Editing Chimera (armor)

{{Status|Fracture}}
{{Notice/Fracture|Firewall}}
{{Article quote|Born from the ashes of a failed AI uprising, the CHIMERA core offers a unique vision of a potentially dangerous digital future where artificial minds and augmented bodies become one.{{Ref/Site|Id=DidactsDomain|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-didacts-domain|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder: Didact's Domain|D=3|M=2|Y=2023}}}}
[[File:HINF - Executor - Cropped.jpg|thumb|250px|The Chimera core in ''Halo Infinite''.]]
The '''Chimera''' is an armor core employed by Executors in the canon [[Fractures#Firewall|Firewall]] [[Fractures|Fracture]].

== In-game information ==
Unlike the [[Yoroi]] or [[Eaglestrike]] armor cores, the Chimera armor core was available by default during [[Season 03: Echoes Within]], the third [[season]] of ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' [[multiplayer]]. Customization options for the Chimera core are unlocked by attaining levels of the Event Pass or purchasing [[Shop Bundles]] from the ''Halo Infinite'' in-game [[shop]]. Also unlike prior seasons, Chimera-themed shop bundles aren't only available during weeks the Fracture: Firewall event is available, and will rotate in anytime.
===Armor core===
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|align="center"|[[File:HINF Chimera Core Icon.png|100px]]</br>Chimera
|Fracture: Firewall
|Executors are born of evolved minds seeking a perfection of the bipedal war machine. Their flesh and bone is broken, compacted, rewoven, and overwritten into a hybrid where man and machine are almost indistinguishable.
|Legendary
|
Unlocked by default
|}

===Armor Kits===
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! scope="col" style="width: 15%" |Armor core
! scope="col" style="width: 15%"|Manufacturer
! scope="col" style="width: 40%" |Lore
! scope="col" style="width: 10%" |Rarity
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|-
|align="center"|[[File:HINF - Armor Kit icon - Wendigo.png|100px]]<br/>Wendigo
|Fracture: Firewall
|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.
|Legendary
|Purchase the "Wendigo" Bundle from the [[Shop]] for 1,800 cR
|}

===Helmets===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Helmet}}

===Helmet attachments===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Attachments}}

===Visor===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Visor}}

===Chest===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Chest}}

===Shoulders===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Shoulder}}

===Gloves===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Glove}}

===Wrist===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Wrist}}

===Utility===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Utility}}

===Knee Pads===
{{:Armor customization (Halo Infinite)/Chimera/Knee}}

==Trivia==
*Chimera, alongside [[MIRAGE-class Mjolnir|MIRAGE IIC]] are the first armor cores to feature entirely unique default [[Armor coatings (Halo Infinite)|armor coatings]], those being Domain Framework and Front Lines, respectively. [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VII|Mark VII]], and [[Yoroi]] utilize variants of Cadet Grey, while [[B-class Mjolnir|Mark V [B]]] uses Cadet Blue. [[Eaglestrike]] and [[RAKSHASA-class Mjolnir|Rakshasa]] both utilize Sandgrass Fields.
**Chimera and MIRAGE IIC are also the first armor cores in ''Halo Infinite'' to not feature a unique default visor, with both armor cores defaulting to the "Enlisted" visor utilized by the Mark VII armor core if another isn't owned. One render created for the Firewall Fracture's [[Story Shard|Story Shards]] would instead opt to use the "Dragoon" visor to portray an Executor wearing the armor, while another would utilize an unreleased red visor.
*The Savior Protocol, Karmawall Augmentor, TAG Plugin, and Experiment 21C armor pieces in the Chimera armor core, as well as the TAC/Aegis Puck chest of [[MIRAGE-class Mjolnir|MIRAGE IIC]], are the only armor pieces in ''Halo Infinite'' that change their color and pattern based in the player's visor color.
*The Flayer Crysknife shares its name with the [https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Crysknife crysknife] used by the Fremen in the ''[[Wikipedia:Dune (franchise)|Dune]]'' franchise.
*The Grendel helmet is named in reference to [[Wikipedia:Grendel|the creature]] from the Anglo-Saxon poem ''[[Wikipedia:Beowulf|Beowulf]]''.
*The Merrow helmet is named in reference to the [[Wikipedia:Merrow|mermaid and merman]] from Irish folklore.

