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2/2/2010 8:50:10 PM
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Origins 2, all is coming to pass (as I predicted ;D) [UPDATED!]

Ok *deep breaths* It seems that every thread I create requires and understanding of my [url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=35949941]other thread.[/url] Ok, for those of you who haven't seen it yet [url=http://dubhappy.com/halo-legends-origins-part-2/] here it is[/url] Just to quickly go over the graphical aspects of it, awesome. Surpassed the last one, CGI incorporated, so all is good. Now lemme cut the crap. My heart raced when I saw [i]the Iris[/i]. Pause at 12:13 (Which when added equals 7 btw) Now if you have read my thread, you would already be like OMG!, or maybe thats just me. But this means something substantial. 1. 343 is playing off of Iris, it wasn't a meaningless campaign, which means I am right (as always xD jk jk) to think Iris has a part to play in future Halo plots. But what is it doing in Cortanas eye? Of course if you read my thread, you know what ill probably say. Somethings piggybacking on Cortana through space. [quote]Thanks to this slavishly loyal and humorless AI, I am now sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine, itself complicated by such useless clutter as a conscience. I do not like sharing. Sharing is for children.[/quote] I have a shiver of excitement running up my leg. xD Not only tat, but what else did Origins 2 show us? I noticed in the very beginning, the Nasca lines in South America. Huge as symbols in the ground created by the natives. In theory it could only be seen by gods because there, you know, in the sky. Unfortunately for them, they didn't foresee the invention of the airplane. Don't know what it means, but whatever. Also something puzzled me. The fighting against the flood made no sense. We never fought it together with the Covenant at that scale, not even close. It also features multiple Spartans in the fighting I believe... mystery. Then theres the secrets. I mean "Secrets sense the beginning of time' seems pretty important to me. And can only logically be Precursor seeing as how there the oldest civilization we know of in Halo. It also said that some of these secrets may provoke war. [quote]Look for the signs, the keepers of the flame. They will lead you to war, and perhaps, to victory[/quote] Iris! You have awaken! Frankie, has scored some recent points with me for Evolutions and now this obvious showing of advanced planning in plot. Also, why did Mr. Gravemind appear to give the Spartan (presumably MC) an AI chip? Discuss (Especially Iris part) EDIT/UPDATE: After finally seeing i with Frankies commentary, things actually started to make sense. Not only that, but show even more writing skill. Everything you see in Origins is based on Cortanas interpretation of events. Now there's the issue of the Forerunner. Cortana has never actually seen one, so basically that's her guessing how they looked like. That coupled with the fact she's reaching 7 years and is obviously unstable, means that we can't rely on [i]anything[/] we see. On top of that, her whipping away the ice crystals on the Cryo pod. This goes with her possible rampancy. Cortana isn't [i]actually[/i] whipping away the crystals, or stepping away from the pedestal for that matter. She's imagining it all. Having trouble coping with reality, wishing she was human, so she imagines herself doing all that. Cortana is basically going insane, coming up with alternate realities, imaging powers and abilities she doesn't have, etc. [Edited on 03.14.2010 3:36 PM PDT]

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] JobeTheConqueror While I don't fully support this theory, remember this from Evolutions. Cortana while on High Charity basically has all her data and memories picked apart and combed through by the Gravemind. In an act of desperation, she absorbs the critical data she has on Earth, the Forerunner database on Halo, the Index, etc. into her core, in order to hide it from the Gravemind. Her core is where her personality, her decision making, her very being, is housed.[/quote] So perhaps that caused Cortana to take on some aspects of MB? Extending her life? Increasing her ability as an AI? She still has the physical limitations of her housing (no idea of its size, but still). [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Crucio [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Lord Snakie I don't know what to believe and what they were trying to convey and how physics allows Cortana to unfog glass when she's a hologram and oh hogd.[/quote] Just a little note on this mystery. I know Frankie did say in the commentary "She's not technically supposed to be able to do that." or something of that matter, but recently I've read this passage in TFoR: [quote]H:TFoR, Page 236, Paragraph 4~ ish Cortana leaped to her "feet", turned her back to Dr. Halsey, and examined the photographs on the wall. She [u]brushed[/u] her fingertips over the glass surfaces. "Which one will be mine?"[/quote] I know, it doesn't say she actually touched it, but its pretty close. That scene made me think of Origins II right off the bat. [/quote] A thought I had in that final scene was that she could've been dying (with all that red flickering blah blah). It seemed like her doing a quick sad soliloque, summarising all she has experienced and what she knows. Then loses the plot and thinks she is wiping the frost from the glass. Just her interpretation, in the final moments, of being... somewhat human. Here is a quote from Halopedia (not great i know but its referenced to page 31 in Contact Harvest); "If an AI is isolated long enough and/or given too much time to think without tasks to complete, it can develop the realizations that its mind has limits, it has a short life and it can never be human. Such depression will drag the AI's core logic into rampancy if it goes on for an extended period of time" Cortana had that time to do nothing, could've experienced that depression and died during a stage of "wanting to be human". Thats what I thouht when she was wiping the frost off, that she was trying to get close to 'another human' before the end. Or whatever.

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