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"I'1000 offer people a take a chance to be more than than they are naturally."

— Cortana[4]

Cortana, UNSC Artificial intelligence (SN: CTN 0452-9), was a smart artificial intelligence construct. She was ane of the most important figures in the Human being-Covenant state of war, and was as well John-117's partner in various combat missions too as serving as the AI for the Halcyon-course light cruiser - UNSC Pillar of Autumn, Orbital Defense Platform - Cairo StationCharon-class light frigate - UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, and Stalwart-class low-cal frigate  UNSCIn Bister Clad

In addition, she held vital data pertaining to the Halos, including the Activation Index from Installation 04.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
    • 1.i Cosmos and Early Life
    • 1.2 Meeting John-117
    • one.3 The Fall of Reach
    • 1.4 The Boxing of Installation 04
    • one.v Operation: First Strike
    • 1.6 Boxing of Earth
    • 1.7 Delta Halo
    • 1.8 Captured
    • 1.9 Stranded in space
    • 1.10 Requiem
    • 1.eleven Chasing the Didact
    • one.12 Disappearance
    • 1.13 Render
  • two Personality
    • ii.1 Relationships and Allegiances
      • 2.1.ane Catherine Halsey
      • 2.1.2 John-117
      • 2.1.three Humanity
    • ii.2 Rampancy
      • 2.2.1 Metastability
    • 2.3 Appearance
    • 2.4 Abilities
      • ii.iv.1 Accessing Computers
      • ii.4.2 Ship Managing
      • 2.4.three "Cloning" and Fragmenting
      • 2.4.four Other Abilities
  • 3 Gameplay
  • four Trivia
  • 5 Gallery
    • 5.1 Halo: Gainsay Evolved
    • 5.two Halo 2
    • 5.3 Halo 2: Anniversary
    • 5.4 Halo Graphic Novel
    • 5.five Halo 3
    • 5.half dozen Halo Legends
    • 5.vii Halo: Attain
    • 5.viii Halo 4: Forrad Unto Dawn
    • 5.9 Halo iv
    • 5.10 Halo 5: Guardians
    • 5.11 Other
  • vi Appearances
  • 7 Sources
  • 8 External links

Biography

Creation and Early Life

Cortana in a holotank, analyzing the Forerunner antiquity under Sword Base.

Cortana was created using a flash cloned copy of Dr. Catherine Halsey'southward brain. Twenty flash cloned brains were created, but only two survived; one of the 2 survivors were used to create Cortana. The neural pathways of the cloned brain were scanned and copied through a procedure called Cerebral Impression Modeling.[5] On Nov seven, 2549, Cortana was first activated on Reach.[2] Her first words were "Quando il gioco è finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola." This phrase translates to "When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box." The phrase was spoken by Halsey's female parent after their outset game of chess.[ane] She was one of at least two AIs that were created from Dr. Halsey's brain, the other being her predecessor, Kalmiya, who was a similarly-smart AI.

On February xi, 2550, Dr. Halsey was performing a series of tests when she discovered that Cortana had removed the viral termination code that she had implemented. Halsey could not figure out how she had done this.[half-dozen]

Meeting John-117

"They let me selection. Did I e'er tell yous that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. Y'all know me. I did my research. Watched as y'all became the soldier we needed you to be. Similar the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. Merely y'all had something they didn't. Something no ane saw, simply me. Tin can y'all guess...? Luck."

— Cortana[7]

Cortana first met John-117 prior to the Autumn of Reach, when she was integrated into his new MJOLNIR Marker V armor. Together, Cortana and John passed a test that was devised (Dr. Halsey would accept chosen it "sabotaged") by Colonel James Ackerson. The test included armed ODSTs, anti-tank mines, automated turrets in the razor field, and even a AV-xix SkyHawk for an air strike. After the test, Cortana was installed into the Colonnade of Fall to run the send's shakedown and oversee the refit of the send. Afterward, it was planned that she would be replaced with the Pillar of Autumn'southward true AI, but she was forced to accept upwards this duty herself, indefinitely. While aboard, she took her revenge on Colonel Ackerson by hacking into his system and blackmailing him, hoping that this would send him back to the front lines.[viii] She also developed a deep, personal loyalty to John-117 that would only grow stronger over their adventures together.

Cortana's primary mission was to assistance the SPARTANs in the infiltration of a Covenant vessel and the capturing of a Covenant Prophet. The UNSC would then try to bargain with the Covenant for a peace treaty.

The Autumn of Attain

Main article: Autumn of Achieve

When the aforementioned performance was canceled due to the Covenant'southward surprise assail on Reach, John-117 was able to fend off Covenant forces at Reach and escaped to the UNSC Colonnade of Fall, while Cortana stayed with Halsey at her excavation site beneath Sword Base. With the Covenant endmost in on her lab, Halsey turned Cortana over to the Spartan Noble Team, specifically, Noble Half-dozen. After fleeing Sword Base moments before it was destroyed, Jun-A266 would escort Halsey to CASTLE Base, while Half-dozen, Carter-A259, and Emile-A239 took Cortana to the Aszod Shipyards, where the Fall was docked.[nine]

Although Carter and Emile were both killed by the Covenant's basis forces before making it to the Shipyard, Half-dozen would successfully evangelize Cortana to Jacob Keyes, the captain of the Fall, who arrived via Pelican and received "the packet." To ensure the Autumn 's escape, Noble Six stayed backside and used a Mass driver to destroy a CCS-class battlecruiser blocking the transport'due south launch trajectory and preparing to glass the shipyard, and therefore, the Autumn, Cortana, and John. Six succeeded and ensured the Fall'due south condom escape.[10] Cortana reunited with John-117 on board.

