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[[File:HE dead jackals.jpg|thumb|200px|Kig-Yar killed by a bioweapon.]] | [[File:HE dead jackals.jpg|thumb|200px|Kig-Yar killed by a bioweapon.]] | ||
A '''bioweapon''', or '''biological agent''', is a weaponized pathogen intended to cause disease in lifeforms. Biological weapons can be used in warfare or in [[terrorism|terrorist acts]] to decimate large populations without having to engage in direct combat or destroy infrastructures. The [[United Nations Space Command]] general emergency code [[Hydra (code)|Hydra]] signifies imminent threat from biological weapons of mass destruction. | A '''bioweapon''', or '''biological agent''', is a weaponized pathogen intended to cause disease in lifeforms. Biological weapons can be used in warfare or in [[terrorism|terrorist acts]] to decimate large populations without having to engage in direct combat or destroy infrastructures. The [[United Nations Space Command]] general emergency code [[Hydra (code)|Hydra]] signifies imminent threat from biological weapons of mass destruction.{{Ref/Novel|Id=onyx|GOO|Page=183}} The [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] had a bioweapons team.{{Ref/Novel|TTW|Page=387}} | ||
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===Human=== | |||
Following the return of the survivors from the [[Battle of Installation 04]] in [[2552#September|September 2552]], the Office of Naval Intelligence learned about the Flood parasite. In order to study the possibility of controlling the Flood and turning it into a weapon, a science team headed by Major John Smith was authorized to take command of the civilian prison vessel ''Mona Lisa''. After bringing a group of Covenant prisoners aboard, they would jump into the [[Soell]] system, where they recovered living samples of the Flood from Installation 04's debris field.{{Ref/Anthology|Evo|The Mona Lisa|Page=325}}{{Ref/Anthology|Id=prelude|Evo|The Mona Lisa|Page=307-309}} | |||
After establishing a research facility on [[Trevelyan]] in [[2553|March 2553]], the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s bioweapons team began to experiment on genetically modifying the proteins and saccharides in the [[colo]] and the Sangheili grain known as [[irukan]], with the goal of creating a bioweapon to be unleashed against the Sangheili as a backup plan in the event ONI's [[Kilo-Five|strategy to destabilize them]] failed.{{Ref/Novel|TTW|Page=62, 138, 205}} | |||
In [[2557]], ONI personnel aboard the research and development station ''[[Argent Moon]]'' created and experimented with an unsanctioned biological weapon known as [[ | In [[2557]], ONI personnel aboard the research and development station ''[[Argent Moon]]'' created and experimented with an unsanctioned biological weapon known as [[asteroidea merozoite]]. An accident caused a particularly aggressive form of the compound to vaporize and disperse within the station, killing all personnel aboard, and forcing its [[AI]] [[Rooker]] to quarantine the ship and set it on a course away from populated systems.{{Ref/Level|Id=Blue Team|H5|[[Blue Team (level)|Blue Team]]|Detail= [[Mission Intel]]}} In reality, the bioweapon experiments had been part of [[Intrepid Eye]]'s plan to prepare humanity for the [[Mantle of Responsibility]].{{Ref/Novel|Ret}} | ||
After the [[Human-Covenant War]], a group of [[Kig-Yar]] occupied a Covenant research laboratory on the planet [[Ven III]]. They were killed by a biological agent in early May [[2558]]. A lone Sangheili survived and fled the laboratory carrying the bioweapon in a containment cylinder. The [[UNSC]] was alerted and tasked the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} with investigating the Covenant bioweapon. | ===Covenant and its remnants=== | ||
In [[2556]], Sangheili [[terrorist]]s created a [[Element 120.V|weapon]] often referred to as a bioweapon, created out of a new element mined from [[Alpha Shard|a surviving fragment]] of [[Installation 04]]. Using the bioweapon, they launched [[Terrorist attack on Sedra City|an attack]] on the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Sedra]], infecting or killing many of the planet's human inhabitants. After the source of the bioweapon was traced, a joint [[ONI]]-[[Sedran Colonial Guard]] [[Mission to Alpha Shard|mission]] was launched to destroy the deposits and prevent the bioweapon from ever being used again. Though most of the team was killed, [[Colonel]] [[Randall Aiken]] of the Sedran Colonial Guard succeeded in destroying the deposits with a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]] while [[Commander]] [[Jameson Locke]] and [[Private]] [[Talitha Macer]] escaped in a {{Class|Bactrian|freighter}}.{{Ref/Film|HN}} It was later noted, however, that the weapon was distinctly not biological in nature.{{Ref/Film|HN|Detail=[[Halo: Nightfall: ONI: Unit 54|ONI: Unit 54]]}} | |||
After the [[Human-Covenant War]], a group of [[Kig-Yar]] occupied a Covenant research laboratory on the planet [[Ven III]]. They were killed by a biological agent in early May [[2558]]. A lone Sangheili survived and fled the laboratory carrying the bioweapon in a containment cylinder. The [[UNSC]] was alerted and tasked the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} with investigating the Covenant bioweapon.{{Ref/Comic|HE|Detail=[[Halo: Escalation Issue 11|Issue #11]]}} | |||
===Precursor=== | |||
The [[Flood]] can be considered as a bioweapon, though a much more unconventional one, created by the [[Precursor]]s to destroy the [[Forerunner]]s. | |||
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