Chimera (armor)

This article contains information from the Firewall Fractures universe, and is not a part of the established Halo canon. To learn more information about the Firewall universe, see its article.

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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.

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The Chimera core in Halo Infinite.

The Chimera is an armor core employed by Executors in the Firewall 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

Armor core	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Unlock Requirements
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

Helmets

Helmets v • d • e
Helmet	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
ABATUR	Fracture: Firewall	ABATUR-class agents of the infolife assemblies seek out deviations and forks of control protocols in other Executors, removing pawns from the board in service of the greater game.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Synthetic Runtime" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
CHIMERA	Fracture: Firewall	CHIMERA-clad Executors not selected for essence compilation at the end of their useful life are expended in a final burst of frenetic violence.	Common	Season 03: Echoes Within	Unlocked by default
FLENSER	Fracture: Firewall	Executors who wear FLENSER have their thoughts bent towards the elimination of vulnerable AI datacores and extraction of useful cortical structures. These prizes are then fed into the next generation of cybernetic war machines.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR
GRENDEL	Fracture: Firewall	Both more and less than human, Executors wearing GRENDEL helmets are marked by unbound infomorph masters to be their hands, eyes, and sacrifices outside the network.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase either: "Grendel" for 1,100 cR "Groovy Grendel" for 1,800 cR
MERROW	Fracture: Firewall	MERROW compliments a task-shaped body suited for assaults on entrenched biologics or the secure dataclusters of rival infolife.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 5
PEACEWEAVER	Fracture: Firewall	Some threads must be cut, rewoven, or burned out of the tapestry, per directives passed down to PEACEWEAVER Executors by the governing AI assemblies.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR
FOMORIAN	Fracture: Firewall	FOMORIAN Executor loadouts and observed mission responses blur the line between aberrant design and inhuman inspiration.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Fomorian" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR.
GEIST	Fracture: Firewall	There is no greater sin for a biologic or subordinate infolife than to deny the superiority of an assembly's ontology. GEIST-clad Executors ensure their master's orthodoxy remains inviolable and unchallenged.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
GRIMGHAST	Fracture: Firewall	Refined and deadly, the GRIMGHAST is now entering production as the next generation of front-line Executors. Through hacking and targeted strikes the design has spread to all of the assemblies, and they are racing to manufacture as many as possible for the next round of internecine conflict.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the Grimghast bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR.
MIMIR	Fracture: Firewall	MIMIR combines an ultrascanner prototype with low-impedance neural interlace. The combination of exotic radiation and deluge of data quickly degrades the Executor's cortical stack.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 20
STRIGOI	Fracture: Firewall	STRIGOI Executors are ruthless optimizers who prune competing processes and agents on behalf of the AI assembly thread that created them.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
THRESHER	Fracture: Firewall	THRESHER units are Executors who have been harvested by Wendigos and reborn in their corrupted manufacturing clusters as voracious arch-despoilers with the singular obsession of acquiring hardware and wetware for their insane master.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
DELTAJOCK	Fracture: Firewall	Executor pilots serve as organic control nodes and auxiliary combat systems for the vehicles and semi-autonomous drones they command. Their tactical flexibility is enough to mitigate the weakness of flesh.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR

Helmet attachments

Helmet Attachments v • d • e
Helmet Attachment	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements	Compatible Helmets
Decimation Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	Humans refined the art of killing, but it was their AI creations that seek to perfect it.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Synthetic Runtime" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR	Abatur
Ghostlink Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	Season 3 description: Not all infolife engage in esoteric research and intellectual pursuits while tucked into immaterial domains. A select few prefer to take direct action in the physical realm. Season 4 description: Not all infolife engages in esoteric research and intellectual pursuits while tucked into immaterial domains; some revel in the chaos of the physical, and fit special Executors for fun and games.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR	Abatur Chimera Flenser Grendel Merrow Peaceweaver
Gravehound Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	GRAVEHOUND Executors ensure the population of biologics are harnessed and controlled with calculated efficiency by their regulating AI, from cradle to grave.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR	Peaceweaver
Stardust Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	There is a darkness between dimensions which some assemblies seek to bring to the light, no matter the cost. The Executors they send into these abyssal chasms are fitted with instrumentation most arcane.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase either: "Grendel" for 1,000 cR "Groovy Grendel" for 1,800 cR	Grendel
Injuction Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	Shaped-charge explosive to deny an Executor's cortical structures from being recovered for post-mortem analysis or reconstruction.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR	Geist
Larcener Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	At the heart of each Grimghast is a hidden seed of viral machine corruption waiting to erupt and convert the Executor into a ravenous engine of destruction.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR	Grimghast
Luminous Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	Infolife are capable of synthesizing and mining vast amounts of data collected by their Executors, when they are not distracted by obsessions and misaligned ambitions.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR	Strigoi
Modulation Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	Small adjustments to the Executor's self-image have nonlinear effects on their mental stability under extreme information loads.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 20	Mimir
Redline Adaptation	Fracture: Firewall	By design or accident, Executor pilots are aggressive and prone to breaks in mental conditioning. Control of the senses is the best way to ensure they do not slip the leash.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR	Deltajock