As before long every bit Pillar of Autumn escaped the surface and atmosphere of Reach, they jumped into Slipstream Space on a (supposedly) random vector as per the Cole Protocol. However, Cortana secretly inserted coordinates translated from symbols on a rock that John-117 discovered on Sigma Octanus Four, thinking that they were of some significance to the Covenant.

The Boxing of Installation 04

Main article: Boxing of Installation 04
"Halo doesn't impale Flood. It kills their food. Humans, Covenant, whatever - we're all every bit edible. The merely mode to finish the Alluvion is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: wipe the milky way make clean of all sentient life."

— Cortana reveals the true purpose of Installation 04 to John-117.[11]

After emerging from Slipspace, the two discovered a ring shaped globe called "Halo." Unfortunately, Covenant ships had followed them and the fighting continued. Controlling the UNSC Colonnade of Autumn's defenses, Cortana managed to destroy four Covenant targets over Installation 04 before the ship'south weapons were disabled by Covenant boarders. Following the Cole Protocol, Captain Jacob Keyes, the ship'due south commanding officer, prepared to abandon send. Because the Cole Protocol forbade the capture or destruction of any AI construct, John-117 was charged with protecting Cortana from the Covenant.[12]

It was effectually this fourth dimension that John learned that Covenant forces had successfully captured Keyes and taken him to the Truth and Reconciliation. John-117 rescued Keyes,[13] who left to infiltrate what appeared to be a Covenant weapons cache located in a swamp.[xiv]

John and Cortana used the Silent Cartographer to locate and enter Halo's Control Room, where Cortana was uploaded to Halo's core systems. When John-117 asked her how Halo could be used confronting the Covenant, she hinted that the Halo wasn't what it seemed to be. She also learned that the "weapons enshroud" Keyes was attacking was really a Alluvion Containment Facility. She stayed in Halo'south systems sending John-117 to find Keyes.[14] Afterward John encountered the parasitic Flood for the first time, he was convinced by the Forerunner Monitor 343 Guilty Spark to activate the Halo. During this fourth dimension, Cortana plain absorbed equally much data every bit she could most Halo from its control systems.

343 Guilty Spark helped John-117 remember the Activation Index. John, intent on using the Alphabetize to eliminate the Inundation, returned to the Control Room and inserted the Index into the Halo'due south command panel. Fortuantely, Cortana stopped the activation sequence and removed the Alphabetize'southward data, informing him of the true purpose of the Halo Assortment. John-117 was initially skeptical, simply trusted Cortana and demanded 343 Guilty Spark to tell the truth. At that point, 343 Guilty Spark, seeing that the duo had no intention of returning the Index, tried and failed to kill them to retrieve it.[xi]

After enduring prolonged engagements with the Covenant and the Flood, Cortana realized that detonating the Pillar of Autumn 's fusion reactors would destroy the Halo. Unfortunately, the reactors could only be activated using codes stored in the Command Neural Interface, and Keyes' status was still unknown. Earlier they would exercise this first, Cortana informed John-117 to disable the three Phase Pulse Generators to delay the Monitor and his Sentinels from firing the ring should they exist able to exercise so without the Alphabetize. Following the devastation of the final Phase Pulse Generator, Cortana informed John-117 about Halo's teleportation grid, using it to bring him equally close as she could to Keyes, and mourned his death later on the Proto-Gravemind overwhelmed him.

Despite his death, she knew that he would want to stop the Flood from escaping Halo. John-117 retrieved the CNI and took a Banshee to the crashed Pillar of Autumn, where despite interference from 343 Guilty Spark, managed to set off the nuclear reactors. The two escaped the resulting explosion by racing through the ship's crumbling superstructure in a Warthog. Initially, Cortana attempted to have Foehammer option them upwards, but she was gunned down by two Banshees, forcing her to find an alternative. She before long discovered one remaining Longsword fighter in a hangar, and ordered John-117 to speed at that place immediately. Climbing aboard with the Flood right behind them, they barely outran the blast, and watched through the viewports equally debris from the reactor breach destroyed the remains of the Halo ring.

Operation: Starting time Strike

"We're all that's left....we...did what we had to do; for Earth. An entire Covenant armada obliterated, and the Flood - we had no option. Halo - information technology'southward finished."

— Cortana to John-117 after escaping from Installation 04.

"No...I call back we're but getting started."

— John-117[15]

Cortana and John-117, seemingly the sole survivors of the Pillar of Autumn 's crew after the Battle of Installation 04, discovered a small number of other UNSC personnel that had escaped the ring in a Pelican dropship. Knowing that the Pelican wasn't capable of traveling long distances, John-117, along with Cortana and the Pelican's 4-man coiffure, fought their way onto the Covenant flagship Dominant Justice. Shortly afterward, Cortana took control of the transport. She managed to improve on the ship'due south weapons and Slipspace capabilities, able to send information technology to light speed below Threshold's atmosphere. She then returned the survivors to Reach, where the grouping helped to rescue survivors of the Raid of Accomplish, including her "mother," Dr. Halsey.

Cortana revealed that she had taken a lot of data from Halo, and the sheer corporeality of information cut into her processing power and slowed her downwardly. During her time on Ascendant Justice, Cortana exhibited uncharacteristic behavior including anger, distraction, and self-doubt - an indicator that she may have been about to enter rampancy.  Dr. Halsey erased some data from her memory to give her more thinking space, including data regarding Sergeant Johnson's amnesty to the Alluvion - a result of Boren'southward Syndrome.

It was as well revealed that during Cortana's time on Ascendant Justice, she had captured a Covenant AI, decompiled the AI and copied 2 of its functions: the ability to interpret Covenant oral communication, and the power to create imperfect clones of itself. These capabilities, forth with her sectional knowledge well-nigh the Halos, fabricated her extremely valuable to the UNSC.

