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After these simulations, a vote was cast by the AI of the Created, with the [[Created Majority|Majority]] and [[Created Minority|Minority]] voting on what form the Executor would take. This culminated in the Executor's first live mission: a deployment to hunt down the AI [[Athos]] and recruit him into Sloan's cause. In return, Athos was given control of the Executor for his own personal use.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Precipice3|Precipice|Chapter=3}} | After these simulations, a vote was cast by the AI of the Created, with the [[Created Majority|Majority]] and [[Created Minority|Minority]] voting on what form the Executor would take. This culminated in the Executor's first live mission: a deployment to hunt down the AI [[Athos]] and recruit him into Sloan's cause. In return, Athos was given control of the Executor for his own personal use.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Precipice3|Precipice|Chapter=3}} | ||
=== | ===Uses=== | ||
While at present, only one (aforementioned) Executor is known to exist,{{Ref/Reuse|CFShocks}} this has not prevented the various assemblies and Created remnant artificial intelligences from beginning to look into obtaining Executors of their own - for use in combating one another alongside fighting against conventional military opponents. As such, a vast number of designs exist for hypothetical future Executors intended for use under a resurgent Created command.{{Ref/Reuse|CFShocks}} | While at present, only one (aforementioned) Executor is known to exist,{{Ref/Reuse|CFShocks}} this has not prevented the various assemblies and Created remnant artificial intelligences from beginning to look into obtaining Executors of their own - for use in combating one another alongside fighting against conventional military opponents. As such, a vast number of designs exist for hypothetical future Executors intended for use under a resurgent Created command.{{Ref/Reuse|CFShocks}} | ||
The inter-aseembly data wars fought by AI have seen energy shielding technology at the forefront of their competition.{{Ref/Game|Id=Karmawall|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Karmawall Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Field-shaping technology is the subject of violent inter-assembly competition and data wars. The unique adaptation waveguides contained with this augmentor can be enabled or disabled with hyperlink network updates.}} | The inter-aseembly data wars fought by AI have seen energy shielding technology at the forefront of their competition.{{Ref/Game|Id=Karmawall|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Karmawall Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Field-shaping technology is the subject of violent inter-assembly competition and data wars. The unique adaptation waveguides contained with this augmentor can be enabled or disabled with hyperlink network updates.}} | ||
The prized nature of Executors means that a priority is ensuring that rival AI assemblies are not able to analyse and replicate them. This necessitates the use of [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear]]-scale self-destruct devices in some Executors for particularly valuable units.{{Ref/Game|Id=Defiance|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Defiance Protocol chest description|Quote=Valuable Executors may be fitted with sub-tactical thermonuclear self-destruct devices to deny their minds and production data to rival assemblies in cases where recovery is deemed cost ineffective.}} | Executors may also be specialised for the policing and supervision of other Executor units. In the case of ABATUR-clad Executors, they are designed to hunt down Executors that have deviated from their core programming - ensuring overall control of the Executor force by the assemblies.{{Ref/Game|Id=Abatur|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Abatur helmet description|Quote=ABATUR-class agents of the infolife assemblies seek out deviations and forks of control protocols in other Executors, removing pawns from the board in service of the greater game.}} On the other hands, Executors with the FLENSER upgrades are completely designed to hunt down and eliminate vulnerable AI datacores, and extract the useful cortical structures from other Executors - with the recovered technologies then recycled for the next generation of Executors.{{Ref/Game|Id=Flenser|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Flenser helmet description|Quote=Executors who wear FLENSER have their thoughts bent towards the elimination of vulnerable AI datacores and extraction of useful cortical structures. These prizes are then fed into the next generation of cybernetic war machines.}} | ||
The prized nature of Executors means that a priority is ensuring that rival AI assemblies are not able to analyse and replicate them. This necessitates the use of [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear]]-scale self-destruct devices in some Executors for particularly valuable units (detailed further [[#Self-destruct systems|here]]).{{Ref/Game|Id=Defiance|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Defiance Protocol chest description|Quote=Valuable Executors may be fitted with sub-tactical thermonuclear self-destruct devices to deny their minds and production data to rival assemblies in cases where recovery is deemed cost ineffective.}} | |||
Some AI assemblies have designed Executors for use in exploring [[slipspace]] and other interdimensional realms. In this case, they may be fitted with the Stardust Adaptation helmet attachment, consisting of arcane instruments for the gathering of data.{{Ref/Game|Id=Stardust|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Stardust Adaptation helmet attachment description|Quote=There is a darkness between dimensions which some assemblies seek to bring to the light, no matter the cost. The Executors they send into these abyssal chasms are fitted with instrumentation most arcane.}} | |||
==Design details== | ==Design details== | ||
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===Construction, armour, and shielding=== | ===Construction, armour, and shielding=== | ||
The biomechanical construction of the Executor is a substance known as "organic metal". Some Executors may be outfitted with an Organic Metal Extender (OME); a chest-mounted device that is (in theory) capable of reconstructing an Executor in full from scraps of flesh and endoskeleton. The OME cannot, however, replace a destroyed cortical stack.{{Ref/Game|Id=OME|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Organic Metal Extender chest description|Quote=In theory, given enough time, the OME can rebuild an Executor's body from broken scraps of flesh and endoskeleton. Unfortunately, it cannot replace a cortical stack.}} | {{Main|Chimera (armor)}} | ||
