Talk:UNSC Midsummer Night

Ship Class
I have tagged this ship (and the Meriwether Lewis) as part of the Stalwart-class of frigates. The reason for this is both deductive and intentional, but I think my reasoning is solid. Please read and see if you agree. Among the first mentions of the Midsummer Night and Meriwether Lewis come from the Fall of Reach novel. Page 163 (definitive edition) or 139 (original edition) states that Keyes' new ship, the destroyer Iroquois, was 7m longer than the Midsummer Night and the Meriwether Lewis, both mentioned to be frigates here. At this time, Halo 2 was not yet out so the In Amber Clad's length was not known.

Later, when Halo 2 came out, the length of a UNSC frigate was established to be 478m. This was the later-named Stalwart-class. Later still, a destroyer was finally given form in the guise of The Heart of Midlothian. It was established here that this destroyer was 485m in length, not coincidentally an addition of 7m to the length of the Stalwart-class.

In The Cole Protocol novel, page 35, the Midsummer Night is revealed to be a light frigate (as opposed to a heavy one). When working on the Essential Visual Guide, the only known frigate type was heavy and that was the Paris-class based on the Reach dialogue: "frigate 318-heavy is inbound". The primary Visual Guide author, Jeremy, and I, then established that the Stalwart and Charon would be considered light frigates, and the Paris would remain a heavy. One of the reasons I wanted the Stalwart to be a light frigate was to satisfy the comment that the destroyer was 7m longer, so the intention was that the Midsummer Night would be a Stalwart-class.

This was also why it was later revealed that the Iroquois was the same class of destroyer as the Midlothian in the Marvel Fall of Reach comic.

So, in the end, the Midsummer Night and Meriwether Lewis have to be frigate's that are considered 1) light, which are also 2) 478m in length, and the only contender for that is the Stalwart-class. Thank you for your attention. Stephen Loftus, ScaleMaster117 (talk) 19:00, 19 June 2013 (EDT)