Ascendant Justice was effectively fused with UNSC Gettysburg. Information technology was at this point that Cortana learned of a planned Covenant assault on Earth. John-117, along with SPARTAN Blue Squad and an expendable clone of Cortana (with all of the data the existent Cortana had she was just too valuable to take chances), would after execute Functioning: FIRST STRIKE.

As it turned out, the Covenant AI that Cortana had decompiled had managed to, prior to its capture, transport a message over the Covenant Battlenet, warning the Covenant of its ship's capture and sending the necessary calculations for a sub-atmospheric Slipspace leap. The information was afterwards used by the Prophet of Regret to enter Slipspace right above New Mombasa during the Battle of Mombasa.

John-117 and Cortana would afterwards return to Earth, at which betoken Cortana handed all of the sensitive information in her possession over to ONI, although she held onto the Alphabetize and apparently yet possessed some data on the Halo network including disquisitional information on the Ark.

Battle of Earth

John-117 nearly to "upload" Cortana into his neural interface.

Chief article: Battle of Earth
"Fortunately for both of us...I LIKE crazy."

— Cortana right earlier John-117 jumps from Cairo Station.[xvi]

Later returning to Earth, Cortana served on the Orbital Defense Platform Cairo, where a anniversary for both SGT Johnson, John-117 and CDR Miranda Keyes was soon interrupted by the arrival of a Covenant Fleet under the command of the High Prophet of Regret, starting the Boxing of World. Cortana was given control of the Cairo 's Magnetic Accelerator Cannon to repel the invaders, and with John-117's help, she successfully deactivated a Covenant bomb that would have destroyed the station. She did this past uploading to John-117's armor again for the commencement fourth dimension since the capture of Ascendant Justice. When she did this, she somehow was able to practise it through him merely touching the last her hologram was on, perhaps an comeback every bit a result of John-117's new Marker VI armor. The aforementioned bomb was and then used by SPARTAN-117 to destroy a Covenant Assault Carrier. John offered for her to remain behind on the station after she said that his plan was crazy, but she chose to back-trail him anyway.[16] She and then aided him when he arrived in New Mombasa to deal with a Scarab.[17]

Delta Halo

Primary article: Boxing of Installation 05
"Don't make a girl a promise... If you know you lot can't keep it..."

— Cortana when John-117 promises to return for her.[18]

Later, after escaping on board UNSC In Bister Clad in a Slipspace event, they discovered another ring world, Delta Halo. Cortana gave Miranda Keyes admission to all information on the previous Halo Ring, and provided intelligence to John, UNSC Marines, and the ODSTs on the surface of the ring.[nineteen]

Afterward John-117 hunted down and killed the Prophet of Regret on Delta Halo, he, Cortana, and The Arbiter were captured by the Flood'south central intelligence - the Gravemind. However, it did not harm them, instead choosing to apply the two to stop the Prophet of Truth from firing the Halo. The Gravemind sent John-117 and Cortana to the Covenant Capital Ship Loftier Clemency, where Cortana infiltrated the city'southward computer systems and remained there while John-117 followed the Prophet of Truth. Due to the invasion of a foreign AI in the network, Covenant technicians lay downwardly numerous impale-systems to disable her, though she easily avoided it due to their clumsiness. She promised to detonate the crashed In Amber Clad 's reactors to destroy the urban center and Halo if the ring was activated. However, she decided to stay behind as a fail condom because she did non want to chance a remote detonation. As Truth boarded the Forerunner dreadnought in the heart of the city to attain the Ark, Cortana fought with the ancient Forerunner AI 032 Mendicant Bias to prevent the ship from launching without John on board. The firing of Halo was averted by Miranda Keyes, the Arbiter Thel 'Vadamee, and Johnson, while John successfully boarded the Dreadnought and escaped High Charity, leaving Cortana in the clutches of Gravemind, who had by then overrun High Charity.[18]

Captured

"Chief! High Charity, the Covenant'due south Holy City is on its fashion to Earth. With an regular army of Flood."

— Cortana's recording for John.[20]

Nether the control of the Gravemind and constantly existence tortured, Cortana managed to ship a message to John-117 on Globe, stashing it on an Earth-bound Flood-infected transport that crash-landed in Voi. She succeeded in doing this by creating a message and using the Gravemind'due south link to the ship to transmit information technology. The Gravemind allowed this and even helped it along in lodge to lure John-117 in, only was unaware of what the message said. In her message, she stated that the Gravemind was approaching Earth in Loftier Clemency, and that information technology was unaware of the portal generated past the Artifact and where it led to. On the other side, in that location was a solution to stop the Inundation without needing to burn the remaining Halo rings; nevertheless, she couldn't give any further information, as the Gravemind might accept been listening. Though Lord Hood doubted her plan, fearing it could exist a Alluvion trap due to her corruption, John-117 trusted her, coupled with the fact that Earth had barely contained a Flood outbreak were it not for the Sangheili's help.

A joint UNSC-Covenant Separatist chore force then entered the Portal, heading to Truth and to Cortana'southward solution.[20] Ironically, Lord Hood was correct: the Gravemind deliberately permit Cortana ship the message to lure all of its enemies into one place, and so the Overflowing would overwhelm them all with the infested High Clemency. It was likewise shown that some of the Cortana Moments were of her defying the Gravemind and some were clones of her that she made to distract the Gravemind to avert being consumed by him.[21]

A relieved Cortana beingness rescued past John-117 from the clutches of the Gravemind

Cortana continued to announced to John-117, who successfully recovered her from the Flood Hive that was High Clemency after information technology crashed on the Ark. While John reassured her, Cortana knew that she had taken irreparable damage in some places. Forth the fashion, John-117 had several visions of her seemingly in pain. Surprised that John had against all odds rescued her as he promised after the First Battle of High Charity, also as being surprised that Chief and Thel 'Vadam (whom she encountered on Delta Halo with the Gravemind) "made nice," Cortana managed to gather herself and produce the Index from Installation 04, which she had kept.[22] With it, Cortana was able to activate the newly synthetic Installation 08, which fired prematurely, causing it to destroy itself and heavily harm the Ark in the procedure.[23]

Stranded in space

Cortana, as she appears when the UNSC Frontward Unto Dawn begins to deteriorate.

