Unidentified energy sword pattern
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Superheated, shaped plasma[1] |
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100 battery units[1] |
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This unidentified energy sword pattern (UNSC Type classification: Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword, T-1 EW/S),[5][6] more commonly known as the energy sword, is a Covenant melee weapon manufactured by the Merchants of Qikost.[1]
Overview[edit]
Design details[edit]
- Main article: Energy sword (fiction)
This unidentified energy sword is one of the many energy sword variants manufactured by the Covenant. It is characterized by a widened gap between the two blades above its hilt.[1][3] The exact mechanism by which the energy sword functions was still under investigation by United Nations Space Command in 2552.[5]
Usage[edit]
Within the Covenant, this energy sword is a weapon typically carried by high-ranking Sangheili, like Sangheili Ultras, Sangheili Generals and Sangheili Zealots.[3] Bloodblade of this variant were employed by the Silent Shadow.[7][8] Following the Human-Covenant War and the dissolution of the Covenant, this energy sword was inherited by its splinter factions, including the Swords of Sanghelios,[4][9] Jul 'Mdama's Covenant,[4] and Servants of the Abiding Truth.[10]
Variants[edit]
- Bloodblade - As with many other patterns of energy swords, this energy sword pattern can be customized as a bloodblade, with red-colored plasma.[7][8]
Two members of the Silent Shadow wielding bloodblades.
Gameplay[edit]
- Main article: Energy sword
This energy sword pattern is featured in Halo: Reach. The energy sword is a powerful melee weapon in close-quarters combat, capable of killing most foes with a single strike. It is a power weapon that appears on some multiplayer maps.
Production notes[edit]
- In Halo: Reach, the energy sword icon in the HUD features a different inner design from that of the in-game model.
- In the remastered graphics of the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Halo 2: Anniversary campaign, the in-game model of the Pelosus-pattern energy sword was replaced by this unidentified energy sword pattern from Halo: Reach. However, the remastered Halo 2: Anniversary cinematics still depicted the Pelosus-pattern energy sword.
Gallery[edit]
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Halo: Reach[edit]
Concept art of a Sangheili fighting with the energy sword.
The HUD icon for the energy sword. Note the different inner blade design.
The energy sword in the Halo: Reach Beta.
First-person view of the energy sword in the Halo: Reach Beta.
First-person view of the energy sword in the final build.
Reference chart for the energy sword hilt.
Reference chart of the energy sword.
A Zealot wielding an energy sword.
A Zealot charges at SPARTAN-B312 with an energy sword.
A Sangheili Field Marshal prepares to swing down his energy sword.
A Spartan-III wielding an energy sword.
Assassination between two Sangheili using the energy sword in multiplayer.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary[edit]
A cloaked Stealth Sangheili with an energy sword sneaking up on marines.
Lat 'Ravamee wielding the energy sword.
A Zealot wielding the energy sword.
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Halo 2: Anniversary[edit]
Thel 'Vadamee wielding the energy sword as a Zealot in terminals.
Thel 'Vadamee wielding the energy sword as the Arbiter in terminals.
A Heretic Sangheili Major wielding the energy sword.
An Honor Guard wielding the energy sword.
A Special Operations Officer and a Zealot wielding the energy swords.
A Zealot wielding the energy sword.
Halo: The Television Series[edit]
John-117 stabbing a Sangheili with an energy sword.
Var 'Gatanai blocking M6G rounds with his energy sword.
Illustrations[edit]
Thel 'Vadam fighting with the energy sword in Halo: Escalation.
Members of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant using the energy sword during the Battle of Sunaion in Halo Mythos.
Silent Shadow members using the energy sword in Hunting Party.
A Sangheili Minor fighting with the energy sword in Halo: Collateral Damage.
Avu Med 'Telcam with the energy sword in Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition).
List of appearances[edit]
- Deliver Hope (First appearance)
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
- Halo 4 (Prologue only)
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo 2: Anniversary
- Halo: Tales from Slipspace
- Halo: Collateral Damage
- Halo: The Television Series Season Two
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 63
- ^ a b Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), page 349
- ^ a b c Halo: Reach, Gameplay
- ^ a b c Halo Mythos
- ^ a b Bungie.net, Halo: Reach Ordnance Page (Retrieved on Feb 7, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Energy sword (Retrieved on Sep 21, 2011) [local archive] [external archive]
- ^ a b Halo: Evolutions - Headhunters (story): motion comic
- ^ a b Halo: Tales from Slipspace: Hunting Party
- ^ Halo: Escalation, issue 1
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 256
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