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A bioweapon, or biological agent, is a weaponized pathogen intended to cause disease in lifeforms. Biological weapons can be used in warfare or in terrorist

to its content. The Hydra code word signifies imminent threat from biological weapons of mass destruction. In 2552, Cortana declared code Hydra via a Forerunner

Argent Moon. The compounds were designed with the goal of creating a biological weapon that could remain dormant and asymptomatic as it spread through a population

term survival in atmospheres tainted by corrosive agents, chemical weapons, and biological threats. The Rasetsu helmet is manufactured by Lethbridge Industrial

masks are used by ground forces for protection against chemical or biological weapons. Each S90 gas mask weighs about .66 pounds, or 0.3 kg. The gas masks

Known in-game as the Weapons Bench, the weapon customization in Halo Infinite allow players to customize their weapon appearance. Weapon customizations in

the weapon is safe to fire with nitrocellulose-based gunpowder. In the case of the Bulldogs supplied to UNSC Infinity forces in 2560, the weapons have

converting their crew into Flood-controlled puppets. A purpose-built biological weapon, Infesters expend all of their energy on the attack, collapsing in

substrate into a digital or quantum-based computational system or another biological neural network. Through a simulation of the original brain's neural functions

purified by the Halo Array. The verivorr serve their installations as biological maintenance technicians, and have their biology optimised for nutritional

specialist weapon systems in the UNSC arsenal. This includes a range of incendiary, thermobaric, energetic, chemical, and biological weapons that most UNSC

device, the Composer was meant to provide seamless transitions between biological and digital states. The machine was later appropriated to counteract the

eliminating the patrol and gathering any intel on the creatures—whether biological samples or simply strategic information—would be helpful in prolonging

specialist weapon systems in the UNSC arsenal. This includes a range of incendiary, thermobaric, energetic, chemical, and biological weapons that most UNSC

individual's complete mental and biological patterns and memories, which could then be encoded in either another biological body or stored as data. A Forerunner

service, the ship crew's was wiped out when containment of one of their biological weapons experiments went wrong. Although shipboard smart AI Rooker attempted

disruption generator is a kind of weapon system employed aboard Forerunner Guardian Custodes. Each Guardian carries one such weapon. Little is known of their function

ground-based weapons. Another electromagnetic weapon system, known as the railgun, is used to a lesser degree. There have been developments in energy weapons such

Prometheans. Correlating with their role as weapons designed to fight the Flood, the Promethean machines' weapons arsenal was specifically tailored to disintegrate

Lifeworkers, a rate of the Forerunners charged with preserving and manipulating biological life. The unnamed vessel was originally used by the Lifeworkers of the

reproduction is overtly more mechanical than it is biological, though there are still strong similarities to biological reproduction. Huragok reproduce by gathering

violated the code. During an active UPSILON biohazard response, any breach of biological containment against a Flood outbreak also results in severe consequences

was later found in possession of the smuggler Axl, who brought the biological weapon to Sedra. Halo: Nightfall (First appearance) Halo: Nightfall, Second

term survival in atmospheres tainted by corrosive agents, chemical weapons, and biological threats Shikari - A variant for locating, identifying, tracking

Forerunner infantry weapons wielded by Blue Team, Ur-Didact was capable of ignoring numerous direct hits from the Spartans' weapons. Previously, automatic

universe was living, but in a way that was beyond the comprehension of biological organisms. Blurring the line between philosophy and science, neural physics

the Lifeworkers to preserve their biological specimens in. The Builders also agreed, seeing the inclusion of biological preserves as an effective means of

with the surviving biological specimens from the greater Ark. This formerly secret installation contained the Forerunners' final weapon: the newer Halo Array

They were highly vicious in their behavior and mercilessly devoured any biological organisms and technology they encountered. During the Forerunner-Flood

to be "grown" in the Forerunner assembler vats in a manner similar to biological life - a process that would later be mimicked by the Covenant and their

investigate local terrorist activity, only to uncover a plot to unleash a biological weapon which specifically targeted humans. Forced to cooperate with the Sedran

plan to turn it into a biological weapon. With the help of Blue Team, they destroyed the base using HAVOK tactical nuclear weapons and used the forensic

investigation, a Sedran city is attacked by a Sangheili terrorist wielding a biological weapon that only affects humans. Locke's team is forced to work together with

combat system. The Aggressors' weapons systems are limited and not as powerful as some of the other Forerunner weapons employed against the Flood. Because

end of the spectrum. plasma weapons will easily burn through Flood tissue; the Forerunners incorporated directed-energy weapons into their Sentinels, indicating

converting their crew into Flood-controlled puppets. A purpose-built biological weapon, Infesters expend all of their energy on the attack, collapsing in

of concentrated fire from multiple weapons - or an extended period of continuous automatic fire from a single weapon - is needed to overwhelm them. The

power and wealth continued to accumulate as they supplied increasingly more weapons to fuel the war effort. The Council began to lose many of the Forerunners'

leaning over on Cutter's body. Cutter: (narration) I'll retaliate with biological warfare. Cutter opens a food container, and the smelly food inside rouses

human-Forerunner wars, Faber commissioned the creation of the Halos, an array of weapons capable of purging all sentient life from a star system and, if the situation

record, would future civilizations know anything about us? Or only of our weapons?" As Guilty Spark narrates, the view shifts through several different locations:

them at will. Spark hoped to use these experiments to investigate how biological life on the sections of terrain would be affected by exposure to the vacuum

air, search teams exploring sites scarred by chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons used in the Human-Covenant War, as well as those facing

detachments of Hellbringers known as Cryo Troopers utilise cryogenic weapons. A list of weapons and vehicles utilising Cryonic technology can be found here. Theoretically

fleets, not to attack them with weapons, but rather, to overwhelm them, providing too many targets for too few weapons, and boarding Forerunner ships to

Naiya Ray and Gabriel Thorne used a Sahara-class prowler to investigate a biological agent, created by several Kig-Yar, on Ven III. The UNSC Aladdin de-cloaking

below. High Charity's Proto-Gravemind is a massive, highly adaptable biological weapon. It is a horrifying enemy, protected by every Flood beast on the Ark

Murray told Rimmer about the Flood, which they both assumed was a biological weapon. When the Flood escaped containment, Rimmer was nearly killed by an

effectively commence direct planetary bombardment via their energy weapons, a peculiar Forerunner weapon used during planetary assaults would cut off and lift up

Thorne are deployed on a mission to uncover the secrets of a mysterious biological weapon. The next four issues form another story arc, "Spartan Ops: The Janus