Sojourner-class dreadnought

Sojourner-class dreadnought
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Production information
Manufacturer:	Summus Assembler Vats
Class:	Prime dragoon
Role:	Attack
Technical specifications
Length:	9,430 meters (30,900 ft)
Mass:	10 billion metric tons
Engine(s):	Reaction drive
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Armament:	1 torsion driver; 28 converging beam cannons; 300 light mass fusillade cannons;
Complement:	200 scutarii; 5,000 venatores;
Crew:	One princep, fifteen navarchs
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Forerunner-Flood war
Introduced:	Shortly before 97,745 BCE
Affiliation:	Forerunner navy

The Sojourner-class dreadnought^[2], formally known as Dragoon Prime by the Forerunners, are a type of capital warship used by the Forerunner fleet.^[3]^[4]

Specifications

Superstructure and hull

Two Sojourner dreadnoughts and the docking battle station form combat tridents, independent squadrons that could be deployed on any solar system. During the war against the Flood, the Forerunners made a new combat formation: ten Sojourner dreadnoughts arranging themselves into a octagonal formation and a battle station arranged into deadly decimation lattices, capable of splitting other vessels in half. The dreadnoughts can detach from the battle station and act as components of the ships themselves when hovering above the surface of a planet.^[4]

Sojourner dreadnoughts are equipped with long-range scanning Auspex array systems, which can peer through Slipspace to look for approaching ships, mapping local star systems by probing vast distance in realspace, or detecting suttle changed in planetary or ships atmospheres.

Crew and complement

The Sojourner-class dreadnoughts are crewed by 15 Navarch, which oversee naval or combat operations. The Navarchs are led by the ship's Princeps. The crew is protected by 200 heavily armored Warrior-Servant Scutarii. The dreadnought also carry 5,000 War sphinx-clad Venatores who can direct the ship's millions of autonomous Despair-class fighters on long-range strikes.

Armament

The primary weapon of the Sojourner it's a capital-scale torsion driver, a gravitic emmiter that can be used as a delicate grasping tool or as a crude scalpel, pushing and pulling portions of the enemy ships beyong their shielding and structural supports with discondant harmonies, ripping them appart and exponsing vulnerable systems to concentrate fire of the dreadnought's other weapons.

The Sojourner dreadnoughts are also armed with 28 converging beam cannons, which shoot tendrils of energy capable of tracking enemy vessels. The dreadnoughts also has 300 light mass fussilade cannons, and antimatter streams.

History

The Sojourner-class dreadnoughts were the last in a line of first-order warships stretching to the Forerunner's earliest interstellar expansion, and were the pinnacle of Forerunner naval technologu: impossibly fast, heavily armed and highly efficient. The Sojourners' were introduced shortly before containment efforts against the Flood began.^[4] Millions of Sojourners were raised up and thrown up against the Flood, leading strikes deep into Flood-dominated Burns, rughtlessly cauterizing the slightest hint of infection. Despite their efforts, only a few remained intact to the end of the war. Some Sojourner dreadnoughts were docked at the Apex Site on Shield World 0459.

During the Human-Covenant War in 2531, the High Prophet of Regret and Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee went to the Apex to gather a massive and powerful invasion fleet for the Covenant. However, a Reclaimer was required to release the locking mechanisms holding the ships in place. Thus, they abducted Professor Ellen Anders to activate it for them. The ships were destroyed when the artificial star inside the shield world went supernova after the crew of the Template:UNSCship used their ship's Slipspace drive as an improvised bomb.

Trivia

Parts of these ships were strewn about the outer surface of the Shield World. These derelicts are probably from a battle between the Forerunners and the Flood that resulted in the installation's infestation.^[5]
These ships bear a resemblance to a type of horizontal Forerunner structure found on Installation 00.^[6]

Gallery

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Concept art of the dreadnoughts for Halo Wars.
Untextured and textured 3D models of a Sojourner-class dreadnought.
The Forerunner dreadnoughts being contained within the Apex.
Sojourner-class dreadnoughts during the Forerunner-Flood war in Halo Legends Origins.
Dreadnoughts docked around a Library on an unknown installation.
A group of Sojourner-class dreadnoughts combining their fire.
Flood-infested dreadnoughts.
Sojourner-class dreadnoughts in Halo: Escalation.
Dreadnoughts in Halo Mythos.