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[Zenneth]

[question] Why does the Pious Flea want stuff built?

[Avery1415]

If he's enemy spyware he'd want to transmit the data he has back home.

[ThunderRazor]

perhaps to further invade and gain control.

[bugbbq]

or perhaps to broadcast a signal to an awaiting army ~500 light years away?

[noideaforausername]

potential troutage concealed within..

[Prominence]

Arent the axons the roads?

[Kusai]

[Arashi]

[SPEC]You know, a while back (When the word Bee wasn't forsaken at HBO) I had a theory that no one really paid attention to.


The books (and video game) both show that AFTER she's extracted from the Halo core - Cortana is odd; she's twitchy, suspicious, anxious, scared and in the books - down right cold hearted. This isn't the Cortana from the Pillar of Autumn!

I theorized that a FORERUNNER virus infected her while she was in the memory core of Halo. Or something along those lines, some programming line, or a virus or some malicious software - was eating away at her - giving her a dual personality. When I say dual personality, it was in reponse to her two different overall attitudes in the book. When she was a b****, she was a b****, when she was nice - she was nice.

It seemed like she was schizo, or bi-polar but it was clear to me something was wrong with her... even the MC notes this in the book "First Strike".

Could it be that Melissa is Cortana? She's been fragmented by Forerunner trojan horses and is now under attack by MORE spyware?

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[Zemat]

[Scumbag]

The Cortana from the Letters was basically Durandal with a different name, so I doubt there's any connection to the Letters.

[Shyndy]

Cortana definitely was wierd after being in the core, and there might be something to that. Guilty spark's response was along the lines of "a construct in the core? this is unacceptable.' Perhaps the reason that such a thing was "unacceptable" was because the forerunner restricted AI from it and 343 guilty spark is programmed that way? Also, when considering all of this business with AI, i dont think we can forget our freind guilty spark. After the credits roll by on halo u do see guilty spark floating in space. Did he crash land on a nearby planet after the destruction of the halo? Also the mention of a virus being in the core and attacking cortana made me think of deus ex and ghost in the shell for some reason. In both of those there is the idea of AI merging. Could there be some sort of AI merge going on? maybe already happened with cortana akin to daedalus and icarus merging to make helios on DX?

[ThunderRazor]

I think this thread has become off-topic, but oh well.

I just wanted to say that, I wonder if this game will help understand something with Halo 2, or if Halo 2 will help understand something in this game. Or neither.

I personally would like it if Halo 2 added to this game, rather then the other way around.

[zakaelri]

[Atrophied]

[HitsHerMark]

Great... If that's the case...

Melissa is creating Axons (transmitters) all over the US, with the "roads" being her neural pathways, we are (in effect) currently acting as dendrites (recievers)... So, while our technology is primative by comparison, it is possible that Melissa is creating a neural network that could end up being global in scale.

Particularly if she adds one or more new forms of communication to her bag of tricks. (Calling us at home, or on our cels, emailing us, radio, etc.)

If anything, she'll go nuts (or even more nuts then she is now) faster because our technology is so primative. (As she would probably need more connections to run functions that would hardly take up any space at all on a system that she was built for.)