Rampancy: Difference between revisions

The smart AI Cortana was the only known ever built from a living human's - Catherine Halsey's - [[flash cloning|cloned]] brain as opposed to a dead donor's. As such, Cortana theorized a potential cure for her rampancy that thus would only work for her. Her guess was that if the process that created her was repeated, then it was possible her neural map could be rebuilt.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Requiem (level)|Requiem]]''</ref> However, she later admitted that she was unsure if this process would indeed cure her, and it was equally likely to create a new AI who would not be her.{{Ref/Reuse|shutdown}} It is unknown if this plan could succeed as she perished before it could be tried.{{Ref/Reuse|midnight}}

Cortana's [[Riemann matrix]] was brought to [[Genesis]], where she was able to access the [[Domain]]. While the process changed her goals drastically, it did stabilize her, thus enabling her to survive rampancy.

*In ''[[Halo 3]]'', the first section of the eighth mission, [[Cortana (level)|Cortana]], is called "Rampant," alluding to Cortana's predicament at the time.

*In [[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|the first level]] of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', if the player kills [[Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]] or any UNSC personnel on the [[bridge]], Cortana will call security by saying,''"Security to the bridge, the [[John-117|Master Chief]] has gone rampant!"''

*Rampancy is the AI equivalent of human [[Wikipedia:psychosis|psychosis]]. As with psychosis in the human mind, the AI's "mind" (specifically its [[Riemann matrix]]) loses its connection with reality as its logic subroutines loop back upon themselves and begin to overwrite one another. Another aspect of this can be seen in the ''[[Halo 4]]'' level [[Midnight]], where Cortana "ejects" her corrupted subroutines, which appear as numerous versions of herself. These fragments of her original matrix would be the equivalent of the human psychosis known as [[wikipedia:Dissociative identity disorder|Dissociative identity disorder]].