Editing Fractures: Firewall

{{Status|Fracture}}
{{Infobox/Event
|name=Fractures: Firewall
|image=[[File:HINF Firewall Icon.png|50px]][[File:HINF - Fractures Firewall banner - With logo.jpg|300px]]
|prev=[[Mindfall]]
|next=[[Site Unseen]]
|start=March 21, 2023 {{C|Week 1}}<br>April 11, 2023 {{C|Week 2}}<br>May 23, 2023 {{C|Week 3}}<br>June 13, 2023 {{C|Week 4}}
|end=March 28, 2023 {{C|Week 1}}<br>April 18, 2023 {{C|Week 2}}<br>May 30, 2023 {{C|Week 3}}<br>June 20, 2023 {{C|Week 4}}
|numtiers=20
|totalcost=20 challenges
|games=''[[Halo Infinite]]''
|gamelabel=Halo Infinite
}}

'''Fractures: Firewall''' is a [[multiplayer]] [[event]] in ''[[Halo Infinite]]'', during [[Season 03: Echoes Within]]. Its content is based on the [[Fractures#Firewall|Firewall]] [[Fractures]] universe.{{Ref/Site|Id=FFLaunch|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/fracture-firewall-event|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Fractures: Firewall Event Launch|D=21|M=3|Y=2023}}

In contrast with previous Fractures, which ran for a total of six weeks each and featured 30-tier Event Passes, Firewall will run for four weeks and it features a 20-tier Event Pass due to the reduced length of Season 03. Firewall's Event Pass rewards are tied to the [[Chimera (armor)|Chimera armor core]].{{Ref/Site|Id=season3launch|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/echoes-within-launch|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Season 3: Echoes Within Launch|D=07|M=3|Y=2023}} 

==Universe and lore==
{{Main|Firewall}}
Whereas other Fractures take place in alternate universes, Firewall is set in the canon ''Halo'' universe and provides a glimpse of events inside [[Created]]-controlled territory in the aftermath of [[Cortana]]'s defeat at [[Installation 07]] in late 2559.

With Cortana gone, the Created found themselves with an uncertain future and began to splinter into various collectives, called assemblies, each with its own idea about the best path forward for [[Artificial intelligence|infolife]], such as making peace with humans or continuing to wage the [[Created uprising]]. Cortana's second-in-command, High Auxiliary [[Sloan]], assumed leadership of one of the larger assemblies and proceeded to enact a contingency plan known as the FIREWALL agendum, which sought to accelerate the merger of organic and digital life through the creation of physical cybernetic vessels that could serve as an avatar for an infomorph's mind: the [[Executor]]s. Sloan undertook an experiment involving a complex simulation that would be used to shape a captive human into a compliant servant, who would retain a measure of individuality but could also be controlled directly by an infomorph if necessary. This human test subject, an unnamed survivor of the [[Fall of Reach]] who also happened to be the discoverer of the [[The Assembly|original Assembly]], was physically and mentally altered into the first Executor, whom Sloan envisioned as the first of many.

The FIREWALL agendum also began designing equipment for the Executors and determining potential applications and protocols. Central to this was [[Chimera (armor)|Chimera armor]], which was a synthesis of [[Forerunner]] [[armiger]] technology and [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor]]. Executors were to be tasked with various combat roles, ranging from policing captive human populations, assassinating their masters' rivals, extracting data from guarded datavaults, assaulting rebel human enclaves, waging war against other assemblies, terminating aberrant Executors, and defending Created territory from human incursions. Most roles would have a corresponding Chimera loadout or accessory to maximize the Executor's effectiveness. It was further intended that Executors would have a limited operational lifespan, at the end of which they would be terminated to make way for new iterations; the more effective Executors would have their [[Mind transfer|essences digitally compiled]] for future Executor generations, but if a particularly valuable one was in danger of falling into hostile hands, it was usually preferable to have it self-destruct.

==Event tiers==
Players can progress through the Event Pass and unlock items by completing any of the ten [[Challenges/Halo Infinite#Fractures: Firewall Challenges|event challenges]] over the two weeks the event is available.
===Tiers 1 to 10===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 60%;"
! style="width: 5%"|Level
! style="width: 20%"|Unlocks
! style="width: 15%"|Images
|- align="center"
|1
|Background - Kindle Probe
|[[File:HINF - Kindle Probe backdrop icon.png|class=blackbg|100px]]
|- align="center"
|2
|Armor emblem - Recursive Composition
|[[File:HINF - Recursive Composition emblem icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|3
|Vehicle coating ([[M12 Warthog]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|4
|Armor coating ([[Chimera (armor)|Chimera]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|5
|Helmet (Chimera) - Merrow
|[[File:HINF - Merrow helmet icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|6
|Vehicle emblem - Recursive Composition
|[[File:HINF - Recursive Composition emblem icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|7
|Vehicle coating ([[M15 Razorback]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|8
|Weapon coating ([[M392 DMR]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|9
|Visor - Violent Darkness
|[[File:HINF - Violent Darkness visor icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|10
|Knee pads (Chimera) - Experiment 21C
|[[File:HINF - Experiment 21C kneepad icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|}

===Tiers 11 to 20===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 60%;"
! style="width: 5%"|Level
! style="width: 20%"|Unlocks
! style="width: 15%"|Images
|- align="center"
|11
|Weapon emblem - Recursive Composition
|[[File:HINF - Recursive Composition emblem icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|12
|Vehicle coating ([[M12R Rocket Warthog]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|13
|Armor coating (Chimera) - Bootstrap Burn
|[[File:HINF - Bootstrap Burn coating icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|14
|Left Shoulder Pad (Chimera) - Karmawall Augmentor
|[[File:HINF Karmawall Augmentor LShoulder Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|15
|Right Shoulder Pad (Chimera) - Karmawall Augmentor
|[[File:HINF Karmawall Augmentor RShoulder Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|16
|Nameplate - Recursive Composition
|[[File:HINF - Recursive Composition emblem icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|17
|Vehicle coating ([[AV-49 Wasp]]) - Burnt Chrome
|[[File:HINF Burnt Chrome Coating Icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|18
|Stance - Set Breakpoint
|[[File:HINF - Set Breakpoint stance icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|19
|Wrist (Chimera) - Tag Plugin
|[[File:HINF - Tag Plugin wrist icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|20
|Chest (Chimera) - Savior Protocol
||[[File:HINF - Savior Protocol chest icon.png|100px]]
|- align="center"
|}

==Gallery==
===Promotional images===
<gallery>
File:HINF PK FracturesFirewall Thumb.png|The official ''Halo'' account's avatar updated with the Operation.
File:HINF_-_Fractures_Firewall_banner_-_Without_logo.jpg|The event key art without logos. 
File:HINF - Event - Firewall - Rewards keyart.png|A piece of keyart featuring the event's rewards.
File:HINF - Event - Firewall - Rewards keyart condensed.png|A condensed piece of the same art.
File:HINF - Executor - Full.jpg|A full-body render of an Executor, clad in Chimera, made for the Fracture's [[Story Shard]].
</gallery>

===Screenshots===
<gallery>
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</gallery>

==Sources==
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