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Re: Cortana- A Stable Rampant AI?
Posted By: Ragashingo	Date: 9/11/08 9:10 p.m.
: I've been thinking a lot about rampancy in the Halo universe lately, and it : occured to me that Cortana me be in the theoretical fourth stage of : rampancy- metastability. : Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the books say that: 1. Human AI constructs : have a life expectancy of seven years? : 2. After this they go rampant? : Assuming these two points are correction, consider that Forward Unto Dawn's : rear half, containing the Chief and Cortana, may be drifting for hundreds : or thousands of years. In this period Cortana WOULD go rampant, possibly : killing the Chief in the process. : Her lonliness and exposure to a Flood Gravemind's effects would surely have : induced rampancy. Take into account the amount of information she : downloaded from Halo's networks. It seems extremely likely that Cortana is : rampant. The first chapter title in the Cortana level in Halo 3 is : rampant- likely a hint as to her status. : By all accounts, Cortana has gone rampant. But, her sadness, anger, : jealously, normally given a chance to brood, are cut short when the Chief : returns to rescue her- she regains her faith in humanity. A friend returns : to her. Her rampancy is stopped. She becomes a stable AI, now with no real : life expectancy. : I've missed stuff out, but I'm sure if you guys take into account all the : evidence, hopefully you'll agree it looks like Cortana has achieved the : mythical fourth state of rampancy. For the longest time I was convinced Rampancy didn't exist in the Halo universe. There wasn't any real mention of it until Contact Harvest and Halo 3. But even now with Rampancy undeniably being a part of Halo I'm still not convinced that Halo AIs go through the same phases that Marathon universe AIs did. For instance: Mack and Sif were clearly Rampant by the end of Contact Harvest. Did they go through Melancholia, Anger, and Jealousy?

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