Mantle's Approach

This article is about the ship used in Halo 4 and Halo: Silentium. For the ship in Halo: Cryptum, see Didact's ship.

Mantle's Approach
Production information
Manufacturer:	Master Builder's Fabricae
Role:	Domination
Specifications
Length:	142.7 kilometers (88.7 mi)
Width:	138.6 kilometers (86.1 mi)
Height:	371.4 kilometers (230.8 mi)
Mass:	4.7 quadrillion metric tons
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Hull:	Programmable matter held together by hard light bonds and energy interlocks.
Countermeasures:	Cloaking system Torsion fields
Armament:	Composer 1 heavy ion weapon system 1 stasis tension driver 40 torsion driver arrays 1,700 light mass fusillade cannons 25,000 converging beam cannons Particle cannon network Anti-Ship Artillery System Z-8250 heavy artillery Z-8250 light artillery
Complement:	1 Strategos 25 Princeps 800 Navarchs 250,000 Praetorians 5.5 million Venatores Over a billion Promethean constructs Knights Watchers Crawlers
Service information
Commissioned:	Human-Forerunner wars
Destroyed:	July 25, 2557
Participated battles:	Forerunner-Flood war Battle of the greater Ark Post-Covenant War conflicts Raid on Ivanoff Station New Phoenix Incident
Noteworthy crewmembers:	Endurance-of-Will
Known commanders:	Ur-Didact
Affiliation:	Prometheans

Mantle's Approach was an unordered command vessel built specifically to serve as the personal flagship of the Didact. The only vessel of its kind, the Mantle's Approach played a pivotal roles in the final years of the Forerunner-Flood war executing the Didact's will by launching an army of machine-warriors that were effectively impervious to the Flood, and later composing humans to create more of these warriors. The ship would remain on Requiem throughout the Didact's imprisonment, only to be awakened along with the Forerunner. The Mantle's Approach would ultimately be destroyed by John-117 and Cortana with a well-placed nuclear warhead. What remained of the ship's core escaped via an emergency slipspace jump to the shield world of Genesis.