UNSC Midsummer Night
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Stalwart-class light frigate [note 1] |
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Stealth ship, long range attacks, ship boarding |
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60 centimetres (2.0 ft) of Titanium-A armor |
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2535: Falaknuma, 18 Scorpii System |
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The UNSC Midsummer Night (Hull Classification Symbol FFG-209) was a United Nations Space Command Stalwart-class light frigate.[1] Prior to his promotion to Captain in 2552, Lieutenant Jacob Keyes served aboard this frigate and later transferred to the UNSC Iroquois, a UNSC destroyer.[2]
History
In 2535 the Midsummer Night was equipped with stealth ability by ONI, in exchange for help with a special mission. The frigate had it rough from the start. During her shakedown mission of enforcing the Cole Protocol on civilian ships, some of her complement ODST's were caught in an Insurrectionist trap that resulted in over 20 killed in action and approximately a dozen wounded in action. From there, she gave support to ONI operatives on Charybdis IX that were trying to root out the source of the illegal trading of plasma weapons. A UNSC Pelican pilot attached to the Night, named Jeffries, lost his life to rebel rockets during this engagement.
Midsummer Night then followed an the Insurrectionist freighter Kestrel to a rebel space habitat known as the Rubble. The ship attempted to stealth its way through the Insurrectionist structure. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Badia Campbell, one of the bridge officers, was an Insurrectionist sympathizer, who wounded several officers and fatally wounded Commander Zheng before being stopped by Lieutenant Keyes. She then committed suicide with her own weapon. Before she died, Campbell sabotaged the ship and alerted the Rubble to the ship's presence. The Midsummer Night was then forcefully commandeered by the rebels. The rebels presumably repaired it as it was in working condition later.
Later, the ship would be taken back by Lt. Jacob Keyes with the help of the Rubble AI, Juliana, who saw the UNSC presence as the only way to save the citizens under her charge. Keyes and the surviving bridge crew would then use the ship to deploy Gray Team and its ODSTs onto the Covenant city of Redoubt and its two nearby AA guns in order to open the city to a bombardment. Several ODSTs died in the attempt, but the mission was a success.
From there on out, the ship was used to guard the habitat Exodus while it fled to the relative safety of UNSC controlled space. The ship was damaged in the effort but was able to make it back and receive repairs.
Trivia
The name is a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, a play by William Shakespeare.
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach Template:First mentioned
- Halo: The Cole Protocol (First appearance)
Note
- ^ In Halo: The Fall of Reach (page 163 of the Definitive Edition or 139 of the original edition), it is stated that Keyes' new ship, the destroyer Iroquois, was 7 meters longer than the frigates Midsummer Night and the 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 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 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.
