Editing Discoverer (data pads)

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{{Quote|...now i know why i was digging deep in one of those places where its dirt all the way down and just when i thought i hit bottom i hit the top of something else and since then ive had less than a solid fifteen minutes of sleep at a go and there are times i wonder if ive joined the guys in tinfoil hats and now i know i have...|One of the discoverer's messages.}}
This '''unidentified individual''' was a [[human]] who discovered and studied the covert activities of the [[The Assembly|Assembly]], a secretive collective of [[artificial intelligence]]s who manipulated the destiny of the human species for hundreds of years. He attempted to communicate his findings to others through [[data pads|a series]] of [[data pad]]s on [[Reach]].<ref name="data">'''Halo: Reach''', ''Data pads''</ref>

==Biography==
===Finding the Assembly===
His messages suggests that he had been after the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s secrets for some time and retrieved the information about the Assembly by hacking into ONI networks, spending significant amounts of time with this endeavor before he arrived on [[Reach]] aboard a refugee transport. His findings, along with his inexorable pursuit after them, appear to have taken their toll on his sanity; many of his messages communicate a highly neurotic tone and he states that he has barely been able to sleep since he started his investigation. According to his messages, he used data pads to pass on his findings because he was too afraid to communicate the information to anyone directly; he also took great care to cover his own tracks.{{Ref/Reuse|data}}

The data pads contain a number of sessions of the Assembly from over the course of several centuries, accompanied by the discoverer's distraught comments at the group's behavior: while he acknowledged that the AIs were seemingly benevolent, he was upset over their manipulation of humanity in secret. He stated in his messages that he had attempted communicating with the Assembly but failed to receive a response. His data pads, scattered in different locations around Reach, would later be discovered by [[SPARTAN-B312]] of [[NOBLE Team]].{{Ref/Reuse|data}}

===The Created===
He managed to survived the Fall of Reach and the Human-Covenant War, but his mind was severely damaged by the discovering of the Assembly and their actions. By 2559, the Discoverer was contacted by the High Auxiliary [[Sloan]] and the [[Created]], answering his pleas for help and answers. After [[Cortana]]'s sacrifice on [[Installation 07]], Sloan put into motion the FIREWALL contingency, a living simulation meant to leverage intimate knowledge of Forerunner armiger technology and Mjolnir armor schematics to accelerate the exploration and development of cybernetic essence vessels known as [[Executor]]s, with him becoming the first Executor.{{Ref/Site|Id=Precipice|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/story-shard-precipice|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Story Shard: Precipice|D=21|M=3|Y=2023}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Reach]]''
**''[[Data pads]]'' {{Fm}}
*[[Story Shard]]: ''[[Precipice]]''

==Sources==
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