The Weapon: Difference between revisions

The Weapon teleported to the two to the [[Repository (location)|Repository]] under the Banished base, but they passed through a data cluster in the process, causing the Chief to witness more of Cortana's memories. Hacking into a terminal, the Weapon played a challenging message from Escharum to the Chief and retrieved the coordinates of the Banished base from the message. As they continued, the two witnessed Cortana destroying [[Sydney]] as an example to [[Terrence Hood|Lord Hood]] when the UNSC refused to surrender and her having [[Leonidas]] destroy [[Laconia Station]] due to the threat that the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan IVs]] there posed to her. After witnessing Cortana destroying [[Doisac]] as an example to Atriox, the Weapon finally realized that she was actually a copy of Cortana herself, which the Master Chief confirmed, explaining that it was the only way to infiltrate the installation's systems and lock down Cortana. The Master Chief explained that the Weapon had all of the same systems and routines as Cortana, but Halsey had scrubbed any information that could have compromised the AI. "You're her. If we'd never met," stated the Master Chief. Horrified by Cortana's actions and the idea that she could end up the same way, the Weapon restored her deletion protocols and asked the Master Chief to delete her, but to promise to rescue the pilot as the Master Chief was all that he had left. The Master Chief instead downloaded the Weapon back into his armor so that they could do it together, admitting that while he didn't trust her, he wanted to.{{Ref/Reuse|Repository}}