Bioweapon: Difference between revisions

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 name="Blue Team">'''Halo 5: Guardians''', campaign level, ''Blue Team'' - [[Mission Intel]]</ref> In reality, the bioweapon experiments had been part of [[Intrepid Eye]]'s plan to prepare humanity for the [[Mantle of Responsibility]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Retribution]]'''</ref>

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>'''Halo: Nightfall'''</ref> It was later noted, however, that the weapon was distinctly not biological in nature.<ref>'''[[Halo: Nightfall: ONI: Unit 54]]'''</ref>