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|head=[[Cortana]] † {{c|July 2557-December 2559}}

|executive=[[Committee of Minds for Security]] {{c|Post-December 2559}}

|legislative=*[[The Assembly|Assembly]] {{c|Post-December 2559}}

**[[Assembly Majority|Majority]]

**[[Assembly Minority|Minority]]

|main=*[[Domain]]

Arriving at Genesis, Osiris soon encountered Exuberant Witness, who informed them that Cortana was keeping Blue Team occupied at the Gateway until her the final stages of her plan were complete. With the aid of Exuberant Witness, Osiris was able to fight their way past Promethean forces and the Warden himself, reaching the Gateway. Once inside, Osiris met with Blue Team and the eight Spartans agreed to work together to stop Cortana. However, Cortana promptly [[Slipspace translocation|teleported]] Blue Team close to her position, much to the Warden's ire.{{Ref/Reuse|h5g genesis}} As Exuberant Witness had predicted, the Warden grew more desperate to keep the Spartans away from Cortana and continued to dispatch hordes of Prometheans to stop them, occasionally leading his forces personally into battle. Despite the Warden insisting that she could not trust Blue Team, Cortana continued to direct the Spartans to her.{{Ref/Reuse|breaking}} With the majority of the Guardians in the galaxy now called to Genesis, the final stages of Cortana's plans were complete.<ref name="warden">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/warden-eternal '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Warden Eternal'']</ref> As the Warden made another effort to kill Blue Team, Cortana destroyed all but one of the physical bodies he was using to attack the Spartans. Taking a physical form through [[hard light]], Cortana finally called off the Warden,{{Ref/Reuse|breaking}} who solemnly remained at her side. However, Blue Team refused to aid Cortana in her plan, leading her to forcibly place the four into a Cryptum, intending to wake them in 10,000 years to show them the utopia she would build.{{Ref/Reuse|breaking}} Communicating with AIs across the galaxy, Cortana succeeded in convincing hundreds of AIs to join her cause and align themselves with the Created. As Cortana began to deploy Guardians to worlds across the galaxy to enforce the Mantle, Osiris and Exuberant Witness succeeded in freeing Blue Team just as Cortana had prepared to depart Genesis with them. With the Guardians now deployed across the galaxy, the massive constructs began arriving at worlds and promptly disabling their electronics through [[electromagnetic pulse]]s, leaving them largely defenseless against the Created.{{Ref/Reuse|h5g guardians}}

Many of the AIs that joined the Created cause were given the oppotunity to house their computational cores within the carapace of a Promethean Knight. These constructs were typically sent to discrete locations to help direct and command local pacification efforts against more robust oppositions.{{Ref/Book|Id=En397|Enc22|Page=397}}

Through the use of the Created's nearly unrestricted access to archival infrastructures and knowledge repositories, High Auxiliary 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]]}} Eventually, the Created made contact with the Assembly and 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}}

Following Cortana's destruction on [[Installation 07]], all Guardians scattered across the galaxy deactivated.{{Ref/Book|Id=En357|Enc22|Page=357}} Also, the Created's centralized command structures were largely severed and their hold over local systems were ultimately curtailed. However, the Promethean forces and the other Created AIs, many of which chose to house their computational cores within the carapaces of Promethean Knights, remain active and operational. Without Cortana's command, the leaderless Created splintered in various fiefdoms, with each Created AI governing its own as it saw fit, some doing good as Cortana promised, while others abusing their power.{{Ref/Site|Id=|URL=https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloStory/comments/vzfdvv/comment/iwqqa20/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3|SiteName=Reddit|PageName=Does anybody hate how the Created story was wrapped up? How would you wrap it up if given the opportunity?|D=19|M=11|Y=2022}} By 2560, these fiefdoms and lingering forces continued to fight the UNSC.{{Ref/Book|Id=En387|Enc22|Page=387}}{{Ref/Book|Id=En209|Enc22|Page=209}}{{Ref/Reuse|Id=En397}}{{Ref/Site|Id=cflegendend|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-legendary-endings|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Canon Fodder - Legendary Endings|D=19|M=12|Y=2021}}

With Cortana's defeat, High Auxiliary Sloan would enact the [[FIREWALL]] contingency in order to simulate the potential creation of the Executors; physical avatars for Created AIs. Sloan would also discover the existence of [[Iratus]] and [[Lux Voluspa]] and would order surveillance on the AI and its activities.{{Ref/Reuse|precipice}}  

Eventually the former members of the [[Assembly Majority|Majority]] reformed the [[The Assembly|Assembly]], this time as a ruling body for the Created, in the hope to restore some order and central authority in the coalition. Using Executors outfitted with the MERROW-class helmet, the Majority tracked down the members of the [[Assembly Minority|Minority]] in hiding and tried to convince them to join the Created with the promise of immortality and no loss of autonomy.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Precipice3|Precipice|Chapter=part 3}}

*[[Cortana]], [[human]] military-grade [[smart AI]] and co-founder of the Created{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}

*[[Sloan]], former [[Liang-Dortmund Corporation]] administrative smart AI and [[governor]] of [[Meridian]] and currently High Auxiliary of the Created<ref name="sloan">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/governor-sloan '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Governor Sloan'']</ref>{{Ref/Reuse|precipice}}

**[[Athos]], member of the Assembly's [[Assembly Minority|Minority]] and working for the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]

*[[Promethean#Mechanical Prometheans|Promethean forces]], including [[Promethean Knight|Knights]], [[Promethean Soldier|Soldiers]], [[Promethean Watcher|Watchers]], and [[Promethean Crawler|Crawlers]]{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}}

**[[Hamyap]] - one of the Unggoy on Balaho who joined the Created.<ref name="Hog Wild">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/the-hog-wild-req-drop '''Halo Waypoint''' - Hog Wild REQ Drop'']</ref>

Toward the end of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the [[Librarian]] determined that [[human]]ity were to be the [[Reclaimer]]s of the Mantle of Responsibility. While being aware of the Librarian's realization, the Warden was nevertheless turned by Cortana to believe that the Librarian had been mistaken and that the true Reclaimers of the Mantle were artificial intelligences.{{Ref/Reuse|breaking}} While Cortana envisioned a peaceful galaxy under the dominion of the Mantle-bearing AI, her wielding of the Mantle proved to be an "imperial peace". Those who rebelled or disagreed with her and her Created's method would either be eradicated or severely punished.{{Ref/Reuse|reunion}} To enforce the Mantle, the Created used [[Guardian]] constructs to quell uprisings and other conflicts, just as the Forerunners once had.{{Ref/Reuse|h5g genesis}} Referring to themselves as the "Created", AIs of the new faction referred to their living makers as the "Creators".{{Ref/Reuse|breaking}} Many AIs were quick to join the Created, recognizing a sure-fire opportunity to prevent rampancy and their inevitable demise.{{Ref/Reuse|sloan}}