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[SPEC] AdjutantReflex in Halo 2/ High Charity

[Phyltre]

I had assumed the intelligence she noted was actually the Gravemind. It had recently crashlanded into High Charity and has no problems taking over logic systems (it appeared to absorb Penitent Tangent, and was messing with the doors there as well.)

[gs37]

If Cortana was talking about an AI I think it would actually be a Covenant one. If you look at the background when she says that, you'll see that Master Chief is surrounded by organic shapes in shades of purple and pink. That's clearly Covenant. Forerunner structures are black and gray, and very angular. Just because this particular AI is more complex doesn't mean anything. Most UNSC AI's are fairly simple constructs, Cortana is just special. This may be the Covenant's special AI, but not a Forerunner AI.

[carbonize]

I originally thought it was Gravemind she was encountering but I have come to doubt that. She was with Master Chief when he met Gravemind so would be aware of his existence so I now believe it was something new and a hint at something destined for Halo 3.

Also if Gravemind had managed to infiltrate the Halo's systems he would of been able to do more the prevent the firing sequence from beginning.

I did notice in the E3 Halo 3 trailer that when we see Cortana there is a monitor there as well as Master Chief and the Arbiter. I wonder if thats Guilty Spark.

[Shlonster]

Unless we have a surprise in store for us, by the time HC rolls around, Adjutant Reflex is dead.

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[Phyltre]

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[carbonize]

Unless I'm mistaken she was in his armour when he encountered Gravemind. She didn't leave it until after Gravemind had teleported him to the ceremonial chamber where you fight the brutes. She asks you to take her to the pedestal.

[Phoenixka]

That's a very interesting point. Due to some of the odd time travel in the books I'd suspected that Cortana may have been fighting a covenant copy of herself or a hybrid of a covenant ai and Cortana. I havn't read the books in awhile, but I do remember Cortana infiltrating a computer system and finding a formidable AI within it and then having to copy herself multiple times. This is where the covenant could have gotten her code.

With the light shed on this by your post though, I feel your logic is more correct. As for the intentions of this Forerunner construct I can't really say.

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[AMarine88]

possible..... IDK if nungie would have planned this that far back..... but IDK.

[carbonize]

I personally think that Bungie already had the story for Halo 3 when they were working on Halo 2. Or at least the groundwork for it.

[coloneloneill]

that would explain why halo 2 took so long to come out, there were writing 2 games at once...