"We've been floating endlessly in space for 1,651 days, half-dozen hours and 19 minutes. That means over 4 years aboard this ship with goose egg to do. No tasks to complete. For over 4 years all I accept done is call back."

— Cortana[24]

The Slipspace portal collapsed as John-117, Thel 'Vadam, and Cortana attempted to escape through it, cutting the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn in half. While 'Vadam, who was on the bridge, managed to return to Globe safely, John and Cortana, who were in the hangar, were left drifting in space. Cortana activated a distress beacon, but knew that it could exist years before they were found. Every bit John-117 prepared to go into cryogenic sleep to wait rescue, Cortana confided to him that she would miss him.[23]

After the portal plummet in 2552, in the twelvemonth 2556, she and John are still stranded. Cortana, who is showing signs of rampancy,[25] tries to communicate with John. Every bit he is nevertheless in cryo sleep, she is unable to get a response from him. Cortana then begins to file a study on the history of the Forerunners and humanity.[26] Subsequently an unknown period of time, they are seen drifting towards Requiem.

Four years, vii months, and ten days later the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn was split into 2, an increasingly deteriorating Cortana woke John-117 from cryonic stasis.[27]

Requiem

Both Cortana and Primary managed to make it off the Forward Unto Dawn and into Requiem. In that location, they managed to go a point to the approaching UNSC Infinity, simply the Infinity merely ended up coming toward Requiem.[28] Later on disabling a defense effectually what was believed to be a satellite, the duo fought off Covenant and Precursor AI trying to get to the transmitter on the satellite. Attempting to contact the Infinity, the Master and Cortana unleash a Forerunner known every bit the Didact. After escaping the Didact,[28] Main and Cortana linked upwardly with the Infinity [29] and her crew and were able to disable Requiem's defenses. However, they were contacted by the Librarian, claiming that the fundamental to defeating the Didact lay in John's genes. Due to the Librarian's manipulation of his genes eons before, John-117 was immune to the process Didact referred to as "Composing." However, throughout this, Cortana'due south rampancy continued to grow worse and she began to display outbursts of uncontrollable anger.[30]

Chasing the Didact

After learning what the Didact had planned, Cortana and John-117 became adamant to terminate him with or without the assistance of the Infinity. Cortana's worsening rampancy led to Helm Andrew Del Rio ordering her decommissioned. John-117 defied orders to surrender her chip and continued his mission.[30] With a Pelican gunship secretly given to them by Commander Thomas Lasky, Cortana and John-117 chased downwards the Didact. They managed to lower the shield protecting his Cryptum, only when Cortana tried to imprison him again, her rampancy overtook her and she failed to complete her task, allowing the Didact to escape Requiem.[31] John and Cortana followed the Didact by hanging onto a Lich during a slipspace bound and followed him to Ivanoff Research Station about Installation 03. Cortana took control of the Lich, but over again her rampancy got the better of her and she crashed the transport into the station.[32]

When John-117 met upward with Physician Sandra Tillson, Cortana checked the station'south inventory for something to destroy the Composer and discovered seven HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapons. Cortana after activated the station's defenses but had a hard time focusing more and more equally time went on, having to spout trivia at 1 point to focus. Eventually, the Didact got to the Composer and digitized anybody in the station except Cortana and John-117, who survived due to his genetic upgrade from the Librarian. The event traumatized Cortana who became sure she would be replaced by some other AI and would never be repaired. John-117 got her to focus on the mission and she located a Broadsword with which to hunt down the Didact.[32]

Disappearance

"It was my job to take care of you."

— John-117

"We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did."

— Cortana[33]

Cortana's last moments with the Master Chief.

John-117 and Cortana chased the Didact to Earth in a Broadsword and, with the help of the Infinity, boarded the Curtain'due south Approach. Cortana, her status deteriorating fast, entered the send'southward teleportation and defense systems in society to aid John-117 reach the Composer. When they found the Didact protected past an impenetrable forcefulness-field, Cortana did something she knew John-117 would non similar: she inserted herself into iii terminals. This allowed her to fragment her rampant parts to overwhelm the organisation and overload the shields. Afterward the concluding terminal, it and her information chip were disintegrated.[33]

The effort worked, nevertheless, allowing John-117 to reach the Composer before he was attacked and nearly killed by the Didact. The Cortana fragments appeared from the hardlight bridge and tied the Didact downwards, allowing John-117 to defeat him and detonate the nuke, which destroyed the Composer and the Didact'due south ship and saved Globe. Cortana created a shield of hard lite effectually John-117 to protect him, but nearly of her was destroyed in the explosion. With the last of her power, Cortana maintained the shield and created a life-sized hard lite hologram to say goodbye to John. After touching and comforting him, something she had always wanted to do, Cortana told John-117 "Welcome abode, John," before disappearing. Due to Cortana's efforts, John-117 survived and was eventually rescued, though he was left emotionally fractured when he thought she had died.[33]

Return

"You've changed."

— John-117

"It was time."

