Halo Corrects A Cortana Line That Made No Sense In Combat Evolved

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Warning! SPOILERS for Halo, episode 1

Thanks to the new live-action Halo series, a confusing Cortana line from the very first game now makes a lot more sense with a new context. While the new Paramount+ series begins just before the introduction of the Halo rings which become critical to deciding the victors of the Human-Covenant War, Master Chief discovers an artifact that may be the key to humanity finding the rings before the alien forces of the Covenant. Along the way, the series references Halo: Combat Evolved, providing new context as a means to correct a line from Master Chief's AI companion which was so strange it became a popular meme.

In Halo episode 1, the colony world of Madrigal is attacked by the Covenant. Outgunned and ill-equipped for the brutality of the Sangheili warriors commonly known as Elites, the colonists are slaughtered. However, the UNSC eventually arrives to dispatch Silver Team, a squad of SPARTAN super-soldiers led by Master Chief John-117 (Pablo Schreiber). Thanks to their efforts, the Covenant forces were terminated with the colony's sole survivor being Kwan Ha (Yerin Ha), the daughter of an insurrectionist leader. While that eventually comes with its own complications, Silver Team soon learns that attacking the colony was not the Elites' primary directive on Madrigal.

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Investigating near the Covenant's dropship (known as a Phantom), John-117 enters a cave with his fellow SPARTAN Kai-125. Upon their discovery that the natural caves give way to a more artificial space with a Covenant dig site, Kai-125 reports the same line spoken by the AI Cortana in the first Halo game: "Cave network does not appear to be a natural formation." While