Comments on: 76 – Shatterbox

By: Jim (TTL Demag0gue)

Jim (TTL Demag0gue) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:03:09 +0000

re: PikminGod – I’m gonna have to disagree with you on this one. I saw no indication in the storyline that Spark could have disabled Cortana, so I think you’re making a bit of a leap in your logic. Spark complained about a construct being in the network, describing it as ‘Unacceptable!,’ so I’m left with the conclusion that it was specifically forbidden to introduce an AI into the Halo network exactly because it was impossible – or at least extremely difficult – to root one out. Anyone else have any info to add to this debate to clear things up?

Hehe, you should know better than that by now. I don’t reveal anything before I’m ready.

By: PikminGod

PikminGod — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:55:44 +0000

actaully spark could easily have disable cortana but chose not to because she had the key or something and if he disable her he would have broked halo, and therefore failed his job

and i just said that about ferial to see if i could get you to tip your hand either way about him..and you didnt

By: Jim (TTL Demag0gue)

Jim (TTL Demag0gue) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:58:32 +0000

re: JimboMonkey1234 – I dunno. I’ve always considered Cortana to be more advanced than Spark. After all, she originally locked him out of the Halo network so that he couldn’t activate the ring. And reading about her abilities in the Halo novels, I rather regarded her as being highly advanced, indeed, short lifespan or no. Also, from I’ve seen of her consciousness, it could be argued that she may be even more sentient even than humans.

All purely speculative, of course.

By: JimboMonkey1234

JimboMonkey1234 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:54:01 +0000

Remember Jim, Cortana isn’t very advanced. She is just humanoid. After all, she has a short seven year life-span. Guilty Spark is HIGHLY advanced, and is almost fully sentient.

Mendicant Bias is the most advanced, he’s got full sentience. Cortana has very little compared to him. So the voices have nothing to do with complexity.

By: Sangheilioz

Sangheilioz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:24:23 +0000

@Pikmin

There are 7 total, but we’ve only been introduced to 4… that means there are still 3 more Cavalcade members that we do not know, meaning that Ferial could very easily be one, or more, of them.

By: Uzi_Master

Uzi_Master — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:56:27 +0000

It’s a two-for-one AI deal!

By: Jim (TTL Demag0gue)

Jim (TTL Demag0gue) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:13:21 +0000

re: PikminGod - How do you figure? (Just out of curiosity...)

By: PikminGod

PikminGod — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:45:16 +0000

7 total…sweet so that confirms that ferial is not a member of the cavalcade!!

By: Jim (TTL Demag0gue)

Jim (TTL Demag0gue) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:05:38 +0000

re: Sangheilioz – A fair point.

re: lilskii – That’s kind of the way I’ve been imagining their voices and speech patterns, as well, though maybe it’d be more accurate to think of them in terms of a Cortana-like set of speech patterns, since they ARE a more advanced set of AIs than Guilty Spark and Penitent Tangent were.

re: Chanchu Mohan – There are seven total. I believe we’ve been introduced to four so far.

By: Chanchu Mohan

Chanchu Mohan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:30:18 +0000

How many cavalcades are there? i lost track already