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**[[Battle of Earth (2557)|Battle of Earth]] | **[[Battle of Earth (2557)|Battle of Earth]] | ||
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|affiliation=[[Promethean]]s | |affiliation=[[Promethean]]s | ||
Revision as of 22:19, September 2, 2013
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The Mantle's Approach was the Didact's personal flagship.[1]
History
Forerunner-Flood war
This massive vessel was once captained by the Didact at the height of Forerunner power. During the final years of the Forerunner-Flood war, after being returned to the ecumene from his captivity at the clutches of the Gravemind, the Ur-Didact used the Mantle's Approach when he traveled to Nomdagro and later when he followed the Librarian's ship, Audacity, to the greater Ark. Once there, he remained aboard the the Mantle's Approach in orbit over the Ark, where he was briefly visited by the Librarian. When the Ark fell under siege by Flood forces, the Didact moved the ship to the nearby Omega Halo and used a Composer, a device designed to transfer organic consciousness to software, integrated to the ship to harvest the essences of the human population transplanted on the ring. He then spontaneously departed aboard the Mantle's Approach, headed for Requiem, his primary shield world. He docked the ship inside Requiem and began to process the harvested human essences into new Promethean Knights.[2]
However, the Librarian had trailed her husband on the Audacity, aiming to put and end to his genocidal schemes. With the admission of the Didact's lieutenant, Endurance-of-Will, the Librarian entered the Mantle's Approach and confronted the Didact in the command center. She incapacitated the Didact, placed him in a combat Cryptum previously stored on the Mantle's Approach and sealed the Cryptum inside the core of Requiem.[2]
Modern era
After his awakening in July 2557, the Didact quickly escaped in his Cryptum and, once the necessary preparations were complete, he recoupled the Cryptum with the Mantle's Approach and took off immediately. He jumped to Ivanoff Station alongside a Covenant remnant fleet, intent on reclaiming the Composer. The Didact test-fired the Composer on the station, then proceeded to Earth to settle his personal war with humanity once and for all.[3]
Unbeknownst to him, John-117 survived the deadly pulse due to the Librarian's intervention. Pursuing the Mantle's Approach aboard a nuclear-armed F-41 Broadsword, the Spartan took out the ship's point defense turrets, allowing the Template:UNSCship to punch through the Mantle's hull with its MAC cannons. The Master Chief then fought his way through the ship, eventually finding the Didact controlling the Composer under an impenetrable force field. Cortana overloaded the shields by flooding the ship's mainframe with her rampant duplicates, allowing the Chief to confront and defeat the Didact with a pulse grenade.[4]
With the Composer already firing upon New Phoenix, the Spartan manually detonated the HAVOK warhead as a desperate last resort. The Mantle's Approach was completely destroyed by the nuclear blast, taking the Composer along with it. The dying Cortana got the Chief out of the ship at the very last moment and created a hard light barrier around him, saving John's life at the cost of her own.[4]
Gallery
The Mantle's Approach rising above Requiem's main entry portal.
The Mantle's Approach exiting slipspace alongside Lich dropships.
The Mantle's Approach flying through the void.
John-117 pursuing the Mantle's Approach onboard his F-41 Broadsword.
The Mantle's Approach opening a slipspace portal.
The Mantle's Approach jumping into the slipspace rupture.
The UNSC Infinity facing the Mantle's Approach.
A view of the trench run that John-117 has to get through using an F-41 Broadsword.
The debris field left behind by the destruction of the Mantle's Aprroach.
Concept art
Concept art of the profile of the Mantle's Approach.
More concept art of the Mantle's Approach ship with the Didact's Cryptum.
Concept art of the interior of Mantle's Approach.
Concept art of the Mantle's Approach, laying siege to Ivanoff Station.
Untextured 3D model of the Mantle's Approach.
Close-up on the fore section of the 3D model.
Detailed views of the model's upper half.
List of appearances
- Halo 4 (First appearance)
- Halo: Silentium
