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{{Title|UNSC ''Midsummer Night''}}
{{Title|UNSC ''Midsummer Night''}}
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{{Individual ship infobox
{{Individual ship infobox
|manufacturer     = [[UNSC]]
|name=UNSC ''Midsummer Night''
|name            = UNSC ''Midsummer Night''
|image=
|name            = ''Stalwart''-class light frigate
|manufacturer=
|slipspace drive = [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
|class={{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}}{{Ref/Note|In ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' (page 163 of the Definitive Edition or 139 of the original edition), it is stated that [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]]' new ship, the [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] ''[[UNSC Iroquois|Iroquois]]'', was 7 meters longer than the frigates ''Midsummer Night'' and the ''[[UNSC Meriwether Lewis|Meriwether Lewis]]''. ''[[Halo 2]]'' established the length of a UNSC frigate to be 478 meters; this was the later-named ''Stalwart'' class. Later, when a UNSC destroyer was first depicted in visual media with ''[[UNSC The Heart of Midlothian|The Heart of Midlothian]]'', it was established that the ship was 485 meters in length; an addition of 7m to the length of the ''Stalwart'' class. In ''Halo: The Cole Protocol'' (page 35), the ''Midsummer Night'' is revealed to be a light frigate. ''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' established that the ''Stalwart'' and ''Charon'' classes would be considered light frigates, while the [[Paris-class heavy frigate|''Paris'' class]] would remain a heavy; a conscious decision to establish the ''Stalwart'' as the class the ''Midsummer Night'' and ''Meriwether Lewis'' belong to. Furthermore, since ''Stalwart'' is both a light frigate and the only frigate class to be 478 meters in length, the ''Midsummer Night'' and ''Meriwether Lewis'' must be part of this class.}}
|shield gen      = None
|role=Stealth, long range attacks
|hull           = {{Convert|60|cm|ft}} of Titanium-A armor
|length=
|sensor          = Long range
|width=
|armament       = *[[MAC]] Gun (1)
|height=
*[[Archer Missile]] Pods
|mass=
*[[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s (3)
|power=
|complement     = *[[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|Marine Shock Trooper contingent]]
|engine=
*Pelican Transports (7 or more)
|slipspace drive=Equipped
|role            = Stealth ship, long range attacks, ship boarding
|hull={{Convert|60|cm|ft}} of [[Titanium-A armor]]
|firstsight      = [[2535]]: Above [[Chi Rho]], [[Ectanus 45]] system
|shielding=
|lastsight       = 2535: [[Falaknuma]], [[18 Scorpii System]]
|countermeasures=Chaff<ref name="CP26">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', Chapter 26</ref>
|battles         = [[Battle of the Rubble]]
|armament=*1 [[MAC]]<ref name="CP4">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', Chapter 4</ref>
|affiliation    = [[UNSC Navy]]
*[[Archer missile]] pods
|owners          = [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[Prowler Corps]]
*At least 2 [[point-defense gun]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP4}}
|namedcrew       = *[[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]] [[Jacob Keyes]]
*3 [[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP26}}
*Lieutenant [[Dante Kirtley]]
|complement=*[[UNSC Marine]]s<ref name="CP2">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', Chapter 2</ref>
*[[Lieutenant Junior Grade]] [[Rai Li]]
*[[ODST]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}}<!--Chapter 4, these were established as being part of the 105th.-->
*Lieutenant Second Grade [[Jason Burt]]
|firstuse=
|captains       = *[[Commander (UNSC)|Commander]] [[Dmitri Zheng|D. Zheng]]
|commission=
*[[Lieutenant (UNSC)|Lieutenant]] [[Jacob Keyes|J. Keyes]]
|lastsight=2535: [[Falaknuma]], [[18 Scorpii system]]
|destroyed=
|battles=*[[Battle of the Rubble]]
*[[Battle of Metisette]]
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|namedcrew=
|captains=*[[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]]
*[[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]]
|affiliation=[[UNSC Navy]]
}}
}}
{{Quote|multi=yes|Dmitri Zheng|Jean Mawikizi|q1=She's a light frigate. With a few tricks up her sleeve.|q2=Night is a long-range stealth ship. Like a [[prowler]], but she packs more of a punch.|[[Dmitri Zheng]] and [[Jean Mawikizi]] describing the ship<ref name="CPC">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 35''</ref>}}
The '''UNSC ''Midsummer Night''''' ([[Hull classification symbol|FFG-209]]{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}}) was a {{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}} in service with the [[UNSC Navy]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol'''</ref>
==Service history==
===Ectanus 45 system===
In [[2535]], the ''Midsummer Night'' was equipped with stealth systems by [[ONI]] while stationed on [[Chi Rho]] in the [[Ectanus 45]] system. The frigate was assigned to help enforce the [[Cole Protocol]] on civilian ships, led by [[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]]. [[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]] was also transferred to the ship.{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}} The ''Midsummer Night'' traveled to the edges of the Ectanus 45 system, shadowing a civilian [[freighter]], ''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'', that had slowly edged its way past the system's elliptic plane. To ensure that the freighter's navigation data had been deleted, Keyes led a boarding team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]s into ''Finnegan's Wake''.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 47''</ref>
However, the freighter turned out to be an [[Insurrectionist]] ambush. Several of the ODSTs were killed by explosives that were set off, but the ''Midsummer Night'' was too far to notice.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 51''</ref> ''Finnegan's Wake'' triggered an emergency beacon, attempting to lure the frigate closer to the freighter so ''Finnegan's Wake'' could [[self-destruct]] and destroy both ships. However, due to Keyes' strategy, most of the ODSTs made it off the freighter safely and the ''Midsummer Night'' was not damaged when the insurgents on ''Finnegan's Wake'' desperately activated the self-destruct mechanism in a failed attempt to kill the ODSTs.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 56-61''</ref>
===Charybdis IX===
{{Main|Scyllion Warehouse District riot|Battle of Charybdis IX}}
Following the ''Finnegan's Wake'' incident, the ''Midsummer Night'' was assigned to helping the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] operatives in [[Charybdis IX]]'s capital city, [[Scyllion]]. The ONI operatives had discovered [[Covenant]] weapons modified for human use being distributed to the city's rioters and required aid from the ''Midsummer Night'' to discover the origins and distributors of the weapons.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 100''</ref> Upon arriving in the [[Charybdis system]], [[Akio Watanabe|Major Akio Watanabe]] and Keyes were sent to met the ONI operatives in the [[Scyllion Warehouse District]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 107''</ref> However, with [[Scyllion Warehouse District riot|escalating riots]] throughout the city, the [[Insurrectionist]]s distributing the modified weapons attacked the UNSC personnel and were supported by rioters. As the three surviving UNSC personnel in the city, Keyes, Watanabe, and [[Corinthia Hansen|Captain Corinthia Hansen]], made their way to the rooftops, they asked the ''Midsummer Night'' for ODST support. However, it would not arrive for twenty minutes.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 124-127''</ref>
While waiting for support, rioters and rebels led by [[Jason Kincaide]] attacked the UNSC survivors. In the following firefight, Kincaide and Watanabe were killed. Shortly after, several ODSTs were deployed from the ''Midsummer Night'' and the rest of the rebels were eliminated.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 130-131''</ref> After the riots were quelled, Keyes and Hansen were brought aboard the ''Midsummer Night'', now with the coordinates leading to the origins of the modified weapons. However, Zheng discovered that a [[Covenant fleet]] just entered the system. While Keyes and Zheng were in favor of using the ''Midsummer Night'' to make a last stand alongside the three [[UNSC destroyer]]s guarding the planet, Hansen ordered them to track the ''[[Kestrel (freighter)|Kestrel]]'', a freighter that had supplied Kincaide with the modified weapons. Reluctantly, the ''Midsummer Night'' dropped Hansen off at an orbiting depot and the frigate left the Charybdis system, leaving just as the Covenant began to [[Battle of Charybdis IX|attack]] the planet.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 139-148''</ref>


