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{{Ship Class Infobox | |||
{{Ship | |||
|image=[[File:H4-T56LichGSDPUH.png|300px]] | |image=[[File:H4-T56LichGSDPUH.png|300px]] | ||
|name= | |name=Deployment Platform Type-56 | ||
|manufacturer=[[Achoem Weapons]] | |manufacturer=[[Achoem Weapons]]<ref name="Guide"/> | ||
|line= | |line= | ||
| | |model=Type-56 | ||
|cost= | |cost= | ||
|length={{Convert|102.8|m|ft}} | |length={{Convert|102.8|m|ft}}<ref name="H4VG">'''Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide''', ''page 120''</ref> | ||
|width={{Convert|50.9|m|ft}} | |width={{Convert|50.9|m|ft}}<ref name="H4VG"/> | ||
|height={{Convert|34.7|m|ft}} | |height={{Convert|34.7|m|ft}}<ref name="H4VG"/> | ||
|mass= | |mass= | ||
|max speed= | |max speed= | ||
|engine=*[[Impulse drive]] system | |engine=*[[Impulse drive]] system <ref name="H4VG"/> | ||
*Movement control turbines | *Movement control turbines <ref name="H4VG"/> | ||
|hull=Nanolaminate hull plating | |hull=Nanolaminate hull plating | ||
|sensor= | |sensor= | ||
|target= | |target= | ||
|armament=* | |armament=*Primary plasma autocannon (T-56 PEW/M)<ref name="Guide"/> | ||
* | *Side-mounted [[Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon|plasma cannons]] (4) | ||
|crew=Pilot and weapons officer | |crew=Pilot and weapons officer | ||
|complement= | |complement=30-40 passengers | ||
|consumables= | |consumables= | ||
|othersystems=*[[Gravity lift]] | |othersystems=*[[Gravity lift]] | ||
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[[Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group]]<br> | [[Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group]]<br> | ||
[[Kig-Yar]] [[Piracy|pirates]]<br> | [[Kig-Yar]] [[Piracy|pirates]]<br> | ||
[[Banished]] | [[The Banished]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
The ''' | The '''Deployment Platform T-56 Ground Support/Ultra Heavy''', colloquially known as the '''Lich''', is a [[Covenant]] matériel deployment vessel manufactured by [[Achoem Weapons]].<ref name="Guide">'''[[Halo 4 Interactive Guide]]'''</ref> In keeping with the naming scheme of most Covenant vehicles, the Lich is named after a [[Wikipedia:Lich|supernatural being]]. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The Covenant's largest airborne deployment platform, the Lich boasts heavy armament and is capable of mass deployments of up to forty soldiers. Because of this, [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] encounters with Liches have almost always resulted in total destruction of the UNSC ground forces, resulting in a lack of available information on the craft. | The Covenant's largest airborne deployment platform, the Lich boasts heavy armament and is capable of mass deployments of up to forty soldiers. Because of this, [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] encounters with Liches have almost always resulted in total destruction of the UNSC ground forces, resulting in a lack of available information on the craft.<ref name="Guide"/> Like smaller Covenant dropships, the Lich is spaceworthy. It is also capable of traveling through [[Slipstream space|slipspace]], though presumably it cannot do so under its own power. It's shielding, at the very least, is strong enough to endure the radiation of slipspace while following in ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'s'' wake.<ref name="Shutdown">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Shutdown]]''</ref><ref name="Midnight">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Midnight]]''</ref> | ||
Similar to the [[ | Similar to the [[Type-44 Troop Carrier|Type-44]] and [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Type-52 Phantom]] dropships, the Lich sports a [[gravity lift]] on its ventral surface. It likewise has two large bay doors on either side of the hull and [[Type-52 Directed Energy Support Weapon|Type-52 plasma cannons]] are stationed at each doorway. The Lich's main gun seems to be an ultra-heavy [[focus cannon]] like that of the [[Scarab]]. Part of the craft's power core is exposed on an aft pylon.<ref name="Reclaimer">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer]]''</ref> | ||
==Deployment history== | ==Deployment history== | ||
Though the Covenant used the Lich during the [[Human-Covenant War]], it remained rarely seen due to it usually being used by civilian and security roles. | Though the Covenant used the Lich during the [[Human-Covenant War]], it remained rarely seen due to it usually being used by civilian and security roles.<ref>'''[[Halo 4: Official Game Guide]] (Collector's Edition)''' Page 63</ref> Moreover, the vehicle's great effectiveness often resulted in the annihilation of its human opponents. Thus, it remained poorly documented by the UNSC until the post-war period.<ref>[http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/intel/inteldetail/7543ad4d-1f51-4093-876d-f742929cdec1/lich?category=vehicles '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Lich'']</ref> Following the [[Great Schism]] the need for troop transports outweighed the supply.<ref name="W79">''[[Halo Warfleet]]'', ''p. 79''</ref> | ||
