Editing UNSC Hopeful

{{Title|UNSC ''Hopeful''}}
{{Status|Canon}}
{{Individual ship infobox
|name=UNSC ''Hopeful''
|image=[[File:The Hopeful.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=[[2495]]; appropriated and refit by the UNSC{{Ref/Reuse|goo97}}
|manufacturer-title=Modified
|class=
|role=Field hospital/research station
|length=>1 km
|width=
|height=
|engine=Six [[fusion drive]]s{{Ref/Reuse|goo97}}
|engine-title=Power plant
|slipspace drive=[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
|hull=[[Titanium-A armor]]
|countermeasures=
|armament=Minimal{{Ref/Reuse|goo97}}
|firstuse=
|commission=Before [[2495]]
|lastsight=c. [[2552#August|August 2552]], [[Tribute]]
|destroyed=
|battles=*[[Insurrection]]
**18 battles
*[[Human-Covenant War]]
**4 battles
|fleet=
|namedcrew=Thousands of passengers
|namedcrew-title=Complement
|captains=[[Vice Admiral]] [[Ysionris Jeromi]]<ref name="goo104">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''pages 104-105''</ref>
|affiliation=[[UNSC Navy]]
}}

The '''UNSC ''Hopeful''''' is a research facility and [[Hospital ship|mobile hospital]] utilized by the [[United Nations Space Command]]. The ship and its captain, [[Vice Admiral]] [[Ysionris Jeromi]], were considered legendary within the UNSC.{{Ref/Reuse|goo104}}

==Overview==
Unlike any other ship in the UNSC fleet, the station was built from two scrapped [[refit station]]s, each a square kilometer of plate, scaffolding, and cargo trams. The two plates had been connected to make an off-center "sandwich". Due to this atypical design, it is known to many naval officers as 'the ugliest thing to ever float in zero-g', although many personnel who had been on the ''Hopeful'' describe her as 'the most beautiful thing ever to be seen'. The ship was powered by six [[fusion drive|fusion reactors]].<ref name="goo97">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 97''</ref> It had a structural stress compensator system to reduce stress on its structure and an Ecoreclamation subsystem to manage the facility's life support.{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Chapter=11}}

The ''Hopeful'' is virtually always on the move, tending to wounded, assisting in civilian evacuations, and mobilizing medical care when diseases ravage the poorer colonies.<ref name="journal">''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''</ref> Due to its vulnerability the ''Hopeful'' is always accompanied by an escort. As the [[Human-Covenant War]] escalated, its normal escort was increased to five [[UNSC destroyer|destroyers]] and six [[UNSC corvette|corvettes]], with the latter modified to carry rescue vehicles.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}}

==Service history==
[[File:Hopeful.jpg|thumb|left|''Hopeful'' as drawn by Dr. Catherine Halsey.]]
Before the onset of the [[Insurrection]], a private medical corporation purchased two decommissioned [[refit station]]s, combined them into a single hull, and constructed a highly advanced medical facility within. In [[2495]], the UNSC took control of the station and added six fusion reactors and a [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]], turning ''Hopeful'' into the largest mobile battlefield hospital in history. It had the facilities, doctors, and supplies to treat thousands of critically injured patients at a time. With the horrors of the Human-Covenant War taking their toll on the UNSC forces, the ''Hopeful'' was always busy. In many cases, the ''Hopeful'' was known to literally 'bring the dead back to life'.{{Ref/Reuse|goo97}}

===Human-Covenant War===
In [[2525]], [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] messaged her former instructor, Vice Admiral Jeromi, about a set of hypothetical augmentation experiments performed upon [[List of animals|Bonobo chimpanzees]] aboard the ''Hopeful'', much to Jeromi's displeasure at the thought of such an experiment. Halsey used the data provided by Jeromi to conduct the [[SPARTAN-II augmentation procedures]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 56''</ref> 

By the middle of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the ''Hopeful'' had become one of the oldest and most revered ships in the UNSC fleet. By [[2551]], the ship had been involved in eighteen naval engagements against both [[insurrectionist]]s and the [[Covenant]], having been damaged multiple times. Since at least [[2525]], it had been commanded by the legendary [[Vice Admiral]] [[Ysionris Jeromi]]. The ship had taken on a near-mythical status to soldiers fighting on the front lines.{{Ref/Reuse|goo97}}

In [[2536]], [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] underwent their physical augmentation procedures, [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM]], on board the ''Hopeful''.<ref>'''''[[Birth of a Spartan]]'''''</ref> After the ''Hopeful'' departed its temporary post over Reach in [[2551#February|February 2551]], [[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gamma Company]] underwent their augmentation procedures on the ship. As Gamma Company's augmentations had to be performed in the utmost secrecy, [[Vice Admiral]] [[Margaret Parangosky]] ordered that the station be berthed in [[Sector K-009]], much to Jeromi's displeasure. Its normal escort was reduced from eleven ships to just one destroyer and a single [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[UNSC Prowler|prowler]].{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} Presumably, [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company]] also underwent Project CHRYSANTHEMUM on the ''Hopeful''. On February 27, ''Hopeful'' returned to Reach, and Jeromi invited Dr. Halsey aboard for a tour of its flash-clone organ facility.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}}

In [[2552]], during and after the [[Fall of Reach]], the Hopeful managed to save thousands of patients by retreating to the relative safety of [[Tribute]] even as Tribute came under attack.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P35}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Remember Reach]]''
**''[[Birth of a Spartan]]''
*''[[Halo: Reach]]''
**''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]''
*''[[Halo: Fleet Battles]]'' {{C|Possible appearance}}
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
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