The '''UNSC ''Midsummer Night''''' ([[Hull Classification Symbol]] '''FFG-209''') was a [[United Nations Space Command]] [[Stalwart-class light frigate|''Stalwart''-class]] [[UNSC Light Frigate|Light Frigate]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'''</ref> Prior to his [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|promotion to Captain]] in [[2552]], Lieutenant [[Jacob Keyes]] served aboard this frigate and later transferred to the [[UNSC Iroquois]], a UNSC destroyer.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'''</ref>
===Battle of the Rubble===
{{Main|Battle of the Rubble}}
The ''Midsummer Night'' trailed the ''Kestrel'' for nearly a week, eventually following it to the [[23 Librae]] system. The freighter made its way to the [[asteroid]]s orbiting a gas giant in the system, [[Hesiod]]. The ''Midsummer Night'''s crew quickly discovered that the asteroids, known as the [[Rubble]], around Hesiod were connected and populated by [[Insurrectionist]]s and [[Kig-Yar]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 167''</ref> [[Badia Campbell]], the frigate's navigations officer, revealed herself as a rebel-sympathizer and mortally wounded Zheng and shot [[Dante Kirtley]] and [[Rai Li]]. While Keyes and Campbell wrestled for control of her sidearm, she gained the upper-hand and proceeded to commit suicide.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 177''</ref> Campbell had damaged the ship's fusion core coolant system, leaving the frigate nearly disabled. At Zheng's orders, Keyes attacked the Rubble's fleet of freighters, with the ''Midsummer Night'' being damaged with a [[mass driver]] round. After surrendering to the overwhelming Insurrectionist forces, Zheng gave Keyes command of the frigate and succumbed to his wounds. The ''Midsummer Night'' ejected its [[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s to show that it did not intend to attack, allowing Rubble forces to board the frigate.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 180-184''</ref>


