Mantle's Approach: Difference between revisions

The ''Mantle's Approach'' featured a core seed that acted as the heart of the ship. Even if the ship was destroyed, the core seed could rebuild it as long as it had access to raw materials of sufficient quality. The ship featured a specialized command sector known as the ''Hall of Command''. The ''Heroes' Walk'' housed the barracks, training grounds, museums, and halls of honors for the ship's Forerunners. After the Warrior-Servants voluntarily composed themselves, the section was no longer necessary. The ''Exalted Sepulcher'' was remodeled to service composed Prometheans. The ''Mantle's Approach'' was capable of constructing a billion Knight shells, but there were never enough essences available to fill them. Large numbers of empty Knight shells in maintenance cradles survived the ship's destruction and its' remnants arrival at Genesis.<ref name="warfleet"/> The vessel possessed powerful shielding, able to shrug off attacks by the [[UNSC Home Fleet]] and orbital MAC platforms without any trouble. Only a shot from two of the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}}'s main batteries managed to penetrate the shields and they failed to inflict any significant damage upon the vessel which was able to shift its structure to quickly close the hole.<ref name="midnight" />

The ''Mantle's Approach'' featured a variable geometry hull full of programmable matter, hard light, and energy interlocks in order to change its shape for fighting the Flood and Ancient Humanity. The ship's main cannon was a heavy ion weapon system adapted from emplacements used on planet-cracking siege platforms. Firing a bolt of exotic matter accelerated to a significant fraction of the speed of light, the cannon was able to buckle continental plates and disintegrate phase-rotated fortifications. However, the ship must reconfigure after a single shot. Another important armament was the stasis tension driver, an array of three projectors that pairs quantum singularity generators with repurposed torsion drivers. Together, they generate localized space-time distortions that impede the formation of [[Slipstream Space|slipspace ruptures]] and jam all [[superluminal communications]] and sensors.<ref name="warfleet"/> The vessel's point-defense guns were potent, able to destroy several [[UNSC]] ships that were in close-proximity with relative ease.<ref name="midnight" />