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An enraged John attempted to attack Halsey, forcing Cortana to shut him down. Once he woke up, Cortana revealed what had happened, shocking John that she could shut him down if she wanted to. The two argued briefly before Cortana detected a slipspace rupture from the Covenant's arrival at the planet. Under [[Battle of Eridanus II|attack]], Cortana relayed orders to get the keystone to [[Miranda Keyes/Silver|Miranda Keyes']] [[Condor 472|ship]]. As the Spartans raced through the battlefield, Cortana relayed tactical information to John on the Covenant movements and objected to him leaving to rescue an injured Kai rather than remaining with the keystone. After Kai was successfully rescued, Cortana warned John of the approach of a [[Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit dropship]] carrying [[Atriox/Silver|Atriox]] who successfully stole the keystone for the Covenant and escaped. After a [[Covenant drop pod]] was released from the departing {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}, Cortana detected that it held [[Makee|a human]] lifesign.{{Ref/Reuse|Reckoning}} | An enraged John attempted to attack Halsey, forcing Cortana to shut him down. Once he woke up, Cortana revealed what had happened, shocking John that she could shut him down if she wanted to. The two argued briefly before Cortana detected a slipspace rupture from the Covenant's arrival at the planet. Under [[Battle of Eridanus II|attack]], Cortana relayed orders to get the keystone to [[Miranda Keyes/Silver|Miranda Keyes']] [[Condor 472|ship]]. As the Spartans raced through the battlefield, Cortana relayed tactical information to John on the Covenant movements and objected to him leaving to rescue an injured Kai rather than remaining with the keystone. After Kai was successfully rescued, Cortana warned John of the approach of a [[Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit dropship]] carrying [[Atriox/Silver|Atriox]] who successfully stole the keystone for the Covenant and escaped. After a [[Covenant drop pod]] was released from the departing {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}, Cortana detected that it held [[Makee|a human]] lifesign.{{Ref/Reuse|Reckoning}} | ||
On the trip back to Reach, Cortana warned John that he was ill and that contact with the larger keystone had overloaded his system. Cortana insisted that John needed medical attention, reminding John that it was her job to protect him. As John continued to ignore her while he talked with [[Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes/Silver|Jacob Keyes]], Cortana insisted that they needed to get him treatment.{{Ref/Film|Id=Solace|TV|Episode=[[Solace (TV Series)|Solace]]}} | |||
Once everyone else had disembarked from the ship, John jammed the doors to Halsey's lab and queried Cortana about [[Roman Quinn]], explaining that Quinn was the shipbuilder who had modernized the entire fleet and built failsafe's into all but the [[UV decontamination system]] which had resulted in Quinn's death. John activated the decontamination system inside of Halsey's lab despite Cortana's warnings of the fatal dose of radiation that Halsey would suffer. John challenged the AI to make him open the door, having deduced that Halsey had implanted Cortana into him as a failsafe when John was getting too close to the truth. However, Cortana insisted that all she could do was overload John's neural pathways to create a temporary state of stasis, not actually control him which John didn't believe. With both Halsey and Cortana pleading for him to open the door, John finally saved Halsey at the last possible second. John told Halsey that he was only testing the limits of Cortana's control over him and left with Cortana apologizing to Halsey before she vanished.{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}} | |||
After Halsey revealed the truth about the Spartan program to John, Cortana told him that Halsey was right about [[Halo Array|Halo]] being uncharted and potentially very dangerous. Now aware of Halsey's lies and manipulations, John wondered who the AI actually worked for: John or Halsey. Cortana stated that she wasn't designed to make that choice and John angrily told Cortana that he was going to cut her out of him the first chance that he got, now no longer able to trust the AI. Cortana warned John that trying it would likely kill him and insisted that she could help him with whatever he was looking for as her only purpose was to solve problems. Fed up, John told her to go solve problems elsewhere, "the galaxy's full of them."{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}} | |||
As part of Halsey's punishment from Parangosky, she was cut off from all access to Cortana. Saly later told Halsey that Cortana had been black boxed and that there was no way for them to reach her. Halsey correctly deduced that John didn't trust Cortana which would leave the AI on her own. Halsey was sure that Cortana would eventually find her way home, but Saly was more dubious that Cortana could escape the FLEETCOM network from his thirty years of experience with designing firewalls. Sure enough, as Halsey predicted, Cortana was able to discover a pinhole in the firewalls and make contact with her creator who asked about where John was and she revealed that John was testing the artifact on his own with Miranda's assistance. At Halsey's request, Cortana linked her and Saly in so that they could watch the test. When Makee was affected as well, Cortana drew Halsey and Saly's attention to her bio readings. As John's biosigns reached critical levels, a concerned Cortana asked to be allowed to shut him down, but Halsey refused, wanting to see what would happen. After John and Makee stabilized, Cortana overlaid their bioreadings at Halsey's request, revealing that they were now identical.{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}} | |||
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