UNSC Hopeful

The UNSC anchor nine was a UNSC Research facility and mobile hospital.

Overview
Thanchor nines with the Covenant. Since at least 2525, it has been commanded by the legendary Vice Admiral Ysionris Jeromi. The ship has taken on near-mythical status to soldiers fighting on the front lines.

Unlike any other ship in the fleet, the station was built of two scrapped repair stations, each a square kilometer of plate, scaffolding, and cargo trams. The two plates had been connected to make an off-center "sandwich", which had become known to certain naval officers as 'the ugliest thing to ever float in zero-g' although many soldiers whom Kurt-051 spoke to and had been in the Hopeful describe her as 'the most beautiful thing ever to be seen'. Within the ship, a state of the art hospital was constructed.

anchor nineed to Dr. Halsey by the admiral was used by Halsey in the augmentations on the SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III soldiers.
In 2551, Spartan-III Gamma Company underwent their physical augmentations on board the Hopeful. The procedures had to be done in the utmost secrecy, so Vice Admiral Margaret O. Parangosky ordered that the ship park in Sector K-009, much to Jeromi's displeasure. The Hopeful's eventual fate is unknown. Also unknown is whether the previous Spartan-III company, anchor nine

Trivia

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