Editing Iratus

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{{Quote|For Doisac! For the three moons!|A personality shard of Iratus during a [[War Games]] simulation.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi|Hi|[[Personal AI]] dialogue}}}}

Iratus was created by the [[Lux Voluspa]] company as part of an effort to research artificial intelligence creation utilizing brain donors from species aside from [[human]]ity. This included [[Jiralhanae]] donors, a decision considered by researchers "LV038" and "LV106" as something that was "always going to draw some attention eventually."{{Ref/Reuse|S2StoryHub}}{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}}  

Upon arrival at the Academy, Spartan [[Laurette Agryna]] took the injured Dinh indoors where Iratus aggressively introduced himself. Agryna found schematics of the Banished [[Breaker|facility]] on Camber through him and uploaded it to the Academy's combat simulation. In an attempt to irritate Iratus to leave Dinh's armor and go after another Spartan instead, she ordered her Spartans to hit the [[War Games|simulation]]s in hopes that Iratus would attempt to enter the neural interface of one of these Spartans.{{Ref/Game|id=HIInter|HI|Interference}} While Spartan Dinh was unconscious, Iratus forced him to relive several painful memories in an attempt to break him.{{Ref/Game|Id=EM|HI|Mindfall|Detail=Enemy Mind cinematic}} However, the plan was ultimately a success and Iratus eventually left Dinh for another Spartan, only to be contained within one of the academy's servers along with a Banished archive.{{Ref/Reuse|HIInter}}

At Commander Agryna's request, an instance of Iratus was isolated from the rest of the AI and was put into quarantine before being replicated and distributed to qualified Spartan-IVs as a [[Personal AI]] to test within War Games.{{Ref/Reuse|S2Intel}} On occasion, Iratus encouraged Spartans to join the Banished.{{Ref/Game|Id=Hi2|Hi|[[Personal AI]] dialogue|Quote=You should take your talents to the Banished!|Quotee=Iratus}}

 

However, Iratus managed to release himself from the academy's servers and, using Dinh's memories, he learned about a hidden [[ONI]] [[ONI Section Three|Section Three]] facility buried beneath the academy.{{Ref/Game|Id=Unbound|HI|Site Unseen|Detail=Unbound cinematic}} After multiple intrusion attempts,{{Ref/Site|Id=S3Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/echoes-within-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Echoes Within Intel|D=14|M=05|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}} he finally managed to take control of the ONI facility, including a suit of abandoned [[MIRAGE-class Mjolnir|Mirage IIC]] armor left inside a [[Brokkr Armor Mechanism]].{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}} Spartan Dinh, hearing strange noises coming from the door leading to the ONI facility, enlisted the help of a Spartan recruit to investigate.{{Ref/Game|Id=Vault|HI|Site Unseen|Detail=Vault Lines cinematic}} Upon their arrival at the laboratory where the Mirage IIC armor was located, Iratus revealed that he had broken containment and claimed that all of the [[Spartan]]s' secrets now belonged to the Banished.{{Ref/Reuse|Unbound}} Following this, Iratus began to infect the armor and neural interfaces of the academy's Spartan trainees, taunting them by projecting [[Holography|holograms]] of his face on their faceplates.{{Ref/Site|Id=S4Intel|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/infection-intel|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Halo Infinite - Infection Intel|D=29|M=06|Y=2023|LocalArchive=Halo Infinite Story & Intel}}

File:HINF-EntrenchedEvent.jpg|A personality shard of Iratus being used in a game of [[Land Grab]] on [[Catalyst]].

File:HINF-Fragmentationfun.png|A personality shard of Iratus opening a door on [[Fragmentation]].

File:HINF-Smile.png|A personality shard of Iratus smiling after the capturing of an objective.

File:HINF-SmolBeanIratus.png|A Spartan-IV holding a personality shard of Iratus in the Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science.

**[[Story Shard]]: ''[[Precipice]]'' {{Mo}}