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Discussed this on a Cabal Chat and on HBO. We decided that it was plausible but still a theory. HBO discussion here: http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=1210942
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It is this unnamed AI's code that allowed Cortana to copy the code-breaking part of her logic into another Cortana, sent with Blue Team. They effectively used this fracture of Cortana to break into and eventually destroy the Covenant command platform ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' and its resident fleet. | It is this unnamed AI's code that allowed Cortana to copy the code-breaking part of her logic into another Cortana, sent with Blue Team. They effectively used this fracture of Cortana to break into and eventually destroy the Covenant command platform ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' and its resident fleet. | ||
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{{Conjecturalization}} | |||
It is hinted, though never definitely stated, that the AI may be one of [[Cortana]]'s fragments from the ''Unyielding Hierophant'', sent back in time aboard the ''Justice''. When examining its code, Cortana finds its patterns to be "maddeningly familiar", at one point noting "small portions of the alien software looked like her. It was almost as if it were her code... only copied many times, each time with subtle errors introduced by the replication process.<ref name="copies">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 237 (2010 edition)''</ref> Such a copying process happens when Cortana creates her fragments at the ''Hierophant'', as each creates its own copies with escalating errors until they multiply into thousands of corrupted duplicates. As there would be no other reason for an AI's code to be copied as it would only create an AI with a shortened lifespan<ref name="copies"/>, it is perhaps likely that the correlating code indicates that the ''Justice'''s AI was once a Cortana fragment, recovered from the remnants of the ''Hierophant'' or the few survivors of its escort fleet, then made to work for the Covenant and sent to Alpha Halo. | |||
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==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||