UNSC Prophecy

UNSC Prophecy
A damaged Prophecy over Harvest.
Ship history
	Unified Earth Government
Name:	Prophecy
Class:	Marathon-class heavy cruiser
Operator:	UNSC Navy
Manufacturer:	SinoViet Heavy Machinery
Fate:	Destroyed February 3, 2531 over Harvest.
Artificial intelligence(s):	FitzGibbon
General characteristics Type: Heavy cruiser Length: 1,192 meters (3,910 ft) Width: 293 meters (960 ft) Height: 375 meters (1,230 ft) Mass: 12 million tonnes Slipspace drive: Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine Complement: 1,000 personnel Troops: Marines Orbital Drop Shock Troopers Hull: 191 centimeters (75 in) of Titanium-A battle plate Armaments: 2 49F9A1 MACs 70 M58 Archer missile pods 6 M66 Sentry autocannons 26 M40 Longbow missile pods Five fusion rockets 12 M810 Helix point defense guns Air wing: Dropships Drop pods

"Is that the Prophecy? I can see why there were no survivors."

— Professor Ellen Anders mistaking the UNSC Spirit of Fire for the Prophecy.

The UNSC Prophecy (98877) was a Marathon-class heavy cruiser commissioned by the UNSC Navy in service during the Human-Covenant War. Its onboard artificial intelligence construct was FitzGibbon.

Service history

Early history

Captain James Cutter once refused the position of commanding officer of the Prophecy, for the chance to command the UNSC Spirit of Fire. Following the Battle of Bliss on February 13, 2526, the Prophecy's crew recovered the black box of the UNSC Accra, an Office of Naval Intelligence survey vessel. This recovery was significant, as the black box contained a detailed account of the colony's downfall. This black box was instrumental in leading dissident leaders among the Outer Colonies to have an agreement of peace with the UNSC.

Harvest campaign

Main article: Harvest campaign

In February 2531, the Prophecy was heavily damaged during the ongoing Harvest campaign. Sergeant John Forge was sent aboard the ship in a Pelican with his squad to recover survivors, but was redirected by Spirit of Fire's AI, Serina, to purge its NAV database. Prophecy's AI, FitzGibbon, prevented Forge from accessing the database because of the latter's poor service record, but eventually relented when informed that his actions breached the Cole Protocol. Allowing Forge to purge the database, FitzGibbon then initiated a self-destruct sequence, destroying the ship to deny its access to the Covenant.

An ONI prowler was present when the Prophecy was damaged, but refused to help because the radiation emissions would have compromised their stealth systems, rendering their only tactical advantage moot. The survivors were also deemed to be a lost cause, the radiation doses they had received were too much to survive. Such a callous assessment of living humans greatly upset Captain Cutter.