

The first words spoken by Cortana were those Halsey's mother had said to her after beating her daughter in chess decades prior.
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Halsey also programmed her with ONI's best insurgency software and every ONI computer insurgency routine, as well as the determination to use those code-cracking skills.
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Halsey placed a viral termination code in her kernel but then could not tell whether she remained unaware of it or had already isolated and bypassed it, perhaps just having the tact not to mention it to her. The newly made intelligence called herself "Cortana". matrix strata, completing the initiation sequence within normal quantum flux tolerances. On November 7, 2549, within the confines of CASTLE Base on Reach, Catherine Halsey transferred and authenticated the H-1 specimen's neural pattern to A.I. Part of her also resembles Halsey's daughter Miranda and yet another part is purely Cortana's invention.
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Ĭortana's face resembles the way Doctor Halsey's appeared when she was fresh out of college. All remaining organic substrates were flash-incinerated. A little over two months later, on July 29, Halsey successfully excised all of the clones' brains and transferred them to cryogenic units. 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. 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. She made sure the equipment was hidden and secure from all save herself, though the cloning had been arranged by ONI at her insistence. This time, however, she enhanced their neural physiology at the expense of other biological functions. To create the clones she used the same equipment that had been used years prior to make the flash clones needed for the SPARTAN-II program. matrix seeds than that offered by the new candidates she was being presented with, which she saw as lacking both physical and intellectual agility. Halsey believed her third-generation volitional A.I.s required better material to use as A.I. was needed for Operation: RED FLAG, a planned mission to kidnap one of the Covenant's hierarchs and force a truce. On the Office of Naval Intelligence's chief scientist, Doctor Catherine Halsey, cloned herself twenty times. ĭoctor Halsey with a young Cortana, her creation. " When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box." - Cortana speaks her first words, in Italian-the same once said by Catherine Halsey's mother after beating her daughter at the first game of chess they played.
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I like crazy." - Cortana to John-117 on Cairo Station Ĭortana ( AI Serial Number: CTN 0452-9) was the leader of the Created and a "smart" AI formerly in service with the United Nations Space Command. " I know what you're thinking, and it's crazy. Providing battlefield support to SPARTAN-117.Electronic warfare support during Operation: RED FLAG.Decode, translate, and interpret alien technologies.United Nations Space Command (formerly).

Slender woman covered by patterns and scrolling symbols For other uses, see Cortana (disambiguation).
