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===Silver Timeline=== | ===Silver Timeline=== | ||
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Flash clones were used by [[Catherine Halsey/Silver|Catherine Halsey]] to replace the kidnapped children of the SPARTAN-II program.{{Ref/Film|TV}} | Flash clones were used by [[Catherine Halsey/Silver|Catherine Halsey]] to replace the kidnapped children of the SPARTAN-II program.{{Ref/Film|TV}} Around the same time, Halsey flash cloned herself, keeping the clone in stasis for years. At the time, Halsey was unsure if human flash cloning would ever be made legal and wondered if she was ever sitting opposite a living, breathing version of herself if she would be able to go through with sacrificing the clone.{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}} | ||
By [[2552]], Halsey intended to use her flash clone in order to create [[Cortana/Silver|Cortana]]. Spotting the clone, Admiral [[Margaret Parangosky/Silver|Margaret Parangosky]] ordered Halsey to destroy it and any others like it.{{Ref/Film|TV|Episode=[[Contact]]}} | |||
After UNSC HIGHCOM agreed to the creation of Cortana, Halsey awakened her clone{{Ref/Film|TV|Episode=[[Unbound]]}} who possessed Halsey's knowledge up until the point of her creation. The clone had some difficulty separating herself from the original with Halsey having to correct her that Halsey had collected the samples that had led to the creation of the clone and the clone was merely the product of those samples. The clone asked Halsey about the fate of the children and Halsey explained that 35 had survived the original augmentation, causing her clone to realize that more than half died which was a far greater percentage that Halsey had imagined when she had cloned herself. Completing the test that Halsey had set up for her in a matter of moments, the clone deduced that Halsey had awakened her as she needed the clone's brain and Halsey revealed that she had perfected the [[Cognitive Impression Modeling|process]] for real-time neuroelectrical imaging. The clone was amazed that the Cortana system was viable and guessed that Halsey intended to use Cortana on John after Halsey confirmed that integrating the AI into a Spartan was the next step. Halsey admitted that John had gotten himself into some trouble recently and that this was the only way of getting him out of it. The clone seemed surprised that Halsey wasn't bothered by what she had to do and Halsey dodged her questions about [[Miranda Keyes/Silver|Miranda]]. The clone reminded Halsey of her doubts about being able to go through with it when Halsey had first done the cloning and wondered what had changed and Halsey simply stated that it was "progress."{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}} | |||
[[Adun Saly]] prepared the clone, warning her that the procedure would be very painful, but providing her with a paralyzing agent in order to keep the clone still. Halsey and Adun extracted the needed neural substrata from the clone, drilling in through her left eye. The process killed the clone, but succeeded in creating Cortana. Adun subsequently dissolved the clone's body in a tank.{{Ref/Film|Id=Emergence|TV|Episode=[[Emergence]]}} | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||