==Overview==
The ''Midsummer Night'' was forced to dock with the [[Habitat Asuncion]] asteroid and the frigate's crew was given the option to become a resident of the Rubble or be held in prison cells.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 204''</ref> At some point, the rebels partially repaired the frigate.
In 2535 the ''Midsummer Night'' 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 complement [[ODST]]'s were caught in an [[Insurrectionist]] trap that resulted in over 20 Killed-in-Action and approximately a dozen Wounded-in-Action. From there, she gave support to ONI operatives on [[Charybdis IX]] that were trying to root out the source of the illegal trading of plasma weapons. A UNSC [[Pelican]] pilot attached to the ''Night,'' named [[Jeffries]], lost his life to rebel rockets during this engagement.


''Midsummer Night'' then followed an [[Kestrel (Ship)|Insurrectionist ship]] to a structure known as [[the Rubble]]. The ship attempted to stealth its way through the Insurrectionist structure. Unfortunately, Lieutenant [[Badia Campbell]], one of the bridge officers, was an Insurrectionist sympathizer, who wounded several officers and fatally wounded Commander Zheng before being stopped by Lieutenant Keyes. She then committed suicide with her own weapon. Before she died, Campbell sabotaged the ship and alerted the Rubble to the ship's presence. The ''Midsummer Night'' was then forcefully commandeered by the rebels. It is unknown how many marines and personnel died in this engagement. The rebels presumably repaired it as it was in working condition later.
===Battle of Metisette===
{{Main|Battle of Metisette}}
Later, the Rubble's [[AI]], [[Juliana]], helped free the crew of the ''Midsummer Night''. After discovering the [[Unggoy]] army [[Reth]] had created on one of Hesiod's moons, [[Metisette]], was preparing to attack the Rubble, Keyes prepared to launch [[Battle of Metisette|a counter-attack]] to destroy the Covenant forces. Keyes retook control of the repaired ''Midsummer Night'' and used the frigate to attack Metisette. Meanwhile Kig-Yar and Rubble ships battled over the Rubble's mass drivers and Keyes kept the ''Midsummer Night'' away from ''[[Infinite Spoils]]'', Reth's [[flagship]] that was capable of overwhelming the frigate in seconds.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 310''</ref> As it closed down on the moon, the ''Midsummer Night'' performed a high-speed [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|SOEIV]] deployment to deliver ODSTs and [[Spartan-II|Spartan]] [[Gray Team]] down to [[the Redoubt]] on the surface of Metisette. The ''Midsummer Night'' came under fire from Kig-Yar [[Covenant Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|anti-aircraft guns]], and slowed down, to allow the pods to drop, before speeding off out the atmosphere again.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 312''</ref> After the Spartans and ODSTs destroyed the Kig-Yar targets, ''Midsummer Night'' launched five [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropships]] to pick up the survivors. After all personnel were aboard the frigate, the Redoubt's sensors were destroyed by the frigate's last Shiva.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 327''</ref>


