The UNSC's OLDEST Ship || The Spirit of Fire || Halo Ship Breakdown

foreign [Music] we are just one ship and an old one at that but here we are [Music] all that we may have left those standing beside us and where you see one Old Ship I see home and that is always worth fighting for [Music] thank you hey people Mark here and welcome to another ship breakdown there was a longer wait for this one than usual and not just because of the substantial lore for this ship but because the original ship encompassed the full story of the spirit of fire which proved to be far too much for one video sources used our warfully to the encyclopedia Mythos Halo Wars timeline events Halo Wars Genesis Halo Wars Halo Wars 2 Halo escalation Halo Tales From slip space Halo Shadows Of Reach Halo smoke and Shadow Halo Renegades point of light divine wind and Halo loot crates here we go [Music] the spirit of fire is one of very few hero ships focused on and romanticized in the Halo Universe and for good reason as a ground support ship with the unsc's domination in the ground Arena the spirit of fire is uniquely situated to fill the rule from a narrative and lore standpoint but before we talk about the spirit of fire let's go back back before the banished on the Ark in Zeta Halo before the covenants war of annihilation before the Insurrection and before the domus diaspora [Music] following the end of the interplanetary wars within the soul system the ueg found itself with an absolutely massive population a huge military and no enemies to fight they're saving grace from these issues wouldn't come for another 121 years with the invention of the Shah fujikawa translate engine in 2170. even then it wouldn't be until 2362 that the first colony ships would be built the ludicrously large Odyssey led the charge in the domus diaspora the most rapid expanse of humans space to date the ship would be deconstructed to form reach which led to the world becoming the second most populous and prosperous planet ever settled After Earth of course she was accompanied by hundreds of colony ships both of the Euphrates and Phoenix Class designed by Halifax spaceworks the Phoenix Class was designed to both terraform worlds and construct the necessary infrastructure to form a suitable home away from home the ships could establish a self-sufficient colony in just six months but on more wild planets they tended to stay in orbit or work as a pipeline from Earth to the Colony at the end of the their jobs as colony Builders some phoenixes would land on the planets they found and be stripped for parts like skid bladner the founding ship of harvest the Phoenix classes 2500 meters about 8 200 feet long and weighs a chunky 44 million metric tons making it the second largest civilian human ship ever made second only to the Odyssey which based on this one image we see of her is absolutely massive the cargo bays are cavernous in scope meant for storing the prefab structures like homes and government buildings necessary equipment to set them up as well as atmosphere processors for terraforming worlds that aren't quite ready for human biology the observation deck allows for a limited number of crew members to view the world they plan on inhabiting and it usually isn't stuffed full of scanners and Analysis equipment the recreation block of the Phoenix Class includes what looks like a stadium for sports events it also has hobby workshops for enrichment education terminals for the children of the massive crew and complement and aeroponics Farms which is a method of growing crops in an air or missed environment without any substrate so no soil tidy this area helps Stave off the amount of bone and muscle loss as effective reduced gravity now the UNSC has access to artificial gravity technology and it appears to be able to simulate the gravity or at least close to that of Earth's and coupled with the fact that with cryogenics people in space would only likely be experiencing the effects of lessened gravity for a few weeks at a time at the very most I wouldn't be too worried that the crew of the spirit of fire would turn to the populace of Axiom anytime soon under slung to the Phoenix Class are 10 D20 Heron heavy lift Vehicles these are meant to deploy the infrastructure and prefab buildings both stored in the cargo bays and in the case of the spirit of fire manufactured in the automated War factories large and square in shape and utilizing vital flight systems for precision drops the herons are responsible for dropping in Colony starter units these are constructed by polycrete and powered by a small hydrogen reactor and form the basis for firebases which we'll talk about later some Phoenix Glass Colony ships also carried with them under slung star Charter class colony support ships these were used as subsistence