NCA D'artagnan
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The NCA D'artagnan is a vessel within the naval forces of the New Colonial Alliance. Until his execution at the hand of Ilsa Zane, the D'artagnan served as the flagship of Admiral Mattius Drake.[1]
Design details[edit]
Layout[edit]
The NCA D'artagnan's bridge features a command chair and several crew stations. The bridge also includes as single viewscreen and a holotable that could be used to monitor fleet numbers and positions. The D'artagnan also features a single hangar bay at least large enough to accept a Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom.[1]
Operational history[edit]
Hiding in the Edolas system[edit]
On May 8, 2559, the NCA D'artagnan was stationed in the Edolas system along with more than twenty-four other New Colonial Alliance spacecraft, a handful of alien vessels, and the remains of Vata 'Gajat's naval forces. Many of these vessels were docked at a formerly Covenant space station.[1]
It was on this day that Ilsa Zane—formerly a member of the New Colonial Alliance—infiltrated the D'artagnan. She reached the bridge, killed the ensigns at the crew stations, and managed to restrain the Admiral Mattius Drake in his command chair. While Zane held the admiral at gunpoint, she informed Drake of why she had defected to the Banished and the horrors she had experienced because he had failed to look for her. Shortly after she had finished, War Chief Escharum's intrusion corvette dropped out of slipspace near the D'artagnan. Transported to the D'artagnan's hangar via Phantom, Escharum made his way to the bridge without his guards while Zane began broadcasting to all NCA-aligned vessels in the vicinity. She outlined Drake's failures as the leader of the NCA and announced that she would be relieving him of command. At that, Zane executed Drake with a pistol. Then, she announced that the NCA would be pledging their resources and loyalty to the Banished. Pleased, Escharum joined Zane on her broadcast and promised freedom, prey, and plunder to all who would join them.[1]
Trivia[edit]
The D'artagnan is named in reference to Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, the French musketeer, whose fictionalized life formed the basis of Alexandre Dumas's The d'Artagnan Romances, the most famous of which being the The Three Musketeers.
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo: The Third Life (First appearance)
