Cortana/Silver: Difference between revisions

===Meeting John-117===

After John awakened, Halsey explained to him that the neural implant would make Cortana always available to him and he reluctantly agreed to meet her. Cortana introduced herself to John who noted that Cortana looked like Halsey herself and cut off Cortana's explanation of her role. Halsey explained that, due the system having a hollow particle exciter, Cortana could appear to him in any environment and John questioned if he commanded Cortana and where she went when he wasn't deployed, repeatedly referring to Cortana as "it." Cortana called their relationship more of a partnership and realized that John must not know what she was capable of. Halsey cut off Cortana's explanation of her abilities and Cortana awkwardly departed. John remained uncomfortable with the idea despite Halsey's reassurances that Cortana would enhance his abilities a hundred fold.{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}}

Halsey later ran a test on the [[keystone]] with John and had Cortana put him into stasis once it was activated so that Cortana could access the artifact herself. However, once John was shut down, the artifact immediately deactivated itself, leaving Cortana unable to get any readings at all. Once she released John, Cortana argued that if she was given full control of John now, her readings would be more accurate, but Halsey refused as the artifact would only respond to John as John for some reason and she was unwilling to risk their ability to interact with it.{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}}

Later, as John attempted to run a search on the [[FLEETCOM Central Database]] without success, Cortana contacted him and offered him her help. John reluctantly explained that the artifact seemed to be triggering memories within him and described what he was seeing. Cortana informed John that 103 colonies and moons matched the flora and fauna that he was describing and displayed the worlds for him. John recognized some of them with Cortana confirming that the Spartans had gone on deployments to 23 of those worlds. Stopping on [[Mamore]], John recalled losing [[Nora-098]] there, but he felt nothing at the memory. Cortana explained that the [[emotional regulator|hormonal pellet]] suppressed adverse emotional responses and protected mission readiness and that it was a part of what made him a Spartan. While John was aware, when he touched the artifact, he not only saw the memories, but he felt them as well.{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}}

===Secrets Uncovered===

Some time later, as Halsey and her team struggled to remove the keystone from the rock, Cortana appeared to the watching John and told him that an analysis of its field physics suggested that the energy that it could produce was much stronger than that of the Madrigal keystone which wasn't surprising given its size. However, John didn't respond to her and Cortana watched as Halsey told John that it was a serious safety issue for him and for others and she wanted him to stay away from it until she ran some more tests.{{Ref/Film|Id=Reckoning|TV|Episode=[[Reckoning]]}}

Later, an increasingly suspicious John, after confirming that Cortana had access to the entirety of human knowledge, asked her about his adoption. Cortana reminded him that all of the files from the plague that had struck Eridanus II were lost, but John wasn't buying it, pointing out that he wasn't lost and demanded to know where his file was. However, Cortana couldn't find anything in the database and, when he asked about the other Spartans, Cortana discovered that there were no archives on the origin of the Spartan program. A confused Cortana admitted that she didn't know why and, alarmed, warned John against using the keystone again to get answers as it could kill him. John touched the keystone anyway and regained his memories of being kidnapped by Halsey and replaced with a [[flash cloning|clone]].{{Ref/Reuse|Reckoning}}

===Taking Control===

===Severed from the Master Chief===

Six months later, John had not heard from Cortana since their connection was severed and he was unsure of what had become of the AI. In order to simulate conversations with her, John began visiting a club where he would set the AI in a private booth to take on Cortana's form so that he could open up to "Cortana" in her absence. In one such visit, John admitted that he had felt like there was a part of him missing ever since John and Cortana's connection was severed, or that sometimes there was a sound, like something in his head that didn't belong. John thought that it might be a part of Cortana that had somehow gotten embedded in him. As John struggled with the loss of Cortana, the AI offered to change her appearance and suggested that maybe John didn't really want Cortana at all and questioned if John even knew what he wanted.{{Ref/Reuse|Sanctuary}}

===Captured by the Covenant===

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When Cortana was first activated, she was eager to take control of [[John-117/Silver|John-117]]'s body and complete her mission and was often disgruntled by Halsey simply having her act as a spy and an "on-off switch" instead. However, she quickly began to display genuine concern for John's safety{{Ref/Reuse|Emergence}} and she later refused to take over his body, instead trying to warn John.{{Ref/Reuse|Solace}}

==Production notes==

==Gallery==

File:HTV-Homecoming-Bridge Meeting.png|John and Cortana on the bridge of the ''Endymion II''.

File:HTV Transcendence Cortana-Control.png|Cortana takes control of John's body.

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