Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom

This article is about the Phantom used by the Banished first introduced in Halo Wars 2. For other Phantom models, see Phantom.

Eklon'Dal Workshop Warrior Phantom
Two different variants of Eklon'Dal's Phantom.
Production information
Manufacturer:	Eklon War-Forges
Product line:	Phantom
Technical specifications
Length:	32.7 meters (107.2 ft)
Width:	22.4 meters (73.5 ft)
Height:	11.6 meters (38.1 ft)
Mass:	188.6 metric tons (185.6 LT; 207.9 ST)
Engine(s):	Twin impulse drive system
Armament:	One heavy plasma cannon Two Shea'p-pattern plasma cannons
Crew:	1 pilot
Complement:	24 Passengers
Usage
In service:	Post-Covenant War conflicts Second Ark Conflict Created uprising Battle for Zeta Halo
Role(s):	Dropship
Affiliation:	Banished

"Phantom awaiting commands."

— A Phantom pilot during the Banished occupation of Installation 00.

The Eklon'Dal Workshop Warrior Phantom is a craft in the Phantom line of armed dropships. While the Phantom was originally introduced as a design for the Covenant empire, the variants produced by the Eklon War Forges are instead employed by the Banished.

Overview

Design details

The Eklon'Dal Phantom is based on the iconic Ru'swum-pattern and Kez'katu-pattern Phantoms pioneered during the era of the Covenant empire. Thanks to the empire's collapse into civil war, restrictions on the use of Forerunner technology allowed the Banished and its war-forges to begin making home-grown improvements to their fleet of vehicles - with their dropships being some of the most prolific examples. Accordingly, the Eklon'Dal Phantom features noticeably increased armour plating and a more pronounced empennage, though otherwise mostly bears resemblance to its imperial forebears.

Most of the changes introduced by Eklon'Dal's engineers were functionally negligible to the vehicle's overall performance, though the changes of significance were a cause of argument among the members of the clan.

They are fitted with a twin impulse drive system, this makes the Phantom capable of long-range subluminal travel. It is also equipped with a gravity lift that can be used to pick up and drop off individuals.

Armaments

These Phantoms are fitted with a heavy plasma cannon and two Shea'p-pattern plasma cannons.

Variants

• Standard variant: The standard Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom, bearing a plasma cannon and twin She'ap-pattern light plasma turrets.
• Gunship variant: A variant of the Phantom predominantly carried aboard Enduring Conviction and used in the Second Ark Conflict. This variant retains the classic Covenant Phantom's twin forward engines, and is aggressively modified to serve as a gunship and firing platform. It boasts a larger cannon on the nose, bearing resemblance to the Grenflekt Workshop Spiker, though appears to have lost the side turrets in favour of portholes for onboard troops to contribute their firepower to the vehicle's defence. This configuration would have been used by Ripa 'Moramee, were he to have joined the Banished.

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  The standard Banished Phantom.
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  The Phantom gunship modification.

Operational history

Several gunship Phantoms were kept aboard Enduring Conviction to augment her existing stocks of Spirits and Eklon'Dal Workshop Liches during the Banished's operations on Installation 00 in 2559. In 2560, the Banished made heavy use of the Eklon'Dal Workshop Phantom during the conflict on Installation 07 in a troop transport and fire support role. One such Phantom was hijacked by Swords of Sanghelios warriors who escaped from the UNSC Infinity and used by them and Fernando Esparza to rescue the Master Chief and Joyeuse from the Silent Auditorium.