It could be dull for an AI to watch a human methodically emptying magazines into a target, but Cortana spreads her awareness through the systems in the range, minutely monitoring his posture, the time between trigger squeezes, the spread of rounds landing, all the factors small and large that contribute to combat effectiveness.
Conclusion: He's good. Not Spartan good, but no one is Spartan good, and she only holds that against people she doesn't like.
That keeps her busy for a few minutes, but 76 shows no signs of slowing down. As the boredom sets in--probably her second most dangerous emotion, after anger--Cortana considers and fortunately for his blood pressure, rejects editing the code in his visor. He would probably object to her fiddling with it, despite the fact anyone would be lucky to have her upgrading their systems. Maybe after they've known each other longer. (Or when they're in a firefight and usefulness outweighs social niceties, whichever.)
Well, better get started on the "knowing each other" part. Retasking some of the range's holoemitters from generating targets to generating her, Cortana pops her hologram into existence. "Wrists sore yet?"
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Conclusion: He's good. Not Spartan good, but no one is Spartan good, and she only holds that against people she doesn't like.
That keeps her busy for a few minutes, but 76 shows no signs of slowing down. As the boredom sets in--probably her second most dangerous emotion, after anger--Cortana considers and fortunately for his blood pressure, rejects editing the code in his visor. He would probably object to her fiddling with it, despite the fact anyone would be lucky to have her upgrading their systems. Maybe after they've known each other longer. (Or when they're in a firefight and usefulness outweighs social niceties, whichever.)
Well, better get started on the "knowing each other" part. Retasking some of the range's holoemitters from generating targets to generating her, Cortana pops her hologram into existence. "Wrists sore yet?"