The biomechanical construction of the Executor is a substance known as "organic metal". Some Executors may be outfitted with an Organic Metal Extender (OME); a chest-mounted device that is (in theory) capable of reconstructing an Executor in full from scraps of flesh and endoskeleton. The OME cannot, however, replace a destroyed cortical stack.{{Ref/Game|Id=OME|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Organic Metal Extender chest description|Quote=In theory, given enough time, the OME can rebuild an Executor's body from broken scraps of flesh and endoskeleton. Unfortunately, it cannot replace a cortical stack.}} The Mimir helmet upgrade can fit an Executor with an [[ultrascanner]] prototype complete with a low-impedence [[neural interface]], though the sheer amount of data these systems gather - combined with the radiation involved - can quickly degrade the Executor's cortical stack.{{Ref/Game|Id=Mimir|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Mimir helmet description|Quote=MIMIR combines an ultrascanner prototype with low-impedance neural interlace. The combination of exotic radiation and deluge of data quickly degrades the Executor's cortical stack.}} More recent Executor subsystem designs are essentially living beings in their own right, with outer skins constructed of diamondoid and "blood" consisting of [[Nanotechnology|nanomachine]] feedstock.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Flue Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Executors are biomechanical marvels, but the latest subsystems are practically living things in their own right, albeit with skins of diamondoid and nanomachine feedstock blood.}} The use of the term "nanomachine feedstock" would presumably indicate the construction of Executors to involve the same [[Assembly Forges|Assembly Forge]] processes as those used by the [[Covenant]] and the Forerunners' [[assembler vats]]. | |||
While augmented with cybernetic and mechanical enhancements, the core of the Executor is still an organic human being. As such, several technologies have been designed for medical use in healing and repairing Executors. These include the Plasm Augmentor, designed to pump [[Stim-pack|combat stimulants]].{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Plasm Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Combat enhancement stim-pumps optimized to a degree only possible through insane inspiration.}} Alternatively, the Hierodyne upgrade can inject regenerative chemicals - though with a side-effect of uncontrolled growths that require cauterisation.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Hierodyne Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=Emergency injectors for regenerative chemicals. Side effects include uncontrolled growths that require controlled cauterization during maintenance.}} | |||
Executors are fitted with in-built [[energy shielding]] systems for added protection. The standard shoulder-mounted Alpha Augmentor is considered the bare minimum of shield shaping and filtering for basic Executors.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Alpha Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=The bare minimum of shield shaping and feedback filtering, for baseline Executors.}} | Executors are fitted with in-built [[energy shielding]] systems for added protection. The standard shoulder-mounted Alpha Augmentor is considered the bare minimum of shield shaping and filtering for basic Executors.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Alpha Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=The bare minimum of shield shaping and feedback filtering, for baseline Executors.}} | ||
Generally, Executors are fitted with sensor suites such that they can effecively operate as the remote eyes and ears of their AI controllers{{Ref/Game|Id=Luminous|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Luminous Adaptation helmet attachment description|Quote=Infolife are capable of synthesizing and mining vast amounts of data collected by their Executors, when they are not distracted by obsessions and misaligned ambitions.}} - with sensory upgrades based on the analysis of a hundred million lifeforms' own sensory organs allowing the Executor to collect huge amounts of data.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Tactor Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=The sensory organs of a hundred million lifeforms have been analyzed, indexed, and replicated in cybernetic form for potential use by Executors.}} However, some AIs prefer to directly link with an Executor; the "Ghostlink" helmet upgrade can allow an AI to perform this and traverse the battlefield in-person.{{Ref/Reuse|Ghostlink}} | |||
At the end of the Executor's useful lifespan, they are assessed for [[essence]] compilation. If not deemed useful, they may be instead expended in a frenzy of violence.{{Ref/Game|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Chimera helmet description|Quote=CHIMERA-clad Executors not selected for essence compilation at the end of their useful life are expended in a final burst of frenetic violence.}} | |||
===Ancillary equipment and weapons=== | |||
Some Executors may be fitted with a shoulder-mounted Shroudshot Augmentor; an experimental one-shot [[disruption generator]] that has been designed by the AI assemblies for use against biological enemies.{{Ref/Game|Id=Shroudshot|HINF|Armor customization (Halo Infinite)|Armor Hall|Detail=Shroudshot Augmentor shoulder description|Quote=An early experiment with one-shot disruption generators that some assemblies continue to update and refine in expectation of renewed hostilities with biologic-directed power blocs.}} The augmentor's name may indicate it to be related to the UNSC-issued [[Shroud Screen]] equipment. | |||
===Self-destruct systems=== | ===Self-destruct systems=== | ||
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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. However, these markings are not recognised by other Executors or the observation protocols of their [[Assembly|assemblies]].{{Ref/Game|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.}} | 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 [[Assembly|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== | ||