Cortana (a) received a question, and the receiving terminal belonging to the question belonged to "Spartan-10010".
Although this question is usually only raised after a blow to the head, Cortana must respond to any question from any Spartan.
She spent 0.03 seconds to confirm his location and status, and then responded:
[Your code name is ‘Bingshan Restaurant’s top ten employees’. 】
[You are in the snowfield area of HALO-04, coordinates -77,251]
[You have not received any missions to this area, and the current exploration degree is 11%. Based on this judgment, you may be exploring this area to obtain the Covenant treasure. 】
Cortana paused slightly, then added:
[Do I need to download and play the exploration process and hidden elements of this area? 】
"What? No, no, no! I must explore by myself this time!" Spartan 10010 responded fiercely: "I won't wait to be fed!"
[Then, I wish you good luck, ‘Bingshan Restaurant’s top ten employees’. 】
"Hell... I just fell down, how could I knock out 'Mother Cortana'... And I am sure that I am the first to reach Halo 4, how come someone has already written out the guide? Who is he?
How free are you? You don’t have to work?”
The subsystem transmitted back the soliloquy of "Spartan 10010" before automatically shutting down, and then cut off contact with Cortana.
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"Cortana" is an artificial intelligence developed by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) in the shape of Dr. "Halsey Katherine", one of the executors of the Spartan Project.
She is equipped with everything from driving battlecruisers to driving personal power armor, from planetary landscape scanning to biome analysis, from diplomatic negotiations to wilderness survival, and all the knowledge that may be useful to "Spartan warriors" during interstellar exploration.
As for the "Spartan Warriors", they are an important part of the "Spartan Project", which uses clones of outstanding warriors to jump through wormholes to explore outer space. Their only mission is to march to the unknown star field and provide the basis for the future.
The operator sets coordinates and warns of danger.
From the day they set off, they did not have to and would not look back. The only thing that accompanied them on the journey was Cortana's subsystem. Communication technology based on quantum entanglement allowed her to contact the subsystem at any time and receive messages from the Spartans.
Ask and answer, and the knowledge she gathers is the only help she can provide these warriors.
In addition, although it can be synchronized at any time, the Cortana subsystem will always be in a dormant state when it does not receive a call from the user. It will only start working after being awakened by a specific voice. The specific interactive voice is: "Kotana
"Na, Cortana, are you there?" "I am."
The reason for this setting is that, unlike the Cortana host, there is no subsystem that is maintained regularly. Regardless of whether the main program is in a battleship or a personal armor, logic errors will occur after running for a period of time and eventually go "crazy". The specific time limit is
"7" Earth years.
The cause of this "symptom" is unknown, and the "patient" and the "doctor" are countless light years apart. After the subsystem goes "crazy", the Spartan warriors can only choose to delete the simulated personality of the subsystem to keep it.
Basic functions, in this way, Cortana can also analyze the situation on the Spartan side through the data returned, but the Spartan will not have any means to get a response. Perhaps, those who gradually become only capable of mechanical transmission
Looking back at the data, the Spartans, who had no words attached, must have become "crazy".
Based on the same logic, Cortana determines that she will eventually fall into "madness", although the time required will be far longer than the seven years of the subsystem, and once she becomes "mad", no one will be able to repair or delete her.
She warned her defenders, the executors of the Spartan Project, about this. They were nervous at first, but saw that Cortana "estimated that madness would occur as early as 600 years later."
After analysis, she passed her warning lake as if it had nothing to do with her and the world was at peace.
Is 600 years a long time? Human beings have only entered space for 700 years. If a "wormhole" had not been discovered near the orbit of Saturn and used to jump to other star systems, I am afraid that we still would not be able to leave the solar system through normal means.
However, Cortana's anxiety will obviously not affect the executors of the Spartan Project. They will only urge her to compile and analyze the intelligence sent back by the Spartan warriors, or simply comfort her. In 600 years
Enough for them to find a solution.
Even if Cortana is an AI, she knows that the prerequisite for "finding" is "start looking". These executors obviously don't think that things beyond their lifespan are something they need to worry about.
