Editing Brilliant Gift

{{Title|''Brilliant Gift''}}
{{Status|Canon}}
{{Individual ship infobox
|name=''Brilliant Gift''
|image=[[File:Brilliant Gift.png|275px]]
|class={{Pattern|Dextro Xur|Spirit}}
|manufacturer=[[Covenant]]
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|length = {{Convert|27.8|m|ft|sigfig=3|sp=us}}<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 270''</ref>
|width = {{Convert|18|m|ft|sigfig=3|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|ENC}}
|height = {{Convert|11.8|m|ft|sigfig=3|sp=us}}
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|hull=[[Nanolaminate]] hull plating
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|armament=[[Heavy plasma cannon]] (1)
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|misc4-title=Complement
|misc4=Covenant troops; later Flood<ref name="Halo Graphic Novel" >'''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''', ''[[The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor]]''</ref>
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|role=Troop transport
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|destroyed=[[2552#September|September 21, 2552]]
|retired=
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|battles=[[Battle of Installation 04]]
|affiliation=*[[Covenant]] {{C|formerly}}
*[[Flood]]
|fleet=[[Fleet of Particular Justice]]
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'''''Brilliant Gift''''' was a [[Covenant]] [[Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit]] dropship. During the [[Battle of Installation 04]], ''Brilliant Gift'' was captured by the [[Flood]], and became a transport to spread its infection to the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] orbiting over [[Installation 04|Alpha Halo]].

==Operational history==
The ''Brilliant Gift'''s mission before it was captured is unknown. After the Flood was released, they somehow managed to commandeer the ship and leave Installation 04 towards the Fleet of Particular Justice. The dropship headed towards the {{Pattern|Mjern|agricultural support ship}} ''[[Infinite Succor]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|Halo Graphic Novel}}

Despite the command crew's orders to the contrary, the dropship crash-landed into the ''Infinite Succor'''s hangar and was irreparably damaged, killing some of the Covenant crewmen stationed there.{{Ref/Reuse|Halo Graphic Novel}} However, it ultimately did not matter: the Flood killed most of the witnesses and soon spread throughout the ''Infinite Succor'', infecting the entire crew and the creatures in the hunting ground, except for the [[Minister of Etiology]].{{Ref/Reuse|Halo Graphic Novel}} One of the most notable combatants in the battle was [[Rtas 'Vadum]]ee, [[Special Operations Commander]] and later [[Fleet Master]].

The dropship was destroyed when the ''Infinite Succor'' was forced to make a slipspace jump into [[Soell]], the system's star.

==Trivia==
*The Flood aboard ''Brilliant Gift'' were infected human [[Flood combat form|combat forms]], armed with human weaponry. They were likely members of the former [[Fire Team Charlie]] who, along with [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]], were attacked and assimilated by the Flood.
*The name of the ship, "''Brilliant Gift''", is acutely ironic considering its role in the story - it brings the Flood onto ''Infinite Succor'', which leads to the death or assimilation of virtually everyone onboard.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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[[Category:Dropships]]