The Executor

"The Executor" is an unidentified formerly-human individual serving under High Auxilary Sloan in the Created. They are the first of the Executors - cybernetically augmented supersoldiers created by Sloan to serve as the bridge for artificial intelligences to interface with the physical world. The Executor was originally notable as the first known human to uncover the existence of The Assembly, a clandestine group of AI working to guide humanity over the course of centuries. They were driven into madness by their discovery, and eventually used by the Created to become the Executor.

Discovering the Assembly
"...now i know why i was digging deep in one of those places where its dirt all the way down and just when i thought i hit bottom i hit the top of something else and since then ive had less than a solid fifteen minutes of sleep at a go and there are times i wonder if ive joined the guys in tinfoil hats and now i know i have..."

- One of the messages left by the Executor on a data pad during their descent into madness.

The individual who would become the Executor was a human being alive on Reach some time prior to mid-2552. They originally arrived on Reach as a refugee aboard an evacuation transport full of similar evacuees from glassed colony worlds, by which time they had become aware of the existence of The Assembly in some form. What followed was their slow descent into madness as they attempted to chronicle the Assembly, questioning why the AI cabal chose to hide away when they could help humanity in the ongoing war and finding themselves unable to tell anyone else about their findings.

As the individual dug deeper into what they expected to be Office of Naval Intelligence secrets, only to uncover more of the Assembly, their madness drove them to the point of only averaging less than fifteen minutes of sleep at a time - furthering their condition. This paranoia led them to try and cover their tracks, scattering data pads across a number of locations on Reach intended as dead drops to unknown parties. The data pads contain a number of sessions of the Assembly from over the course of several centuries, accompanied by the discoverer's distraught comments at the group's behavior: while they acknowledged that the AIs were seemingly benevolent, they were upset over the Assembly's manipulation of humanity in secret. The individual stated in their messages that they had attempted communicating with the Assembly but failed to receive a response. The data pads, scattered in different locations around Reach, would later be discovered by SPARTAN-B312 of NOBLE Team.

The Assembly discoverer evidently survived the Fall of Reach in August 2552, and evidently lived until at least around the Created uprising and the defeat of Cortana in late 2559. At this time, the Created AI Sloan (now taking on the title of High Auxiliary) took over one of the Created's remnant factions, and expressed that he had wished to present the FIREWALL contingency to Cortana prior to her destruction. As the sole figurehead of the Created remnant, he would have to proceed on his own initiative now - ultimately finding the discoverer and bringing them into the fold as the first Executor. When exactly this took place is unclear, though likely happened after the downfall of Cortana, in late 2559 or early 2560.

Becoming the first Executor
Whether the human individual involved was a willing or unwilling participant in this program remains unknown. In a simulation conducted by Sloan, the Executor was placed in the scenario of arriving at the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science, and eventually encountering the AI Proxy - ultimately escorting Proxy away from the Academy and into the heart of the Guardian to be augmented with a number of invasive and extremely painful surgeries - becoming the Executor. Even while being augmented, the Executor was noted as understanding that the torturous process was necessary to fuse mind and machine - were this to reflect reality, then the discoverer seemingly willingly surrendered themselves to the Executor project.

Following their successful integration, Proxy cast a vote to the Majority of the Created, pondering what role the newly-arisen Executor would take. The Minds chose to clad the Executor in PEACEWEAVER for their upcoming missions. A second simulation was later conducted for the Executor, depicting them storming Carinae Station to recover a Durance housing the essence of Spartan Edward Davis. While the Executor failed the encounter multiple times, they ultimately succeeded in their mission, even successfully engaging a SPARTAN-IV and coming out victorious.

Hunting down the Assembly
After becoming aware of the existence of The Assembly, the Executor was tasked with hunting down members of the Assembly Minority who had not joined the Created. Accordingly, the Executor was dispatched to hunt down Athos, a Smart AI now nearing the end of his operational lifespan. The Executor then opened a dialogue between Athos and Proxy

List of appearances

 * Halo: Reach
 * Data pads
 * Story Shard: Precipice