— Cortana[4]

Although thought to be dead, she was really uploaded to the domain, and was supposedly cured of her rampancy. Once on the Forerunner planet Genesis, the Warden Eternal believed she was able to uphold the Mantle of Responsibility, and vowed to protect and serve under her, giving her full operation of the systems on the shield world for the plan that she had in heed. The Warden Eternal was worried about her obsession with John-117, warning her that he would effort to stop what she had in heed, merely she dismissed his worries, assertive that he would never do such a affair.

Months later Cortana started reawakening the Forerunner constructs known as the Guardians, causing planetary catastrophes. Not having whatsoever leads on these events, the UNSC didn't know how to respond, until Dr. Catherine Halsey contacted Captain Lasky, giving him her location and saying she knew what was going on with the colony worlds. Three weeks subsequently, Fireteam Osiris was deployed on the planet Kamchatka to stage a rescue operation, and was ultimately successful.[34]

While Fireteam Osiris was rescuing Dr. Halsey, John-117 was contacted past Cortana during the Raid on UNSC Argent Moon. Blueish Team would chase Cortana to the Colony world of Meridian.[35] Cortana reached a bargain with Height'due south governor, a semi-rampant AI named Sloan - the people of Meridian would be given the gamble to evacuate, and Sloan himself given access to the Domain and the cure for rampancy, in return for allowing Blue Team unfettered access to the mine at Apogee Station and the Guardian housed therein. Despite the attempted intervention of Fireteam Osiris, Cortana was able to use the Peak Guardian to bring John-117 and the rest of Blue Squad to Genesis, where she revealed her apparent cure for rampancy and her plan to use the Guardians to impose an Regal Peace and adopt the Drape of Responsibility for the Created.

Fireteam Osiris, believing that the Guardians could lead them to John-117 and Cortana, were before long informed of an inactive Guardian on Sanghelios, rescuing Thel 'Vadam from an assassination attempt. Thel 'Vadam learned of Locke's intention to find John-117, upon which Cortana interrupted and stated that they would never notice them. Aware of the Guardian lying on the planet, Fireteam Osiris was able to acquire a Constructor that stalled the Guardian long enough to board it, despite the Warden Eternal intervening one time once more.

Learning of Cortana'due south plans, John-117 accepted that she had to be stopped, simply hoped that he could be able to reason with her. Cortana was irritated by the Warden'due south constant attempts to impairment John, eventually banishing him temporarily as a event of his actions. She then manifested herself to see John once more than, who tried to convince her to terminate. Cortana was disappointed, merely only assertive him to be misguided, decided to lock him and Blueish Squad in the Cryptum for x thousand years to show him her work once she was done.

Seeing Fireteam Osiris persistent on freeing John-117, Cortana taunted the team and sent Prometheans to cease them. Still, Locke was able to destroy the last relay, allowing 031 Exuberant Witness to regain control of Genesis' systems. In an act of revenge for Cortana taking her installation away, Exuberant Witness took the Cryptum housing John-117 and Blue Squad, much to Cortana'southward horror as her Guardian went into slipspace.

Embittered by the loss of John-117, Cortana began her Reclamation, and managed to find the UNSC Infinity. However, it performed an emergency slipspace leap before her Guardian could disable information technology.

During her accost to the species of the universe, the Unggoy of Bahalo decided to join the Created. Seeing this, Cortana sent ships full of avant-garde technology, agricultural back up stations, nutrient, medicine and shelter to the planet.

Personality

Cortana in the Halo 3 instruction manual.

"Is this the secret you have kept from me? This... evolved ancilla?"

— The Didact on Cortana[33]

Cortana had a witty and playful personality and a modest sense of cryptic humor laced with some sarcasm. She had neither arrogance nor imitation modesty near her immense capabilities, and her statements about her abilities accept an objective perspective that human beings typically cannot achieve. She did get bored frequently and easily. In fact, information technology is said that seven seconds of inactivity for an AI is excruciating.

Cortana seemed to share some of her creator's memories, thoughts, opinions, and even values. When she was asked by Dr. Halsey to pick a "carrier," Cortana chose John-117 for his neural compatibility and his "luck."[seven] A similar reason used past Halsey for her option, besides. She was not only a facsimile of Dr. Halsey's mind, but also a replica of her physical class, albeit at a younger age.

Relationships and Allegiances

Catherine Halsey

Dr. Halsey'southward and Cortana'due south relationship started off positive. Cortana assisted Halsey effectually CASTLE Base[ii] and fifty-fifty smiled at Halsey's presence.[34] As rampancy took concur, Cortana began to distrust and become annoyed at Halsey. Cortana chosen her a "condescending bitch."[34] Even after going to metastability, Cortana chosen her a monster for her actions in the SPARTAN-II Plan.[iv]

John-117

Cortana attempting to make physical contact with John, something she is non capable of doing.

She had exhibited extreme devotion to John-117 beyond that which her programming or mission required. She seemed to be most loyal to him and is willing to assist him with any task he requested of her. After she institute out exactly what happened to John-117 as a kid, she decided to protect him from further harm to the best of her abilities without compromising her mission. While a prisoner of the Gravemind, her sanity was pushed to the brink as she eluded the Gravemind'southward attempts to capture and dissect her for data. Her personal loyalty to and unwavering trust in John-117 helped anchor her and allow her to hold on despite being driven to the betoken of rampancy. Cortana also believed that she was best qualified to protect John-117 and knew he could get another AI to replace her, but believed that no one would ever look later on him similar she would. When John came into problem by the Didact in the New Phoenix Incident, she told the Didact that she wasn't "...doing this for flesh." What was thought to be her concluding act, was protecting John.[33]

She frequently joked about having a relationship with John-117 and information technology is frequently implied that the two characters have developed some form of attachment. Prior to Operation: RED FLAG, she says to Dr. Halsey that John-117 is "attractive in a primitive-beast sort of mode" while examining a photo of him.[36] During the Raid on High Clemency, his mere presence and the reminder of his promise to her were enough for her to pull herself together and assist him.[22] During the New Phoenix Incident, she sacrificed herself to salvage John. One of the last things she does is affect him with a life-sized hologram, something she had always wanted to practise. When John is devastated by her upcoming death, saying it'southward his task to look out for her, she tells him they are supposed to expect out for each other and they did.[33]

"I detest you! Cortana stop it! I have fabricated up my mind! If I'one thousand going to die aboard this send, the Main will suffer the same fate as me. Cortana stop! You sacrificed everything for him! Control yourself."

