Editing UNSC Gettysburg

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{{Title|UNSC ''Gettysburg''}}
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{{Individual ship infobox
|name=UNSC ''Gettysburg''
|image=[[File:H2A Terminals UNSC Gettysburg.png|300px]]
|class={{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}}<ref name="h2aterm">'''Halo 2: Anniversary''', ''Terminal Prologue 2''</ref>
|manufacturer=[[SinoViet Heavy Machinery]]
|length={{Convert|1755.4|ft|m|sp=us|sigfig=5|disp=flip}}
|width={{Convert|651.85|ft|m|sp=us|sigfig=5|disp=flip}}
|height={{Convert|531.77|ft|m|sp=us|sigfig=5|disp=flip}}
|engine=
|slipspace drive= *[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
*Covenant [[Borer]] (OPERATION: FIRST STRIKE)
|poweroutput=
|power=
|shield gen=
|hull=[[Titanium-A armor|Titanium-A battle plate]]
|sensor=
|target=
|navigation=
|avionics=
|countermeasures=
|armament= *[[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC gun]] (1)
*[[Archer missile]]s (50 pods)
*[[Point defense gun]]s (12)
|complement=
|crew=
|passengers=
|capacity=
|consumables=
|othersystems=
|role=
|commission=
|destroyed=
|lastsight=[[2552]]
|battles=*[[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]]
*[[Fall of Reach]]
*[[Operation FIRST STRIKE]]
|affiliation= [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Navy]]
|fleet=[[Epsilon Eridani Fleet]]<br>[[UNSC Home Fleet]](Post-Consolidation)
|captains=[[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]]<br/>
[[Master Chief Petty Officer]] [[John-117]]
}}

The '''UNSC ''Gettysburg''''' was a {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}} in service with the [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Navy]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]].

==Design==
Built around a [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] and armed with numerous [[Archer missile]] pods, the ''Gettysburg'' was a fairly typical [[UNSC frigate]].

It had an [[Officers' Club]] aboard, housing a large table of oak, which was heavily scored with numerous gouges and scorches from [[cigar]]s set upon its surface. There was also a bar stocked with a number of varieties of liquor. It also housed a gold-fringed blue UNSC flag, photographs of past officers and captains of the ''Gettysburg'', and a tin Civil War daguerreotype that displayed battlefields of charging men, cavalry and cannons.

==History==
===Battle of Sigma Octanus IV===
{{main|Battle of Sigma Octanus IV}}
On July 17, [[2552]], the ''Gettysburg'', along with the frigate {{UNSCShip|Allegiance}}, responded to a distress signal sent by [[Commander (UNSC)|Commander]] [[Jacob Keyes]] from the [[Sigma Octanus System]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 145''</ref> The vessel later fought in the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] with [[Battle Group Leviathan]].<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 154''</ref>

The vessel then returned to the orbital space dock of [[Reach]], where it was heavily damaged in the [[Fall of Reach]]. There the entire crew was killed in the battle but the ship itself was left relatively intact.

===''Gettysburg-Ascendant Justice''===
Eventually, [[John-117]], along with several survivors of [[Battle of Installation 04]] and Fall of Reach, used the ''Gettysburg'', fusing it with the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] ship ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', thus becoming the first [[human]]-Covenant hybrid vessel in history.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 208''</ref> It was used because the ''Ascendant Justice'' could not do the two [[Slipspace]] jumps in and out of a group of Covenant ships fast enough using just its own reactor. <ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 209''</ref> After repairs were made to the ship to make the ''Gettysburg'' habitable again, the ''Gettysburg'' acted as the crew's main base of operations and housing instead of the ''Ascendant Justice''.

===Operation: FIRST STRIKE===
{{main|Operation: FIRST STRIKE}}
Eventually, the vessel was unlinked from the ''Ascendant Justice'' so that [[Vice Admiral]] [[Danforth Whitcomb]] and [[First Lieutenant]] [[Elias Haverson]] could use the ''Ascendant Justice'' to lure a Covenant battle fleet to the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'', which was about to explode.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 332''</ref> The ''Gettysburg'' was refitted with the slipspace drive from the ''Ascendant Justice'' prior to unlinking.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 329''</ref> After Operation: FIRST STRIKE, the ''Gettysburg'' and its skeleton crew headed back to the [[Sol system]].

===Return to Earth===
At some point before the [[Battle of Earth]], the frigate docked with the [[Borneo Space Tether]] and deployed [[Linda-058]] and [[Fred-104]].<ref name="h2aterm"/>

==Trivia==
*''Gettysburg'' is named after the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Gettysburg|Battle of Gettysburg]], the American Civil War battle that took place on July 1-3 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on [[Earth]]. This is interesting, in that it was fused with a Covenant vessel, just as the two factions of the American Civil War eventually rejoined into one country.
*UNSC ''Gettysburg'' is the only known UNSC ship to be fitted with a Covenant slipspace drive and be able to execute slipspace jumps without any side effects on the ship, even the ship was not equipped with energy shields.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''
**''[[Terminal/Halo 2: Anniversary|Terminals]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:Paris-class heavy frigates|Gettysburg]]
[[Category:United Nations Space Command ships|Gettysburg]]