Dextro Xur-pattern Spirit
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Template:Ship Class Infobox The Type-28 Troop Carrier[1][2] (Covenant designation DX-class dropship[3]), otherwise known as the Spirit or T28 TC,[1][2] is a Covenant infantry and logistical transport craft.[3]
Design details
The Spirit is a moderately large craft, similar in size to the D77-TC Pelican dropship. Capable of powered flight and hovering, the dropship appears quite cumbersome and awkward to pilots based on battlefield observations but has been known to reach speeds of 350 kilometers per hour while cruising and has a suspected maximum speed of 1,100 kph. Spirits are angular, tuning fork shaped spacecraft with two parallel personnel bays along the exterior of each "prong." The Spirits are dedicated transports for infantry and vehicles. Each of these personnel bays has two doors that open and close vertically; however, they do not close fully and leave a small opening along the length of the bay. Between these extended personnel bays, an energy field fluctuates visibly as it generates the ship's anti-gravity propulsion, similar in appearance to the energy pulse of the gravity lift elevators the Covenant use to commute between the ground and the hovering ships. This same gravity-beam is used to ferry Shades, Ghosts, and other ground vehicles to their destinations.
Type-28 Troop Carriers often ferry Covenant vehicles within the blue-colored energy field between their prongs, usually Ghosts and Wraiths, or other small objects such as supply canisters for ground troops.
While these dropships have life support for use in the vacuum of space, they do not have a Slipspace drive. During OPERATION: FIRST STRIKE, a Spirit was modified with re-enforced metal so it could be launched out of a ship already in Slipspace. Even with this modification, the Spirit became severely damaged after the exit and was still unable to travel into the Slipstream on its own accord.[4]
Known Spirits
- Brilliant Gift - Destroyed inside the Infinite Succor.
Trivia
- The Spirit is jokingly known as the "tuning fork" among Bungie employees due to its shape.[5]
- Lorraine McLees described the Spirit as "having the coolest rear-end of all the Covenant ships".Template:Fact
- The Marathon logo can be seen on the front of the cockpit.
- The Halo Encyclopedia and Bungie.net's vehicle database designate the Spirit as the "Type-25 Troop Carrier" whereas newer media refer to the dropship as the "Type-28 Troop Carrier".[6][7][1][2][note 1]
Gallery
- Dropship artwork.jpg
Concept art of the Spirit dropship for Halo: Combat Evolved.
Turnaround reference of the Type-28 Spirit.
- COVIEDropship.jpg
A render of the Halo: Combat Evolved's Spirit dropship.
A crashed Spirit dropship in the swamps of Installation 04.
Concept 3D model of a Spirit dropship for Halo Wars.
- SpiritonBattlefield.png
A Spirit dropship hovers over a battlefield in Halo Wars.
- Spirit.png
The Spirit dropship from Halo: Reach.
Group of Spirits.
A screenshot of the Halo: Reach-era Spirit dropship.
- Spirit.jpg
A Spirit seen on the firefight level Corvette while deploying troops.
- Spirt cannon.jpg
A view of the cannon mounted on the Spirit.
- Spirt cannon firing.jpg
A view of the mounted cannon firing.
List of appearances
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Halo Wars
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: The Flood
- Halo: First Strike
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Halo: Contact Harvest
- Halo: The Cole Protocol
- Halo Graphic Novel
- Halo Legends
Notes
- ^ In the hierarchy of canon, newer material overrides older material, so the Type-28 designation is considered definitive.
Sources
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- ^ Halo: First Strike, pages 295-296
- ^ Halo: Reach, Legendary Developer Commentary
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