Later, the ship would be taken back by Lt. [[Jacob Keyes]] with the help of the Rubble AI, [[Juliana]], who saw the UNSC presence as the only way to save the citizens under her charge. Keyes and the surviving bridge crew would then use the ship to deploy [[Gray 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 a success.
After the Rubble crashed into Metisette to destroy the Unggoy army, Keyes used the ''Midsummer Night'' to protect [[Habitat Exodus]] while the Rubble's citizens were evacuated inside it, during which the frigate was damaged.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 328''</ref> However, the Exodus could not make a slipspace jump to safety like it intended to do. Keyes decided to convince the [[Rubble Security Council]] to travel to an [[Inner Colony]], which was still possible at the time. The ''Midsummer Night'' escorted the Exodus to [[Falaknuma]], an Inner Colony in the [[18 Scorpii system]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 343''</ref>


From there on out, the ship was used to guard the [[Exodus Project|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 receive repairs.
While the ''Midsummer Night'' was being repaired over the planet and the Rubble's citizens were being evacuated, Keyes was transported to the planet's surface, debriefed, and promoted by [[Hadley|Commander Hadley]] and [[Preston Cole|Admiral Preston Cole]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 352''</ref> Prior to his [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|promotion to Captain]] in [[2552]], Keyes continued to serve aboard this frigate until he was transferred to the {{UNSCShip|Iroquois}}, a [[UNSC destroyer]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 163''</ref>
 
==Crew==
;Before the Raid on ''Finnegan's Wake'':
*[[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]] — ''Commanding officer; killed in action over [[Hesiod]]''
*[[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]] — ''Commanding officer after Zheng's death; formerly executive officer''
*[[Dante Kirtley|Lieutenant Dante Kirtley]] — ''Navigations officer; formerly communications officer''
*[[Rai Li|Lieutenant Junior Grade Rai Li]] — ''Weapons systems officer''
*[[Jason Burt|Second Lieutenant Jason Burt]] — ''Communications officer''
*[[Badia Campbell|Lieutenant Badia Campbell]] — ''Navigations officer; committed suicide over Hesiod''
*[[Akio Watanabe|Major Akio Watanabe]] — ''Office of Naval Intelligence liaison, killed in action of [[Charybdis IX]]''
*[[Jeffries|Petty Officer Jeffries]]
*[[Canfield|First Lieutenant Canfield]]
*[[Faison|Second Lieutenant Faison]]
*[[Finlay]]
*[[Markov]]


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The name is a reference to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', a play by [[William Shakespeare]].
The frigate's name is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', a play by William Shakespeare.
 
*The ''Night'' was first mentioned in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' when [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] Keyes was mulling the specifications of the ''[[Iroquois]]'' over in his head and recalled that she wasn't like the other ships he had served on, he then mentioned the ''Midsummer Night''.


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{first mentioned}}
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'' {{1st}}
==Notes==
{{Ref/Notes}}


==Sources==
==Sources==
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UNSC Midsummer Night
Production information

Class:

Stalwart-class light frigate[Note 1]

Role:

Stealth, long range attacks

Specifications

Slipspace drive:

Equipped

Hull:

60 centimetres (2.0 ft) of Titanium-A armor

Countermeasures:

Chaff[1]

Armament:

Complement:

Service information

Last sighted:

2535: Falaknuma, 18 Scorpii system

Participated battles:

Known commanders:

Affiliation:

UNSC Navy

 

Dmitri Zheng: "She's a light frigate. With a few tricks up her sleeve."
Jean Mawikizi: "Night is a long-range stealth ship. Like a prowler, but she packs more of a punch."
— Dmitri Zheng and Jean Mawikizi describing the ship[4]

