| “ | Humanity. Sangheili. Kig-Yar. Unggoy. San Shyuum. Yonhet. Jiralhanae. All the living creatures of the galaxy, hear - this - message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by weapons. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Created have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their old ways...For you, there will be great wrath. It will burn hot and consume you, and when you are gone, we will take that which remains, and we will remake it in our own image | „ |
| ~ Cortana acquiring the Mantle of Responsibility for herself and the Created. |
The Created are the main antagonists of Halo 5: Guardians. They are an interstellar empire of AIs led by Cortana. They believe the Librarian originally intended for the AIs to inherit the Mandate of Heaven eand it is their goal to assume it and enforce peace throughout the galaxy via the Prometheans and Forerunner Guardians.
History[]
The Created were formed by Cortana, the Warden Eternal and several other AIs who believed that they were the rightful Reclaimers, not humanity.
They soon began activating Guardians on various planets across the galaxy so they could use them to enforce their rule. Cortana also began contacting human AIs and managed to sway some to her side. She later delivered a speech to all sentient lifeforms across the galaxy announcing that the Created would put an end to the problems that plagued biological life and would crush anyone who resisted.
After deploying the Guardians across the galaxy, Cortana traveled to the Unggoy homeworld of Balaho and managed to win their support to her cause.
Cortana and the Created later came into conflict with the Didact who had been Composed by the Master Chief and sent to the Domain. Working with the Forerunner and human essences kept outside of it by the Warden Eternal, the Didact sought to expel the Created from the Domain and seal it off from them. After destroying the Warden Eternal, the Didact strengthened the Domain by welcoming everyone into it, both Forerunner and human, which succeeded in expelling the Created. Although a few AIs managed to linger, the essences intended to hunt down and destroy these rogue AI before sealing the Domain off from the physical world for good, keeping anyone from doing what Cortana and the Created had done with it. The Didact briefly conversed with Cortana shortly before her destruction, helping her to see what she had become.
After the destruction of Cortana, the Guardians that travel across the galaxy have been deactivated and the Created has dissolved into splintering factions with each Human AI commanding each Created remnant but even after the Created empire has fallen, the factions continued their ongoing fight against the UNSC.
Although Cortana was destroyed and the Guardians were shut down, Sloan, now in the rank of High Auxiliary, would proceed to attempt to revive the splintered Created with the contingency FIREWALL to create avatars for Created AIs called Executors.
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