[[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]] deployed multiple Liches during | [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]] deployed multiple Liches during their initial foray on the [[Forerunner]] [[shield world]] [[Requiem]] in July [[2557]]. After the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}'s [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] and [[SPARTAN Program|Spartan]] complement disabled an array of Forerunner [[particle cannon]]s, they were attacked by a Lich.<ref name="Reclaimer"/> The Lich quickly disabled a [[Mobile Anti-Aircraft Weapons Platform M510 Siegework/Ultra-Heavy|Mammoth's]] [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] and dropped off troops. [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] and a team of SPARTAN-IVs boarded the craft and destroyed it by destroying its reactor, causing it to explode. | ||
Later, when the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] set course for [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 03]], several Liches followed [[Mantle's Approach|his vessel]] through slipspace. One of them was commandeered by SPARTAN-117 and his AI companion [[Cortana]]. | Later, when the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]] set course for [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 03]], several Liches followed [[Mantle's Approach|his vessel]] through slipspace. One of them was commandeered by SPARTAN-117 and his AI companion [[Cortana]].<ref name="Shutdown"/> Due to a [[Rampancy|rampant]] episode, Cortana allowed this Lich to crash into [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI's]] ''[[Ivanoff Station]]''.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]''</ref> | ||
In February [[2558]], | In February [[2558]], a Lich was deployed when [[Fireteam Crimson]] activated a signal in [[Apex]]. Crimson boarded the Lich and stole its power core in order to power up the [[Harvester]]. This caused the Lich to become unstable, destroying it.<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', ''Episode 10, Chapter 3: "[[S1/Exodus/Seize the Power|Seize the Power]]"</ref> | ||
On March 5, 2558, [[Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group]] [[Battle of Ealen IV|attacked]] attacked the peace conference between the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], and [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Lydus]]' pack. During the battle one of the mercenaries' Liches was destroyed by [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Sarah Palmer]] when she threw her helmet full of grenades into the Lich's gravity lift. | On March 5, 2558, [[Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group]] [[Battle of Ealen IV|attacked]] attacked the peace conference between the UNSC, the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], and [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Lydus]]' pack. During the battle one of the mercenaries' Liches was destroyed by [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan]] [[Sarah Palmer]] when she threw her helmet full of grenades into the Lich's gravity lift.<ref>'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 2|Issue #2]]''</ref> By May 2558, a band of [[Kig-Yar]] [[pirate]]s had collected numerous Liches in a [[black market]] base on [[Ven III]].<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 11|Issue #11]]''</ref> | ||
On October | On October 27th, the Swords of Sanghelios sent a Lich to rendezvous with {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} in the Urs System. [[Fireteam Osiris]] used the ship to reach Sanghelios, and then inserted to Nuusra aboard a Phantom deployed by the Lich.<ref>'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''' ''campaign level [[Swords of Sanghelios (level)|Swords of Sanghelios]]''</ref> Arbiter [[Thel 'Vadam]] used Liches among his aerial forces during his assault against Covenant forces in [[Sunaion]], travelling aboard one with Osiris until it landed in the city.<ref>'''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''' ''campaign level [[Battle of Sunaion (level)|Battle of Sunaion]]''</ref> | ||
By April [[2559]] the [[Banished]] utilized their | By April [[2559]] the [[Banished]] utilized Liches as transports for their [[Outpost]]s during the [[Second Ark Conflict]].<ref name="HW2">'''[[Halo Wars 2]]'''</ref> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes}} | {{Linkbox|gallery=yes}} | ||