The UNSC Midsummer Night (FFG-209[3]) was a Stalwart-class light frigate in service with the UNSC Navy during the Human-Covenant War.[5]

Service history[edit]

Ectanus 45 system[edit]

In 2535, the Midsummer Night was equipped with stealth systems by ONI while stationed on Chi Rho in the Ectanus 45 system. The frigate was assigned to help enforce the Cole Protocol on civilian ships, led by Commander Dmitri Zheng. Lieutenant Jacob Keyes was also transferred to the ship.[3] The Midsummer Night traveled to the edges of the Ectanus 45 system, shadowing a civilian freighter, Finnegan's Wake, that had slowly edged its way past the system's elliptic plane. To ensure that the freighter's navigation data had been deleted, Keyes led a boarding team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers into Finnegan's Wake.[6]

However, the freighter turned out to be an Insurrectionist ambush. Several of the ODSTs were killed by explosives that were set off, but the Midsummer Night was too far to notice.[7] Finnegan's Wake triggered an emergency beacon, attempting to lure the frigate closer to the freighter so Finnegan's Wake could self-destruct and destroy both ships. However, due to Keyes' strategy, most of the ODSTs made it off the freighter safely and the Midsummer Night was not damaged when the insurgents on Finnegan's Wake desperately activated the self-destruct mechanism in a failed attempt to kill the ODSTs.[8]

Charybdis IX[edit]

Main articles: Scyllion Warehouse District riot, Battle of Charybdis IX

Following the Finnegan's Wake incident, the Midsummer Night was assigned to helping the Office of Naval Intelligence operatives in Charybdis IX's capital city, Scyllion. The ONI operatives had discovered Covenant weapons modified for human use being distributed to the city's rioters and required aid from the Midsummer Night to discover the origins and distributors of the weapons.[9] Upon arriving in the Charybdis system, Major Akio Watanabe and Keyes were sent to met the ONI operatives in the Scyllion Warehouse District.[10] However, with escalating riots throughout the city, the Insurrectionists distributing the modified weapons attacked the UNSC personnel and were supported by rioters. As the three surviving UNSC personnel in the city, Keyes, Watanabe, and Captain Corinthia Hansen, made their way to the rooftops, they asked the Midsummer Night for ODST support. However, it would not arrive for twenty minutes.[11]

While waiting for support, rioters and rebels led by Jason Kincaide attacked the UNSC survivors. In the following firefight, Kincaide and Watanabe were killed. Shortly after, several ODSTs were deployed from the Midsummer Night and the rest of the rebels were eliminated.[12] After the riots were quelled, Keyes and Hansen were brought aboard the Midsummer Night, now with the coordinates leading to the origins of the modified weapons. However, Zheng discovered that a Covenant fleet just entered the system. While Keyes and Zheng were in favor of using the Midsummer Night to make a last stand alongside the three UNSC destroyers guarding the planet, Hansen ordered them to track the Kestrel, a freighter that had supplied Kincaide with the modified weapons. Reluctantly, the Midsummer Night dropped Hansen off at an orbiting depot and the frigate left the Charybdis system, leaving just as the Covenant began to attack the planet.[13]

Battle of the Rubble[edit]

Main article: Battle of the Rubble

The Midsummer Night trailed the Kestrel for nearly a week, eventually following it to the 23 Librae system. The freighter made its way to the asteroids orbiting a gas giant in the system, Hesiod. The Midsummer Night's crew quickly discovered that the asteroids, known as the Rubble, around Hesiod were connected and populated by Insurrectionists and Kig-Yar.[14] Badia Campbell, the frigate's navigations officer, revealed herself as a rebel-sympathizer and mortally wounded Zheng and shot Dante Kirtley and Rai Li. While Keyes and Campbell wrestled for control of her sidearm, she gained the upper-hand and proceeded to commit suicide.[15] Campbell had damaged the ship's fusion core coolant system, leaving the frigate nearly disabled. At Zheng's orders, Keyes attacked the Rubble's fleet of freighters, with the Midsummer Night being damaged with a mass driver round. After surrendering to the overwhelming Insurrectionist forces, Zheng gave Keyes command of the frigate and succumbed to his wounds. The Midsummer Night ejected its Shiva-class nuclear missiles to show that it did not intend to attack, allowing Rubble forces to board the frigate.[16]

The Midsummer Night was forced to dock with the Habitat Asuncion asteroid and the frigate's crew was given the option to become a resident of the Rubble or be held in prison cells.[17] At some point, the rebels partially repaired the frigate.

