Editing Mantle's Approach

{{Title|''Mantle's Approach''}}  

{{Individual Ship Infobox

|name=Mantle's Approach

|image=[[File:H4-MantlesApproach-ScanRender.png|150px]]

|manufacturer=

|role=Flagship

|hull=

|armament=*[[Composer]]<br>

*At least four [[particle cannon]]s

*Many [[Forerunner heavy point defense gun|heavy point defense guns]]

*Many [[Forerunner light point defense gun|light point defense guns]]

|complement=*Numerous Promethean constructs

|commission=

|destroyed=[[2557|July 2557]]

|battles=*[[Forerunner-Flood war]]

*[[Second human-Covenant war]]

**[[Battle of Earth (2557)|Battle of Earth]]

The '''''Mantle's Approach''''' was the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s personal flagship.<ref>'''[[Halo Waypoint]]''', ''Section 3 Archive''</ref>

[[File:H4-Terminal-Village-Mantle.jpg|thumb|left|The ''Mantle's Approach'', moments before [[Composer|composing]] a human village.]]

This massive vessel was once captained by the Didact at the height of Forerunner power. During the final years of the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], after being returned to the [[ecumene]] from his captivity at the clutches of the [[Gravemind]], the Ur-Didact used the ''Mantle's Approach'' when he traveled to [[Nomdagro]] and later when he followed the [[Librarian]]'s ship, ''[[Audacity]]'', to the [[greater Ark]]. Once there, he remained aboard the the ''Mantle's Approach'' in orbit over the Ark, where he was briefly visited by the Librarian. When the Ark fell [[Battle of the greater Ark|under siege]] by [[Flood]] forces, the Didact moved the ship to the nearby [[Omega Halo]] and used a [[Composer]], a device designed to transfer organic consciousness to software, integrated to the ship to harvest the essences of the [[human]] population transplanted on the ring. He then spontaneously departed aboard the ''Mantle's Approach'', headed for [[Requiem]], his primary [[shield world]]. He docked the ship inside Requiem and began to process the harvested human essences into new [[Promethean Knight]]s.<ref name="silentium">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''String 34''</ref>

However, the Librarian had trailed her husband on the ''Audacity'', aiming to put and end to his genocidal schemes. With the admission of the Didact's lieutenant, [[Endurance-of-Will]], the Librarian entered the ''Mantle's Approach'' and confronted the Didact in the command center. She incapacitated the Didact, placed him in a [[Cryptum|combat Cryptum]] previously stored on the ''Mantle's Approach'' and sealed the Cryptum inside the core of Requiem.<ref name="silentium"/>

After his awakening in [[2557|July 2557]], the Didact quickly escaped in his Cryptum and, once the necessary preparations were complete, he recoupled the Cryptum with the ''Mantle's Approach'' and took off immediately. He jumped to [[Ivanoff Station]] alongside a [[Covenant remnant]] fleet, intent on reclaiming the Composer. The Didact test-fired the Composer on the station, then proceeded to [[Earth]] to settle his personal war with humanity once and for all.<ref>'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Composer (level)|Composer]]</ref>

Unbeknownst to him, [[John-117]] survived the deadly pulse due to the Librarian's intervention. Pursuing the ''Mantle's Approach'' aboard a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|nuclear-armed]] [[F-41 Broadsword]], the Spartan took out the ship's point defense turrets, allowing the {{UNSCship|Infinity}} to punch through the ''Mantle'''s hull with its [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC cannons]]. The Master Chief then fought his way through the ship, eventually finding the Didact controlling the Composer under an impenetrable force field. [[Cortana]] overloaded the shields by flooding the ship's mainframe with her rampant duplicates, allowing the Chief to confront and defeat the Didact with a [[Z-040 Attenuation Field Generator/Localized|pulse grenade]].<ref name="midnight">'''Halo 4''', campaign level ''[[Midnight]]</ref>

With the Composer already firing upon [[New Phoenix]], the Spartan manually detonated the HAVOK warhead as a desperate last resort. The ''Mantle's Approach'' was completely destroyed by the nuclear blast, taking the Composer along with it. The dying Cortana got the Chief out of the ship at the very last moment and created a [[hard light]] barrier around him, saving John's life at the cost of her own.<ref name="midnight"/>

File:H4-Terminal-MantlesApproach.jpg|The ''Mantle's Approach'' seen in ''Halo 4'''s terminals.

File:H4-Mantle-Departure.jpg|The ''Mantle's Approach'' rising above [[Requiem]]'s main entry portal.

File:H4-Midnight-Trench.jpg|A view of the trench run that [[John-117]] has to get through using an [[F-41 Broadsword]].

File:Mantles-Approach wreckage.jpg|The debris field left behind by the destruction of the ''Mantle's Aprroach''.

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[[Category:Forerunner Artifacts]]

[[Category:Forerunner Ships]]