hubs so early footholds on wild worlds they also help in terraforming so they're most likely fitted with large atmosphere processors themselves they also work as a method of establishing multiple cities at once during the colonization process because not all colonies were meant to be as rural as harvest notably Meridian colonized in 2531 Humanity settled Meridian with 139 vessels carrying seventy thousand three colonists most of which were from France on Earth four of those ships were star Charters which landed on the continent of taurones they used these support ships to settle suitable locations before moving on to the moon's supercontinent which would become the planet's Capital when Meridian was attacked in 2551 as one of the last colonies to be attacked by the Covenant a handful of the ships were ordered to hide on the other side of Hestia 5 the planet that Meridian orbits after the war these ships moved back to the partly glassed moon to begin recolonization efforts one of which Meridian 5 Alpha was critically damaged during the created conflict forcing the resettlement of the Moon to be delayed the Liang Dortmund corporation which was responsible for managing the recolonization effort decided that it would be more efficient to move their base of operations from Meridian station to Darkstar station rather than clean up after the guardian Cortana activated there the Phoenix Class Colony ship has no compliment or Armament in any militaristic sense some notable shifts of this class include the Phoenix herself the lead ship the CAA first riveri a ship commissioned by the colonial administrative Authority was a Phoenix Class built at a Mars Shipyard It joined the nearly 100 ships launched from Luna to colonize nearby systems during the domus diaspora it housed up to 11 000 colonists and utilized Heron dropships either in support of or in lieu of star charters in universe as of 2554 a scale model replica of it was featured in Outpost Discovery the UNSC skid bladner as mentioned earlier was the colony ship that founded Harvest it stayed in orbit for over a year and once colonization was complete it landed on the planet and was scrapped for parts and as we well know Harvest was the first to fall to the Covenant hegemony some others that may have been Phoenix classes but were not described specifically enough to classify them as such were the CAA Caspa and the CAA Butterworth and then of course the unsc's oldest most resilient ship the UNSC Spirit of fire which we'll cover in a moment but first a disambiguation the CAA the colonial Administration Authority is a supplementary governing body that manages the outer colonies alongside the ueg the caa's equivalent of the UNSC was the CMA the colonial military Authority space military police meant to be on the lookout for insurrectionist forces but as the UNSC further accepted the Carver findings later on the CAA and the CMA seem to have become more and more redundant as the ueg itself simply extended the long arm of the UNSC and started slapping down in his left and right probably at oni's behest but I'm curious why any Colony ships would be designated UNSC pre-2521 refit I mean their civilian Colony ships it makes sense that the CAA would run all of them and yet the lead ship and the skid marker were both UNSC despite having zero military application anyway the Phoenix class represented a turning point for the people of Seoul and ushered in a new era of expansion and progress for them thanks to the slipspace drive the Phoenix Class alongside the other colony ships managed to secure Humanity's future I wonder if it would be good for anything else later [Music] [Music] thank you understood Archer missiles inbound [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] the UNSC Spirit of fire had a typical run as a colony ship before its military refit in 2521. 48 years prior the ship was built and contributed to the founding of the colony's Arcadia and varent transported colonists as well as equipment such as Hydroponics atmosphere generators and prefab schools in 2520 directly following the founding of varent Captain Alexander the final civilian commander of the spirit retired the UNSC requisitioned it right after and the next year in 2521 gave the ship a full overhaul to be used as a ground assault support vessel and command was given to an accomplished officer Captain James cutter the ship would later take part in multiple engagements assisting in the Harvest campaign the Battle of Arcadia and acting as the sole UNSC force in the Battle of Trove and the second art Conflict at least the latter half of it the 2521 overhaul included adding an Armament and titanium a armor hangers for Darter cargo drop ships and other orbital transfer Vehicles automated War factories and an upgraded Fusion Drive the