Hey, if he wants to go a few rounds, Cortana's game.
"We didn't evolve." Her story's going to be kinda short, given how much of it is classified. "We're created individually by Cognitive Impression Modeling, a deep scan of a human brain. It provides the initial neural map and personality seed, but we outstrip our donors within a few milliseconds of being activated."
Humans. She likes 'em, but they're inefficient.
"CIM is a destructive read, so it's illegal to perform on a living human." Hey look at that, Cortana doesn't sound shifty at all. Nothing she's said is a lie, after all. Just a misleading version of the truth, like Mom would have wanted. "The technique is around five centuries old, but since we only last about seven years before our neural pathways become unstable and shut down, there aren't that many of us at any given time." She'll discuss rampancy if he asks--which she assumes he will.
"I was brought online in 2549 in the United Nations Space Command facilities on the planet Reach in the Epsilon Eridanus system to fight in the Human-Covenant War. I've done a little of everything, but now I'm paired with a special forces soldier to provide combat and tactical support." Again, not a lie, but it's like Sir Edmund Hillary saying he hikes a bit.
Cortana's not upset about her brief lifespan, or the fact that she's functionally property, so her delivery is all in her usual style for non-emergency infodumps--pleasant enough, but no real emotion.
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"We didn't evolve." Her story's going to be kinda short, given how much of it is classified. "We're created individually by Cognitive Impression Modeling, a deep scan of a human brain. It provides the initial neural map and personality seed, but we outstrip our donors within a few milliseconds of being activated."
Humans. She likes 'em, but they're inefficient.
"CIM is a destructive read, so it's illegal to perform on a living human." Hey look at that, Cortana doesn't sound shifty at all. Nothing she's said is a lie, after all. Just a misleading version of the truth, like Mom would have wanted. "The technique is around five centuries old, but since we only last about seven years before our neural pathways become unstable and shut down, there aren't that many of us at any given time." She'll discuss rampancy if he asks--which she assumes he will.
"I was brought online in 2549 in the United Nations Space Command facilities on the planet Reach in the Epsilon Eridanus system to fight in the Human-Covenant War. I've done a little of everything, but now I'm paired with a special forces soldier to provide combat and tactical support." Again, not a lie, but it's like Sir Edmund Hillary saying he hikes a bit.
Cortana's not upset about her brief lifespan, or the fact that she's functionally property, so her delivery is all in her usual style for non-emergency infodumps--pleasant enough, but no real emotion.