In Response To: Cortana the immortal one (UrsusArctos)
: Yep. Cortana has a life of only seven years as a smart AI (What? It's canon!
: Dont tell me you haven't heard that before???!!!) At the age of seven, she
: gets so smart she forgets to "breathe".
: Cortana is based directly off Dr. Halsey, but with the doctor's personality
: something else may have come: self-preservation. Although Halsey will
: sacrifice herself for humanity's cause, and Cortana almost certainly would
: do so if the situation demanded, she wouldn't want to die so soon-and
: she'd almost certainly be aware of it.
: Combine the human fear of death (Which Halsey obviously has) and the anger
: and regret of not being able to live long enough to gather so much awesome
: forerunner information and help humanity live its war with the prophets,
: and you get an AI desperate to preserve herself-so desperate that she
: could do something crazy.
: She is growing older now, she must have evolved plenty during recent events.
: The finding of gravemind might be a godsend for her-Gravemind could take
: over some of 2401 PT's functions, isn't it possible, somehow, that she
: could try merging herself with him, both in mind and physical form
: (storage crystal?).
: That would give her the extension of life she wanted, and becoming one with
: gravemind would probably turn the flood into a weapon far beyond
: imagination-but directed at a far higher purpose than eradicating life,
: perhaps even something beneficial for us-and perhaps succeed where the
: forerunners failed.
: Top it all, she's Halsey. How can she get rid of humanity, unless she's been
: corrupted horribly-which would be very hard to do with someone with such
: great will?
: I think her motives encompass those of Leela and Durandal, but her methods
: are considerably different...at the moment.
I just thought of something wildly offtopic....we have a science building on campus called Halsey....creepy...especially when the mens bathroom is #117 (but in a different building)...
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