second set of grades took the engines of the UNSC Calcutta a scuttled UNSC destroyer of unknown class and strapped them to the spirit this increased output by 37 percent Serena upgraded the bridge and somehow managed to set up ander's new lab on the observation deck complete with multiple new scanners and lab modules that only Anders knows the uses of both Serena and Isabelle made significant safety and usability improvements to the robotic Factory lines which is probably how the spirit is able to construct the new vehicles and base upgrades that Isabelle provided them with Johnson get those guns back inside where are we on that Hull bridge in sector 17. ETA 60 Seconds [Music] we are Professor let me handle that the spirit employs a 22 B6 R3 Mac battery which houses three 530 centimeter matte Cannons of the same designation I can't say much about the strength of these relative to other Macs but the sheer quantity of them is how the ship is able to fire in such rapid succession with Max being notorious for long reload times not much is known about the 1011 A2 R1 Naval coil guns the only use we've ever seen of them is on the spirit of fire they were apparently effective enough if the spirit was able to use them to escape a cpv class destroyer in close quarters the spirit also had 24 of the goaded m42 Archer missile pods now the difference between m42 and m58 archery missiles isn't really clear but whatever improvements they made with the so-called long-range anti-ship m58s clearly weren't enough to make them more functional or viable than their predecessors we see these show up more prominently and newer ships like the Poseidon class the infinity than their m58 counterparts the spirit also has 40 m-800 rampartpoint defense guns an older variant of the m870s found on stalard Sharons and stridents and the m910s found on the Halcyon and Autumn classes unlike the m42 Archer missiles though these were pretty much phased out universally and in fact were almost outdated when they were originally fitted as the m870 ramparts are fitted on every other large ship built before the Phoenix that used ramparts but the ship to ship Armament is not the star of the show on a ground support ship that would be the crew and complement all that we may have left for those standing beside us and the duty that defines us battle after battle fighting side by side together where you see half a crew Isabel I see family courage and a thousand Heroes who swore to fight their way through hell before they'd ever ever turn their backs and run [Music] the spirit of fire houses 11 350 Personnel in total with the crew alone consisting of 3 500 Naval personnel and one ueg citizen Anders I'll go into more detail on the crew's stories at a later date but they do need some attention as the spirit is an assault support ship and thus the compliment is immensely important to her operations Captain James Gregory cutter is Captain the spirit of fire from the moment it was requisitioned by the UNSC to the most recent sighting of the ship in 2560. Serena was the shipboard AI present on the spirit for her entire seven-year lifespan implementing several upgrades and Performing thorough maintenance over that period after the spirit of fire emerged from a mysterious slip space jump 28 years after being lost with all hands Isabel was discovered at an abandoned UNSC research outpost on the ark she supplied the crew with all the relevant data they missed out on in the past three decades including the Human sanghili Alliance the end of the war and the Halo conflicts she also supplied them with blueprints for newer equipment such as kodiaks Nightingales and jackrabbits and both mantis and Colossus exosuits Seth is an AI construct that is also on board the spirit as of 2559 beginning service sometime before that it's unknown if Seth is a smart AI but it's unlikely considering his implied age and lack of any Avatar but he's there and he's named Seth which is a cute name I like it if there's any sets out there you've got a cute name Professor Anders is the ship's sole civilian crew member apparently studying under Catherine Halsey she was recommended by the doctor to be brought on by the UNSC as a theoretical xenobiology consultant which led to her induction and abduction by one Sergeant John Forge a quite recent addition to the team only Lieutenant Veda Lopez serves as the leader of the ferrets a covert unconventional warfare team of Spartan 3s including gamma company Olivia gamma company ass and Gamma Company Mark from 2520 to 25 30 a young Commander Terence Hood served on the spirit of fire before being transferred to Roman blue a Halcyon class destroyer a year before the spirit went missing after failing to retrieve the spirit of Fire's log Beacon he holds himself responsible for the loss of the spirit