Will Cortana come back in Halo 5?

 Will Cortana come back in Halo 5?

Or as it should properly be called;

 Should Cortana come back in Halo 5 and why?

Which one of us is the machine?

 For all the hate Halo 4 got it was a damn fine game. People didn't like it because it wasn't the glory that is its predecessor: Halo 3. Its like how people say Portal 2 was never as good as the original Portal, you can't improve on perfection but you can still try your best, and Halo 4 performed well. 

It offered us a deeper insight into the relationship between Chief and Cortana, and don't try to deny there is one, and threw in a few questions to ask ourselves as the player. So my question is this; Should Cortana return in Halo 5's storyline, and why? Putting all sobbing and heartbroken feelings aside, I'm going to have to say no. We as fans desperately want Chief and his half-naked blue hologram sort-of-girlfriend to share a touching reunion, and the prospect of a storyline depicting Chief's frantic struggle to bring back his only true friend would be widely accepted into the arms of the community, but it would leave Halo 4 entirely redundant. What would be the purpose of Chief discovering his humanity at the loss of his friend be if his friend just popped right back all like "Hi looks like I am the machine now lets bang because its the future". No. We don't want that. 

Cortana's loss inspired players to ask question (after a few hours of crying and rocking back and forth) the morality and humanity of Master Chief. Viewing our once-silent and badass protagonist become totally devastated at her loss brings us closer to him, he becomes more human. Despite all his skills and training, he can't always save the day. 

Any story arc about reviving Cortana or booting up another version of her would devalue the things we learnt from seeing Chief's moment of weakness, we don't want him to just become a faceless killing machine again. Her death also acts as a plot device, preventing the future timeline of the games becoming repetitive. Destroying a safe and dependable part of the story throws the player in the dark, its like starting all over again. People have speculated that since Chief is carrying Cortana's AI chip in the Halo 5 trailer, he must be trying to save her. I'd say no, Chief wouldn't want a copy or a different version of his friend, he'd want the real deal. I for one would get pretty angry if they had some big Forerunner machine that could bring AI back, it'd seem cheap and I've already talked about how it makes Halo 4 redundant. You have to draw the line between what you want from a fanboy perspective, and what would make a good game and progress the story. The Reclaimer trilogy is meant to be about Chief discovering his humanity; that he is not a machine. 

So in conclusion, I want Cortana back. I really really do, she gave Chief a motive to look at himself and question his placement and role. But I also don't think it will benefit the game or future games, I'll be incredibly surprised if Chief does anything to reclaim her. What do you think? "Screw this, I want to stare at some blue butt while she scans things", or something like that? Leave me a comment saying why you think Cortana should or should not return for Halo 5.