==Gallery==
===Concept art===
<gallery>
File:HINF Concept ChimeraInitialSketch.jpg|The initial concept sketch of the Chimera armor.
File:HINF Concept Chimera.jpg|Concept art of the Chimera armor.
File:HINF Chimera Helmets Concept.jpg|Concept exploration for Chimera helmets.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraHelmets.jpg|More helmet concept exploration.
File:HINF Concept Merrow.jpg|Concept art of the Merrow helmet.
File:HINF Concept Flenser.jpg|Concept art of the Flenser helmet.
File:HINF Peaceweaver Concept 1.jpg|Concept art of the Peaceweaver helmet.
File:HINF Peaceweaver Concept 2.jpg|Concept art of the Peaceweaver helmet.
File:HINF AbaturHelmet Exploration Concept.jpg|Concept explorations of the Abatur helmet.
File:HINF AbaturHelmet Concept.jpg|Concept art of the Abatur helmet.
File:HINF GrendelHelmet Concept.jpg|Concept art of the Grendel helmet.
File:HINF Concept MimirHelmet.jpg|Concept art of the Mimir helmet.
File:HINF S3HelmetUpgrades Concept.jpg|Concept art for Ghostlink Adaptation helmet attachment (top right).
File:HINF ChimeraChests Concept.jpg|Concept art for Chimera's Savior and Compliance Protocol chests.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraRevelation.jpeg|Concept art of the Revelation Protocol chestpiece.
File:HINF Concept FairlightEchoclusters.jpg|Concept art of the Fairlight Echoclusters chestpiece.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraShoulders.jpg|Concept art of the Epsilon Series Augmentor and Karmawall Augmentor shoulder armors.
File:HINF ChimeraShoulders Concept.jpg|Concept art for Chimera's shoulder pieces.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraAttachments.jpg|Concept art of various Chimera attachments.
File:HINF Concept CreepyChimera.jpg|More concept art of various attachments.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraPermutations.jpg|More concept art of various attachments.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraLegs.jpg|Concept exploration of the Chimera core's prosthetic legs.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraArms.jpg|Concept art of the Chimera core's prosthetic limbs.
File:HINF Concept ChimeraEffects.jpg|Concept art of various Chimera-themed [[armor effects]].
File:HINF Concept ChimeraMythicEffects.jpg|Concept art of a Chimera-themed mythic effect set.
</gallery>

===Screenshots===
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File:HINF - Chimera armor core - 00001.jpg|The default Chimera armor core, seen in the armor hall.
File:HINF - S3EW trailer - Chimera armor - 00003.png|A Spartan clad in default Chimera armor.
File:HINF - S3EW trailer - Chimera armor - 00001.png|A Spartan clad in premium Chimera armor pieces.
File:HINF - S3EW trailer - Chimera armor - 00002.png|A Spartan clad in premium Chimera armor pieces.
File:HINF - Watchdog Neo Chimera on Cliffhanger.png|A Spartan-IV wearing the base Chimera helmet with various attachments on [[Cliffhanger]].
File:HINF - Event - Firewall - 00008.jpg|A Merrow-clad Spartan-IV with the [[CQS48 Bulldog]] on [[Oasis]].
File:HINF - Flenser on Chasm.png|A Spartan-IV wearing Flenser, reloading the [[M392 DMR|Bandit]] on [[Chasm]].
File:HINF - Peaceweaver on Live Fire.png|A Spartan-IV wearing Peaceweaver, throwing a grenade on [[Live Fire]].
File:HINF - Abatur on Streets.png|A Spartan-IV wearing Abatur, sliding on [[Streets]].
File:HINF - Event - Firewall - 00005.jpg|A Grendel-clad Spartan-IV alongside a [[MENACHITE-class Mjolnir|Menachite-clad]] Spartan-IV.
File:HINF-S4PK212.jpg|An [[Iratus]] infected Spartan-IV wearing Chimera on [[Forest]].
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Infinite]]''
**''[[Season 03: Echoes Within]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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[[Category:Halo Infinite multiplayer armor permutations]]