Iratus
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- "For Doisac! For the three moons!"
- — A personality shard of Iratus during a War Games simulation.[3]
Iratus is an artificial intelligence construct, based on a Jiralhanae donor and aligned with the Banished.[4][5] He is the personal smart AI of the Banished Spartan Ilsa Zane, who captured him during a brutal raid on the UNSC's Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science.[6]
Biography[edit]
Origins[edit]
- "That project was a walled garden. No one on the outside should have even known about it."
- — LV106, regarding the Iratus project.[4][5]
Iratus was created by the Lux Voluspa company as part of an effort to research artificial intelligence creation utilizing brain donors from species aside from humanity. This included Jiralhanae donors, a decision considered by researchers "LV038" and "LV106" as something that was "always going to draw some attention eventually."[4][5] The Lux Voluspa facility was ultimately breached by a cyberwarfare attack, with an intrusion package deployed using internally-sourced encryption and displaying a Jiralhanae retrieval signature. The originators of this attack were later indicated to be the Banished, who were able to steal the Iratus AI matrix from the facility.[1]
At some point after the fall of Cortana in December 2559, High Auxiliary Sloan of the Created eventually discovered the existence of Iratus while it was under Banished possession, contemplating if he should be considered friend or foe. He would devote resources to keeping watch over the AI.[7]
Attack on Nysa[edit]
- "The entire history of the Spartan program. Your weaknesses. Your failures. And now...all of it...belongs to the Banished!"
- — Iratus, after revealing his control over the secret ONI facility.[8]
After Cortana's defeat at Zeta Halo, Iratus was utilized to oversee Banished shipbreaking operations on Camber.[9] When Spartan-IVs Sigrid Eklund and Hieu Dinh were deployed to the facility on January 24, 2560,[10] they were able to trap Iratus inside of Dinh's neural interface, compromising his armor and cognitive functions. Eklund was ultimately able to commandeer an Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom back to the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science on the hidden world of Nysa to seek aid from friendly forces,[4][5] arriving on February 15.[10]
Upon arrival at the Academy, Spartan Laurette Agryna took the injured Dinh indoors where Iratus aggressively introduced himself. Agryna found schematics of the Banished facility on Camber through him and uploaded it to the Academy's combat simulation. In an attempt to irritate Iratus to leave Dinh's armor and go after another Spartan instead, on February 18[10] she ordered her Spartans to hit the simulations in hopes that Iratus would attempt to enter the neural interface of one of these Spartans.[11] While Spartan Dinh was unconscious, Iratus forced him to relive several painful memories in an attempt to break him.[2] However, the plan was ultimately a success and Iratus eventually left Dinh for another Spartan, only to be contained within one of the academy's servers along with a Banished archive.[11][10]
At Commander Agryna's request, an instance of Iratus was isolated from the rest of the AI and was put into quarantine before being replicated and distributed to qualified Spartan-IVs as a personal AI to test within War Games.[5] On occasion, Iratus encouraged Spartans to join the Banished.[12] Throughout this time, Iratus' presence in the academy's network caused multiple glitches and issues which were noticed by UNSC cybersecurity teams in the facility, with techs setting to work on alleviating the issues on February 21.[10]
On February 29, 2560,[10][13] Iratus managed to release himself from the academy's servers and, using Dinh's memories, was able to learn about a hidden Office of Naval Intelligence Section Three facility buried beneath the academy.[8] After multiple intrusion attempts,[14] he finally managed to take control of the ONI facility, including a suit of abandoned Mirage IIC armor left inside a Brokkr Armor Mechanism.[8] Spartan Dinh, hearing strange noises coming from the door leading to the ONI facility, enlisted the help of a Spartan recruit, "Rook", to investigate.&