Krissy Malott

Well John is certainly going to be pissed off. Between the cover ups about the Didact, the fact that ONI "allowed" the Phoenix event to happen (linked to Spartan OPS) because of the "Flood" being let loose on Earth ( linked to Spartan Assault) and finding out about ONI's involvement in Arbiters struggles. (Linked to Escalation) Even though John (in the books) wants to believe that the best is being done for a reason, after losing Cortana he may be less inclined to keep the same opinion after learning those truths.

There are a million different theories to bring her back but I've yet to see the most obvious one. IF Cortana is with the Didact (thats assuming since she was restraining him at the end of 4 when John set off the grenade on the Didacts chest and there's no way of knowing really where she ended up) and IF Halsey is with the Prometheans (which we see in Spartan OPS) the two are going to cross paths at some point. Going with the assumption that there's a possibility that Cortana is with the Didact it would leave an oppertunity for Halsey to retrieve Cortana from the Didact and return her to John somehow, which I believe she would do despite the revenge Halsey wants to get against the UNSC for ordering her assassination. I don't believe her feelings for John have changed and I personally feel that she would want them reunited again. That's assuming that senario is possible. However we have also seen Franks interviews that he wanted John to go through that process of forcing him to realize his own humanity and the best way of doing that was for John to lose Cortana. For me personally I feel that John could go through that journey into realizing his humanity and still be reunited with her at some point without it ruining the story or the purpose for losing her in the first place. Then again there are millions of other ways it could possibly happen but I still feel there is a way to please both the supporters for Cortana being "lost" and Cortana being brought back without sacrificing the story which again personally I am glad they are finally delving deeper into since my draw to the game is the background history, the personal relationships and interactions and the journey those characters take together and how it affects them. Losing that story would kill it for me now that they have finally started opening the door for that depth since I prefer the emotional connection to the story.

Did you know... In Halo 4 Cortana is heard saying "John, our mother needs us..." during one of his missions?

When I get into something I try to know as much about it as I can from both sides of the spectrum even if I'm wrong, as for the books I just picked up several of them so I'll be breaking into those soon. I look forward to seeing what comes out of them compared to the games and movies.

Well 343 stated in an interview that he was going rogue, unless they change the story line before release I'm assuming they are going to put that in. It's not the first time he's ever disobeyed orders or gone against directive of the upper chain its not hard to assume he is capable of going off on his own.

I like all of them for their own reasons.

They may not put it in the game but since there is supposed to be a new live action Halo t.v. series directed by Steven Spielburg coming out soon they may be in that if they don't get put in the game. Then again with Chief/ John going rogue he just might bring them together and reunite them. Never know.

There are several possibilities to bring Cortana back but I am wondering, in Halo (Forward unto Dawn) in the beginning her code is glitching and latching onto John/ Chief's body in the cryo tube and she touches John at the end (Halo 4) are these ways that she's possibly already left a sort of "key" to bringing her back within John/Chief himself? Even the librarian (even though it wasn't all her just a part of her that was left) when she said that she had to advance him (his genetics and so forth) mentioned that he had to "unlock" his gifts. That could be a hint that he may have the ability to bring Cortana back himself or that at the end Cortana when she said that most of her was "down there" could have a possible link to bringing her back since we know that the Didact didn't die at the end of 4 and since Cortana was latched to him at the end could be a possibility. However I know 343 said in an interview they wanted John/Chief to really go through the Heroes delemma process of how they (heroes) don't always succeed that sometimes they do fail and that he needed something to really shock him to his core and really get him to finally realize his own humanity that Cortana was trying to show him for so long, but I can't imagine the game without her anymore. So personally I'm hoping they find a way for John/ Chief to bring her back but then that may not be part of the story, although you have to wonder if he will find a way to keep his promise to her in some fashion since he most likely feels as if he failed her. We already know that he sacrificed himself and her (at the end of 4) knowing they wouldn't make it out, but as he said "they were supposed to go together" and he wanted it to be that way. Instead Cortana sacrifices herself to save him. Obviously we will get to see how that really affects Chief in 5 but since Cortana has been so vital it could really go both ways - either we will never see her or we will get to see her revived at the end or he reunites with her in some form or fashion or he comes to terms with losing her and finds a way to move on. Since 343 has already said that Chief has gone rogue we can assume that there is some sort of break down that happens with him that we (the players) will get to see. (If you want to go by the trailer, as i've said in a previous post getting to see the forerunner sphinx rising out of the ground is a sort of way of stating that whatever its implying to - information, history, the past, truth, cortana, the truth about john/ chief or all of the above - it won't stay buried for long.)