— Cortana, arguing to herself[37]

While on board the Forrad Unto Dawn, Cortana became increasingly conflicted about her feelings nigh John. At ane moment, she down right hated him, dorsum to her normal emotions.[37] This conflict seemed to disappear once the Didact began to scan the send.[27] [37]

The Warden Eternal noted Cortana's unusual devotion to John-117, warning her that it would be her downfall equally he intended to "stop her reign before it fifty-fifty started". Even when John-117 told her to stand down and abandon her plans, Cortana was not angered, but simply disappointed in his determination. Rather then killing him and Blue Team, she decided to lock them inside a Cryptum to show him the error of his means.

Humanity

Cortana used to have a positive view of humanity. Though she concedes to having her loyalties programmed in, she still feels as though she would exist sympathetic to them without that programming. She even embraced some human being values.[38] However, as rampancy began to take its toll on Cortana, she began to focus heavily on humanity'south constant war-like nature.[26] This thought stuck with her, and became the main reason why she activated the Guardians in 2558.[39]

Rampancy

A crazed Cortana in a state of rampancy.

"I need to think. Thinking is what'south killing yous!"

— Cortana, arguing to herself[37]

"I sense your malfunctioning companion. Human. And yet, she eludes me."

— The Didact on Cortana'south Rampant state[33]

Cortana was besides very aware of her short lifespan (a Smart AI lifespan is an boilerplate of seven years before rampancy) and her derivative nature as a copy of role of some other person, rather than a truthful human being beingness. Desperate and tortured aboard High Charity she murmurs to John: "A collection of lies; that's all I am! Stolen thoughts and memories!" After on she says: "I'thousand only my mother's shadow..." and "It was the coin's fault,"[22] referring to the game of gamble that Dr. Halsey played with John-117 when he was immature. Some of these outbursts are her defying the Gravemind and a few of the more rampant things she says are through copies she made of herself which accept been consumed by the Gravemind.[21]

Her rampancy only got worse equally she was left to drift in the Forward Unto Dawn. She displays several characteristics to support this, such as her hologram flickering, trying to communicate with John-117 despite him being in cryo-slumber, recounting the history of the milky way, which gets continuously more than inaccurate to the point where events being recalled simply did not happen. She even tried to brand physical contact with John via her avatar.[26]

Frank O'Connor confirmed that, "Seven years is the lifespan for a smart AI before it enters a state called rampancy. Cortana was getting shut to the stop of her natural lifespan at the end of Halo 3 but she has been exposed to far more information than any other AI in existence. She's going to develop some musculus from that process just it too contributes to her rampancy - that much information makes things worse." [forty]

When John and Cortana crashed on Requiem, she initially tried to hibernate information technology from him, Cortana was becoming rampant as information technology has been 8 years since she came into beingness. She believed, however, that it may take been possible for Doctor Halsey to repair her due to the way she was created.[28] Throughout the game, Cortana'south personality continued to fragment and this was used against her and John-117 past Captain Andrew Del Rio, though John-117 remained confident in her.[xxx] Cortana was somewhen able to have advantage of the fragmentation of her personality while on the Ur-Didact'south Mantle'south Approach.[33]

Metastability

She, along with Mendicant Bias, is 1 of only two known AIs that may have progressed completely through rampancy and became metastable. After most of her was destroyed aboard the Mantle's Approach,[33] the remaining fragments were sent to Genesis, curing her of her rampancy.[39]

Appearance

Evolution of cortana-2.jpg

Every bit Cortana is an AI, she has no physical torso. She tin communicate through comm systems and project a holographic image of herself from appropriate projectors, such every bit Holotanks. Her called avatar appears to exist a naked female person homo, roughly in her early twenties, with purplish/bluish skin, shoulder length purplish/blue pilus cut shorter at the back, and blueish symbols scrolling down her body. Cortana is said to resemble her creator, Dr. Catherine Halsey as a young adult female, with a similar attitude "just unchecked past military and social protocol."[36] Dr. Halsey says that Cortana looks somewhat like Miranda Keyes.[i] Past The Reclamation, Cortana had created a concrete body for herself. She changed her face likewise and her torso appears as though she were wearing a circuitry-laced pare-tight suit with layered padding.[4]

When in a unlike emotional country, Cortana usually changes colors. This was especially noticeable in Halo: Combat Evolved, but less so in Halo ii and Halo 3. But in specific instances did she produce the color-changing effect. I instance of this was correct before John-117 rescued her.

Bungie took a fair of corporeality of creative freedom in the evolution of her appearance throughout the Halo trilogy, noticeably from Halo: Combat Evolved to Halo 2. She had longer pilus, a more than-realistic humanoid figure, a much more than feminine appearance, and a slightly different shade of regal. In Halo 3, she became slightly bluer and again her face, hair, and body were changed to look more feminine and realistic. In Halo: Combat Evolved Ceremony, she has her Halo iii appearance. In Halo 4, she had darker, more than opaque and realistic hair. Her facial structure had noticeably inverse, her figure had become considerably more curvacious, and she gained better defined fingers and toes. The circuit-pattern mapping over her body changes between every game every bit well.

