UNSC Midsummer Night

The UNSC Midsummer Night was a United Nations Space Command Light Frigate. Captain Keyes served aboard this frigate prior to 2552, and had then been transferred to the UNSC Iroquois, a destroyer.

This ship was equipped with stealth ability by ONI, in exchange for help with a special mission. The frigate had it rough from the start. During her shakedown mission of enforcing the Cole Protocol on civilian ships, some of her compliment ODSTs were caught in a Innie trap that resulted in over 20 WIA/KIA. From their, she gave support to ONI operatives on Charybdis IX that were trying to root out the source of some black market plasma weapons. Sadly, a UNSC Pelican pilot lost his life to Innie rockets.

From there, MIdsummer Night followed and Innie ship to a structure know as the Rubble. The ship attempted to stealth its way through the Innie structure. Unfortunately, one of the bridge members was an Innie sympathizer, who wounded several officers and fatally wounded Commander Zheng before being shot by her own gun. Before she died, she sabatogged the ship and alerted the Innies to the ship's presence. The ship was soon taken by the Innies. It is unknown how many soldiers died in this battle.

Later, the ship would be taken back by Lt. Keyes with the help of the Rubble AI, who saw the UNSC presence the only way to save the citizens under her charge. Keyes and the surviving bridge crew would then use the ship to deploy Grey Team and its ODSTs onto the Covenant city of Redoubt and its two nearby AA guns in order to open the city to a bombardment. Several ODSTs died in the attempt, but the mission was completed.

From there on out, the ship was used to guard the habitat Exodus while it fled to the relative safety of UNSC controlled space. The ship was damaged in the effort, but was able to make it back and received repairs.

Trivia

 * The name is a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a play by William Shakespeare.