to this day as for the naval officers on board Lieutenant Commander Alice valam is the chief engineer in charge of maintaining the ship here pictured as a report given after performing a full diagnostics check with Isabel we'll cover that in the next video Someone Named Blake served on the bridge crew ranking surname unknown Commander Theo figware Commander Theo Figueroa was present during the Harvest campaign and was assigned as the commanding officer of Epsilon Base by Qatar Epsilon bases the map terminal Moraine and Halo Wars 1. Lieutenant green was a junior officer and Bridge crew member in 2531 and likely still is Andrew Prescott is the former chief engineer before being superseded by valum for some reason As Told by this UNSC press Corps article drone Recon supervisor O'Sullivan was the one to alert cutter when banished hiragak were seen idling over one of colony's banished Outpost before operation spear breaker and chief medical officer O'Neal who suggested burning all the flood corpses after the battle of Trove a good Instinct But ultimately pointless as the infection is parasitic not viral for other crewmen there's Dr Andrew sandmore he was a doctor on board who apparently enjoyed outdoor climbing the Opera and oversaw the unsc's youth training camp on reach Johnson was another guy you know just uh just a guy I guess Johnson get those guns back inside Lulu Hershey was a nurse on board James was this guy it's this guy in the bridge evane was this guy and Mary was this gal of the Marines on board Sergeant John 4 just the most notable father of one Lucy Orion Forge with his wife Lane with whom his relationship was strained after a stint in the military police Forge was assigned to the spirit of fire where the captain would come to trust him so thoroughly that he was afforded far more Authority than his rank normally would have allowed Lieutenant Colonel Morgan cansano was an in insurrectionist leader turned UNSC hellbringer and now she leads the firestorm battle group she hasn't altered much in her views and remains unorthodox especially for an officer what's possibly more unorthodox is her choice and tactics utilizing modified warthogs and cyclopses with flamethrower attachments the only thing uncontroversial about her is her immense respect for cutter Captain Jenkins was a marine who was a part of battle group Phi alongside the Spartan kaichi 047 and reported to Cutter the presence of Covenant forces on harvest without any notable bases or logistical assistance which was out of the ordinary which Disturbed it Communications officer G Peterson led a Recon team scouting the quarantine Zone around the ruins of high charity as pictured here privates Wilson wood and papadakus are all privates whose named cryo Chambers were shown on the spirit private gr Scott is a marksman and on installation 0-0 he and his team were assigned a scouting area with several Power nodes that would be a boon for the spirit's forces the group were stalked by four banished sanghili Rangers until they split up and were picked off one by one Scott reprogrammed his spotter drone these little floaty dudes we see in Halo Wars alongside the snipers and moved it away from himself to draw fire Scott was able to take the elites out from range and Escape collecting his team's dog tags and returning to the spirit of Fire Sun Ray won one is a small team of ODSTs that are a part of boomerang company led by Major Vaughn the CEO of Boomerang the team consists of Warrant Officer Quinn the technical liaison petty officer gruss the hospital corpsman Corporal Turpin the Drone operator and Lance corporal Sparks cool name the designated Marksman these guys were instrumental in operation spear breaker which we'll cover again at a later date the spirit has had a Spartan presence on board ever since its deployment as a military vessel due to his father dying of Boren syndrome an ailment we only know to be caused by the treatments done on Orion Project's test subjects like Johnson it's heavily implied that Sergeant forges at least half Spartan one colloquially known as a Spartan 1.1 I'd say it's more accurate to say Spartan 0.5 but whatever the most recognizable Spartans on board are easily red team which consists currently at least of Commander geromo92 Senior Chief Petty Officer Alice 130 and Senior Chief Petty Officer douglas042 their most recent additions are two of the remaining three Spartan threes of gamma company including Ash Geo 99 and Olivia g291 we haven't seen them work with red team just yet but boy I am excited too the spirit of Fire's mascot and true Captain was Spock a cat of unknown breed here he can be seen chilling on the bridge his home turf as the captain no one's ever mentioned him dying and Serena never mentions disposing of him so the implication is that Spock