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Cortana Letters Archive 1

Contents 1 Jane from the Ender Saga (by Orson Scott Card) Influence on Cortona 2 GA 3 Question 4 Nefertiti 5 Copyedit 6 cortana dead 7 easter egg on computers in multiplayer 8 Eh?

[edit] Jane from the Ender Saga (by Orson Scott Card) Influence on Cortona

I expected someone on the Cortana wiki page to bring up Jane (Ender's Game) from the Ender novels by Orson Scott Card as being the primary inspiration for her character.

Similarities between the two characters include:

-Both are artificially intelligent beings, accompanying the protagonist wherever he goes.

-Both help out the main character with 'computer' stuff, and give plot information on the 'computer' world which the main character would be unable to provide to us on his own.

-Both are girls, with light, sometimes comical personalities, and covert sex appeal.

On the other hand, there are many differences as well:

-Cortana's mind is cloned from her creator's. Jane's mind came from nothing but the computer network itself.

-Jane is basically the whole computer network. Cortana is a part of the Master Chief's suit, and has to go out into the network to do her hacking.

Also, I only know about Cortana and Jane from a few sources, so I expect someone who has played Halo 3 all the way through, or has read more Orson Scott Card than I have to tell me why I am wrong to think that these two characters are very similar. Zf2645 13:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

No that would be original research, Bungie has never said this was the inspiration behind Cortana so the simmilarities are pretty much redundant to the article. - Caribbean~H.Q. 16:32, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA

Yeah, no major issues here. *tries to find something to critique; fails* I suppose another image would be nice...anything else on the backgrounds of the character too (quotes from game designers, etc.)...but yeah, nice work. Dihydrogen Monoxide ♫ 02:50, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

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If someone has seen some concept art for designing Cortana, like the image of her crying out for Halo 3, but preferably the original concept art when they were designing her, that would be a good image for character development. James086^{Talk | Email} 03:53, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

"...she is instrumental in preventing the Halo installations from being fired, which would have wiped out most life in the galaxy."

Why would the termination of employment of an installation cause most of the life in a galaxy to be destroyed? SharkD (talk) 01:22, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

No, she prevents the halos from activating. As far as I can tell, it's grammatically correct, if awkward. David Fuchs ^(talk) 02:04, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I just took a shot a clarifying that sentence. — TKD::Talk 04:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nefertiti

Is that section on Nefertiti ok? I'm a bit worried it's out of place. I added a similar section to the Nefertiti page, related to cultural impact of the queen herself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.204.151.8 (talk) 15:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyedit

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[edit] cortana dead

ok so i heard that cortana dies in the ending of the halo on legendary i havent finished it on legendary

[edit] easter egg on computers in multiplayer

is there any truth to the rumor of the cortana easter egg oon multiplayer level with a computer if so shouldn't it be mentioned

No, trivia is not notable and its against most guidelines, in a article of this class there shouldn't be any unless its particulary notable. - Caribbean~H.Q. 03:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Eh?

There's no such thing as a "british accent". ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.134.216.146 (talk) 01:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

There are many accents which would be called British by those who aren't familiar with the variety of accents throughout Britain. While some differ greatly they could all be called "British". I doubt that the people at Bungie knew much about the different accents so they were just looking for one that sounded British to them. The commentary that mentions this only says "British" not Devonshire or Lancashire accent so we can't be more specific. James086^{Talk | Email} 01:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)