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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 canon 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 Kits
Armor core | Manufacturer | Lore | Rarity | Unlock Requirements |
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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
Helmets | |||||
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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 | ||||||
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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 |
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Legendary | Season 03: Echoes Within | 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 | 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:
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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:
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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 | ||||
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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 | 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:
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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:
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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:
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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 | |||||
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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:
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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 |
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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:
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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:
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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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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:
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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:
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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 | |||||
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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:
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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 | |||||
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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:
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Coil Growth Sample G |
Fracture: Firewall | Impulse coils in a complicated and seemingly nonfunctional arrangement. | Legendary | Cyber Showdown III | Purchase either:
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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:
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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
Concept art of various Chimera-themed armor effects.
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]