: What if the AIs succeeded and had a degree of contempt for us. They needn't
: necessarily abuse us. They'd just be indifferent to our needs and our
: lives would be pretty miserable under the benevolent, swaddling, Mantle.

: Would Cortana like that?

: She used to be spunky and likeable. She didn't think of herself an a
: monomaniac. I thought that she respected us and was on-our-side. And I
: think she likes us because we are also plucky, and resourceful, and
: striving.

: Had the Chief been bottled up in that ball and there had been a few decades
: of AI dominion... maybe she would have changed her mind on the whole
: Mantle thing.

: Maybe THAT would have given her a chance to redeem herself.

: OTOH, the Chief was freed.

: What happens to Cortana the protagonist character if she suffers level after
: level of defeat at the hands of the Chief? Doesn't she just become an
: ineffectual joke. "I'll get you next time. See if I don't!"

: Maybe it would be better if she won in Halo 6.

: What do you think?

As much as some people want the Created storyline to go away as soon as possible, I don't see any way of wrapping it up satisfactorily in Halo 6, especially since that would probably cheat us of the best part of the post-Halo 5 storyline, aka a world in which the UNSC is no longer top dog once more and with the main Covenant remnants gone, a bunch of other potential enemy factions.