed. Her solution: lure the Gravemind into the portal, away from earth, and activate Halo there since the Ark is out of range of basically everything else.
I may be completely or partially wrong in my interpretation of the story though.
It’s a plot hole among many from Halo 3. There’s no indication that Cortana knew exactly what was on the other side of the portal.
Its most likely because of a cut mission or something where it would be explained. If you listen carefully in the start of floodgate, miranda says that we need to find the crashed covenant ship. We either destroy this city or risk losing an entire planet. Further when the elites and johnson say they found cortona in tge ship we were going to have her but it was changed. All of this was gonna be in the cut missions so its safe to assume this was going to be explained in the cut mission or is a left over line
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> Its most likely because of a cut mission or something where it would be explained. If you listen carefully in the start of floodgate, miranda says that we need to find the crashed covenant ship. We either destroy this city or risk losing an entire planet. Further when the elites and johnson say they found cortona in tge ship we were going to have her but it was changed. All of this was gonna be in the cut missions so its safe to assume this was going to be explained in the cut mission or is a left over line
Well, it should be noted that the level Cortana was basically the second half of Floodgate. So if you’re wondering a few things, like how Floodgate felt really short, how there were no overloading cores on Floodgate, while there were in Cortana, or how the layout of High Charity didn’t match up to how it looked in Halo 2, that’s why.
The reason Gravemind wanted to go the the Ark is because the Ark is out of the firing range of all the Halo’s therefore himself and the Flood wouldn’t be destroyed.
Because the replacement of Installation 04 was being made at the Ark that’s what Cortana planned to do by activating it and since the Ark is so far away from the galaxy humanity or any other species would not be effected by its activation.
The biggest plothole in Halo 3 is that the Flood didn’t spread to other places from High Charity before it went through the portal.
The Flood had infested most of the Covenant fleet that was present at Delta Halo. Only one ship went to Earth and only High Charity went through the portal. Where is the rest of the Flood fleet? And why wouldn’t they leave an army on Earth before going through?
> The biggest plothole in Halo 3 is that the Flood didn’t spread to other places from High Charity before it went through the portal.
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> The Flood had infested most of the Covenant fleet that was present at Delta Halo. Only one ship went to Earth and only High Charity went through the portal. Where is the rest of the Flood fleet? And why wouldn’t they leave an army on Earth before going through?
Well Shipmaster had the Flood under control, however one ship slipped away and he and some of his other ships chased it to Earth. The rest of his fleet stayed behind, and the trip I think takes about a week from Delta Halo to Earth.
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> > Its most likely because of a cut mission or something where it would be explained. If you listen carefully in the start of floodgate, miranda says that we need to find the crashed covenant ship. We either destroy this city or risk losing an entire planet. Further when the elites and johnson say they found cortona in tge ship we were going to have her but it was changed. All of this was gonna be in the cut missions so its safe to assume this was going to be explained in the cut mission or is a left over line
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> Well, it should be noted that the level Cortana was basically the second half of Floodgate. So if you’re wondering a few things, like how Floodgate felt really short, how there were no overloading cores on Floodgate, while there were in Cortana, or how the layout of High Charity didn’t match up to how it looked in Halo 2, that’s why.
I remember reading about that a year or two ago. After that, everything made sense.