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|name=''Sojourner''-class dreadnought | |name=''Sojourner''-class dreadnought | ||
|image=[[File:Old HW ForerunnerFleet.png|300px]] | |image=[[File:Old HW ForerunnerFleet.png|300px]] | ||
|manufacturer=[[Summus Assembler Vats]] | |manufacturer=[[Summus Assembler Vats]]{{Ref/Book|Id=warfleet|HWF|Page=80-81}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P382|Enc22|Page=382}} | ||
|class=[[Forerunner dreadnought|Prime dragoon]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |class=[[Forerunner dreadnought|Prime dragoon]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
|role=Attack{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |role=*Attack{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | ||
|length={{Convert|9430|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | *Preservation{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | ||
|length={{Convert|9430|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | |||
|width= | |width= | ||
|height= | |height= | ||
|mass=10 billion metric tons{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |mass=10 billion metric tons{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | ||
|power= | |power= | ||
|engine=[[Reaction drive]] | |engine=[[Reaction drive]] | ||
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|othersystems=[[Auspex array]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |othersystems=[[Auspex array]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
|era=[[Forerunner-Flood war]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |era=[[Forerunner-Flood war]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
|introduced= | |introduced=Circa [[97,745 BCE]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | ||
|affiliation=[[Forerunner fleet|Forerunner navy]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | |affiliation=[[Forerunner fleet|Forerunner navy]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{Quote|Let the deconstruction of our gifts begin! The majesty of our new fleet will be unparalleled!|Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, upon activating these dreadnoughts | {{Quote|Let the deconstruction of our gifts begin! The majesty of our new fleet will be unparalleled!|Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee, upon activating these dreadnoughts{{Ref/Level|Id=Beachhead|[[Halo Wars]]|[[Beachhead (Halo Wars level)|Beachhead]]}}}} | ||
The '''''Sojourner''-class dreadnought''' | The '''''Sojourner''-class dreadnought'''{{Ref/Game|Id=lootcrate4|Halo Legendary Crate|Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #4}} is a class of [[Forerunner dreadnought|prime dragoon]] used by the [[Forerunner]] [[Forerunner fleet|fleet]].{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Film|Id=origins|HLeg|Episode=Origins}} Manufactured within [[Summus Assembler Vats]], the ''Sojourner'' class was commissioned shortly before the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] and the warships were ready for combat soon after the [[Flood]]'s reemergence.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | ||
== | ==Overview== | ||
=== | ===Design details=== | ||
Two ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts and the docking battle station form combat tridents, independent squadrons that could be deployed on any solar system. During the war against the Flood, the Forerunners made a new combat formation: ten ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts arranging themselves into an octagonal formation and a battle station arranged into deadly decimation lattices, capable of splitting other vessels in half. The dreadnoughts can detach from the battle station and act as components of the ships themselves when hovering above the surface of a planet.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|origins}} | Two ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts and the docking battle station form combat tridents, independent squadrons that could be deployed on any solar system. During the war against the Flood, the Forerunners made a new combat formation: ten ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts arranging themselves into an octagonal formation and a battle station arranged into deadly decimation lattices, capable of splitting other vessels in half. The dreadnoughts can detach from the battle station and act as components of the ships themselves when hovering above the surface of a planet.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|origins}} | ||
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Like most Forerunner [[warship]]s, ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts only required a handful of living beings to oversee ship operations. These dragoons were crewed by fifteen [[navarch]]s, which oversee naval or combat operations. The navarchs were led by the ship's [[princeps]]. The crew was protected by two hundred heavily armored [[Warrior-Servant]] [[scutarii]], who excelled in shipboard combat and the tactical reconfiguration of the dreadnoughts' interior spaces.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | Like most Forerunner [[warship]]s, ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts only required a handful of living beings to oversee ship operations. These dragoons were crewed by fifteen [[navarch]]s, which oversee naval or combat operations. The navarchs were led by the ship's [[princeps]]. The crew was protected by two hundred heavily armored [[Warrior-Servant]] [[scutarii]], who excelled in shipboard combat and the tactical reconfiguration of the dreadnoughts' interior spaces.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
