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Posted By: SiliconDream <querl@uclink4.berkeley.edu> | Date: 10/3/99 10:23 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: the story thus far (Dispatcher) > Huh? Well, we know Cortana must be a human AI, given its name and glib references to Earth literature. And it's obviously rampant. So I think it might be the AI which controlled the troop transport, and it went rampant and caused the transport's crash, then entered whatever computer systems were left behind on the Halo so that it could continue to expand. Alternatively, Cortana may have originally inhabited a network back in Sol territory, gone rampant, and "stowed away" on the transport when the humans tried to purge the system. In this case the "slavishly loyal and humorless AI" which opposes it might be the AI which originally commanded the transport. After the ship crashlands, the ship-AI manages to purge Cortana from the onboard systems; Cortana escapes into the circuitry of one of the cyborgs (you.) Hence its complaint about "sharing cramped space with the circuitry of some hybrid war machine." Also note that Cortana says of the Covenant that "they own nothing which they have not stolen." So apparently their technological superiority is due to their having looted the technology of more advanced races. Maybe they were already planning to invade the Halo and steal its tech, having done this to many other ancient artifacts in the past. I remember that the Pfhor also used stolen technology (such as the trih xeem, taken from the Jjaro.) I guess Bungie has to use the same explanation for the aliens' superiority every time, since the alternative is that they're just smarter than us (in which case fighting them wouldn't be much gun.) --SiliconDream |
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the story thus far | Desio | 10/3/99 5:00 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Maxaminus | 10/3/99 5:15 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Dispatcher | 10/3/99 5:33 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/3/99 10:23 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far, far, away... | Dispatcher | 10/3/99 10:35 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/3/99 11:20 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/4/99 1:49 a.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Yorick | 10/3/99 6:49 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Maxaminus | 10/3/99 7:22 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Giule | 10/3/99 8:26 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | chaoswarrior | 10/3/99 9:28 p.m. |
Re: crash I vote | •Mimer | 10/4/99 1:37 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Socket | 10/3/99 9:09 p.m. |
Cortana's Identity... | Jägermeister | 10/4/99 12:51 a.m. |
Re: Cortana's Identity... | Wirehead | 10/4/99 12:12 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Mr.Sith | 10/3/99 8:34 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Socket | 10/3/99 9:18 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/3/99 8:45 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Maxaminus | 10/3/99 10:31 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Mike (aka) ShOtTgUnNeR | 10/3/99 10:59 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Mark Levin | 10/3/99 11:06 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Tsao | 10/4/99 12:05 a.m. |
Re: the story thus far | •Mimer | 10/4/99 1:29 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/4/99 3:33 p.m. |
Re: oops, thanks | •Mimer | 10/4/99 5:40 p.m. |
Re: oops, thanks | Dan Rudolph | 10/4/99 11:53 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/4/99 6:11 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Jägermeister | 10/4/99 5:22 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/4/99 6:05 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Dan Rudolph | 10/4/99 11:50 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/5/99 1:44 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Jägermeister | 10/5/99 2:01 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/5/99 8:55 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Dan Rudolph | 10/5/99 9:27 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Ben Schodek | 10/5/99 9:51 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/6/99 12:55 a.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Dan Rudolph | 10/6/99 10:14 p.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Dead Glory | 10/5/99 7:18 a.m. |
Re: the story thus far | Jägermeister | 10/4/99 12:40 a.m. |
Re: the story thus far | SiliconDream | 10/4/99 1:38 a.m. |
umm... | Ben Schodek | 10/3/99 11:12 p.m. |
Cyborgs/Androids | Dead Glory | 10/5/99 7:04 a.m. |
More Facts | Desio | 10/4/99 2:27 p.m. |
Re: Cyborg marines | Mark Levin | 10/4/99 2:46 p.m. |
Re: Cyborg marines | Desio | 10/4/99 5:51 p.m. |
Re: Cyborg marines | Ben Schodek | 10/4/99 6:28 p.m. |
Speculation | Desio | 10/4/99 8:44 p.m. |
Re: Speculation | Maxaminus | 10/4/99 9:28 p.m. |
Re: Speculation | Jägermeister | 10/5/99 12:58 a.m. |
Re: Speculation | Dead Glory | 10/5/99 7:49 a.m. |
Re: Speculation | Jägermeister | 10/5/99 12:52 a.m. |
Re: Speculation | Dan Rudolph | 10/5/99 9:44 p.m. |
yeah... | Ben Schodek | 10/5/99 9:57 p.m. |
Re: yeah... | Mark Levin | 10/5/99 10:52 p.m. |
Volunteers? | Desio | 10/6/99 3:32 p.m. |
Re: Volunteers? | Ben Schodek | 10/6/99 8:07 p.m. |
Re: Volunteers? | SiliconDream | 10/6/99 11:29 p.m. |
Cyborg | Dead Glory | 10/7/99 3:40 a.m. |
Re: Cyborg | Giule | 10/7/99 8:05 p.m. |
Re: Cyborg | SiliconDream | 10/8/99 2:29 a.m. |
Re: Cyborg | Dead Glory | 10/8/99 2:47 a.m. |
Re: Cyborg | Raven | 10/8/99 3:50 a.m. |
Re: Cyborg | SiliconDream | 10/8/99 10:21 a.m. |
Re: Conscripts | Dan Rudolph | 10/6/99 10:23 p.m. |
Re: More Facts | SiliconDream | 10/4/99 3:24 p.m. |
Re: More Facts | Cannibal Harry | 10/4/99 5:02 p.m. |
Re: More Facts | Jägermeister | 10/4/99 5:20 p.m. |
Re: More Facts | Jägermeister | 10/4/99 5:17 p.m. |
M Player = Cyborg | Dead Glory | 10/5/99 7:58 a.m. |
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