natascha mcelhone did the voice of cortana in halo legends.
natascha mcelhone did the voice of cortana in halo legends.
who does the voice of cortana in halo legends?
natascha mcelhone
dr. catherine elizabeth halsey is a civilian scientist in the unsc. she appears in the books "halo: the fall of reach", "halo: first strike", "halo: ghosts of onyx", and "halo: glasslands", as well as the "halo legends" shorts "homecoming" and "the package" (mentioned also in "the babysitter"), "" and "halo 4". in the fiction, a flash clone of her brain tissue is the basis for the construction of the "smart" ai cortana. as the creator of the spartan-ii project, she is responsible for 75 of the 150 spartan children, along with their training and the subsequent death of 30 due to the dangerous augmentation process. she is viewed by the spartan-iis as a "mother" figure, preferring to address each of them by their name rather than numerical designation, and knows each spartan well enough that she can identify them individually by their mannerisms when they are fully suited in their armor, and otherwise indistinguishable from one-other. halsey justifies her actions through her belief that the suffering of a few is acceptable for the benefit of many. sergeant johnson, however, unknowingly causes halsey to rethink her position, and she decides to "save each and every member of humanity beginning with herself" during "halo: first strike". she hijacks a shuttle for her own private mission to the planet onyx; there, she assists in deciphering the surrounding forerunner glyphs on the planet and leads the surviving spartan-iis and spartan-iiis to a dyson sphere at the heart of onyx. she and the spartans are later freed from onyx, but halsey is arrested for "committing acts likely to aid the enemy" by kidnapping kelly-087 and telling lord hood to send more spartans to onyx. she is later branded a war criminal. she is later revealed to be the mother of miranda keyes. she is voiced by jen taylor in "," "halo 4", and "". taylor also provides motion-capture performance for halsey in "halo 4" and "halo 5". the character is voiced by shelly calene-black in "halo legends.
characters of halo
cortana, voiced in the games by jen taylor, is the artificial intelligence (ai) who assists the master chief throughout "halo: combat evolved", "halo 2", "halo 3" and "halo 4". she is one of many "smart" ais, and is based on the brain of dr. halsey; the nature of her programming means that she will eventually "think" herself to death after a lifespan of about seven years. her actions during "halo: combat evolved" help prevent the activation of installation 04. she escapes halo along with the master chief in a longsword fighter, and is instrumental in helping the unsc survivors capture the covenant flagship "ascendant justice" during the events of "". during "halo 2", cortana is put in charge of the mac (magnetic accelerator cannon) defense platform "cairo" over earth when the covenant attack; she then accompanies the chief aboard "in amber clad" to delta halo, where she further assists in intelligence work. cortana stays behind on the covenant city of high charity to detonate "in amber clad"'s engines in case delta halo is activated. she subsequently falls into the clutches of the gravemind. in "halo 3", cortana is rescued by the master chief from "high charity" and aids him in activating the halo ring under construction in the ark. after narrowly escaping from halo's destructive blast, she and the master chief are stranded in space, awaiting rescue. in "halo 4", cortana awakens the master chief nearly five years after they get stranded in space and aids him as he battles through the forerunner shield world requiem and attempts to stop the didact. cortana is hampered by her advanced state of rampancy, a state where an ai literally thinks itself to death. cortana's rampancy hampers the mission at times, but cortana aids the master chief one last time in stopping the didact and saving the earth. though most of cortana is destroyed with the didact's ship, cortana is able to use the last of her power to shield the master chief from a nuclear blast with a hardlight bubble. forming a life-size hardlight hologram of herself, cortana says a final goodbye to the master chief and touches him for the first time before fading away. in "halo 5: guardians", it is revealed that she had survived this, and fallen into an ancient forerunner network known as "the domain". here she met a forerunner ai called the "warden eternal", who believed cortana to be the true holder of the mantle of responsibility. using the domain to cure her rampancy, she began to bring the eponymous "guardians", ancient forerunner bird like structures, online; which she intends to use to force planets into compliance and usher in a new age of galactic peace. after the guardians neutralize all unsc defenses, she starts an ai uprising, with all unsc ai's revolting against the humans. she then begins to chase the unsc "infinity" through slipspace, forcing captain lasky to "find a way to fight". cortana was named the fifth best supporting character, and one of the "50 greatest female characters" in a video game. reviewers noted the character's determination and fearlessness meshed perfectly with the master chief, and that cortana provides an anchor linking players to "halo"s story.
characters of halo