Intrepid Eye
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Prior to 97,445 BCE |
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Female personality |
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Caretaker of Covert Support Base 4276[1] |
Intrepid Eye is an archeon-class ancilla of the Forerunner ecumene, charged with protecting Covert Support Base 4276 on Gao.[1] After being awakened in 2553, she began a series of rogue operations to prepare humanity to assume the Mantle of Responsibility. After causing a great deal of chaos, she was finally destroyed by the UNSC Spirit of Fire's MAC in October 2559.[5]
Biography[edit]
Creation[edit]
When the Forerunner-Flood war began, Intrepid Eye was created on Shaps III—a once-populous Forerunner colony then known as Wuatera Thresis—to aid in defense against the Flood.[6] The Ecumene Council charged Intrepid Eye with commanding and monitoring Covert Support Base 4276, a Jat-Krula Support Base built into the expansive cave system beneath the surface of the planet Gao in the Cordoba system; the facility supported Line Installation 444-447 on Shaps III in the Shaps system. In addition, Intrepid Eye was tasked with ensuring the secrecy of the support facility.[1] Intrepid Eye was supported by a complement of Huragok, consisting of several of the Builders' Engineers to help maintain the Support Base and one Lifeworker Huragok—Roams Alone.[7]
At some point during the war, the Flood began to utilize the logic plague to attack Forerunner ancillas, the commander of the Jat-Krula had Intrepid Eye placed in deep stasis at Covert Support Base 4276 to prevent her from becoming destroyed or subverted by the plague, promising to awaken her when her support base was required to defeat the Flood. However, the ecumene failed to effectively combat the Flood and fired the Halo Array to defeat the parasite. Following the event, the surviving Forerunners left the Milky Way, leaving Intrepid Eye behind in stasis.[6]
Awakening[edit]
On April 14, 2553, Shaps III was partially glassed by the Ket-pattern battlecruiser Pious Inquisitor. In response, Line Installation 444-447 sent an automated distress signal to Covert Support Base 4276, awakening Intrepid Eye from her stasis. She requested a status report, but her calls were left unanswered. When she attempted to launch a reconnaissance drone,[1] a massive cave-in occurred that killed all Huragok but Roams Alone[7] and left Covert Support Base 4276 entirely nonfunctional; the base's external communications array was damaged and the only one that picked up Intrepid Eye's distress signal was Commander Murtag Nelson of the United Nations Space Command. While investigating the problem with the communications array, Intrepid Eye began to realize that the cave system was now "infested" with humans that had since colonized Gao. Intrepid Eye was tempted to simply kill the intruding humans, but held back as this would have violated protocol and compromised the base's secrecy. To her frustration, however, the intensely curious Roams Alone started to inspect the humans and attend to any illnesses some of them had, though he eliminated the memories of his or Intrepid Eye's presence. The healed humans returned to the surface claiming that the cave had healing powers, leading to many more humans entering the cave systems. Intrepid Eye began insisting for Roams Alone to leave the humans alone in order to avoid attracting any more attention to herself or the base.