Visor

Visors v • d • e
Visor	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Unlock Requirements
Datacore Administrator	Fracture: Firewall	True knowledge is a concept beyond the capacity for organic minds to process.	Legendary	Purchase the "Facing Firewall" bundle from the Shop for 800 cR.
Essence Decompilation	Fracture: Firewall	Control protocols enacted. Essence editing approved.	Epic	TBD
Icebreaker	Fracture: Firewall	There is a darkness between dimensions which some assemblies seek to bring to the light, no matter the cost. The Executors they send into these abyssal chasms are fitted with instrumentation most arcane.	Legendary	Purchase the Groovy Grendel bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR
Orchid Cluster	Fracture: Firewall	The latest in recursive data manipulation harmware.	Legendary	Complete the "Side Flick" Ultimate Challenge between May 30, and June 6, 2023.
Tracelines	Fracture: Firewall	It's all about efficiency and flow.	Legendary	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR
Violent Darkness	Fracture: Firewall	There are greater intellects than the assemblies that nurse old grudges in the great dark.	Legendary	Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 9

Chest

Chests v • d • e
Chest	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
Compliance Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	The cutting edge of enforcement pruning and tending of social cohesion.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR
Defiance Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	Valuable Executors may be fitted with sub-tactical thermonuclear self-destruct devices to deny their minds and production data to rival assemblies in cases where recovery is deemed cost ineffective.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR
Revelation Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	The inspirations of unliving minds is not for biologics to understand or appreciate.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase either: "Grendel" for 1,100 cR "Groovy Grendel" for 1,800 cR
Savior Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	All Exectors can be discarded on a whim, but some are less disposable than others.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 20
Conservation Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	All who comply will be sheltered. All who defy will be terminated.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Crux Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	To the assemblies, heart and soul are as interchangeable as meat and metal.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR
Deviant Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	Executors who bear the mark of the viral machine often have malformed carapace attachments, but their stigmata do not seem to be recognized by other Executors and assembly observation protocols.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Fairlight Echoclusters	Fracture: Firewall	Portable datacores fitted to Executor couriers and command nodes.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 13
Implementation Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	Executors are well-equipped to engage with anomalies that resist corrective action.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Organic Metal Extender	Fracture: Firewall	In theory, given enough time, the OME can rebuild an Executor's body from broken scraps of flesh and endoskeleton. Unfortunately, it cannot replace a cortical stack.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Fomorian" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Maverick Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	Despite their best efforts, some Executors refuse to die.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR
Oracle Protocol	Fracture: Firewall	Ancient xenotech may not be replicable at an industrial scale, but existing samples can be indexed, adapted, and refitted into useful forms.	Legendary	Great Journey	Purchase the "Delta Forged" superbundle from the Shop for 3,900 cR

Shoulders

Shoulders v • d • e
Shoulders	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
Alpha Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	The bare minimum of shield shaping and feedback filtering, for baseline Executors.	Common	Season 03: Echoes Within	Unlocked by default
Epsilon Series Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	As infolife matures, their interests can twist into obsessions. Such focus is useful to the assemblies, such as when directed towards improvements on their stable of Executor armor.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase either: "Grendel" for 1,100 cR "Groovy Grendel" for 1,800 cR
Flayer Crysknife	Fracture: Firewall	A crude tool of the biologics tuned by minds of light. Steel, flesh, and bone part before in artful, scientific perfection.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Synthetic Runtime" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR
Flexcomposite Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Perfection cannot be achieved in a single iteration.	Rare	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Facing Firewall" bundle from the Shop for 1,000 cR
Hierodyne Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Emergency injectors for regenerative chemicals. Side effects include uncontrolled growths that require controlled cauterization during maintenance.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR
Karmawall Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Field-shaping technology is the subject of violent inter-assembly competition and data wars. The unique adaptation waveguides contained with this augmentor can be enabled or disabled with hyperlink network updates.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Left: Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 14 Right: Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 15
Shroudshot Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	An early experiment with one-shot disruption generators that some assemblies continue to update and refine in expectation of renewed hostilities with biologic-directed power blocs.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR
Aberrant Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Executors suffer rampancy by proxy as their infolife masters lose intellectual cohesion and subject them to "inspired" viral machine upgrades.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR
Flue Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Executors are biomechanical marvels, but the latest subsystems are practically living things in their own right, albeit with skins of diamondoid and nanomachine feedstock blood.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Fomorian" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Plasm Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Combat enhancement stim-pumps optimized to a degree only possible through insane inspiration.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Tactor Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	The sensory organs of a hundred million lifeforms have been analyzed, indexed, and replicated in cybernetic form for potential use by Executors.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 19
Tracer Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Automatic taggant dispenser used by Executor first-in teams.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Velocity Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Even small improvements to an Executor's performance add up over time.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Pinion Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	Practically weightless, and yet still able to resist small-arms fire.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR
Oracle Augmentor	Fracture: Firewall	The old enslaved to the new.	Legendary	Great Journey	Purchase the "Delta Forged" superbundle from the Shop for 3,900 cR

