Editing Sojourner-class dreadnought

{{Title|''Sojourner''-class dreadnought}}
{{Era|Forerunner|HCW}}
{{Ship class infobox
|name=''Sojourner''-class dreadnought
|image=[[File:HW17.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=[[Summus Assembler Vats]]<ref name="warfleet">'''[[Halo: Warfleet]]''', ''pages 80-81''</ref>
|class=[[Dragoon|Prime dragoon]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
|role=Attack<ref name="warfleet"/>
|length={{Convert|9430|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="warfleet"/>
|width=
|height=
|mass=10 billion metric tons<ref name="warfleet"/>
|power=
|engine=[[Reaction drive]]
|slipspace drive=Equipped<ref name="warfleet"/>
|navigation=
|hull=
|armament=*1 [[Torsion field|torsion driver]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
*28 converging [[beam cannon]]s<ref name="warfleet"/>
*300 [[light mass fusillade cannon]]s<ref name="warfleet"/>
|complement=*200 [[scutarii]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
*5,000 [[venatore]]s and [[war sphinx]]es<ref name="warfleet"/>
*Millions of [[Despair-class fighter|hunter-killers]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
|crew=One [[princep]], fifteen [[navarch]]s<ref name="warfleet"/>
|passengers=
|othersystems=
|era=[[Forerunner-Flood war]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
|introduced=Shortly before [[97,745 BCE]]<ref name="warfleet"/>
|affiliation=[[Forerunner fleet|Forerunner navy]]<ref name="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<ref>'''[[Halo Wars]]''', campaign level, ''[[Beachhead (Halo Wars level)|Beachhead]]''</ref>}}

The '''''Sojourner''-class dreadnought'''<ref name="lootcrate4">'''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]''', ''[[Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #4]]''</ref> is a class of [[Dragoon|prime dragoon]] used by the [[Forerunner fleet]].<ref name="warfleet"/><ref name="origins">'''Halo Legends''', ''[[Origins]]''</ref>

==Specifications==
===Superstructure and hull===
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 a 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 name="warfleet"/><ref name="origins"/> 

''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts are equipped with long-range scanning [[auspex array]] systems, which can peer through Slipspace to look for approaching ships, mapping local star systems by probing vast distance in realspace, or detecting suttle changed in planetary or ships atmospheres.<ref name="warfleet"/>

===Crew and complement===
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 name="warfleet"/>

The dreadnought also carried millions of autonomous [[Despair-class fighter|''Despair''-class 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 name="warfleet"/>

===Armaments===
The ''Sojourner'' was a heavily armed class of dragoon with a single capital-scale [[torsion driver]] as its primary weapon. A gravitic emitter that could be used as a delicate grasping tool or as a crude scalpel, the torsion driver was capable of pushing and pulling portions of the enemy ships beyond their shielding and structural supports with discordant harmonies, tearing them apart and exposing the vulnerable systems of the enemy ship to the rest of the dreadnought's complement of armaments.<ref name="warfleet"/>

The ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts were also armed with twenty-eight converging [[beam cannon]]s. Controlled by Warrior-Servant crewmen, these beam cannons launched tendrils of energy capable of tracking enemy vessels, creating a path that allowed for antimatter streams to pursue hostiles. The dreadnoughts were also outfitted with three hundred [[light mass fusillade cannon]]s.<ref name="warfleet"/>

==Operational history==
Manufactured by [[Summus Assembler Vats]], the ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts were the last in a line of first-order warships stretching to the Forerunner's earliest interstellar expansion, and were the pinnacle of Forerunner naval technologu: impossibly fast, heavily armed and highly efficient. The ''Sojourners''' were introduced shortly before containment efforts [[Forerunner-Flood war|against]] the [[Flood]] began.<ref name="origins"/> Millions of ''Sojourners'' were raised up and thrown up against the Flood, leading strikes deep into Flood-dominated [[Burn]]s, rughtlessly cauterizing the slightest hint of infection. Despite their efforts, only a few remained intact to the end of the war. Some ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts were docked at the Apex Site on Shield World 0459.

During the [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[2531]], the [[High Prophet of Regret]] and [[Arbiter]] [[Ripa 'Moramee]] went to the Apex to gather a massive and powerful invasion fleet for the Covenant. However, a [[Reclaimer]] was required to release the locking mechanisms 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.

==Trivia==
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Forerunner dreadnoughts}}
*Parts of these ships were strewn about the outer surface of the Shield World. These derelicts are probably from a battle between the Forerunners and [[the Flood]] that resulted in the installation's infestation.<ref>'''Halo Wars''', campaign level, ''[[Anders' Signal]]''</ref>
*These ships bear a resemblance to a type of horizontal Forerunner structure found on [[Installation 00]].<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', campaign level, ''[[The Ark]]''</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Apex Concept.jpg|Concept art of the dreadnoughts for ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
File:HW-Dreadnought-Model.jpg|Untextured and textured 3D models of a ''Sojourner''-class dreadnought.
File:HW16.png|The Forerunner dreadnoughts being contained within the Apex.
File:Forerunner.jpg|''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts during the Forerunner-Flood war in ''[[Halo Legends]]'' ''[[Origins]]''.
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_flood.png|Flood-infested dreadnoughts.
File:Dreadnaughts-.png|''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts in ''[[Halo: Escalation]]''.
File:HM-Cutter&Serina.png|Dreadnoughts in ''[[Halo Mythos]]''.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Wars]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo Legends]]''
**''[[Origins]]''
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo Mythos]]''
*''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Warfleet]]''

==Sources==
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{{Forerunner|ships}}
[[Category:Forerunner ship classes]]