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The '''''National Holiday''''' was a [[Human]] luxury starship in service in the mid-2520's <ref>''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''</ref>. | The '''''National Holiday''''' was a [[Human]] luxury liner starship in service in the mid-2520's <ref>''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''p.127</ref>. The liner was attacked in 2524 by two unmanned orbital taxis sent by the human [[Insurrectionist]] army above the planet [[Reach]]. The liner was just completing its load-in of more that 1,500 civilian passengers on a charter tour departing for [[Arcadia]]. The liners captian thought that the taxis were bringing late arriving passangers, but when they were hailed and failed to comply with his docking commands, the captian tried to initiate evasive maneuvers. Unfortunatly, due to the ammount of explosives that were packed into the two taxis and the ensuing explosion, the National Holiday was unable to get far enough away and was torn in half. The captian, while unable maneuver, calmly directed other ships out of the path of the National Holiday before it dropped into the atmosphere of Reach, burning up the liner and killing all crew, personel and passangers . | ||
The explosion was also large enough to burn away the hull paint of every other ship within a two kilometer radius. | |||
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Revision as of 03:54, November 14, 2007
The National Holiday was a Human luxury liner starship in service in the mid-2520's [1]. The liner was attacked in 2524 by two unmanned orbital taxis sent by the human Insurrectionist army above the planet Reach. The liner was just completing its load-in of more that 1,500 civilian passengers on a charter tour departing for Arcadia. The liners captian thought that the taxis were bringing late arriving passangers, but when they were hailed and failed to comply with his docking commands, the captian tried to initiate evasive maneuvers. Unfortunatly, due to the ammount of explosives that were packed into the two taxis and the ensuing explosion, the National Holiday was unable to get far enough away and was torn in half. The captian, while unable maneuver, calmly directed other ships out of the path of the National Holiday before it dropped into the atmosphere of Reach, burning up the liner and killing all crew, personel and passangers .
The explosion was also large enough to burn away the hull paint of every other ship within a two kilometer radius.
Sources
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvestp.127