Gloves

Gloves v • d • e
Gloves	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
Executor Manipulars	Fracture: Firewall	Nerve and muscle, dancing to the music of unseen players.	Common	Season 03: Echoes Within	Unlocked by default
Serene Manipulars	Fracture: Firewall	The benevolent hand of the assemblies lies heavy on humanity.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR
Clinical Manipulars	Fracture: Firewall	Used when a more delicate touch is needed.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR

Wrist

Wrists v • d • e
Wrist	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
BRINK Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	Tunable jamming device which deters and confuses cooperative autonomous munition swarms.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,000 cR
TAG Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	Forearm-mounted target designator for orbital glimmerlances.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 19
TACIT Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	Tagscanner to locate, interrogate, and log all nearby assembly assets. Highly valued by resistance personnel.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Terminating Process Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	The scoping exercise has been completed. Resources must be reclaimed.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 14
VDO Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	External indicator that the Executor's limb has been replaced by organic metal simulacra.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Relayframe Plugin	Fracture: Firewall	When you absolutely, positively, must assume direct control over enemy war machines.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR

Utility

Utilities v • d • e
Utility	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
Crysknife Utility	Fracture: Firewall	Mounting point for a resonating crysknife. A more refined weapon, for a perfected future.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,100 cR
PostAmp Utility	Fracture: Firewall	An electronics counter-countermeasure (ECCM) package, which may or may not explode in event of structural failure.	Epic	Season 03: Echoes Within	Complete the "Light & Lightning" Ultimate Challenge between April 18 and 25, 2023
Inertial Restraint	Fracture: Firewall	Impulse system used by shunt-deployed extirpation teams.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR
Mimic Probe V5.8	Fracture: Firewall	These unusual devices act as "emulators" which alter the Executor's hyperscanner signature, allowing them to pass as unaltered humans or those with particular resonance signatures.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Fomorian" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Myomer Canker	Fracture: Firewall	Rational analysis of the biomechanical aberrations seen on Wendigo and Thresher units is fruitless. It requires the insight of madness to discern their true worth.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Update 2.60E	Fracture: Firewall	Corrects a minor protection deficiency noted in Executor production samples.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Strigoi" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Linerunner Utility	Fracture: Firewall	Co-processor for slipstream navigation.	Legendary	Haloween	Purchase the "Molten Chrome" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR

Knee Pads

Knee Pads v • d • e
Knee Pads	Manufacturer	Lore	Rarity	Introduced In	Unlock Requirements
Experiment 21C	Fracture: Firewall	Success or failure is always measured in number of expended Executors.	Legendary	Season 03: Echoes Within	Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 10
Production 60 Rev Y	Fracture: Firewall	Function and form united after a billion permutations.	Common	Season 03: Echoes Within	Unlocked by default
Series 99.4	Fracture: Firewall	Esoteric wonders in a mundane looking package.	Common	Season 03: Echoes Within	Purchase either: "Grendel" for 1,100 cR "Groovy Grendel" for 1,800 cR
Coil Growth Sample G	Fracture: Firewall	Impulse coils in a complicated and seemingly nonfunctional arrangement.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Thresher" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR
Experiment 90	Fracture: Firewall	A new attempt at local friction modification fields.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Fomorian" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR
Net Extender Rev A	Fracture: Firewall	Executors are the eyes of the assemblies in the physical realm.	Epic	Cyber Showdown III	Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 12
Power Assist Pad	Fracture: Firewall	Mobility assist package.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR
Series 10 Shock Absorber	Fracture: Firewall	Comfort of the Executor is a consideration during extended compliance operations.	Legendary	Cyber Showdown III	Purchase either: "Geist" for 1,800 cR "Net Riot" for 3,400 cR

Trivia

• Chimera, alongside MIRAGE IIC are 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 Mark VII if another isn't owned. One render created for the Firewall Fracture's 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 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 the name with the namesake's knife used by the Fremen in the Dune franchise.

Gallery

Concept art

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  Concept art of the Chimera armor.

Screenshots

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  The default Chimera armor core, seen in the armor hall.

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  A Spartan wearing the base Chimera helmet with various attachments on Cliffhanger.

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  A Merrow-clad Spartan-IV with the CQS48 Bulldog on Oasis.

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  A Spartan-IV wearing Flenser, reloading the Bandit on Chasm.

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  A Spartan-IV wearing Peaceweaver, throwing a grenade on Live Fire.

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  A Spartan-IV wearing Abatur, sliding on Streets.

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  A Grendel-clad Spartan-IV alongside a Menachite-clad Spartan-IV.

List of appearances

• Halo Infinite
  • Season 03: Echoes Within (First appearance)