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When an AI begins to undergo [[rampancy]], it can attempt to sustain its sanity by shedding excess and dangerous shards of its ego into anything it touches. When these shards come into contact with Executor manufacturing clusters, they create a specialised form of Executor known as a "Wendigo" unit. Wendigos act as biomechanical proxies to spread the viral machine code of their corrupted creators.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=WENDIGO kit description|Quote=Rampancy is a form of cancerous insanity unique to infolife, by which an AI's personality matrix unravels as it uncontrollably bloats to fill all available processing resources. In rare cases a rampant AI can maintain a semblance of sanity by continuously shedding corrosive shards of its ego into everything it touches through the hyperlink. The most malicious of these shards are vomited into Executor manufacturing clusters to spawn horrors known as WENDIGO units, biomechanical proxies who act as antenna to spread their creator's viral machine code.}} Should a Wendigo successfully infect another Executor, the victim Executor is reborn in the Wendigo's corrupted manufacturing cluster as a "Thresher" unit; an entity obsessed with abducting both mechanical and biological hardware for its insane AI overlord.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=THRESHER helmet description|Quote=THRESHER units are Executors who have been harvested by Wendigos and reborn in their corrupted manufacturing clusters as voracious arch-despoilers with the singular obsession of acquiring hardware and wetware for their insane master. }} | When an AI begins to undergo [[rampancy]], it can attempt to sustain its sanity by shedding excess and dangerous shards of its ego into anything it touches. When these shards come into contact with Executor manufacturing clusters, they create a specialised form of Executor known as a "Wendigo" unit. Wendigos act as biomechanical proxies to spread the viral machine code of their corrupted creators.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=WENDIGO kit description|Quote=Rampancy is a form of cancerous insanity unique to infolife, by which an AI's personality matrix unravels as it uncontrollably bloats to fill all available processing resources. In rare cases a rampant AI can maintain a semblance of sanity by continuously shedding corrosive shards of its ego into everything it touches through the hyperlink. The most malicious of these shards are vomited into Executor manufacturing clusters to spawn horrors known as WENDIGO units, biomechanical proxies who act as antenna to spread their creator's viral machine code.}} Should a Wendigo successfully infect another Executor, the victim Executor is reborn in the Wendigo's corrupted manufacturing cluster as a "Thresher" unit; an entity obsessed with abducting both mechanical and biological hardware for its insane AI overlord.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=THRESHER helmet description|Quote=THRESHER units are Executors who have been harvested by Wendigos and reborn in their corrupted manufacturing clusters as voracious arch-despoilers with the singular obsession of acquiring hardware and wetware for their insane master. }} | ||
Executor units corrupted by these so-called "viral machines" often demonstrate malformed exterior carapaces,{{Ref/Reuse|Deviant}} with their visual corruption generally "inspired" by their governing AI's rampant delusions.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Aberrant Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Executors suffer rampancy by proxy as their infolife masters lose intellectual cohesion and subject them to "inspired" viral machine upgrades.}} However, these markings are not recognised by other Executors or the observation protocols of their | Executor units corrupted by these so-called "viral machines" often demonstrate malformed exterior carapaces,{{Ref/Reuse|Deviant}} with their visual corruption generally "inspired" by their governing AI's rampant delusions.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Aberrant Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Executors suffer rampancy by proxy as their infolife masters lose intellectual cohesion and subject them to "inspired" viral machine upgrades.}} However, these markings are not recognised by other Executors or the observation protocols of their assemblies.{{Ref/Game|Id=Deviant|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Deviant Protocol chest description|Quote=Executors who bear the mark of the viral machine often have malformed carapace attachments, but their stigmata do not seem to be recognized by other Executors and assembly observation protocols.}} Attempts to analyse the mutations exhibited by Wendigos and Threshers through rational means are useless.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Myomer Canker hip description|Quote=Rational analysis of the biomechanical aberrations seen on Wendigo and Thresher units is fruitless. It requires the insight of madness to discern their true worth.}} | ||
==Non-canon and dubious canon appearances== | ==Non-canon and dubious canon appearances== | ||
