Unidentified energy sword pattern
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Superheated, shaped plasma[1] |
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100 battery units[1] |
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This unidentified energy sword pattern (UNSC Type classification: Type-1 Energy Weapon/Sword, T-1 EW/S),[5][6] more commonly known as the energy sword, is a Covenant melee weapon manufactured by the Merchants of Qikost.[1]
Overview
Design details
- Main article: Energy sword (fiction)
This unidentified energy sword is one of the many energy sword variants manufactured by the Covenant. It is characterized by a widened gap between the two blades above its hilt.[1][3] The exact mechanism by which the energy sword functions was still under investigation by United Nations Space Command in 2552.[5]
Usage
Within the Covenant, this energy sword is a weapon typically carried by high-ranking Sangheili, like Sangheili Ultras, Sangheili Generals and Sangheili Zealots.[3] Bloodblade of this variant were employed by the Silent Shadow.[7][8] Following the Human-Covenant War and the dissolution of the Covenant, this energy sword was inherited by its splinter factions, including the Swords of Sanghelios,[4][9] Jul 'Mdama's Covenant,[4] and Servants of the Abiding Truth.[10]
Variants
- Bloodblade - As with many other patterns of energy swords, this energy sword pattern can be customized as a bloodblade, with red-colored plasma.[7][8]
Two members of the Silent Shadow wielding bloodblades.
Gameplay
- Main article: Energy sword
This energy sword pattern is featured in Halo: Reach. The energy sword is a powerful melee weapon in close-quarters combat, capable of killing most foes with a single strike. It is a power weapon that appears on some multiplayer maps.
Production notes
- In Halo: Reach, the energy sword icon in the HUD features a different inner design from that of the in-game model.
- In the remastered graphics of the Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and the Halo 2: Anniversary campaign, the in-game model of the Pelosus-pattern energy sword was replaced by this unidentified energy sword pattern from Halo: Reach. However, the remastered Halo 2: Anniversary cinematics still depicted the Pelosus-pattern energy sword.
Gallery
Halo: Reach
Concept art of a Sangheili fighting with the energy sword.
The HUD icon for the energy sword. Note the different inner blade design.
The energy sword in the Halo: Reach Beta.
First-person view of the energy sword in the Halo: Reach Beta.
First-person view of the energy sword in the final build.
Reference chart for the energy sword hilt.
Reference chart of the energy sword.
A Zealot wielding an energy sword.
A Zealot charges at SPARTAN-B312 with an energy sword.
A Sangheili Field Marshal prepares to swing down his energy sword.
A Spartan-III wielding an energy sword.
Assassination between two Sangheili using the energy sword in multiplayer.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
A cloaked Stealth Sangheili with an energy sword sneaking up on marines.
Lat 'Ravamee wielding the energy sword.
A Zealot wielding the energy sword.
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Halo 2: Anniversary
Thel 'Vadamee wielding the energy sword as a Zealot in terminals.
Thel 'Vadamee wielding the energy sword as the Arbiter in terminals.
A Heretic Sangheili Major wielding the energy sword.
An Honor Guard wielding the energy sword.
A Special Operations Officer and a Zealot wielding the energy swords.
A Zealot wielding the energy sword.
Artwork
Thel 'Vadam fighting with the energy sword in Halo: Escalation.
Usze 'Taham fighting with the energy sword during Operation: FAR STORM in Halo Mythos.
Members of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant using the energy sword during the Battle of Sunaion in Halo Mythos.
Silent Shadow members using the the energy sword in Hunting Party.
A Sangheili Minor fighting with the energy sword in Halo: Collateral Damage.
Avu Med 'Telcam with the energy sword in Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition).
List of appearances
- Deliver Hope (First appearance)
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
- Halo 4 (Prologue only)
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo 2: Anniversary
- Halo: Tales from Slipspace
- Halo: Collateral Damage
Sources
- ^ a b c d e f g Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 63
- ^ a b Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), page 349
- ^ a b c Halo: Reach, Gameplay
- ^ a b c Halo Mythos
- ^ a b Bungie.net, Halo: Reach Ordnance Page (Retrieved on Feb 7, 2021) [archive]
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Energy sword (Retrieved on Sep 21, 2011) [local archive] [external archive]
- ^ a b Halo: Evolutions - Headhunters (story): motion comic
- ^ a b Halo: Tales from Slipspace: Hunting Party
- ^ Halo: Escalation, issue 1
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 256
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