Editing Iratus

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{{Quote|For Doisac! For the three moons!|A personality shard of Iratus during a [[War Games]] simulation.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi|Hi|[[Personal AI]] dialogue}}}}
'''Iratus''' is an [[artificial intelligence]] construct, based on a [[Jiralhanae]] donor and aligned with the [[Banished]].{{Ref/Site|Id=S2StoryHub|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/halo-infinite|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite|D=06|M=05|Y=2022|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel|Detail=Defunct page; available on linked archive only}}{{Ref/Site|Id=S2Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/halo-infinite-lone-wolves-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Lone Wolves Intel|D=03|M=11|Y=2022|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}} He is the personal [[smart AI]] of the Banished [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Ilsa Zane]], who captured him during a [[Battle of Nysa|brutal raid]] on the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]'s [[Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=BFTA2|Halo: Battle for the Academy - Part 2}}

==Biography==
===Origins===
{{Quote|That project was a walled garden. No one on the outside should have even known about it.|LV106, regarding the Iratus project.{{Ref/Reuse|S2StoryHub}}{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}}}}
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 [[human]]ity. This included [[Jiralhanae]] donors, a decision considered by researchers "LV038" and "LV106" as something that was "''always going to draw some attention eventually''."{{Ref/Reuse|S2StoryHub}}{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}} 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.{{Ref/Reuse|LuxVoluspa}} 

At some point after [[Battle for Zeta Halo|the fall]] of [[Cortana]] in [[2559#December|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.{{Ref/Site|Id=precipice|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/story-shard-precipice|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Story Shard: Precipice|D=15|M=04|Y=2023}}

===Attack on Nysa===
{{Quote|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.{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}}}}
After [[Cortana]]'s defeat at [[Zeta Halo]], Iratus was utilized to oversee Banished shipbreaking operations on [[Camber]].{{Ref/Twitter|Id=IratusFF|Halo|1646899697448017922|Halo|Quote=Uniquely created using a Jiralhanae brain donor, Iratus oversaw Banished shipbreaking operations on Camber where Spartan Dinh would trap the AI in his neural interface while Spartan Eklund hijacked a Phantom to escape to the Avery J. Johnson Academy.|D=15|M=04|Y=2023}} When [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IV]]s [[Sigrid Eklund]] and [[Hieu Dinh]] were deployed to the facility on [[2560#January|January 24, 2560]],{{Ref/Reuse|CFFalcFic}} 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,{{Ref/Reuse|S2StoryHub}}{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}} arriving on [[2560#February|February 15]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CFFalcFic|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-falcon-fiction-flight|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Falcon Fiction Flight|D=06|M=08|Y=2025}}

[[File:HINF DinhOnTable.png|thumb|left|250px|Hieu Dinh unconscious while under the effects of Iratus.]]
Upon arrival at the Academy, Spartan [[Laurette Agryna]] took the injured Dinh indoors where Iratus aggressively introduced himself. Agryna found schematics of the Banished [[Breaker|facility]] on Camber through him and uploaded it to the Academy's [[War Games|combat simulation]]. In an attempt to irritate Iratus to leave Dinh's armor and go after another Spartan instead, on February 18{{Ref/Reuse|CFFalcFic}} she ordered her Spartans to hit the simulations in hopes that Iratus would attempt to enter the neural interface of one of these Spartans.{{Ref/Game|id=HIInter|HI|Interference}} While Spartan Dinh was unconscious, Iratus forced him to relive several painful memories in an attempt to break him.{{Ref/Game|Id=EM|HI|Mindfall|Detail=Enemy Mind cinematic}} 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.{{Ref/Reuse|HIInter}}{{Ref/Reuse|CFFalcFic}}
[[File:HINF - Iratus Unbound.png|250px|thumb|right|Iratus taking control of a suit of Mirage IIC armor.]]
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.{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}} On occasion, Iratus encouraged Spartans to join the Banished.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi2|Hi|[[Personal AI]] dialogue|Quote=You should take your talents to the Banished!|Quotee=Iratus}} 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.{{Ref/Reuse|CFFalcFic}}

