Editing Sojourner-class dreadnought

{{Title|''Sojourner''-class dreadnought}}
{{Status|Canon}}
{{Ship class infobox
|name=''Sojourner''-class dreadnought
|image=[[File:Old HW ForerunnerFleet.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=[[Summus Assembler Vats]]{{Ref/Book|Id=warfleet|HWF|Page=80-81}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P382|Enc22|Page=382}}
|class=[[Forerunner dreadnought|Prime dragoon]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|role=*Attack{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}
*Preservation{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}
|length={{Convert|9430|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}
|width=
|height=
|mass=10 billion metric tons{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}
|power=
|engine=[[Reaction drive]]
|slipspace drive=Equipped{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|navigation=
|hull=
|armament=*1 [[torsion driver]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
*28 [[converging beam cannon]]s{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
*300 [[light mass fusillade cannon]]s{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|complement=*200 [[scutarii]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
*5,000 [[venatore]]s and [[war sphinx]]es{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
*Millions of [[Despair-class fighter|hunter-killers]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|crew=One [[princeps]], fifteen [[navarch]]s{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|othersystems=[[Auspex array]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|era=[[Forerunner-Flood war]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}
|introduced=Circa [[97,745 BCE]]{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}
|affiliation=[[Forerunner fleet|Forerunner navy]]{{Ref/Reuse|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/Level|Id=Beachhead|[[Halo Wars]]|[[Beachhead (Halo Wars level)|Beachhead]]}}}}

The '''''Sojourner''-class dreadnought'''{{Ref/Game|Id=lootcrate4|Halo Legendary Crate|Halo Legendary Crate/Data Drops|Data Drop #4}} is a class of [[Forerunner dreadnought|prime dragoon]] used by the [[Forerunner]] [[Forerunner fleet|fleet]].{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Film|Id=origins|HLeg|Episode=Origins}} Manufactured within [[Summus Assembler Vats]], the ''Sojourner'' class was commissioned shortly before the [[Forerunner-Flood war]] and the warships were ready for combat soon after the [[Flood]]'s reemergence.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}

==Overview==
===Design details===
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 an 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/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|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 subtle changes in planetary or ship atmosphere.{{Ref/Reuse|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/Reuse|warfleet}}

The dreadnought also carried millions of autonomous {{Class|Despair|fighter|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/Reuse|warfleet}}

===Armaments===
The ''Sojourner'' was a heavily armed class of dragoon with a single capital-scale [[Torsion field|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/Reuse|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/Reuse|warfleet}}

==Operational history==
===Development===
[[Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished]], one of the most decorated Warrior-Servants within the Forerunner [[ecumene]], took particular interest in the inner workings of military technology, particularly with respect to [[dragoon]] warships. She would ultimately rise to the rank of Commander of Second-Order Dragoons and personally oversaw the development of the ''Sojourner''-class dreadnought's early iterations which went on to prove their effectiveness in breaking through the [[Ancestors]]' defensive lines during the [[Battle of Charum Hakkor|Battle of]] [[Charum Hakkor]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CF151|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-lorelord|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Lorelord|https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-lorelord|D=20|M=3|Y=2024}}

===Forerunner service===
The ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts were the last in a line of [[Orders of battle|first-order]] warships stretching to the Forerunner's earliest interstellar expansion and were the pinnacle of Forerunner naval technology: impossibly fast, heavily armed and highly efficient. The ''Sojourner'' was introduced shortly before containment efforts [[Forerunner-Flood war|against]] the [[Flood]] began.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}{{Ref/Reuse|origins}}{{Ref/Reuse|CF151}} Millions of ''Sojourners'' were raised up and thrown up against the Flood, proving to be astonishingly effective against the parasite. These vessels participated in all major engagements of the war and were praised as the apex of Forerunner naval accomplishment. ''Sojourners'' were sent on strikes deep into Flood-dominated [[Burn]]s, deployed from trident spire and linked together in weapon configurations of world-ending firepower that ruthlessly cauterized the slightest hint of infection. Despite their efforts, only a few remained intact by the end of the war.{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P382}}

===Reemergence=== 
Some ''Sojourner'' dreadnoughts were docked at the [[Apex Site]] on the [[shield world]] known as [[Trove]]. During the [[Human-Covenant War]] in [[2531]], the [[High Prophet of Regret]] and [[Arbiter]] [[Ripa 'Moramee]] went to the Etran Harborage to gather a massive and powerful invasion fleet for the Covenant. However, a [[Reclaimer]] was required to release the locking mechanism 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.{{Ref/Reuse|Beachhead}}{{Ref/Level|Id=Escape|Halo Wars|Escape (Halo Wars level)|Escape}} Parts of these ships were strewn about the outer surface of the shield world.{{Ref/Level|Id=Anders|Halo Wars|Anders' Signal}}

==Gallery==
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Images of Forerunner dreadnoughts}}
<gallery>
File:HW Sojourner Sketches.jpg|An initial sketch of ideas for the dreadnoughts for ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
File:HW Sojourner Concept 1.jpg|Rejected concept art for the dreadnoughts, which would end up as the canon appearance of the {{Class|Skirr|battlecruiser}}s.
File:HW Sojourner Concept 2.jpg|Finalised concept art for the dreadnoughts.
File:HW Sojourner Concept 3.jpg|Finalised concept art for the dreadnoughts.
File:HW Sojourner Concept 3 Alt.jpg|Alternate concept sheet for the dreadnoughts.
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:HL SojournerCombineFire.png|The powerful beam of energy resulting from several ''Sojourner''-class dreadnoughts combining their fire.
File:Ships_flood.png|Flood-infested dreadnoughts.
File:Dreadnoughts-.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: A Guide to the Story of Halo]]''
*''[[Halo: Smoke and Shadow]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Epitaph]]''

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