Kowachi

Just wanted to point out: DNA isn't "organic". At least not in the normal sense. DNA is a code, a sequence containing every shred of information about a person. It can be interpreted in letters, numbers, or symbols just like any computer code. It can be digitized and measured in bytes and megabytes, just like a word doc on your computer. It can also be used the other way around, to store a bunch of data. More info here: http://www.extremete...o-a-single-gram It's been said in the games and books that Cortana was created from Halsey's DNA, and this is likely how it was done. By sequencing Halsey's DNA code, digitizing it, and using it to program Cortana in Halsey's image (both physically and mentally).

I really loved the ending. Nothing wrong with an ending that leaves you feeling melancholic. I'm not convinced Cortana is "dead" either. Her goodbye at the end felt like less of a "I'm going to die now" and more of a "We can't see each other anymore." My theory is she pulled off something similar to what the Major did at the end of Ghost In The Shell: Uploading and propagating herself throughout the net. The Librarian mentioned a kind of digital world that the Forerunners wished to ascend to, so I wouldn't be surprised if Cortana did exactly that. Something tells me Halo 5 will see a "copy" of Cortana, a new AI with none of the personality of the old one, only to have the old rampant Cortana reintroduced in Halo 6 in a new form, possibly even as an enemy (since she would be a fully-rampant AI).