Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit

This article is about the model introduced in Halo: Combat Evolved. For other Spirit variants, see Spirit.

Dextro Xur-pattern Warrior Transport
Production information
Manufacturer:	Tertiary Assembly Forges
Class:	DX (UNSC designation: "Type-25")
Role:	Dropship, gunship, scout
Technical specifications
Length:	33 meters (108 ft)
Width:	18.1 meters (59.4 ft)
Height:	11.6 meters (38.1 ft)
Mass:	67.9 metric tons (66.8 LT; 74.8 ST)
Maximum speed:	1,099 kilometres per hour (683 mph)
Slipspace drive:	Not equipped
Other system(s):	Gravity hoist
Armament:	One Murien-pattern heavy plasma cannon
Complement:	Two Obedientaries Thirty Warriors Two light vehicles or one heavy vehicle
Crew:	One pilot, one sensor operator
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Human-Covenant War Great Schism Post-Covenant War conflicts
Affiliation:	Covenant Servants of Abiding Truth Banished

"Uh-oh, another bandit droppin' in behind us! They're tryin' to flank us!"

— Manuel Mendoza spotting a T-25 Spirit during the Battle of Installation 04.

The Dextro Xur-pattern Warrior Transport or more formally the DX-class dropship, (UNSC Type classification: Type-25 Troop Carrier, T-25 TC), or more commonly the Spirit, is an infantry and logistical dropship and utility craft manufactured by their Tertiary Assembly Forges. Dubbed the Dextro Xur design pattern, the Type-25 Spirit served as one of the primary transport crafts of the Covenant military, though the Nuro'k Xur-pattern Spirit is now utilized by the Swords of Sanghelios' army and other Covenant remnant factions.

Overview

Design details

The Spirit is a moderately large craft, being 33 meters (108 ft) in length. The dropship is an angular, tuning fork-shaped spacecraft with two parallel personnel bays along the exterior of each "prong". The pilot's compartment is located at the rear, between the twin troop bays. Each of these personnel bays has two doors that open and close vertically; however, they do not close fully and leave a small opening along the length of the bay. Between these extended personnel bays, a gravity hoist fluctuates visibly as it generates the ship's anti-gravity propulsion, similar in appearance to the energy pulse of the gravity lifts the Covenant use to commute between the ground and hovering ships. This same system is used to ferry payloads to their destinations. A uniquely stable contragravity system is fitted onto the dropship, which can adapt to a wide range of load profiles without any apparent compensation delays or loss of efficacy. The hull of