is also put into cryo at least that's what I choose to believe early lunch the compliment of the spirit of fire is larger and more detailed than any other ship we know of and we can chalk that up to the fact that it's crucial to the ship's function an assault support ship with no compliment is useless that said I'm not sure if the exact numbers give even represent pre-harvest campaign or during the second art conflict and it really doesn't matter considering the War factories can pump out dozens to hundreds more of almost all the vehicles and Equipment listed below the Spirit Carries 6 000 UNSC Marines from the 45th Marine regiment and its 13th infantry battalion which includes foxtrot company as well as alpha bravo and Charlie platoons two thousand UNSC army soldiers are on board as well as 1 000 ODSTs in the form of the ninth shock troopers Battalion which includes Boomerang company and their first platoon command Squad Sun Ray and Lotus Squad not to mention the firestorm battle Group which is led by the lieutenant colonel Morgan cansado as I said she's armed with her own personal customized Cyclops which we'll get to later and leads numerous hellbringers infantrymen blizzard Squad was an experimental fire team consisting of numerous cryo Troopers the spirit also has a few specialized Marines in the form of extractor Marines armed with some weird kind of modified railgun that can suck the life out of targets submarines were deployed with more heavily armored BDU is the normal drawing fire from their more lightly armored comrades and reactive Marines which are quite novel their squad is encased in a one-way bubble Shield protecting them from all Small Arms fire the spirit has room for 70 d-77 Pelican dropships to deploy them all as well as 178 M12 warthog all-terrain vehicles which also come in multiple variants the typical M12 warthog chain gun variant the M12 G1 Goss variant the M12 warthog flame variant courtesy of kinsano and the firestorm battle group and the M12 warthog Fireball variant I forgot to mention in the original recording but there are also rocket Hogs and armored up chain gun variants this beard also has numerous scorpion tanks including at least 93 m808b scorpions numerous m808s scorpions and some lockdown scorpions these are a modified version of the m808s Scorpion fitted with a mine plow heavier armor and energy shielding numerous fronting Mark III B Cyclops exosuits which can repair the ship while in flight as well as reactive Cyclops variants which works similarly to reactive Marines and the previously mentioned kinsano custom Cyclops which is equipped with dual flame throwers on either arm and an energy Shield numerous m850 grisly battle tanks which have been lightly modified in some way by Sergeant Forge numerous m88 bison armored personnel carriers many of which have been modified by Serena to project a cryogenic area of effect slowing and freezing enemies numerous M9 Wolverines to protect ground troops from aerial attacks numerous sp-42 cobras which are mobile stationary coil gun turrets meant for taking on enemy vehicles and halting them in their tracks numerous xrp12 Gremlins and electronic warfare vehicle that disperses a targeted EMP field a fragile thing the gremlin needs an escort to be effective numerous m312 elephants that can be used as a mobile forward operating base at a pinch even more forward than the Deployable firebases themselves many b-65 short swords which are used as a delivery system for all kinds of bombing run excelling in ground support and air strikes hundreds of av-14 hornets which we're very familiar with light vital aircraft meant for taking out ground troops the spirit now also includes Trooper Hornets which boast much thicker armor than a typical variant numerous AC 220 vultures which are heavier anti-ground aircraft lots of av-22 sparrow Hawks which work similarly to Hornets 600 soeave drop PODS of the m8823 variation 10 of the previously discussed D20 hair and heavy lift drop ships but instead of colony startup kits these drop firebases which use the quick construction features of a colony startup kit to make Vehicles weapons ammo Etc as well as facilitate the construction of military focused structures all of which would be better armored than the typical human building six Albatross cargo dropships for dropping loads too heavy for a pelican but too light for a heron and 56 d-82 Darter cargo drop ships the lightest variants of Dropship these quickly transport resources from the ground to the spirit of fire which in turn puts the materials to work on the assembly line manufacturing whatever it is the ground forces request in 2559 Isabelle added these new designs to the spirit's repertoire including new d81 LRT Condors these are essentially elongated Pelicans with more space for troops