Editing UNSC Midsummer Night

{{Title|UNSC ''Midsummer Night''}}
{{Status|Canon}}
{{Individual ship infobox
|name=UNSC ''Midsummer Night''
|image=
|manufacturer=
|class={{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}}<ref group="note">In ''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' (page 163 of the Definitive Edition or 139 of the original edition), it is stated that [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]]' new ship, the [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] ''[[UNSC Iroquois|Iroquois]]'', was 7 meters longer than the frigates ''Midsummer Night'' and the ''[[UNSC Meriwether Lewis|Meriwether Lewis]]''. ''[[Halo 2]]'' established the length of a UNSC frigate to be 478 meters; this was the later-named ''Stalwart'' class. Later, when a UNSC destroyer was first depicted in visual media with ''[[UNSC The Heart of Midlothian|The Heart of Midlothian]]'', it was established that the ship was 485 meters in length; an addition of 7m to the length of the ''Stalwart'' class. In ''Halo: The Cole Protocol'' (page 35), the ''Midsummer Night'' is revealed to be a light frigate. ''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' established that the ''Stalwart'' and ''Charon'' classes would be considered light frigates, while the [[Paris-class heavy frigate|''Paris'' class]] would remain a heavy; a conscious decision to establish the ''Stalwart'' as the class the ''Midsummer Night'' and ''Meriwether Lewis'' belong to. Furthermore, since ''Stalwart'' is both a light frigate and the only frigate class to be 478 meters in length, the ''Midsummer Night'' and ''Meriwether Lewis'' must be part of this class.</ref>
|role=Stealth, long range attacks
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|slipspace drive=Equipped
|hull={{Convert|60|cm|ft}} of [[Titanium-A armor]]
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|countermeasures=Chaff<ref name="CP26">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', Chapter 26</ref>
|armament=*1 [[MAC]]<ref name="CP4">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', Chapter 4</ref>
*[[Archer missile]] pods
*At least 2 [[point-defense gun]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP4}}
*3 [[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP26}}
|complement=*[[UNSC Marine]]s<ref name="CP2">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', Chapter 2</ref>
*[[ODST]]s{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}}<!--Chapter 4, these were established as being part of the 105th.-->
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|commission=
|lastsight=2535: [[Falaknuma]], [[18 Scorpii system]]
|destroyed=
|battles=*[[Battle of the Rubble]]
*[[Battle of Metisette]]
|fleet=
|namedcrew=
|captains=*[[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]]
*[[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]]
|affiliation=[[UNSC Navy]]
}}
{{Quote|multi=yes|Dmitri Zheng|Jean Mawikizi|q1=She's a light frigate. With a few tricks up her sleeve.|q2=Night is a long-range stealth ship. Like a [[prowler]], but she packs more of a punch.|[[Dmitri Zheng]] and [[Jean Mawikizi]] describing the ship<ref name="CPC">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 35''</ref>}}

The '''UNSC ''Midsummer Night''''' ([[Hull classification symbol|FFG-209]]{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}}) was a {{Class|Stalwart|light frigate}} in service with the [[UNSC Navy]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol'''</ref>

==Service history==
===Ectanus 45 system===
In [[2535]], the ''Midsummer Night'' was equipped with stealth systems by [[ONI]] while stationed on [[Chi Rho]] in the [[Ectanus 45]] system. The frigate was assigned to help enforce the [[Cole Protocol]] on civilian ships, led by [[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]]. [[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]] was also transferred to the ship.{{Ref/Reuse|CP2}} The ''Midsummer Night'' traveled to the edges of the Ectanus 45 system, shadowing a civilian [[freighter]], ''[[Finnegan's Wake]]'', that had slowly edged its way past the system's elliptic plane. To ensure that the freighter's navigation data had been deleted, Keyes led a boarding team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]s into ''Finnegan's Wake''.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 47''</ref>