*The Lich occupies a remarkably similar gameplay niche to the Scarab in previous games. The Lich is likewise encountered in the campaign and Spartan Ops as a "boss" enemy that must be boarded and destroyed via firing into its power core. Its weaponry, internal layout, and size are also somewhat reminiscent of the Scarab. | *The Lich occupies a remarkably similar gameplay niche to the Scarab in previous games. The Lich is likewise encountered in the campaign and Spartan Ops as a "boss" enemy that must be boarded and destroyed via firing into its power core. Its weaponry, internal layout, and size are also somewhat reminiscent of the Scarab. | ||
*When the Lich is first encountered in the level | *When the Lich is first encountered in the level "[[Reclaimer (level)|Reclaimer]]", Commander Lasky refers to it as an "unidentified Covenant vehicle" despite the craft being cataloged in 2556, though it may refer to him not seeing the vehicle until it was in sight. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Halo 4 Concept Art by Albert Ng 04b.jpg|Concept art of a control panel that later became the Lich's control panel in ''Halo 4''. | |||
File:Lich_Controls.png|Lich control panel in ''Halo 4''. | File:Lich_Controls.png|Lich control panel in ''Halo 4''. | ||
File:Halo4-T56-Lich-GSDPUH-Screen.jpg|A Lich flying through space toward ''Ivanoff Station'' in ''[[Halo 4]]''. | File:Halo4-T56-Lich-GSDPUH-Screen.jpg|A Lich flying through space toward ''Ivanoff Station'' in ''[[Halo 4]]''. | ||
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File:H4-Lich-Interior-02.jpg|The control room of the Lich. | File:H4-Lich-Interior-02.jpg|The control room of the Lich. | ||
File:H4-Lich-Interior-03.jpg|Closeup of the Lich's core. | File:H4-Lich-Interior-03.jpg|Closeup of the Lich's core. | ||
File:Lich Halo Escalation Issue 2.png|A Lich being used by Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group during the Battle of Ealen IV in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''. | File:Lich Halo Escalation Issue 2.png|A Lich being used by Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group during the Battle of Ealen IV in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''. | ||
File:Lich Explosion.png|A Type-56 Lich is destroyed during the Battle of Ealen IV by Spartan Sarah Palmer. | File:Lich Explosion.png|A Type-56 Lich is destroyed during the Battle of Ealen IV by Spartan Sarah Palmer. | ||
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H2ALich.png|A Swords of Sanghelios Type-56 Lich in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''. | H2ALich.png|A Swords of Sanghelios Type-56 Lich in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''. | ||
File:H2A-Lichdooropens.png|Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and Spartan Jameson Locke, along with their respective teams, prepare to exit a T-56 Lich. | File:H2A-Lichdooropens.png|Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and Spartan Jameson Locke, along with their respective teams, prepare to exit a T-56 Lich. | ||
File:Sword_Lich.png|A Swords of Sanghelios Lich | File:Sword_Lich.png|A Swords of Sanghelios Lich preparing the [[Battle of Sunaion]]. | ||
File:H5G Battle of Sunaion 3.jpg|A Swords of Sanghelios Lich during the Battle of Sunaion. | File:H5G Battle of Sunaion 3.jpg|A Swords of Sanghelios Lich during the Battle of Sunaion. | ||
File: | File:HW2 Lich.png|Concept art of the Banished Lich for ''[[Halo Wars 2]]''. | ||
File: | File:HW2 - Lich model.jpg|Finalized model of the Lich. | ||
File:HW2-Lichmodels.jpg|Alternate angles of the model of the Lich. | |||
File:HW2B Lich.png|A Banished Lich in the ''[[Halo Wars 2 Open Beta]]''. | |||
File:HW2-BanishedT56Lich.png|A Banished Lich in ''Halo Wars 2''. | |||
File:HW2-BlitzLich.jpg|[[Blitz]] card of a Banished Lich. | |||
File:HW2-Voridusleaves.png|[[Voridus]] boarding a Lich. | |||
File:HW2-Lich&Spirit.png|Size comparison between a T-25 Spirit and T-56 Lich. | |||
File:HW2-Protogravemind&Lich.png|A Banished Lich approaches a dead [[Proto-Gravemind]]. | |||
File:HW2-Lichramp.png|[[Atriox]] descends from the Lich's ramp. | |||
File:HW2-LichvsUNSC.png|A Banished Lich fighting UNSC vehicles. | |||
File:HW2-Paviumarmy.png|A Lich attacking a Firebase with the help of [[Pavium]] and [[Wraith Invader]]s. | |||
File:HW2-CharlieFoxtrot.png|A Lich, Scarab, and Volatile Scarab attack an [[Abomination]] in [[Terminus Firefight]]. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'' | *''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' | *''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo Mythos | *''[[Halo Mythos]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo Wars 2]]'' | *''[[Halo Wars 2]]'' | ||
*''[[Halo: Envoy]]'' {{Mo}} | *''[[Halo: Envoy]]'' {{Mo}} | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Covenant | [[Category:Covenant Vehicles]] | ||
