Did Halsey create Cortana?

According to her backstory, Cortana was constructed from the cloned brain of Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, the creator of the SPARTAN-II supersoldier project; Halsey's synapses became the basis for Cortana's processors.
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Is Cortana based on Halsey?

In the original Halo game timeline, Cortana is a unique AI based on Dr. Halsey - the creator of the Spartan program - herself.
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How did Dr. Halsey create Cortana?

Cortana was created using a flash cloned copy of Dr. Catherine Halsey's brain. Twenty flash cloned brains were created, but only two survived; one of the two survivors were used to create Cortana. The neural pathways of the cloned brain were scanned and copied through a process called Cognitive Impression Modeling.
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Is Cortana Dr. Halsey clone?

Cortana is a highly advanced artificial intelligence created using brains taken from clones of Spartan program-founder Dr. Catherine Halsey.
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Why is Cortana purple?

Bungie said Cortana was purple when she was young, they show her as purple in Halo Reach and Halo CE. Then 343 made Halo CE anniversary and decide to represent her in blue. Then 343 made her purple in Halo Infinite.
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HALO Infinite - Cortana and Halsey Flashback Scene / Chief Meets Cortana



Did Cortana choose Noble 6?

Cortana chose Noble 6(and if you read Halsey's journal that is a single of two fragments of Cortana) to transport her safely to the Autumn. Noble 6 is asked to board the Pelican because the Covenant are swarming over the place and he would die otherwise.
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Is Cortana not an AI in Halo show?

Cortana's replacement AI, who is known as 'The Weapon', is Master Chief's newest assistant, and is also voiced by Jen Taylor. She is created the same way Cortana was, and is sort of like a reboot of the character. She's obviously quite similar to the orgiinal Cortana, but just different enough to feel fresh.
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Is Cortana a flash clone?

Usage for creating AI

There is one known exception however: Cortana was modeled after a flash clone of Dr. Catherine Halsey's brain. Halsey used the same mothballed equipment used to clone the Spartan candidates to create twenty clones of herself.
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Is Cortana in Halo evil?

For those not in the know, Cortana is well past the age an AI should be, and she now suffers from Rampancy, which has essentially turned her evil.
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Did the Weapon name herself Cortana?

In Halo Infinite, the Weapon does not have a name. It was implied that The Weapon wanted to name herself Cortana after asking the Master Chief if it's okay to do so. In the final scene inside the Pelican, after the pilot introduced himself as Fernando Esparza, the pilot asked what to call The Weapon.
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Is Master Chief a clone?

4 Master Chief Has A Clone That Took His Place With His Family. A huge part of the Spartan-II program involved abducting children to train and preform experiments on that turn them into Spartans. Master Chief is no different.
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Why was Cortana on Zeta Halo?

Cortana wanted Zeta Halo, so she was present on it to maximize her chance of securing it. Her conversations with Atriox weren't so much her being trapped in a room as they were her not being willing to abandon the Halo to the Banished.
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Who deleted Cortana?

During this period Atriox, the leader of The Banished and a large army of his boys manages to confront Cortana on Zeta Halo at the same time Master Chief appears with the UNSC and an AI known as The Weapon with the plan of containing Cortana and deleting her.
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Is Cortana in Halo a real person?

Cortana is a fictional artificially intelligent character in the Halo video game series. Voiced by Jen Taylor, she appears in Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite.
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Does Halsey and Cortana have the same voice?

Catherine Halsey, who oversaw the Master Chief's supersoldier program and was Cortana's original creator. In the games, Taylor provides the voice for both Cortana and Halsey, since Cortana is a sort of digital clone of her creator.
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Does cloning exist in Halo?

There is one known exception in the Halo Universe, however: Cortana was modeled after an unauthorized flash clone of Dr. Catherine Halsey's brain, thus illegal in the UNSC. The use of a clone allowed the UNSC to provide a brain used for the mapping of the AI's "mind" with no undue effects on the donor.
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Is Cortana a living thing?

As it turns out, flash cloning a living brain would result in the destruction of the brain and the death of that person. Cortana was not created in this manner, but instead was flash cloned from the living brain of Dr.
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Why is Cortana so special?

Smart AI are also made from the neural pathways of a real human brain, which also destroys the brain in the process. What make Cortana even more special in that regard, is the fact that she was made out of a flash clone of Halsey's brain. She was, at the time, one of the most important AI's ever made.
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Is Cortana in chief's brain?

The Cortana Chip Is Implanted In The Master Chief's Brain

In contrast, in the Halo TV series Cortana is implanted directly into the Master Chief's brain, meaning she cannot be removed. This gives her the potential to expand her consciousness into John-117's own mind, as Dr. Halsey intends.
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Will Cortana be in Halo Infinite?

Halo Infinite does feature Cortana, but not necessarily as a lot of fans expected her to be featured. Following her mutiny in Halo 5: Guardians, she left Master Chief's side, so to replace her, Chief gets a new AI named Weapon. Weapon fills a lot of the void left by Cortana, but they aren't quite the same.
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Can Cortana take over Master Chief?

Reluctantly, Cortana takes over Master Chief's consciousness and is able to take out the encroaching enemy, which seemingly erases John-117, leaving the AI in complete control—Dr.
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Why does Emile hide his face?

He constantly wears a mask metaphorically and physically to try to hide the fact that he's human. Some cracks in his mask start to show by the end of the game. With Carter's death you can hear the anger in his voice.
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How does Emile see out of his helmet?

It's a camera (or cameras) on the outside of the helmet. On the inside is a screen that they can use to see. Think of the outside of the visor (the part that we see) as the reinforced back of a TV screen. In Lone Wolf when you get the cracks, it's just like using a projecter on a wall with craks on it.
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Who is the strongest Spartan in Halo?

Halo: Ranking The 12 Strongest Spartans (That Aren't Master Chief...
  • 8 Buck.
  • 7 Jerome-092.
  • 6 Kelly-087.
  • 5 Kurt-051.
  • 4 Frederic-104.
  • 3 Spartan-B312 (Noble 6)
  • 2 Linda-058.
  • 1 Samuel-034.
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