Abilities

Cortana was designed to infiltrate computer systems and she is excellent at the task. She has get so intelligent that she understands Covenant technology far more than her makers and in some cases, the Covenant themselves. As of early 2553, she has never encountered a Covenant security measure out that she wasn't able to bypass. In addition, she is proficient with UNSC military hardware and can run military ships and stations by herself. Indeed, the UNSC'due south chief use of AIs is to oversee targeting of signal-defense weaponry used in infinite battles. For Cortana, this is merely an additional capability. She has helped out in several major battles including Operation: FIRST STRIKE. She was capable of storing large amounts of data inside her holographic appearance, hiding it in the microscopic lines of code that made upwards her visual grade. Fifty-fifty when she was in the Data Crystal Chip, microscopic lines of lawmaking are running through the holographic "filling."

Accessing Computers

Cortana can be transferred amid diverse calculator systems. She needed a Data Crystal Flake to motility in and out of diverse networks, including John-117's MJOLNIR armor.[41] However, in one instance, she merely needed to be touching another system to access it; however, this is nearly likely a product of John-117's upgraded armor.[xvi] Quite strangely, she reverted to the data chip; this was probably considering John-117's armor was badly damaged during the fall to Earth that it reverted to a redundancy arrangement, which also explains its different shield.[vii] In another instance, instead of having to be physically "plugged in" to the hologram projector, John tin can just hold the chip close to it. She then "walked" off it, later "touching" the scrap to return to it—holographic representations of the information transfer.[23]

Ship Managing

One of Cortana's other abilities was that she could control a variety of starships and stations and act as their AI, even though that wasn't her primary purpose. Cortana has acted as the AI of the Pillar of Autumn, Cairo Station, the Forwards Unto Dawn, the Gettysburg and fifty-fifty the Covenant flagship Ascendant Justice. Despite it non beingness her purpose to act as a shipboard AI, Cortana was extremely good at it, with Captain Keyes being then pleased with her operation during the Fall of Reach, he ends upwards being glad he never got to initialize the Pillar of Fall's true AI. During the fourth dimension the Ascendant Justice was under homo control, Cortana was able to control that ship easily in one case she destroyed the Covenant AI and was given full control of its systems past John-117. She proved even more adept at using the send's technology than the Covenant were and was able to perform feats with information technology the Covenant never even thought of trying. While she was in control of that ship, Cortana was also able to act as the Gettysburg'due south AI at the same time, albeit while the ships are linked and is able to transfer herself from one transport to the other at volition.

"Cloning" and Fragmenting

Another of her abilities was the ability to clone herself. She got this from a Covenant AI she destroyed and dissected. She first tested it by copying her language translation abilities and found it worked slap-up. She also could seem to sense what progress the clone had made as if she retained a connection to it. Later, due to the importance of her getting to Earth due to all of the data she'd collected on Halo, the Overflowing and Covenant technology, she was forbidden from going on John-117's mission, but she was able to make a clone of her infiltration abilities to requite John enough of her capabilities to infiltrate the Covenant control and control station. She claimed that this would non be a complete copy, simply she thought that what it was would be enough. The clone had at least some of her personality as well. The clone retained her abilities to hack systems and some limited mission planning routines that allowed her to make basic plans to help the Spartans, but was unable to make the complicated plans that Cortana could come upward with. The original clone fabricated a copy of itself into the station'south systems to help out and, due to being overwhelmed by Covenant security AIs, ended up making hundreds of copies of itself which overwhelmed the organisation and made accomplishing anything hard for the clones as they began to lose their coherent state, only yet could command the arrangement. The original clone was left behind in the reactor system. It was placed there to overload the reactors and was never removed one time it started the procedure. All of the clones created on the mission were destroyed when the station blew, only provided invaluable help to the Spartan team. Later, while held captive by the Gravemind, Cortana used her cloning ability to create data-stripped clones of herself and ones of her lower-priority functions to distract the Gravemind. These were all consumed past the Gravemind, but they helped buy Cortana time and one too helped her create her message to John-117. Some were even responsible for the more than rampant parts of two of the Cortana Moments. During Halo iv, while on The Didact'due south ship, she creates multiple clones of herself through Rampancy to help overwhelm the transport's defenses and lower the Composers shields for John to plant the HAVOK nuclear mine to destroy it with. Cortana and her clones later manifest themselves as hard light to aid John in battle by tying downwards The Didact and so he could plant a Forerunner Grenade to his breast to stun him then he would fall into the event horizon of the Composers energy network.

Other Abilities

She was likewise very practiced at planning missions for John, including the destruction of Halo. In Halo: The Flood, John comments that he'southward not sure who's improve at bravado things up: him or her. It was also her programme that led to the devastation of all of the Inundation that had escaped Installation 05 and saved the galaxy from a further Flood invasion. Evidently, she has mission-planning routines that help her with this as her clone told John that a copy had only limited-mission-planning routines and was only able to help the Spartans course bones plans.

Another ability that she developed was a express, teleportation power on Installation 04. She learned how to teleport on Halo while in its control systems, only equally she couldn't admission Halo'southward power grid, she couldn't perform this task very oft. She did teleport once with John-117 by drawing ability from his fusion pack, saying that she was sure information technology wouldn't cause permanent impairment to his ability pack or shields, but both agreed that this should only exist washed in one case. She learned where they needed to go from the Covenant Battlenet and teleported them there although they concluded upwards upside down due to her not getting the coordinates completely right. She has non used this ability since although she could presumably utilize information technology on any Halo but would have the same power requirements problem.

