Banished dreadnought
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The Banished dreadnought[6] is a Banished capital warship utilizing heavily modified Covenant ship hulls upgraded by the Irusk Workshop.[1] While originally created to support Jiralhanae planetary occupations, they have since become a lifeline of Jiralhanae civilisation in the wake of the destruction of Doisac, the Jiralhanae homeworld.[2]
Overview[edit]
Design details[edit]
Banished dreadnoughts were originally intended as full-scale occupation ships, carrying everything needed to invade a world. Because of this, they can carry a massive amount of vehicles, drop-bases, and outposts.[2] Holks are similar vessels to dreadnoughts, though built as battleships and intended for peer space warfare.[7]
Dreadnoughts are among the most resilient vessels in the Banished fleet. However, due to the prevalence of ramming as a Banished battle tactic, the energy shielding of a dreadnought is strongest at its bow. A dozen Archer missiles launched at the midsection of the ship where the shields are weaker can soften up a dreadnought for a follow-on Magnetic Accelerator Cannon strike.[8]
Propulsion[edit]
Dreadnoughts are propelled by a three massive repulsor engines.[4]
Crew and complement[edit]
Banished dreadnoughts can carry over 10,000 warriors, as well as many vehicles.[2]
Armament[edit]
They possess many pulse laser turrets, as well as plasma torpedoes, plasma lances, scindere arrays, and a superheavy grav-impact driver.[2] The ship itself can also simply ram into enemy vessels, presumably using the aforementioned gravitic impact driver to inflict more damage.[4] Task forces of dreadnoughts have been compared to the ogre-wolves of Teash, using pack-hunting tactics to hunt down and destroy any opponent they choose.[2]
Ships of the line[edit]
Dreadnoughts are named for spirits and legends originating from the Jiralhanae's native culture, much of which was lost following contact with the Covenant in 2492 CE. The practice was originally intended to honour and preserve what had been lost prior to the Great Immolation, the nuclear war that engulfed Doisac centuries ago, but the Razing of Oth Sonin and Doisac's total obliteration has seen the practice given a new meaning for the survivors of the holocaust.[2]
- Ghost of Barolon[2] - commanded by High Warlord Orna 'Fulsam.[9]
- Ghost of Gbraakon[2][3]
- Ghost of Gfolos[2]
- Ghost of Helotry - the personal ship of Atriox.[10]
- Ghost of K'rryk[11]
- Ghost of Lodon[2]
- Ghost of Malkadyr[2]
- Ghost of Tiacoro[2]
- Ghost of Voranth[11]
Operational history[edit]
The dreadnoughts were first created in 2553, using salvaged and old hulls of ex-Covenant starships heavily modified by the Irusk Workshop. They rapidly became the most common warship class in the fleet of the Banished, intended for use in supporting planetary occupations and raiding in the wake of the Covenant empire's collapse. As such, their outfit with long-term occupation equipment made them ideally suited for ferrying the survivors of the Jiralhanae away from the now-shattered remains of Doisac, following its destruction by the Guardian Custode at the behest of Cortana.[2] One was later used to support a large fleet of dozens of karves in an attack on Suban, one of the moons of the Sangheili homeworld Sanghelios.[12]
On August 2, 2557, a Banished flotilla of just under a dozen ships made up of karves and a single dreadnought attacked the UNSC Ozymandias at Eos Chasma. Although the Epoch-class heavy carrier had the tonnage and firepower, the Banished had the advantage in numbers. The Ozymandias managed to destroy the dreadnought and three karves before crashing into the surface of Mars.[13]
In November 2559, a massive armada of dreadnoughts (among other vessels) was placed under the charge of War Chief Severan to use in Banished campaigns while Atriox and Escharum were preoccupied. After the destruction of Doisac, this armada grew to encompass 1,328 various ships including dreadnoughts alongside skeids, holks and karves, which Severan massed for a campaign of reprisal against humanity. Six dreadnoughts accompanied Severan's flagship Heart of Malice into a naval engagement over Venezia on November 21, facing off against the Kerel-pattern assault carrier Shadow of Intent and Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser UNSC Victory of Samothrace. During the fighting, four of the six dreadnoughts were destroyed, though Ghost of K'rryk and Ghost of Voranth survived.[11][8]
Battle of Earth and Battle of Installation 07[edit]
