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Anodyne Spirit

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Anodyne Spirit
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Production information

Naval architects:

Manufacturer:

Ingens Assembler Vats[1]

Class:

Supernal Spiral-class keyship[2]

Role:

Activating portals,[3][4] carrying indexed lifeforms,[1] flagship[2]

Specifications

Length:

10,774 meters (35,348 ft)[5]

Width:

12,441 meters (40,817 ft)[5]

Height:

13,120 meters (43,045 ft)[5]

Engine:

Torsion plates[1]

Slipspace drive:

Crystal-mediated slipspace core[1]

Armament:

Complement:

Crew:

Service information

Year introduced:

c. 100,040 BCE[1]

Last sighted:

2559[6]

Participated battles:

Fleet:

Known commanders:

Affiliation:

 

"My Dreadnought, the vessel that has so long been the focus of our worship, now rests on its true pedestal. Even now, its engines spark greater ones below, relics long without power, yet ready to fulfill their divine purpose. Stand fast! Keep our enemies at bay! Soon, my brothers, we will all have our reward!"
— Prophet of Truth to his troops during the Battle for Earth.[8]

The Anodyne Spirit,[1] known to the Covenant as the Forerunner Dreadnought or simply the Dreadnought,[1][9] is a Forerunner Supernal Spiral-class keyship discovered by the San'Shyuum on their homeworld, Janjur Qom.[10][11][2]

As a keyship, Anodyne Spirit was part of the Forerunner strategy against the Flood, as one of the only vessels capable of activating slipspace portals to reach the Ark. Following the firing of the Halo Array, Anodyne Spirit was commandeered by an aspect of the imprisoned Mendicant Bias and crashed on the San'Shyuum homeworld. There it would later be found and used by the San'Shyuum, and would later become an integral part of the Covenant religion as the centerpiece and main power source for the Covenant holy city, High Charity. Featuring a power generation capacity and shielding unparalleled by human or Covenant technology, the ship was used by the San'Shyuum Reformists during the War of Beginnings to dominate their Sangheili foes in naval combat, and later as the flagship of the High Prophet of Truth in the final battles of the Human-Covenant War. Following the war, it became the home of a Covenant remnant that had been stranded on the Ark.[2]

History[edit]

Prehistory[edit]

As with the other Supernal Spiral-class keyships, the Anodyne Spirit was designed by naval architects Grasping-Steady-Firmament and Lightning-Weaving-Helix and manufactured at the Ingens Assembler Vats. Unlike most Forerunner