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This massive vessel was once captained by the Didact during the [[Forerunner-Flood War]]. Sealed inside [[Requiem]] along with its master by the [[Librarian]], the Didact reactivated the ship after his awakening in [[2557|July 2557]]. He jumped to [[Ivanoff Station]] alongside a [[Covenant remnant]] fleet, intent on reclaiming the [[Composer]] - an ancient Forerunner weapon with the power to wipe out entire species. The Didact test-fired the Composer on the station, then proceeded to [[Earth]] to settle his personal war with humanity once and for all.

Unknownbest to him, [[John-117]] survived the deadly pulse due to the Librarian's intervention. Pursuing the ''Mantle's Approach'' aboard a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|nuclear-armed]] [[F-41 Broadsword]], the Spartan took out the ship's point defense turrets, allowing the {{UNSCship|Infinity}} to punch through the ''Mantle'''s hull with its [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC cannons]]. The Master Chief then fought his way through the ship, eventually finding the Didact controlling the Composer under an impenetrable force field. [[Cortana]] overloaded the shields by flooding the ship's mainframe with her rampant duplicates, allowing the Chief to confront and kill the Didact with a [[Z-040 Attenuation Field Generator/Localized|pulse grenade]].

With the Composer already firing upon [[New Phoenix]], the Spartan manually detonated the HAVOK warhead as a desperate last resort. The ''Mantle's Approach'' was completely destroyed by the nuclear blast, taking the Composer along with it. The dying Cortana created a [[hard light]] barrier around the Chief at the very last moment, however, saving John's life at the cost of her own.