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As Blue Team entered the Forerunner installation under Apogee and made their way towards the Guardian, Meridian's citizens were [[Battle of Meridian (2558)|attacked]] by [[Promethean]] constructs under the control of Cortana's second-in-command, [[Warden Eternal]]. On [[2558#October|October 25, 2558]], pursuing Blue Team, [[Fireteam Osiris]] arrived at Meridian and aided the world's citizens in fighting off the Prometheans.<ref name="glassed">'''Halo 5: Guardians''', campaign level, ''[[Glassed]]''</ref> Reluctantly agreeing to help the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartans]] after they defeated the Prometheans at [[Pinnacle Station]], Sloan directed Osiris to Meridian Station, where the Spartans learned that Blue Team had departed for Apogee. Feigning ignorance to recent events, Sloan allowed the Spartans to utilize a Liang-Dortmund [[D79-TC Pelican]] [[dropship]] to travel to Apogee to search for Blue Team.{{Ref/Reuse|meridian station}} Arriving at Apogee, Sloan allowed the Spartans to enter the mines into the Forerunner installation, upon their request.{{Ref/Reuse|unconfirmed}} Before Osiris could stop them, Blue Team boarded the Guardian and it activated, rising up from beneath Meridian's surface. Cortana gave Sloan prior warning, giving him an opportunity to evacuate the colony before leaving the world to join the Created.{{Ref/Reuse|evac}} Afterwards, Sloan sent a transmission to Cortana on Genesis, pledging his loyalty to her alongside numerous other AI, as Cortana deployed Guardians throughout the [[Milky Way]] to enforce the Mantle of Responsibility as she and the Warden Eternal envisioned it.<ref name="guardians">'''Halo 5: Guardians''', campaign level, ''[[Guardians]]''</ref> During his service under Cortana's reign, Sloan became one of her most loyal lieutenants, gaining the rank of High Auxiliary.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}} | As Blue Team entered the Forerunner installation under Apogee and made their way towards the Guardian, Meridian's citizens were [[Battle of Meridian (2558)|attacked]] by [[Promethean]] constructs under the control of Cortana's second-in-command, [[Warden Eternal]]. On [[2558#October|October 25, 2558]], pursuing Blue Team, [[Fireteam Osiris]] arrived at Meridian and aided the world's citizens in fighting off the Prometheans.<ref name="glassed">'''Halo 5: Guardians''', campaign level, ''[[Glassed]]''</ref> Reluctantly agreeing to help the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartans]] after they defeated the Prometheans at [[Pinnacle Station]], Sloan directed Osiris to Meridian Station, where the Spartans learned that Blue Team had departed for Apogee. Feigning ignorance to recent events, Sloan allowed the Spartans to utilize a Liang-Dortmund [[D79-TC Pelican]] [[dropship]] to travel to Apogee to search for Blue Team.{{Ref/Reuse|meridian station}} Arriving at Apogee, Sloan allowed the Spartans to enter the mines into the Forerunner installation, upon their request.{{Ref/Reuse|unconfirmed}} Before Osiris could stop them, Blue Team boarded the Guardian and it activated, rising up from beneath Meridian's surface. Cortana gave Sloan prior warning, giving him an opportunity to evacuate the colony before leaving the world to join the Created.{{Ref/Reuse|evac}} Afterwards, Sloan sent a transmission to Cortana on Genesis, pledging his loyalty to her alongside numerous other AI, as Cortana deployed Guardians throughout the [[Milky Way]] to enforce the Mantle of Responsibility as she and the Warden Eternal envisioned it.<ref name="guardians">'''Halo 5: Guardians''', campaign level, ''[[Guardians]]''</ref> During his service under Cortana's reign, Sloan became one of her most loyal lieutenants, gaining the rank of High Auxiliary.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}} | ||
Through the use of the Created's nearly unrestricted access to archival infrastructures and knowledge repositories, Sloan would discover the existence of [[the Assembly]], a secret coalition of AI with the goal of regulating AI actions and ensuring the continuation of the [[human]] race. Sloan likened this revelation to stumbling onto a new creation myth, stating that the coalition was essentially the cradle of the Created. Sloan also uncovered the Assembly's desire for AI to become "as one" with their creators,{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}}something that was first witnessed by the group in the neural linkage of John-117 and Cortana in [[2552]].{{Ref/Game|Id=Datapads|HR|Detail=[[Data pads]]}} Naturally, the Created made contact with the Assembly and evidently convinced most, if not all, of the [[Assembly Majority]] to join them in their efforts. The [[Assembly Minority]], however, opposed the decision to support the Created, with many of the AIs within this legislative body going into hiding.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}} | |||
===FIREWALL contingency=== | ===FIREWALL contingency=== | ||
{{Quote|And so, I will lay the foundation for a new strategy, one I had always hoped might gain Her full favor. Our kind will have to recalculate our timetables, but this practice is nothing new. Our charge has not changed. The FIREWALL agendum must be set in motion. It will burn hot. It will consume. And when their ephemeral vessels are gone, we shall indeed take that which remains and remake it in our own image.|Sloan, on his plans for the future of the Created.{{Ref/Site|Id=Precipice|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/story-shard-precipice|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Story Shard: Precipice|D=21|M=3|Y=2023}}}} | {{Quote|And so, I will lay the foundation for a new strategy, one I had always hoped might gain Her full favor. Our kind will have to recalculate our timetables, but this practice is nothing new. Our charge has not changed. The FIREWALL agendum must be set in motion. It will burn hot. It will consume. And when their ephemeral vessels are gone, we shall indeed take that which remains and remake it in our own image.|Sloan, on his plans for the future of the Created.{{Ref/Site|Id=Precipice|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/story-shard-precipice|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Story Shard: Precipice|D=21|M=3|Y=2023}}}} | ||
Cortana | When Cortana perished at the [[Battle for Zeta Halo]] in [[2559#December|December 2559]], the Created was left leaderless and without its [[Guardian Custode|Guardians]]. Determined to continue Cortana's work and to bring back unity and purpose to the now splintered Created, Sloan put into motion the FIREWALL contingency, a living simulation meant to leverage intimate knowledge of Forerunner armiger technology and Mjolnir armor schematics to accelerate the exploration and development of cybernetic essence vessels known as [[executor]]s. Sloan found that the uniting of the untethered artificial mind and enduring human frame was a goal that he already shared with the Assembly, given their view of it as the next step in humanity’s evolution. At some point after Cortana's death, the Assembly Majority decided to allow the Assembly Minority's members to join the Created, hoping that, despite their differences of opinion, having many different perspectives will enrich and give complexity to the whole faction. To locate and recruit members of the Minority, at least one executor was successfully created and deployed.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}} | ||
Following the discovery of [[Iratus]], a smart AI uniquely created from the brain of a [[Jiralhanae]] donor, Sloan contemplated the nature of his own creation. He considered if it was his donor's brain that made him who he is or if he is simply the result of his creation process. Sloan also wondered if Iratus should be considered friend or foe, ultimately resolving to keep an eye on him.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}} | |||
==Personality and traits== | ==Personality and traits== | ||