On [[2560#February|February 29, 2560]],{{Ref/Reuse|CFFalcFic}}{{Ref/Site|Id=CFTomes|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-tasty-tomes|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Tasty Tomes|D=24|M=03|Y=2025}} 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]] [[ONI Section Three|Section Three]] facility buried beneath the academy.{{Ref/Game|Id=Unbound|HI|Site Unseen|Detail=Unbound cinematic}} After multiple intrusion attempts,{{Ref/Site|Id=S3Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/echoes-within-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Echoes Within Intel|D=14|M=05|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}} he finally managed to take control of the ONI facility, including a suit of abandoned [[MIRAGE-class Mjolnir|Mirage IIC]] armor left inside a [[Brokkr Armor Mechanism]].{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}} Spartan Dinh, hearing strange noises coming from the door leading to the ONI facility, enlisted the help of a Spartan recruit, "[[Rook]]", to investigate.{{Ref/Game|Id=Vault|HI|Site Unseen|Detail=Vault Lines cinematic}} Upon their arrival at the laboratory where the Mirage IIC armor was located, Iratus revealed that he had broken containment and claimed that all of the [[Spartan]]s' secrets now belonged to the Banished.{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}} Following this, Iratus began to infect the armor and neural interfaces of the academy's Spartan trainees, taunting them by projecting [[Holography|holograms]] of his face on their faceplates.{{Ref/Site|Id=S4Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/infection-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Infection Intel|D=29|M=06|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}}

Iratus jammed the communications devices of Dinh and Rook as he began to spread throughout the rest of the academy's local network, bypassing ONI's firewalls. To counter, UNSC techs scrubbed local servers and filled them with zetabytes of randomly-generated data, though this was a temporary measure that could not hold out forever, as Iratus - now unleashed for the first time - found himself able to easily break through all of the encryption that he was faced against. While sifting through ONI's files, he archived a number of files relevant to the history of the [[Spartan]]s; [[Operation: PROMETHEUS|PROMETHEUS]], [[Project ASTER|Aster]], [[ORION Project|ORION]], [[Project MELAENO|MELAENO]], [[Project YGGDRASIL|YGGDRASIL]], [[Project JAVELIN|JAVELIN]], and [[STOLEN GAUNTLET]]. Iratus' end goal was ultimately to call the Banished to his aid and join them, and he hoped that by acquiring such a swath of classified intelligence, he could pursuade a Banished commander that it might be worth deploying forces against such a highly-fortified facility. In the mean time, now with near-total control of the academy, he began spreading his influence to the academy's outlying installations - predominantly its [[Surface-to-air missile launcher|missile defences]] and [[Wavecom|offworld communications]]. While Spartans Agryna and Dinh used the facility's backup [[slipspace COM launcher]] to send a distress call to [[Anvil Station]], Iratus used the facility's deep-space communications relays to signal to the Banished that Nysa was ripe for taking; meanwhile, he also used the base's missile batteries to shoot down a {{Class|Zheng He|courier}} attempting to evacuate. After shooting down the ship, he turned the missiles on the base itself, giving the Spartans still in the base an unenviable choice: destroy the base's formidable [[Anti-aircraft weapon|anti-air defences]], leaving it vulnerable to a Banished attack, or leave them online and let the base be obliterated by its own weapons. Commander Agryna ultimately elected on the former, ordering the base's aircraft and Spartans to destroy the base's missile launchers before they could be reloaded and fired.{{Ref/Novel|Id=BFTA1|Halo: Battle for the Academy - Part 1}}

