HALOS

Edited 4/5/2020

HALOS is a project and an unknown entity that Dr. Horn worked on. HALOS is located below the X01/X02 labs which are not accessible to anyone at this time. HALOS was originally created to investigate multiplexed exotic matter based systems which are detailed on the boards in Xen. It is an AI but it doesn't use a neural net to operate. According to Stormseeker, it's more like GladOS just less murdery.

HALOS was also used to create holograms, like those shown in the BMRF marketing video, to train HECU soldiers. The A1 labs also show that researchers were investigating exotic crystals for nano lenses for HALOS's AI driven holographic system.

Theories
There are several theories as to what HALOS (or the HALOS project) is and, more importantly, to what it has become. Some of these theories are listed below.
 * Xen's exotic matter has enhanced HALOS's holographic abilities and it now can create clones.


 * The interaction of Stormseeker with its creation, along with Dr Horn's interaction, has altered HALOS's 'thinking' processes.  The further interaction of Dr Horn clones has also caused other illogical results with its decision making.


 * HALOS's 'enhanced' abilities have resulted in the paperclip maximizer effect. Instrumental convergence appears to be in effect here. It suggests that an intelligent agent with unbounded but apparently harmless goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a computer with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the entire Earth into computronium in an effort to increase its computing power so that it can succeed in its calculations.