However, the freighter turned out to be an [[Insurrectionist]] ambush. Several of the ODSTs were killed by explosives that were set off, but the ''Midsummer Night'' was too far to notice.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 51''</ref> ''Finnegan's Wake'' triggered an emergency beacon, attempting to lure the frigate closer to the freighter so ''Finnegan's Wake'' could [[self-destruct]] and destroy both ships. However, due to Keyes' strategy, most of the ODSTs made it off the freighter safely and the ''Midsummer Night'' was not damaged when the insurgents on ''Finnegan's Wake'' desperately activated the self-destruct mechanism in a failed attempt to kill the ODSTs.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 56-61''</ref>

===Charybdis IX===
{{Main|Scyllion Warehouse District riot|Battle of Charybdis IX}}
Following the ''Finnegan's Wake'' incident, the ''Midsummer Night'' was assigned to helping the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] operatives in [[Charybdis IX]]'s capital city, [[Scyllion]]. The ONI operatives had discovered [[Covenant]] weapons modified for human use being distributed to the city's rioters and required aid from the ''Midsummer Night'' to discover the origins and distributors of the weapons.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 100''</ref> Upon arriving in the [[Charybdis system]], [[Akio Watanabe|Major Akio Watanabe]] and Keyes were sent to met the ONI operatives in the [[Scyllion Warehouse District]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 107''</ref> However, with [[Scyllion Warehouse District riot|escalating riots]] throughout the city, the [[Insurrectionist]]s distributing the modified weapons attacked the UNSC personnel and were supported by rioters. As the three surviving UNSC personnel in the city, Keyes, Watanabe, and [[Corinthia Hansen|Captain Corinthia Hansen]], made their way to the rooftops, they asked the ''Midsummer Night'' for ODST support. However, it would not arrive for twenty minutes.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 124-127''</ref>

While waiting for support, rioters and rebels led by [[Jason Kincaide]] attacked the UNSC survivors. In the following firefight, Kincaide and Watanabe were killed. Shortly after, several ODSTs were deployed from the ''Midsummer Night'' and the rest of the rebels were eliminated.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 130-131''</ref> After the riots were quelled, Keyes and Hansen were brought aboard the ''Midsummer Night'', now with the coordinates leading to the origins of the modified weapons. However, Zheng discovered that a [[Covenant fleet]] just entered the system. While Keyes and Zheng were in favor of using the ''Midsummer Night'' to make a last stand alongside the three [[UNSC destroyer]]s guarding the planet, Hansen ordered them to track the ''[[Kestrel (freighter)|Kestrel]]'', a freighter that had supplied Kincaide with the modified weapons. Reluctantly, the ''Midsummer Night'' dropped Hansen off at an orbiting depot and the frigate left the Charybdis system, leaving just as the Covenant began to [[Battle of Charybdis IX|attack]] the planet.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 139-148''</ref>

===Battle of the Rubble===
{{Main|Battle of the Rubble}}
The ''Midsummer Night'' trailed the ''Kestrel'' for nearly a week, eventually following it to the [[23 Librae]] system. The freighter made its way to the [[asteroid]]s orbiting a gas giant in the system, [[Hesiod]]. The ''Midsummer Night'''s crew quickly discovered that the asteroids, known as the [[Rubble]], around Hesiod were connected and populated by [[Insurrectionist]]s and [[Kig-Yar]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 167''</ref> [[Badia Campbell]], the frigate's navigations officer, revealed herself as a rebel-sympathizer and mortally wounded Zheng and shot [[Dante Kirtley]] and [[Rai Li]]. While Keyes and Campbell wrestled for control of her sidearm, she gained the upper-hand and proceeded to commit suicide.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 177''</ref> Campbell had damaged the ship's fusion core coolant system, leaving the frigate nearly disabled. At Zheng's orders, Keyes attacked the Rubble's fleet of freighters, with the ''Midsummer Night'' being damaged with a [[mass driver]] round. After surrendering to the overwhelming Insurrectionist forces, Zheng gave Keyes command of the frigate and succumbed to his wounds. The ''Midsummer Night'' ejected its [[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s to show that it did not intend to attack, allowing Rubble forces to board the frigate.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 180-184''</ref>

The ''Midsummer Night'' was forced to dock with the [[Habitat Asuncion]] asteroid and the frigate's crew was given the option to become a resident of the Rubble or be held in prison cells.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 204''</ref> At some point, the rebels partially repaired the frigate.