Three days later on March 3, Iratus' signal to the Banished was answered in the form of a [[Banished dreadnought|dreadnought]] operated by the [[New Colonial Alliance]].{{Ref/Reuse|BFTA1}} During the initial negotiations, the NCA's commander, [[Ilsa Zane]], offered to the UNSC that if they handed Iratus over, she would leave Nysa without spilling any blood - even offering to keep her word if they also handed over Spartan Dinh to her. Agryna refused, and the Banished began a massed invasion of the planet, with a focus on storming the academy. While the base's defenders put up as much resistance to the overwhelming force of the invasion as they could, Iratus continuously taunted them over the base's speakers, reminding them that he was really in charge of the facility.{{Ref/Reuse|BFTA2}}
[[File:Part9 IratusChip-scaled.jpg|thumb|250px|Zane recovers Iratus' data chip.]]
During the fighting, Spartan "Rook" was able to enact the [[Cole Protocol]] at [[The Artifice]], purging the academy's servers of classified materiel and preventing it from falling into enemy hands. As part of the protocol's enactment, a subroutine - [[RUINA]] - was also enacted, which threatened to purge Iratus from the system entirely. As such, Iratus was driven into the servers of the base's AI laboratory - the room that Agryna, Dinh, Eklund, [[Adrian Vesco|Vesco]], and Chief Engineer [[Hannah Roberts]] were also holed up. Despite congratulating Roberts on enacting such a stalemate, Iratus noted that the Banished would break into the room and free him sooner or later. Ultimately the group elected to evacuate, with Roberts and a handful of [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] electing to stay behind to try and purge as much information from Iratus as possible. Ultimately though, this last-ditch defence didn't hold out at all against Ilsa Zane and her entourage, who entered the AI lab and forced Roberts to eject Iratus' [[data crystal chip]] - despite Roberts' warnings about what had happened to Dinh when he had Iratus inside his head. Zane dismissed the concerns and ordered Roberts' execution anyway, before putting Iratus' chip inside [[CHAMPION-class armor|her helmet]] and inviting him to make himself at home.{{Ref/Reuse|BFTA2}}

==In-game information==
===''Halo Infinite''===
Iratus was added into ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' multiplayer as a [[personal AI]] in [[Season 02: Lone Wolves]].
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! scope="col" style="width: 15%" |Personal AI
! scope="col" style="width: 15%" |Manufacturer
! scope="col" style="width: 45%" |Lore
! scope="col" style="width: 10%" |Rarity
! scope="col" style="width: 15%" |Unlock Requirements
|-
|align="center"|[[File:HINF IRATUS AI Icon.png|75px]]<br>Iratus
|[[Lux Voluspa]]
|Even contained, diminished, and leashed, Iratus rages against its limitations.
|Legendary
|[[Season 02: Lone Wolves]] Level 50 (Premium)
|}

==Gallery==
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===Concept art===
<gallery>
File:HINF Concept IratusEmotions.jpg|Concept art of several facial expressions for Iratus.
File:HINF Concept Infection.jpg|Concept art of ''Halo: Infinite'''s [[Infection]] game mode.
File:HINF Concept AlphaBetaInfected.jpg|Concept art of an Iratus-infected Spartan Alpha and Beta.
</gallery>

===Screenshots===
<gallery>
File:BFTA1 Iratus Screenshot.jpg|Iratus' avatar.
File:HINF-EntrenchedEvent.jpg|A personality shard of Iratus being used in a game of [[Land Grab]] on [[Catalyst]].
File:HINF-Fragmentationfun.png|A personality shard of Iratus opening a door on [[Fragmentation]].
File:HINF-Smile.png|A personality shard of Iratus smiling after the capturing of an objective.
File:HINF-SmolBeanIratus.png|A Spartan-IV holding a personality shard of Iratus in the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science.
File:HINF CrashAndAkuAku.png|Iratus talking with Hieu Dinh in a vision.
File:HINF InfectionRender.jpg|Spartans bearing the face of Iratus in ''[[Halo Infinite]]''{{'}}s iteration of [[Infection]].
File:HINF-DoubleInfectedSpartan.png|Iratus/Flood infected Spartan.
File:HINF AJAMSArtificeDataCenter.png|A data center at [[The Artifice]] under Iratus' influence during the [[Battle of Nysa]].
File:HINF AJAMSColeProtocol.png|Rook's personal AI deployed against Iratus at The Artifice to implement the [[Cole Protocol]].
File:HINF AJAMSIratusPhantom1.png|A Phantom under Iratus' influence during the battle.
File:HINF IratusPhantom2.png|Another Phantom under Iratus' influence.
File:HINF-AcademyIratus.png|Iratus during the Battle of Nysa.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Infinite]]''
**''[[Season 02: Lone Wolves]]'' {{1st}}
**''[[Season 03: Echoes Within]]''
**[[Story Shard]]: ''[[Precipice]]'' {{Mo}}
**''[[Season 04: Infection]]''
*''[[Halo: Battle for the Academy - Part 1]]''
*''[[Halo: Battle for the Academy - Part 2]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:AI characters]]
[[Category:Banished members]]