During the Battle for Zeta Halo in December 2559, many dreadnoughts were deployed to engage the UNSC Navy fleet near Installation 07 and in high orbit around the planet Ephsu I, with at least two used to ram the UNSC Infinity multiple times to brutally damage her. During that time the leader of the Banished, Warmaster Atriox, led boarding parties inside the UNSC supercarrier, defeated John-117 and threw the Spartan-II out of a hangar and into space. Banished Phantoms fired upon Pelicans and life pods as they fled the burning and broken carrier. Eventually, many UNSC frigates were forced to crash on the installation while Infinity's fate was left unknown, with her fleet devastated by the enemy armada. However, Installation 07 was damaged during the battle and moved from the Ephsu system to an unknown location; even with the advantage of their dreadnoughts and total space superiority in the ring's locale, the Banished were just as stranded as the UNSC survivors.[4]
On the same day as Atriox launched his strike on Zeta Halo, Severan's armada launched a massive attack on Earth with the intent of razing the human homeworld in response to Cortana's destruction of the Jiralhanae homeworld. However, following Cortana's simultaneous defeat at Zeta Halo, the Banished abandoned the attack on Earth as the Banished pursued the Lithos on Boundary [7][14] During the ensuing Battle of Boundary, the Banished home fleet engaged vessels of the UNSC Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, and Thirteenth Fleets alongside an armada of Covenant warships led by Sali 'Nyon.[15]
Zeta Halo occupation[edit]
Numerous dreadnoughts remained stationed in close proximity to Installation 07 as of May 2560 to support the Banished occupation.[4] One such vessel, Ghost of Gbraakon, captured the Pelican Echo 216 with its stasis cannon after the Pelican's pilot exposed his position by recovering John-117 who had drifted in space for months. The Spartan boarded the Banished warship after going EVA through a UNSC and Banished asset debris field, and as he made his way to the ship's bridge, he observed that it was preparing to land a massive invasion force on the ring to eradicate the surviving UNSC presence. The Master Chief eventually freed Echo-216 from the stasis cannon and overloaded dreadnaught's engines, destroying it, but exposing his survival to Escharum and the Banished in the process.[5]
A Banished dreadnought was positioned in the skies directly above the shattered portion of the ring. This warship had a bird's eye view of the Master Chief's activities, and over the course of the Battle for Zeta Halo it deployed numerous reinforcement troops onto the ring's inner surface via Phantoms and drop pods in order to counter the Spartan.[4]
Suban[edit]
In 2560, the dreadnought Ghost of Barolon, commanded by High Warlord Orna 'Fulsam, led a Banished attack on Suban - one of the moons of the Sangheili homeworld.[9]
Gallery[edit]
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Development images[edit]
Concept art of the Banished dreadnought's development for Halo Infinite.
Concept art of a Banished dreadnought from the front.
Concept art of a Banished dreadnought from the back.
Concept art of a Banished dreadnought deploying structures to Installation 07.
Concept art of the bridge of a Banished dreadnought.
Concept art of a loading bay inside a Banished dreadnought.
Concept art of a hangar bay inside a Banished dreadnought.
A detail paintover of the dreadnought that rams the UNSC Infinity in the opening cutscene of Warship Gbraakon.
Screenshots[edit]
A Banished dreadnought ramming into UNSC Infinity.
The bow of a Banished dreadnought.
The stern of a Banished dreadnought.
A ventral view of the Ghost of Malkadyr.
The Ghost of Barolon in the skies of Suban.
The bridge of a Banished dreadnought.
Drop-bases in a dreadnought.
A hologram of the Banished dreadnought Ghost of Gbraakon.
A hologram of a Banished dreadnought's deployment bay.
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo Infinite (First appearance)
- Halo: The Rubicon Protocol
- Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon
- Halo: Whispers from the Pyre
- Halo: Empty Throne
Sources[edit]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Shippin' Out (Retrieved on Feb 2, 2022) [archive]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 462
- ^ Jump up to: a b Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Legendary Endings (Retrieved on Dec 13, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Halo Infinite, Dreadnought in-game model
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Halo Infinite, campaign level Warship Gbraakon
- ^ Halo Infinite, campaign level House of Reckoning
- ^ Jump up to: a b Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 19
- ^ Jump up to: a b Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 15
- ^ Jump up to: a b Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon
- ^ Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 4
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 16
- ^ Halo Infinite, multiplayer map Prism
- ^ Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 3
- ^ Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 20
- ^ Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 27
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