originally posted in:Halo Archive
[quote]Cortana said she up date the firmware in his visor.[/quote]She never referred to his visor.
[quote] How did she manage to make brand new armor without ever taking him out of the cryo-pod? More importantly, why wasn't the battle damage fixed when she "fixed it?"[/quote]It's a combination of two things.
1. His armor was changed via nanomachines
2. 343i has the artistic liscence to change how his armor looks.
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Firmware refers to software. I understand artistic license. Still was a piss poor attempt explain it away. Where has it been said there are nanobots/machines in the Halo universe? If nanobots were indeed used, as I've stated, why wasn't the damage to armor repaired?
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[quote]Firmware refers to software. [/quote]Firmware refers to an inbetween state of software and hardware, hence "firm". It's neither soft or hard. [quote]I understand artistic license. Still was a piss poor attempt explain it away.[/quote]Don't shoot the messenger, you asked, I'm answering. [quote]Where has it been said there are nanobots/machines in the Halo universe?[/quote]Frank O'Conner and the K5 Trilogy. [quote]If nanobots were indeed used, as I've stated, why wasn't the damage to armor repaired?[/quote]As I said, it's a combination of artistic licence and canonical explanation.