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'''Genemender Folder of Fortune''' was a [[Forerunner]] [[Lifeworker]] who lived during the [[Forerunner-Flood war]]. At the end of the war they were [[Composer|composed]] and their mind was used to create a {{Class|Facilitator|ancilla}}, [[Adjutant Vigilance]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=Gyre|Halo: Ghosts of the Gyre}}

==Biography==
He was stationed on [[Installation 07]], where he maintained a small station adjoining a [[human]] village on a jungle plateau. Following the [[Faber|Master Builder]]'s complete takeover of operations on the ring and the escalation of [[Battle for Gyre 11|the civil conflict]] between [[Builder Security]] and the other rates, Genemender camouflaged his station, with a system similar to a [[dazzler]] or [[baffler]]. He also received orders, evidently from the [[Librarian]], with gathering all of the [[human]]s from [[Earth|Erde-Tyrene]] within his area of jurisdiction and [[Mind transfer|archiving their personalities]] so that their genetically imprinted [[Ancestors|ancient human]] essences could not be acquired by the [[Faber|Master Builder]], killing their physical bodies in the process. He also did the same for himself to avoid having to serve the Master Builder, becoming an [[ancilla]] stored within a [[monitor]] shell.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HP19|Pri|Chapter=19}} 

In order to refresh the archived personalities and keep company for the [[Gigantopithecus|ape]] [[Mara]], Genemender occasionally allowed the humans to appear as [[hard light]] projections like himself and simulate physical interaction. Among these humans was a small group of [[Denisovan]]s, including [[Kirimt]]. To maintain an illusion of safety for any humans he might find, Genemender continued to appear as a hard light projection of his biological form and did not reveal his true state to them. While the human village surrounding his station gradually deteriorated, Genemender had the wooden structures projected in the appearance of their pristine form via hard light as well.{{Ref/Reuse|HP19}}

After Genemender encountered [[Chakas]], [[Vinnevra]] and [[Gamelpar]], he took them in the compound and fed them. The following night, Genemender took Chakas to his station, hidden within the village, and was forced to reveal the truth about the humans in his compound as well as the history of the events on the ring. He then proceeded to extract Chakas' essence in accordance with his instructions, but the human attacked him, only to find that the Lifeworker was also an incorporeal projection. Genemender revealed that as an ancilla, he was bound by protocol and could not force Chakas to relinquish his physical form, only strongly encouraging him to do so. Chakas adamantly refused and returned outside, where he discovered that Gamelpar was dying. Genemender stated that they should salvage [[Gamelpar's old spirit|the ancient warrior imprint]] the old man carried, but Gamelpar adamantly refused, instead wanting to die with dignity.{{Ref/Reuse|HP19}}

Shortly afterward, the compound experienced a power outage and the Genemender ancilla powered down along with the other archived personalities and monitors.{{Ref/Reuse|HP19}}

Genemender became the [[submonitor]] Adjutant Vigilance who was still active in [[2560]] during the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]].{{Ref/Reuse|Gyre}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Primordium]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of the Gyre]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:Forerunner characters]]
[[Category:Lifeworkers]]