The dreadnought also carried millions of autonomous | The dreadnought also carried millions of autonomous {{Class|Despair|fighter|hunter-killers}}, which were directed by the ship's complement of five thousand [[venatore]]s on long-range strikes. The venatores donned [[war sphinx]]es while carrying out their duties aboard these dreadnoughts.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}} | ||
===Armaments=== | ===Armaments=== | ||
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==Operational history== | ==Operational history== | ||
===Development=== | |||
[[Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished]], one of the most decorated Warrior-Servants within the Forerunner [[ecumene]], took particular interest in the inner workings of military technology, particularly with respect to [[dragoon]] warships. She would ultimately rise to the rank of Commander of Second-Order Dragoons and personally oversaw the development of the ''Sojourner''-class dreadnought's early iterations which went on to prove their effectiveness in breaking through the [[Ancestors]]' defensive lines during the [[Battle of Charum Hakkor|Battle of]] [[Charum Hakkor]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CF151|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-lorelord|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Lorelord|https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-lorelord|D=20|M=3|Y=2024}} | |||
===Forerunner service=== | |||
The ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts were the last in a line of [[Orders of battle|first-order]] warships stretching to the Forerunner's earliest interstellar expansion and were the pinnacle of Forerunner naval technology: impossibly fast, heavily armed and highly efficient. The ''Sojourner'' was introduced shortly before containment efforts [[Forerunner-Flood war|against]] the [[Flood]] began.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}{{Ref/Reuse|origins}}{{Ref/Reuse|CF151}} Millions of ''Sojourners'' were raised up and thrown up against the Flood, proving to be astonishingly effective against the parasite. These vessels participated in all major engagements of the war and were praised as the apex of Forerunner naval accomplishment. ''Sojourners'' were sent on strikes deep into Flood-dominated [[Burn]]s, deployed from trident spire and linked together in weapon configurations of world-ending firepower that ruthlessly cauterized the slightest hint of infection. Despite their efforts, only a few remained intact by the end of the war.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}} | |||
== | ===Reemergence=== | ||
Some ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts were docked at the [[Apex Site]] on the [[shield world]] known as [[Trove]]. During the [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[2531]], the [[High Prophet of Regret]] and [[Arbiter]] [[Ripa 'Moramee]] went to the Etran Harborage to gather a massive and powerful invasion fleet for the Covenant. However, a [[Reclaimer]] was required to release the locking mechanism holding the ships in place. Thus, they abducted [[Ellen Anders|Professor Ellen Anders]] to activate it for them. The ships were destroyed when the artificial star inside the [[shield world]] went [[supernova]] after the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} used their ship's [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipspace drive]] as an improvised bomb.{{Ref/Reuse|Beachhead}}{{Ref/Level|Id=Escape|Halo Wars|Escape (Halo Wars level)|Escape}} Parts of these ships were strewn about the outer surface of the shield world.{{Ref/Level|Id=Anders|Halo Wars|Anders' Signal}} | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Forerunner dreadnoughts}} | |||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:HW Sojourner Sketches.jpg|An initial sketch of ideas for the the dreadnoughts for ''[[Halo Wars]]''. | File:HW Sojourner Sketches.jpg|An initial sketch of ideas for the the dreadnoughts for ''[[Halo Wars]]''. | ||
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File:Library.jpg|Dreadnoughts docked around a [[Library]] on an unknown installation. | File:Library.jpg|Dreadnoughts docked around a [[Library]] on an unknown installation. | ||
File:Ships_fr.png|A group of ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts combining their fire. | File:Ships_fr.png|A group of ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts combining their fire. | ||
File:HL SojournerCombineFire.png|The powerful beam of energy resulting from several ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts combining their fire. | |||
File:Ships_flood.png|Flood-infested dreadnoughts. | File:Ships_flood.png|Flood-infested dreadnoughts. | ||
File:Dreadnaughts-.png|''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''. | File:Dreadnaughts-.png|''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''. | ||
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*''[[Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo]]'' | *''[[Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]'' | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||