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The Didact's ship traveled to [[Ivanoff Station]], an orbital research facility stationed near [[Installation 03]] which had unearthed the Composer. As the Chief warned the scientists inside that the Forerunner planned to steal it, Cortana's rampancy emerged again and, in a fit of anger, crashed their Lich. The two survived, but the ''Ivanoff'' was already under attack. Cortana prepared the station's defenses to assist evacuation while Master Chief defeated the boarders on foot. When the Composer was found to be too large to transport, Master Chief resolved to destroy it. A nuclear device was prepared, but Cortana was breaking up further, now swinging between joy and anger, even forgetting where she was, deterring them from keeping contact with the scientists. The nuclear weapon came too late, and in that time the Didact's ship gained the Composer and killed everyone in the station.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]''</ref> | The Didact's ship traveled to [[Ivanoff Station]], an orbital research facility stationed near [[Installation 03]] which had unearthed the Composer. As the Chief warned the scientists inside that the Forerunner planned to steal it, Cortana's rampancy emerged again and, in a fit of anger, crashed their Lich. The two survived, but the ''Ivanoff'' was already under attack. Cortana prepared the station's defenses to assist evacuation while Master Chief defeated the boarders on foot. When the Composer was found to be too large to transport, Master Chief resolved to destroy it. A nuclear device was prepared, but Cortana was breaking up further, now swinging between joy and anger, even forgetting where she was, deterring them from keeping contact with the scientists. The nuclear weapon came too late, and in that time the Didact's ship gained the Composer and killed everyone in the station.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]''</ref> | ||
[[File:H4-John&Cortana-04.jpg|250px|left|thumb|All Cortana's fragments standing together to protect John from the Didact.]] | [[File:H4-John&Cortana-04.jpg|250px|left|thumb|All Cortana's fragments standing together to protect John from the Didact.]] | ||
Their slaughter deeply upset Cortana, and caused her to reflect on her own mortality. By now she was sure that she could never be repaired, confessing that the next AI cloned from Halsey would likely not be her. John consoled her the best he could, but stoically reminded her of their duty to Earth. | Their slaughter deeply upset Cortana, and caused her to reflect on her own mortality. By now she was sure that she could never be repaired, confessing that the next AI cloned from Halsey would likely not be her. John consoled her the best he could, but stoically reminded her of their duty to Earth. The duo then formed a new plan: to fly an [[F-41 Broadsword]] carrying the [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|HAVOK-class nuke]] in hopes that it could reach the Composer. Their Broadsword piggy-backed on the Didact's ship through slipspace, arriving with it in orbit around Earth. The UNSC ''Infinity'', now under the command of Lasky, assisted the two by using its weapons to punch a hole in the Forerunner vessel, allowing them to fly inside.<ref name="midnight">'''Halo 4, campaign level ''[[Midnight]]''</ref> | ||
When their Broadsword crashed, John and Cortana exited to carry the nuke to the ship's center where the Didact and Composer were. The device was heavily shielded, but Cortana overrode by fragmenting herself and sending her rampant parts all over the ship's system so that the shield would become as unstable as her. Their plan worked and the shield fell, but the process further destabilized her, as her fragments whispered to John while the main Cortana's voice spoke with pain. The Didact launched the Composer regardless, digitizing the population of the metropolis of [[New Phoenix|New Phoenix, Arizona]], then attacked John, taking the bomb from him and lifting him off their light bridge's edge. John's life was saved, though, when Cortana's fragments emerged from the light bridge and formed chains of hard light that held the Didact down and temporarily disabled his armor so John could climb back up and push him off with a grenade. With the Forerunner defeated, John fired the nuke, destroying the Composer and the Forerunner ship.<ref name="midnight"/> | When their Broadsword crashed, John and Cortana exited to carry the nuke to the ship's center where the Didact and Composer were. The device was heavily shielded, but Cortana overrode by fragmenting herself and sending her rampant parts all over the ship's system so that the shield would become as unstable as her. Their plan worked and the shield fell, but the process further destabilized her, as her fragments whispered to John while the main Cortana's voice spoke with pain. The Didact launched the Composer regardless, digitizing the population of the metropolis of [[New Phoenix|New Phoenix, Arizona]], then attacked John, taking the bomb from him and lifting him off their light bridge's edge. John's life was saved, though, when Cortana's fragments emerged from the light bridge and formed chains of hard light that held the Didact down and temporarily disabled his armor so John could climb back up and push him off with a grenade. With the Forerunner defeated, John fired the nuke, destroying the Composer and the Forerunner ship.<ref name="midnight"/> | ||
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{{Quote|no=two|John-117|Cortana|q1=We go together. It was my job to take care of you.|q2=We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did.|John and Cortana during their last conversation.}} | {{Quote|no=two|John-117|Cortana|q1=We go together. It was my job to take care of you.|q2=We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did.|John and Cortana during their last conversation.}} | ||
Just before the blast could kill him, Cortana transported John off the ship and protected him in a bubble of hard light. She also projected her avatar as a human-sized hard light construct, allowing her to face John and touch him at last. Rather than distraught like before, Cortana was at peace again, glad of their victory and that she could meet John this way. However, too much of her data had been left in the Didact's ship, which was rapidly falling apart from the blast. She had only enough power left to teleport John away from the ship. In her last moments she preserved John's hard light energy field while the Didact's ship collapsed around him.<ref name="midnight"/> | Just before the blast could kill him, Cortana transported John off the ship and protected him in a bubble of hard light. She also projected her avatar as a human-sized hard light construct, allowing her to face John and touch him at last. Rather than distraught like before, Cortana was at peace again, glad of their victory and that she could meet John this way. However, too much of her data had been left in the Didact's ship, which was rapidly falling apart from the blast. She had only enough power left to teleport John away from the ship. In her last moments she preserved John's hard light energy field while the Didact's ship collapsed around him.<ref name="midnight"/> | ||
After ''Infinity'' recovered John as he floated in space, he tried to face Cortana's death with his usual stoicism. However, Captain Lasky discerned it was hurting him much more, and responded to John's thought of soldiers and people as two different things; he claimed that soldiers are people, not machines. After Lasky left the observation deck, John remembered that Cortana had made a similar quip before the pair left Requiem: ''"Before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine."''<ref>'''Halo 4''', ''Epilogue'' cutscene</ref> | |||
===Survival=== | ===Survival=== | ||
