Didact's ship

Template:Individual Ship Infobox This unnamed vessel served as transport for the Didact, Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, and the humans Chakas and Riser. The ship was "grown" from a design seed planted under Djamonkin Crater by the Librarian. It was never given a formal name, as it was destroyed shortly after its activation, during the Battle of Janjur Qom.

Design details

The ship wasn't built in the traditional sense, it was "grown" from an object known as a Builder's Seed. The seed contains all the schematics and plans required to construct the ship, as well as the ship's slipspace shard, a piece of a much larger crystal used by the Forerunners in their slipspace drives. It is unknown if the raw materials for the hull of the ship were incorporated into the Seed as well, or if the Seed draws them from the surrounding area.

The vessel was highly advanced, even by Forerunner standards. In its fully constructed state, the ship was an ovoid approximately 1,000 meters long. The majority of the ship's volume is composed of empty space. Approximately one third of the ships mass was composed of fuel and engine reactants. The remaining space was entire empty and could be configured at will, using various forms of hard light. It was stated as having enough space for 5,000 Warrior-Servants.

In many ways the ship is more an inorganic lifeform then an inanimate object. The ship's ancilla was capable of learning and growing, gaining insight and experience as it grows older. It demonstrated it's lack of experience when it landed in a less then smooth manner. As well, it's form is not definite, and can be changed and re-formed as the situation dictates.

Although newly constructed, the ship came fully equipped with a contingent of picket cruisers and an armory stocked with spare Combat skins, thousands of hand weapons and a host of other military devices, including the Didact's War Sphinxes.

List of appearances

• Halo: Cryptum (First appearance)