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{{Quote|When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.|Cortana speaks her first words, in [[Human languages|Italian]]—the same once said by Catherine Halsey's mother after beating her daughter at the first game of [[chess]] they played.}}<ref name="HJ11749"/> | {{Quote|When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.|Cortana speaks her first words, in [[Human languages|Italian]]—the same once said by Catherine Halsey's mother after beating her daughter at the first game of [[chess]] they played.}}<ref name="HJ11749"/> | ||
[[File:HaloReach - Finale.png|300px|thumb|left| | [[File:HaloReach - Finale.png|300px|thumb|left|Doctor Halsey with a young Cortana, her creation.]] | ||
On [[2549#May|May 21, 2549]] the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s chief scientist, Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]], [[Flash cloning|cloned]] herself twenty times.<ref name="HG12">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''Chapter 12''</ref><ref name="HTFOR25">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 25''</ref><ref name="HJ52149">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''May 21, 2549''</ref> An A.I. was needed for [[Operation: RED FLAG]], a planned mission to kidnap one of the [[Covenant]]'s [[hierarch]]s and force a truce.<ref name="WaypointCortana"/><ref name="HTFOR26">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 26''</ref> Halsey believed her third-generation volitional A.I.s required better material to use as A.I. matrix seeds than that offered by the new candidates she was being presented with, which she saw as lacking both physical and intellectual agility.<ref name="HJ52149"/> To create the clones she used the same equipment that had been used years prior to make the [[flash clone]]s needed for the [[SPARTAN-II]] program. This time, however, she enhanced their neural physiology at the expense of other biological functions. She made sure the equipment was hidden and secure from all save herself, though the cloning had been arranged by [[ONI]] at her insistence. As such, there were a few others who also knew about it, but she was confident that these particular individuals could be trusted to keep the information secret. The clones developed at a breakneck pace, for on the same day she had first begun the process they were already exhibiting familiar anatomy and curling into fetal positions, malformed as they were.<ref name="HJ52149"/> A little over two months later, on [[2549#July|July 29]], Halsey successfully excised all of the clones' brains and transferred them to cryogenic units.<ref name="HJ72949">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 29, 2549''</ref> All remaining organic substrates were flash-incinerated.<ref name="HJ72949"/> | On [[2549#May|May 21, 2549]] the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s chief scientist, Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]], [[Flash cloning|cloned]] herself twenty times.<ref name="HG12">''[[Halo: Glasslands]]'', ''Chapter 12''</ref><ref name="HTFOR25">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 25''</ref><ref name="HJ52149">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''May 21, 2549''</ref> An A.I. was needed for [[Operation: RED FLAG]], a planned mission to kidnap one of the [[Covenant]]'s [[hierarch]]s and force a truce.<ref name="WaypointCortana"/><ref name="HTFOR26">''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', ''Chapter 26''</ref> Halsey believed her third-generation volitional A.I.s required better material to use as A.I. matrix seeds than that offered by the new candidates she was being presented with, which she saw as lacking both physical and intellectual agility.<ref name="HJ52149"/> To create the clones she used the same equipment that had been used years prior to make the [[flash clone]]s needed for the [[SPARTAN-II]] program. This time, however, she enhanced their neural physiology at the expense of other biological functions. She made sure the equipment was hidden and secure from all save herself, though the cloning had been arranged by [[ONI]] at her insistence. As such, there were a few others who also knew about it, but she was confident that these particular individuals could be trusted to keep the information secret. The clones developed at a breakneck pace, for on the same day she had first begun the process they were already exhibiting familiar anatomy and curling into fetal positions, malformed as they were.<ref name="HJ52149"/> A little over two months later, on [[2549#July|July 29]], Halsey successfully excised all of the clones' brains and transferred them to cryogenic units.<ref name="HJ72949">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'', ''July 29, 2549''</ref> All remaining organic substrates were flash-incinerated.<ref name="HJ72949"/> | ||