Editing Athos

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'''Athos''' ([[AI Serial Number]]: '''ATH 1409-3'''){{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}}{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice3}} is a [[Smart AI]] created to serve the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].{{Ref/Reuse|HLW1}} Unbeknownst to [[human]]ity, Athos was also a member of [[The Assembly]]'s [[Assembly Minority|Minority]], a coalition of [[artificial intelligence]]s working in secret to guide the development of humanity. Facing the prospect of his own [[rampancy]] and death, Athos was inducted into the [[Created]] some time after December 2559.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}}{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice3}}

===Working with Linda-058===

At some point during the latter half of [[2553]] Athos was present when [[Linda-058]] was summoned to a command room for a mission briefing by an ONI officer.{{Ref/Reuse|HLW1}} The officer had Athos bring up a [[holographic]] image of the mission's target: a former ONI scientist by the name of Doctor [[Chen Bax]] who had tried to steal classified technology from the agency but was thought killed in action during the [[Fall of Reach|Fall]] of [[Reach]] before he could be moved on. Athos further displayed the {{UNSCShip|Promise of Dawn}}, a {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}} that also went missing during the events at Reach. A distress signal from both the survivors of the ''Promise'' and the doctor had been received in the past twenty-four hours from [[Sephune III]], a planet controlled largely by [[Covenant remnants|vestiges]] of the [[Covenant]]. Athos and Linda were assigned to work with one another to end the threat Doctor Chen posed, with Linda specifically being tasked with his assassination. The [[sniper]] and AI traveled to Sephune III thereafter and soon found themselves facing down the of the Covenant and the hostility of a lost settlement on the world.{{Ref/Reuse|HLW1}} Once Chen was in their sights, Linda and Athos sought to find a way to both complete their mission but also evacuate the endangered residents of the settlement. Upon being tasked to locate Chen, Athos ultimately detected the presence of a unique AI thought lost during the Fall of Reach, one containing an archive of all of human history. While previously unknown to him, the realization of this knowledge changed the mission parameters for Athos.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HLW2|HLW|Issue=2}} Now, retrieving [[Gabriela]] or otherwise denying Covenant access to her archive was the top priority.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HLW3|HLW|Issue=3}}

 

===Joining the Created===

 

Viewing Athos' impending demise as a tragedy due to all of the potential he had left to offer the world, Proxy offered him the chance to join the Created free of coercion or force or reprogramming, viewing the Created's ideals as a peaceful civilization with room for philosophical disagreements that meant it could look past Athos' differing views. Proxy additionally offered the Executor to Athos as a gift, free for Athos to reshape and use as he pleased. Athos ultimately agreed to this, and proceeded to be integrated into the Created assembly as a whole.{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice}}{{Ref/Reuse|Precipice3}}

 

==Production notes==

Athos was named and designed after the character [[Wikipedia:Athos (character)|Athos, Count de la Fère]], known from three novels of [[Wikipedia:Alexandre Dumas|Alexandre Dumas]], due to the that character's relatively taciturn and reserved demeanor.{{Ref/Twitter|GrimBrotherOne|10701575649045|Jeff Easterling|D=06|M=12|Y=2018|Detail=defunct}} These are qualities which are shared by [[Linda-058]], whom Athos was introduced as the companion of in ''[[Halo: Lone Wolf]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|HLW1}}

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