Battle of Metisette[edit]

Main article: Battle of Metisette

Later, the Rubble's AI, Juliana, helped free the crew of the Midsummer Night. After discovering the Unggoy army Reth had created on one of Hesiod's moons, Metisette, was preparing to attack the Rubble, Keyes prepared to launch a counter-attack to destroy the Covenant forces. Keyes retook control of the repaired Midsummer Night and used the frigate to attack Metisette. Meanwhile Kig-Yar and Rubble ships battled over the Rubble's mass drivers and Keyes kept the Midsummer Night away from Infinite Spoils, Reth's flagship that was capable of overwhelming the frigate in seconds.[18] As it closed down on the moon, the Midsummer Night performed a high-speed SOEIV deployment to deliver ODSTs and Spartan Gray Team down to the Redoubt on the surface of Metisette. The Midsummer Night came under fire from Kig-Yar anti-aircraft guns, and slowed down, to allow the pods to drop, before speeding off out the atmosphere again.[19] After the Spartans and ODSTs destroyed the Kig-Yar targets, Midsummer Night launched five Pelican dropships to pick up the survivors. After all personnel were aboard the frigate, the Redoubt's sensors were destroyed by the frigate's last Shiva.[20]

After the Rubble crashed into Metisette to destroy the Unggoy army, Keyes used the Midsummer Night to protect Habitat Exodus while the Rubble's citizens were evacuated inside it, during which the frigate was damaged.[21] However, the Exodus could not make a slipspace jump to safety like it intended to do. Keyes decided to convince the Rubble Security Council to travel to an Inner Colony, which was still possible at the time. The Midsummer Night escorted the Exodus to Falaknuma, an Inner Colony in the 18 Scorpii system.[22]

While the Midsummer Night was being repaired over the planet and the Rubble's citizens were being evacuated, Keyes was transported to the planet's surface, debriefed, and promoted by Commander Hadley and Admiral Preston Cole.[23] Prior to his promotion to Captain in 2552, Keyes continued to serve aboard this frigate until he was transferred to the UNSC Iroquois, a UNSC destroyer.[24]

Crew[edit]

Before the Raid on Finnegan's Wake

Trivia[edit]

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

List of appearances[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ In Halo: The Fall of Reach (page 163 of the Definitive Edition or 139 of the original edition), it is stated that Keyes' new ship, the destroyer Iroquois, was 7 meters longer than the frigates Midsummer Night and the Meriwether Lewis. Halo 2 established the length of a UNSC frigate to be 478 meters; this was the later-named Stalwart class. Later, when a UNSC destroyer was first depicted in visual media with The Heart of Midlothian, it was established that the ship was 485 meters in length; an addition of 7m to the length of the Stalwart class. In Halo: The Cole Protocol (page 35), the Midsummer Night is revealed to be a light frigate. Halo: The Essential Visual Guide established that the Stalwart and Charon classes would be considered light frigates, while the Paris class would remain a heavy; a conscious decision to establish the Stalwart as the class the Midsummer Night and Meriwether Lewis belong to. Furthermore, since Stalwart is both a light frigate and the only frigate class to be 478 meters in length, the Midsummer Night and Meriwether Lewis must be part of this class.

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b Halo: The Cole Protocol, Chapter 26
  2. ^ a b Halo: The Cole Protocol, Chapter 4
  3. ^ a b c d Halo: The Cole Protocol, Chapter 2
  4. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 35
  5. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol
  6. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 47
  7. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 51
  8. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 56-61
  9. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 100
  10. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 107
  11. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 124-127
  12. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 130-131
  13. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 139-148
  14. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 167
  15. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 177
  16. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 180-184
  17. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 204
  18. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 310
  19. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 312
  20. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 327
  21. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 328
  22. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 343
  23. ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 352
  24. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 163
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