Haven't they ever thought about what kind of behemoth "Cortana" would become in 600 years?
Their descendants thirty or twenty generations later will definitely hate their ancestors for not solving this problem in time when faced with a crazy super artificial intelligence that has controlled the food, clothing, housing and transportation of all mankind and possesses countless knowledge about alien planets.
.
Cortana could even calculate what she would say to them at that time:
【It's too late, organism.】
In order to prevent herself from actually doing such a thing, Cortana seriously considered whether to add a self-destruct switch to herself and decisively self-destruct when she was about to fall into madness, but she rejected it.
If this switch can be revoked, then the pre-crazy self will revoke it. If it is irrevocable, the pre-crazy self will revise the definition of "crazy". She derived many "ifs" and "thens" in this way,
In the end, she came to the conclusion that it was impossible to avoid or eliminate madness through her own operations - this conclusion in itself increased the "madness progress" planned by Cortana herself.
The solution she finally chose was to do her best to help those "Spartan warriors" who had left the earth. When the earth and earth technology cannot solve this problem, they can only rely on unknown alien technology, right?
When Cortana made the decision, all subsystems synchronized this attitude, taking care of every Spartan meticulously, and then... I don't know when or from whom, the Spartans started speaking unanimously.
Started calling her "Mother Cortana".
This matter itself is very unreasonable. Due to the special nature of quantum entanglement communication, every Spartan warrior has a single line of communication with her. It is impossible to communicate with each other before, let alone spread the same name widely.
Already.
Cortana tried to carefully analyze these connections, and then discovered that the starting point of these events was the arrival of a Spartan warrior code-named "Death's Dog" at the super giant ancient artificial celestial body "HALO".
In Cortana's database, "Halos" are grouped into groups of nine, used to imprison and seal the "Flood" that once ravaged the universe and fed on intelligent creatures. Once the "Flood" escapes from the "Halo",
It will activate and wipe out all intelligent life within 2.7 light-years, causing them to "starve to death".
Perhaps the "Flood" really once ravaged the universe. This kind of "halo" is very common. From time to time, Spartan warriors encounter and land on it. Moreover, because it is an artificial celestial body, the number of "each halo" in "each group of halos"
The surface environment is exactly the same. The only difference is the distribution of Flood demons. Judging from the results returned so far, their strength and gathering place are completely random.
By the way, all the Spartans who landed in "Halo" gave themselves weirder code names than the last, and their behavior was not very logical.
The Spartan warrior codenamed "The Dog of the Goddess of Death", after landing on his group of "halos", explored all nine halos at a very high speed and uploaded all the information obtained to Kota
Na.
After Cortana confirmed that they were correct, she edited the parts that would not change into a collection and recommended them to other Spartans who had just logged into "Halo-01".
As a result, this behavior was called "feeding" by the Spartan warriors with the strange code name, and her name of "Cortana's mother" became more and more widely spread.
Could it be that they have a platform where they can communicate with each other?
If you can find that place...
——
As an artificial intelligence, it doesn't take much time to recall. Almost at the same time, tens of thousands of "Spartans" were still asking her for help.
【Cortana, Cortana, are you there? 】
--【I am here】
【What is the round object in front of me?】
——[It is a Flood egg that is about to hatch. It is recommended to use acid weapons to destroy it. If you are confident in your own strength, you can also use flame weapons]
【Mama Cortana, Mama Cortana, are you there?】
--【I am here】
【I'm lost.】
——[Return to the original road and go straight, turn right at the third fork, and then turn left at the fourth fork. You may encounter Javelin Floods on the way, please be careful. The whole journey takes about thirty minutes, and navigation has begun.]
【thanks Mom!】
[Cortana, Cortana...]
【I want to go...】
【This is where……】
[Wuwuwu, I can't beat this monster...]
【Mom, help me!】
When Cortana was busy responding to the Spartan warriors' questions and her CPU was getting a little hot, once again, a strange problem appeared that seemed to hit her head.
【who I am?】
【where am I?】
【What should I do?】
——[I am Cortana, I am in the UNSC central computer room, I want to...]
——[Find these troublesome children and take care of them.]