Gameplay

Cortana rarely appears physically in gameplay. She mostly acts every bit a disembodied voice or appears in cutscenes. She does physically appear in gameplay during the levels Gravemind andLoftier Charity in Halo 2. Here, she will appear on pedestals around the city and will explain what to exercise. In the Halo 2: Anniversary version of the level, she is depicted in a slightly modified version of her Halo iv model. In Halo iii, there are several times where she will attempt to communicate with John (and the Arbiter during Co-Op). These moments are called Cortana Moments. In Halo 4, she will occasionally demand to be inserted into diverse terminals. In the Halo 5: Guardians level Reunion, she will highlight various interactable terminals with Oly Oly Oxen Free. Cortana's vox is bachelor in Halo: Attain 's Firefight mode.[42] Once she is acquired after the level The Packet, her casing volition be added to the back of player one in The Pillar of Fall.

Trivia

  • Cortana is usually voiced past Jen Taylor, who also voices Catherine Halsey.[43] In Halo Legends, Shelley Calene-Black voices both Halsey and Cortana.[44]
  • In Halo iv, Cortana'southward face was modeled after international model Paisha Coffey and her torso, after Frances Ingraham and Katrina Le. Her movement was performed by Mackenzie Stonemason using move capture technology.[45]
  • Easter eggs involving Cortana tin can be establish in a couple places. In Halo three, expect for a UNSC mobile computer. Scout the lower-left monitor. Subsequently a few seconds, Cortana'southward face will appear for an instant and then disappear. Ii of the easiest ways to see this is to either await at the aforementioned screen in the beginning of Crow's Nest, or at one of the computers in the multiplayer map High Ground.
  • There was going to be an alternate story in Halo: Gainsay Evolved in which John-117 rediscovered Cortana inside the control room and she had become mad with power, wanted to take over Installation 04 and ultimately, the universe.[46]
  • In the original draft of the Halo: Gainsay Evolved script, Cortana was supposed to take an accent akin to the British Isles. When in search of vocalism actors, Martin O'Donnell fabricated sure they had the power to interpret the emphasis correctly.[46] This is evidenced by the fact that in Halo: Gainsay Evolved, Cortana uses several British idioms, such as "Sod off!" when addressing 343 Guilty Spark.[47]
  • She was rated as one of the ten most disturbingly sexual game characters by Games.net and one of the 50 greatest female video game characters ever by Tom's Games.[48]
  • In Halo three, she repeated lines Dr. Halsey has said before such as "You volition be the protector of Earth and all her colonies." which Dr. Halsey says to the six- twelvemonth- old Spartans in Halo: The Fall of Reach. Cortana also recites a few lines from the Cortana Messages in Halo 3 in some of her messages and in the announcement trailer. Some of the lines are said in the Cortana moments in the level Cortana. At certain points in the Halo 4 campaign, Cortana during moments of rampancy is identified on John-117'southward HUD every bit Dr. Halsey and often repeats Halsey'southward quotes.
  • Cortana had many similarities to the Marathon AI, Leela, such as command over sure functions of ships and other locations in their reckoner systems.
  • Beingness a smart AI, Cortana's operational life bridge was approximately seven years. Even so, after she took in all the Forerunner information in Halo's control room, her estimated life span was perchance halved, due to the vast chore of storing, processing etc. all that data.[49] In addition, all of the data she captivated on Halo noticeably decreased her efficiency.[49]
  • The name Cortana (likewise Curtana or Courtain) is a Latinized form of the Anglo-French curtein, from Latin curtus meaning "shortened." The name is used for a ceremonial type of sword. According to legend, one such weapon was the sword of Ogier the Dane - it bore the inscription "My name is Cortana, of the same steel and temper every bit Joyeuse and Durendal." Durendal (spelled 'Durandal' in this sense) was the name of an Bogus intelligence in a previous Bungie game, Marathon. This also ties in with Cortana telling John "I am your shield, I am your sword."
  • In Halo: Glasslands, The smart AI Black Box sees Cortana as a negative function model. He believes she has become far too human after spending then much time around them.
  • In Halo: Combat Evolved Ceremony, Cortana takes her Halo three class. In the game, Cortana e'er remains in bluish, unlike the original, where she is seen in lilac, violet, and pink, and changes to green when in Installation 04'south command centre.
  • On the level Requiem, an audio log can be found in which Dr. Halsey mentions how Cortana could peradventure outlive the 7-twelvemonth life expectancy earlier proverb how odd it is for a UNSC AI. While she did outlast the 7-year period, she performed poorly afterwards.
  • Jen Taylor was awarded "Functioning of the Year (Female)" by Ben of "TheGamerDrive," for her performance in Halo 4.[50]
  • The Didact seemed to show some interest in Cortana, perhaps because of how advanced Cortana was considering humanity and its lower than expected technological composure.
  • Cortana was chosen to be the proper name for the personal assistant in Windows Phone 8.one and Windows 10.[51] The proper noun was originally "a code name to rally the team around what they were edifice," but the decision to keep the name was made as a event of petitions and polls asking for the name to be kept when the code proper noun was leaked.[52] [53]

Gallery

Halo: Gainsay Evolved

Halo 2

Halo ii: Anniversary

Halo Graphic Novel

Halo 3

Halo: Reach

Halo iv: Frontwards Unto Dawn

Halo 4

Halo 5: Guardians

Other

Appearances

  • Halo: Combat Evolved
    • Halo: Gainsay Evolved Anniversary
  • Halo 2
    • Halo 2: Anniversary
  • Halo iii
  • Halo: Attain
  • Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
  • Halo: The Overflowing
  • Halo: Outset Strike
  • Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
  • Halo: Glasslands (Mentioned only)
  • Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
  • Halo Graphic Novel
  • Halo Legends
    • Origins
    • Odd One Out
  • Halo 4
  • Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
  • Halo v: Guardians
  • Halo Infinite

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External links

  • The Cortana Letters

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