Halo Fan Figures Out How Many Days Master Chief and Cortana Were Together
The team of Master Chief and Cortana is almost as iconic as Xbox's flagship first-person shooter franchise Halo, with the duo being paired together during the first entry in the series, and many games since. What helped make the dynamic unique was that for two decades Master Chief was a faceless character, with him never removing his mask in front of the camera, which led to Cortana often being the emotional one despite being an AI. This all changed with the recently released Halo TV series which finally unmasked Master Chief. This article contains spoilers for numerous Halo games and related media.
Cortana has been part of many entries in the Halo franchise, including Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 4, and Halo 5, as well as novels and the animated series Halo Legends. Despite the two being such an iconic duo in gaming, it turns out that the pair spent almost no time together throughout the Halo timeline, with them being partnered for mere weeks.
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In a Reddit post, a user crunched some numbers and figured out exactly just how much time Master Chief and Cortana have spent together throughout the timeline of the Halo franchise. It turns out, Master Chief and Cortana spent just 49 days together over the course of just under five years that the first four mainline Halo games play out.
Prior to the events of the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved, Master Chief and Cortana first meet each other during the Halo: The Fall of Reach novel on August 29, 2552. Their first encounter saw Cortana helping Master Chief during the exercises to test the MJOLNIR battle armor before the Covenant attacks the planet Reach. Following these events, Master Chief enters cryosleep until the events of
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