UNSC Andraste

UNSC Andraste is a serving in the UNSC Navy.

Production notes
The Andraste was originally concepted out during the production of Halo 3 by artist Isaac Hannaford. At the time, the design was intended to be used for the featured in the final game,. The artwork is featured in the book The Art of Halo 3 and labelled as such on Hannaford's own blogs.

The design was ultimately unused in Halo 3, but was later reused in the release of its sequel Halo: Reach almost wholly unaltered from the original concept, with a 3D model created by artist Matt Turner. The frigate design featured in Reach was later canonised as the in Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, with many of Hannaford's original labels ultimately informing the vessel's canon armaments as listed in the Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition) such as the M2950 Harpoon nuclear missile.

Despite the ship class ultimately being canonised as a heavy frigate with the hull classification symbol of FFG, the Andraste concept artwork uses a hull classification symbol of K. In the artwork, the ship has a full hull code of K-201 - the same numeric as Forward Unto Dawns FFG-201', making it likely Andraste was the in-development precursor to the Dawn. A similar ship,, also appears in some concept art for the Battle of Installation 00.

The Andraste was ultimately featured in the Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), effectively providing a canon depiction for the ship in a Halo source book.