===Battle of Metisette===
{{Main|Battle of Metisette}}
Later, the Rubble's [[AI]], [[Juliana]], helped free the crew of the ''Midsummer Night''. After discovering the [[Unggoy]] army [[Reth]] had created on one of Hesiod's moons, [[Metisette]], was preparing to attack the Rubble, Keyes prepared to launch [[Battle of Metisette|a counter-attack]] to destroy the Covenant forces. Keyes retook control of the repaired ''Midsummer Night'' and used the frigate to attack Metisette. Meanwhile Kig-Yar and Rubble ships battled over the Rubble's mass drivers and Keyes kept the ''Midsummer Night'' away from ''[[Infinite Spoils]]'', Reth's [[flagship]] that was capable of overwhelming the frigate in seconds.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 310''</ref> As it closed down on the moon, the ''Midsummer Night'' performed a high-speed [[drop pod]] deployment to deliver ODSTs and [[Spartan-II|Spartan]] [[Gray Team]] down to [[the Redoubt]] on the surface of Metisette. The ''Midsummer Night'' came under fire from Kig-Yar [[Covenant Skar'wa-pattern Mantis|anti-aircraft guns]], and slowed down, to allow the pods to drop, before speeding off out the atmosphere again.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 312''</ref> After the Spartans and ODSTs destroyed the Kig-Yar targets, ''Midsummer Night'' launched five [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican dropships]] to pick up the survivors. After all personnel were aboard the frigate, the Redoubt's sensors were destroyed by the frigate's last Shiva.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 327''</ref>

After the Rubble crashed into Metisette to destroy the Unggoy army, Keyes used the ''Midsummer Night'' to protect [[Habitat Exodus]] while the Rubble's citizens were evacuated inside it, during which the frigate was damaged.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 328''</ref> However, the Exodus could not make a slipspace jump to safety like it intended to do. Keyes decided to convince the [[Rubble Security Council]] to travel to an [[Inner Colony]], which was still possible at the time. The ''Midsummer Night'' escorted the Exodus to [[Falaknuma]], an Inner Colony in the [[18 Scorpii system]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 343''</ref>

While the ''Midsummer Night'' was being repaired over the planet and the Rubble's citizens were being evacuated, Keyes was transported to the planet's surface, debriefed, and promoted by [[Hadley|Commander Hadley]] and [[Preston Cole|Admiral Preston Cole]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 352''</ref> Prior to his [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|promotion to Captain]] in [[2552]], Keyes continued to serve aboard this frigate until he was transferred to the {{UNSCShip|Iroquois}}, a [[UNSC destroyer]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 163''</ref>

==Crew==
;Before the Raid on ''Finnegan's Wake'':
*[[Dmitri Zheng|Commander Dmitri Zheng]] — ''Commanding officer; killed in action over [[Hesiod]]''
*[[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]] — ''Commanding officer after Zheng's death; formerly executive officer''
*[[Dante Kirtley|Lieutenant Dante Kirtley]] — ''Navigations officer; formerly communications officer''
*[[Rai Li|Lieutenant Junior Grade Rai Li]] — ''Weapons systems officer''
*[[Jason Burt|Second Lieutenant Jason Burt]] — ''Communications officer''
*[[Badia Campbell|Lieutenant Badia Campbell]] — ''Navigations officer; committed suicide over Hesiod''
*[[Akio Watanabe|Major Akio Watanabe]] — ''Office of Naval Intelligence liaison, killed in action of [[Charybdis IX]]''
*[[Jeffries|Petty Officer Jeffries]]
*[[Canfield|First Lieutenant Canfield]]
*[[Faison|Second Lieutenant Faison]]
*[[Finlay]]
*[[Markov]]

==Trivia==
The frigate's name is a reference to ''[[Wikipedia:A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', a play by William Shakespeare.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'' {{1st}}

==Notes==
{{Ref/Notes}}

==Sources==
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