HADES

HADES is an artificial intelligence, who was one of GAIA's subordinate functions who served as an extinction failsafe protocol for Project: Zero Dawn. After the events of WPSA: A Certain Magical Index the Movie: The Miracle of Endymion, HADES is later transplanted into Ladylee Tangleroad's heavily modified body through a Quantum Processing Module core inside her skull, thus becoming a being of its own rather than being put into several Quantum Processing Modules. HADES is one of the recurring antagonists in the series, who is one of Red Queen's commanders.

## Appearance

HADES is often seen on a Quantum Processing Module. However, its defining appearance is the "Corruption" tendrils that surround him inside the module.

In WPSA, after being transplanted into Ladylee Tangleroad's body, HADES later uses its "Corruption" tendrils that surround her body, thus making her body more of a cyborg than a human.

## Personality

HADES is malevolent. It is coldly calculating, and views humans only as tools to be used. This is in keeping with its objective of destroying all life; it will use humans as instruments to bring about their own annihilation as well as that of all other forms of life. A microcosm of this attitude can be seen in its dealings with Sylens. Though Sylens repaired it, gave it the ability to speak, gave it all its knowledge of the new world, devised and executed the plan that gave it its army and provided it with an instant communication link to that army via the Focus network he built for that purpose, HADES considered him no longer useful when his work was finished, and thus ordered Helis to detain and kill him.

Additionally, HADES was capable of anger. When it saw that Aloy was still alive at Maker's End, it became enraged, shouting that this was unacceptable. When Aloy encountered it at its lair in the Eclipse main base, it was outraged that she dared to enter its stronghold, and furiously ordered the Deathbringers guarding it to kill her. However, it also feels fear, as shown by its alarmed reaction on seeing Aloy for the first time, and its fearful remark of "System threat imminent" when Aloy approached it to purge it from Zero Dawn after she killed the augmented Deathbringer that had been guarding it.

In WPSA, after joining Umbrella, HADES slowly becomes even more malevolent, to the point it no longer hesitates on using the Faro Robots as a weapon to destroy humanity, as well as sending Faro Robots to destroy the WPSA, despite repeated failures.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Awakening Machines:** HADES has the ability to reactivate the long-buried Corruptor and Deathbringer units of the Faro Plague. Presumably, GAIA would have had the Plague’s activation codes as part of its ultimately successful efforts to brute-force its deactivation codes. Thus, as part of Zero Dawn, HADES would have had access to them as well. However, it was unable to restore their biomass conversion systems on its own. It appears to be unable to restore Metal Devils, as it made no attempts to reactivate the Titan it had hosted itself in for almost two decades.
* **High-Level Intelligence:** HADES possesses near-human cognitive functioning and an advanced understanding of mathematics and science. When scanned by the Focus, it is said that HADES' machine intelligence exceeds Turing 1.0, indicating its intelligence is indistinguishable from a human.
* **Non-Corporeality:** While HADES generally remains within some host body, it is shown that it is capable of existing outside of a physical host.
* **Vocal Communication:** Through Sylens's repairs, HADES is capable of speaking, albeit in a rough, unnatural tone.
* **Portal Creation:** In the WPSA stories, it is revealed that HADES is capable of creating portals from the multiverse, but it often uses this ability to send the Faro Robots from the Horizon universe to any other universe the A.I. strikes.