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{{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}}}} | {{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''.]] | [[File:HINF - Executor - Cropped.jpg|thumb|250px|The Chimera core in ''Halo Infinite''.]] | ||
The '''Chimera''' is an armor core employed by Executors in the | The '''Chimera''' is an armor core employed by Executors in the [[Fractures#Firewall|Firewall]] [[Fractures|Fracture]]. | ||
== In-game information == | == In-game information == |
Revision as of 21:52, December 26, 2023
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. |
“ | 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.[1] | ” |
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
Helmets
Helmets | |||||
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Helmet | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | 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 | 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 | 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 | Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" Bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR | |
FOMORIAN |
Fracture: Firewall | FOMORIAN Executor loadouts and observed mission responses blur the line between aberrant design and inhuman inspiration. | Legendary | 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 | Purchase the "Geist" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR or the "Net Riot" Super Bundle for 3,400 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 | Purchase the "Groovy Grendel" Bundle from the Shop for 2,200 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 | Purchase the Grimghast bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR. | |
MERROW |
Fracture: Firewall | MERROW compliments a task-shaped body suited for assaults on entrenched biologics or the secure dataclusters of rival infolife. | Epic | Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 5 | |
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 Operation Pass level 20 | |
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 | Purchase the "Peaceweaver" Bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR | |
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 | 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 | Purchase the "Thresher" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR or the "Net Riot" Super Bundle for 3,400 cR |
Helmet attachments
Helmet Attachments | |||||
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Helmet Attachment | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | 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 | Purchase the Synthetic Runtime bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR |
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Ghostlink Adaptation |
Fracture: Firewall |
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Legendary | Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR |
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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 | Purchase the "Peaceweaver" Bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR |
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Injuction Adaptation |
Fracture: Firewall | Shaped-charge explosive to deny an Executor's cortical structures from being recovered for post-mortem analysis or reconstruction. | Legendary | Purchase the "Geist" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR or the "Net Riot" Super Bundle for 3,400 cR |
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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 | Purchase the Grimghast bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR |
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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 | Purchase the Strigoi bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR |
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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 Operation Pass level 20 |
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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 | Purchase the Groovy Grendel bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR |
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Visor
Visors | ||||
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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 | ||||
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Chest | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
Compliance Protocol |
Fracture: Firewall | The cutting edge of enforcement pruning and tending of social cohesion. | Legendary | 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 | Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR |
Fairlight Echoclusters |
Fracture: Firewall | Portable datacores fitted to Executor couriers and command nodes. | Epic | Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 13 |
Revelation Protocol |
Fracture: Firewall | The inspirations of unliving minds is not for biologics to understand or appreciate. | Legendary | Purchase the Groovy Grendel bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR |
Savior Protocol |
Fracture: Firewall | All Exectors can be discarded on a whim, but some are less disposable than others. | Legendary | Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 20 |
Shoulders
Shoulders | ||||
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Shoulders | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
Alpha Augmentor |
Fracture: Firewall | The bare minimum of shield shaping and feedback filtering, for baseline Executors. | Common | 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 | Purchase the "Groovy Grendel" bundle from the Shop for 2,200 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 | Purchase the "Synthetic Runtime" bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR |
Flexcomposite Augmentor |
Fracture: Firewall | Perfection cannot be achieved in a single iteration. | Rare | Purchase the "Facing Firewall" bundle from the Shop for 800 cR |
Hierodyne Augmentor |
Fracture: Firewall | Emergency injectors for regenerative chemicals. Side effects include uncontrolled growths that require controlled cauterization during maintenance. | Epic | 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 | |
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 | Purchase the "Peaceweaver" bundle from the Shop for 1,200 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 Operation Pass level 19 |
Gloves
Gloves | ||||
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Gloves | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
Clinical Manipulars |
Fracture: Firewall | Used when a more delicate touch is needed. | Legendary | Purchase the "Strigoi" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR |
Executor Manipulars |
Fracture: Firewall | Nerve and muscle, dancing to the music of unseen players. | Common | Unlocked by default |
Serene Manipulars |
Fracture: Firewall | The benevolent hand of the assemblies lies heavy on humanity. | Legendary | Purchase the "Peaceweaver" Bundle from the Shop for 1,200 cR |
Wrist
Wrists | ||||
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Wrist | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
BRINK Plugin |
Fracture: Firewall | Tunable jamming device which deters and confuses cooperative autonomous munition swarms. | Legendary | Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR |
TAG Plugin |
Fracture: Firewall | Forearm-mounted target designator for orbital glimmerlances. | Legendary | Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 19 |
Terminating Process Plugin |
Fracture: Firewall | The scoping exercise has been completed. Resources must be reclaimed. | Epic | Cyber Showdown III Operation Pass level 14 |
Utility
Utilities | ||||
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Utility | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
Crysknife Utility |
Fracture: Firewall | Mounting point for a resonating crysknife. A more refined weapon, for a perfected future. | Legendary | Purchase the "Skinned Reflexes" bundle from the Shop for 1,500 cR |
PostAmp Utility |
Fracture: Firewall | An electronics counter-countermeasure (ECCM) package, which may or may not explode in event of structural failure. | Epic | Complete the "Light & Lightning" Ultimate Challenge between April 18 and 25, 2023 |
Knee Pads
Knee Pads | ||||
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Knee Pads | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
Coil Growth Sample G |
Fracture: Firewall | Impulse coils in a complicated and seemingly nonfunctional arrangement. | Legendary | Purchase the "Thresher" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR or the "Net Riot" Super Bundle for 3,400 cR |
Experiment 21C |
Fracture: Firewall | Success or failure is always measured in number of expended Executors. | Legendary | Fractures: Firewall Event Pass level 10 |
Experiment 90 |
Fracture: Firewall | A new attempt at local friction modification fields. | Legendary | 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 Operation Pass level 12 |
Power Assist Pad |
Fracture: Firewall | Mobility assist package. | Legendary | Purchase the "Grimghast" bundle from the Shop for 2,000 cR |
Production 60 Rev Y |
Fracture: Firewall | Function and form united after a billion permutations. | Common | Unlocked by default |
Series 10 Shock Absorber |
Fracture: Firewall | Comfort of the Executor is a consideration during extended compliance operations. | Legendary | Purchase the "Geist" Bundle from the Shop for 1,800 cR or the "Net Riot" Super Bundle for 3,400 cR |
Series 99.4 |
Fracture: Firewall | Esoteric wonders in a mundane looking package. | Common | Purchase the Groovy Grendel bundle from the Shop for 2,200 cR |
Trivia
- Chimera, alongside MIRAGE IIC are the first armor cores to feature entirely unique default armor coatings, those being Domain Framework and Front Lines, respectively. Mark VII, and Yoroi utilize variants of Cadet Grey, while Mark V [B] uses Cadet Blue. Eaglestrike and 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 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 its name with the crysknife used by the Fremen in the Dune franchise.
- The Grendel helmet is named in reference to the creature from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
- The Merrow helmet is named in reference to the mermaid and merman from Irish folklore.
Gallery
Concept art
Screenshots
A Spartan-IV wearing the base Chimera helmet with various attachments on Cliffhanger.
A Merrow-clad Spartan-IV with the CQS48 Bulldog on Oasis.
A Spartan-IV wearing Peaceweaver, throwing a grenade on Live Fire.
A Spartan-IV wearing Abatur, sliding on Streets.
A Grendel-clad Spartan-IV alongside a Menachite-clad Spartan-IV.
List of appearances
- Halo Infinite
- Season 03: Echoes Within (First appearance)
Sources
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder: Didact's Domain (Retrieved on Feb 3, 2023) [archive]