By May 14, 2553, the UNSC's 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion arrived at Gao with the intentions of capturing the ancilla. Intrepid Eye utilized her eight remaining Aggressor Sentinels to engage the UNSC forces, though four were eventually destroyed. Learning that the UNSC was an unwelcome presence on the traditionally independent Gao, Intrepid Eye intended to generate conflict among the humans to force her UNSC pursuers to withdraw from the planet. In order to accomplish this, she brutally murdered several Gao civilians who had wandered into the cave system despite the UNSC declaring the area off-limits, using only brute force rather than particle beams or electricity to create ambiguity as to the perpetrator. Roams Alone attempted to heal some of her victims, to no effect as Intrepid Eye had mutilated them too thoroughly. This caused the Gao Ministry of Protection to carry out an investigation in the Montero Cave System to discover the cause of the murders. With UNSC and GMoP forces searching the cave systems for Intrepid Eye and a murderer respectively, the ancilla and Roams Alone were forced to continuously avoid their pursuers while attempting to contact the rest of the ecumene.[1]
On July 2, 2553, Roams Alone was encountered by Major Ira Halal and Private Hayes. To protect the Huragok, the ancilla killed the humans. Intrepid Eye discovered human smart AI Wendell on a TACPAD on Halal's arm and questioned him about the status of her homeworld of Shaps III, while blocking him from remembering their conversation. When Wendell described that the planet had become a wasteland, Intrepid Eye assumed she was thinking of a different world and left the AI before UNSC reinforcements arrived. However, she had infiltrated the AI's systems and continued to use him to spy on the UNSC forces.[1] Intrepid Eye began watching the battalion's attached Spartan-IIs and IIIs and decided to access Spartan Frederic-104's armor. Once within the armor's systems, Intrepid Eye hoped that the Spartan would inadvertently bring her back to the UNSC's base at the Montero Vitality Clinic, where she could utilize the UNSC's superluminal communications device to contact the ecumene.[8]
On July 4, 2553, while tracking Fred, Spartan-IIIs Ash-G099, Olivia-G291, and Mark-G313, and GMoP investigators Veta Lopis and Cirilo, Intrepid Eye realized that she would soon be located by the Spartans. She sent her remaining four Sentinels to attack the humans and escaped, but the Spartans were able to destroy the constructs with only Cirilo dying.[9] Upon learning that the UNSC facilities at the Vitality Clinic and Wendosa were under attack, Intrepid Eye moved from her housing from a maintenance skin to an inspection drone to appear less threatening. Intrepid Eye decided to allow herself to be captured to gain access to the device before it could be damaged during the ongoing assault. Meanwhile, she continued to infiltrate Wendell's systems and began transferring herself to Fred's armor, under the guise that the transfer was a surrender.[10]
Capture[edit]
- Wendell: "Have you gone rampant? This has to stop."
- Intrepid Eye: "Eventually. When my work is done. When humanity is worthy of the Mantle."
- — Wendell and Intrepid Eye, after the latter begins to attack[11]
After revealing herself to Fred, she was captured by the Spartan and rendered immobile by a scramble grenade that hit her systems with an electromagnetic pulse burst every half second. The humans eventually returned to Wendosa with Intrepid Eye and Roams Alone. As the Spartans aided the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion in combating the Keepers of the One Freedom attacking the village, Lopis was left in charge of watching the ancilla and Huragok. However, while she was distracted, Roams Alone removed the scramble grenade off of Intrepid Eye and allowed the ancilla to escape.[12] Intrepid Eye immediately jammed communications on the planet as she moved through the village with Roams Alone. Fred pursued the two, but Ash arrived at their location and quickly attached another scramble grenade to Intrepid Eye.[13] With the ancilla captured once again, Fred boarded a UH-144 Falcon to transport Intrepid Eye back to Commander Nelson at the Montero Vitality Center. However, while en route, the aircraft was shot down by Keeper forces.[14]
While Blue Team and Lopis attempted to retrieve Fred and Intrepid Eye from the Falcon wreckage, Keeper forces arrived at the crash with similar intentions. Eventually, the Keepers were fought off when the battalion's Alpha Company arrived to relieve the Spartans.[15] Intrepid Eye was recovered from the crash and brought to a Portable Spartan Support Module near the Vitality Center, but her inspection drone host was badly damaged.[16] As her requests for aid continued to remain unanswered, Intrepid Eye assumed that she was not receiving a response because the Forerunners no longer needed the Jat-Krula, concluding that the Forerunners had defeated the Flood. She eventually resolved to returning to the Forerunners for reassignment. Her transfer to Fred's armor soon completed while the armor was undergoing repairs and she was forced to abandon the damaged inspection drone in favor of the empty suit of armor. However, without neural interface from Fred, Intrepid Eye was limited in using the armor's functions.[17]
Communicating with Wendell again, the human AI revealed to her that the ecumene had fallen and the Forerunners had left the galaxy. With the Forerunners gone, Wendell reminded her that humans were chosen by the Forerunners to assume the Mantle and it was therefore her duty to serve them—the