and a slip space Drive although the spirit lacks the capability to build that component right now they also deliver turrets and firebases when herons aren't being used for whatever reason g81 Condor gunships are a powerful heavy anti-ground gunship created by Isabelle outpowering any other UNSC air-to-ground aircraft ev-44 Nightingales are VTOL support craft that deploy drones to treat infantry and repair vehicles and Equipment even in the midst of battle Trooper Nightingales like Trooper Hornets differ only in that they have much thicker armor than standard versions zav-48 Frost Ravens are experimental craft first theorized by Serena utilizing a cryo-rate of freeze targets afterwards using seismic missiles to shatter the Frozen enemies unlike the Cyclops the fronting igtrasil Mark 9 or the Mantis are meant to be used against enemy infantry and vehicles rather than buildings the Mantis makes up for having less Firepower than typical armor like a scorpion with increased maneuverability in regenerating energy Shields the hunting Idris El Mark II J Colossus exosuit I don't think I need to say anything here jack rabbits these new Scout vehicles are probably faster later and cheaper to make than a warthog just based on looking at them m650 mastodons are a large armored personnel carrier these have huge troop compartments which allows them to carry more heavy infantry like Spartans or Hell Bringers with all their equipment Jerome suggested to make heavy use of these in the second Arc conflict both to reduce unnecessary casualties and because they're unlikely to receive reinforcements anytime soon and finally M400 kodiaks they're my favorite their mobile stationary artillery cannons I love them I just love them foreign there with the spirit on the one hand I'm extremely attached to it and this utility is perfect for the unsc's heavy ground Focus the UNSC should have invested in more of these than as many Sharons as they did but on the other hand it doesn't really look all that special or do anything to make me go wow what a cool ship on the one hand that's great both from a lore functionality and narrative standpoint the ground troops and the crew are the star of the show but on the other hand let's be honest there's nothing particularly cool about the spirit itself other than her awesome name and abbreviation the spirit of fire the spirit in listening back to this while editing I think I might be comparing the spirit of fire a little too closely though to the uh the Normandy for a mass effect although no Halo ship no Halo hero ship that is can be really compared to the Normandy in terms of coolness not yet now the Phoenix Class Colony ship that's a different story I love it for what it is and it's weird that I have this differentiation in my head I can't really think of a better design for a colony ship foreign but that's not to say this one is great or anything or bad it just is it just looks like a ship but the lore surrounding both the Phoenix Class and the spirit is really cool especially that of the crew there are lots of weird obscure little sources like Halo loot crates giving insight to the backstories of some of these characters and the tie-in to Kelly Gay's Orion Forge series is great I love those books red team is awesome and I think I'm not alone in saying Jerome would make a suitable player too in a Halo infinite campaign DLC in 2525 assuming it'll come out that soon cutter is absolutely perfect as an inspiring leader who we find out in escalation is actually the one who Lord Hood looked up to for guidance in his day I love that Cutter's resilience and confidence in his men has in turn resulted in the most potent fighting force in the entire UNSC like hands down with their Feats as a unit the forces of the spirit of fire I think they'd probably even give the Master Chief a little bit of a challenge in combat Effectiveness League's better than the infinity ever was at conducting independent operations and just generally getting done anyway that's all I've got for today thanks for watching I should have a video up on my gaming channel soon so if you like my voice I don't know you could go check that out as I said in the beginning a sub is immensely helpful you all are enabling me to do things I've always wanted to do and it is surreal but that's all I've got for now peace watch the ad don't skip the ad don't you dare don't skip it I want money captain the other teams are clear yes sir ETA did the spirit of fire is five minutes bring up the map we have a lot of work to do until she gets back I captain the spirit of fire has a cat that makes it that makes it cooler than the Normandy Normandy doesn't have any animals they get a dog then the normandy'd be cooler

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Published: Fri Apr 07 2023