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'''Virgil''' was a subroutine built into the larger [[Superintendent (Construct)|Superintendent]] [[Artificial Intelligence]], later merged with a renegade [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] [[Huragok]].

Virgil was created by [[Dr. Endesha]] to look after his daughter, [[Sadie Endesha]]. Using the endless resources of [[New Mombasa|New]] and [[Old Mombasa]], Virgil performed its tasks without fault, although Sadie found it to be a little restrictive.<ref>[[Sadie's Story]]</ref>

In his attempts to find Sadie, Commissioner [[Kinsler]] shut down the Superintendent, in order to prevent it from helping her. Eventually reactivated, Virgil had been badly damaged and was near to total system shutdown, saved only by the efforts of a renegade Covenant [[Huragok]]. Unwilling to continue as slaves to the Covenant, [[List of "Seven" References in Halo|seven]] Huragok had made an attempt at escape. Six of them were destroyed during this attempt by giving their lives so that the seventh could flee. Eventually, it made its way to [[New Mombasa Data Center|the core]] of the Superintendent, working to repair it. As it worked, the Huragok began to merge the badly damaged Vergil with itself, a process that was complete just as it was discovered by [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Veronica Dare]] and [[the Rookie]]. Early in this process, Vergil, with the Huragok controlling it, helped to free Sadie from Kinsler by opening the doors of his private train and letting the mob of refugees rip Kinsler apart.

Later, the new Virgil would defect to the UNSC, allowing itself to be captured by [[Veronica Dare]] and [[Dare's Shock Trooper Squad|her team]] of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs]], to provide the UNSC vital information on the Covenant, and their intentions for New Mombasa. A month later, [[Sergeant Major]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Johnson]] had a talk with Virgil, who was in the process of accessing the [[Covenant Battle Network|Covenant Battlenet]], about the information it had. Vergil agreed to share any information it has with the Sergeant and lit his [[cigar]] as a friendly gesture.<ref>''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', [[Data Hive (Level)|Data Hive]]</ref>

*The name Virgil itself may be a reference to the Divine Comedy, specifically to Virgil, the poet that guides fellow poet Dante through the nine circles of [[Inferno|hell]] and purgatory, much in the same way the Rookie is guided through a metaphorical hell-on-earth, a destroyed New Mombasa, and also through the nine "circles" of audio logs, a reference to the nine circles of hell.