UNSC's Pre-Covenant Warship | Halcyon-class (Pillar of Autumn) Breakdown | Halo Ships

The Halcyon-class Light Cruiser was used by humanity before they ever met the Covenant. See a complete breakdown of this Halo Capital ship. Learn it's history from before the Fall of Reach, through the Halo series and even behind the scenes facts.

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[uknownuser]

shouldn’t it be “ the domain will be with you, always” ?

[Veed.l]

"Has a length of 3, 840 feet"
>And grows three times that size when accommodating for final vehicle run levels.

[captainsternn]

"Engineering marvel"
*Remembers the 3km long racetrack on a 1.7km long ship* You're damn right it is!

[NexusDex]

Whenever i feel down i listen to theoretical spaceship engineering and it just feels right!

[adventwolfbane]

The reason the numbers are "off" is because the Pillar of Autumn is a completely second refit over the original refit. The Autumn was a one time massive upgrade with some of the best technology and equipment available to the UNSC at the time. It is why that refit pattern became the basis for the new Autumn class Heavy Cruiser post war.

[aleksanderbialy]

One thing that was missed is that the Halcyon class isn't rated for atmosphere, which is why in Halo Reach it has those side thrusters to get it out of the dock

[_spooT]

How to win naval combat?
UNSC: Flying Sniper Rifles

[LeFtyjr_Gaming]

I finally have another source for halo ship’s information for my personal story Thanks

[bug]

Discrepancy !
Or, reason for the Discrepancy. The Autumn was specially modified for Operation Red Flag. Prototype laser cooled reactors, a three shot burst capable MAC, and half of its hanger space converted into hidden Archer pods. All on the starboard, right, side if i remember correctly. So she had the 36 external, PLUS the 300 internal.

source, the novel "Fall of Reach"

[thorshammer]

So your finally doing other sci fi ships awesome.
I wait to see the Forerunner Fortress-class Dreadnought and Imperium Battleship.

[dariustiapula]

"Tis a flesh wound!."

Gets plasma, boarded, blown up etc.

[Wrmhandler]

"these ships were designed to take on insurgents"
"massive spinally mounted magnetic acceleration cannon that transforms the ship into a gun"
Scary insurgents.

[bogustoastnone]

I know I’m late but this is important

Should be noted that the Pillar of Autumn itself had an overhaul of its weapons, which is what causes the discrepancy.

It’s Mac could fire three times before needing to cool down, allowing it to single handedly tear through any covenant shield known at the time, meanwhile most other ships needed to have two Macs in it to perform the same stunt.

It had more stuff, including the archer missile pods.

The reason is because the mission they were planning was to kidnap a covenant leadership and needed a ship that would survive.

They chose the halcyon class due to its survival ratio and stuffed it with their most cutting edge tech, including the Spartans, right up until Reach got attacked.

[thorshammer]

I heard the ODPs have a deadly force of around 48 gigatons. That's pretty powerful imagine what a Forerunner ODP can do.

[waletsplayer]

I'm already hyped for the breakdown of covenant ships (the CCS-class especially!, ).

[seanmartin]

It should also be noted that the Pillar of Autumn was a special case as it's original objective was to go deep in enemy space and attempt to capture a Prophet. It also had 2 AIs as Cortana was apart of the Spartan detachment that was supposed to be on board

[baronfriday]

IIRC the Pillar of Autumn was specially outfitted for a deep penetration mission to capture Covenant leadership, so that could account for the discrepancy in missile pods.

[TheShreddedSnorlax]

4:26 Ok, the reason for the discrepancy is that the Pillar of Autumn whose stats you're using for the larger number, wasn't a normal Halcyon class cruiser. She was specially re-fitted for Operation: Red Flag, a UNSC plan to capture a Covenant Prophet, and use them to negotiate a ceasefire. This partly involved them boarding and capturing a Covernant ship to take back to the then unknown Covenant homeworld without destroying it. As a result, the Pillar of Autumn was heavily modified. It's covered extensively throughout the novels The Fall of Reach, First Strike, and to an extent The Flood.

You also need to be careful not to confuse the Halcyon's with similar-looking but very different Marathon Class Heavy Cruiser. They have a similar looking space frame but the Marathon is larger and heavier armed than a standard Halcyon.

Other than that, not a bad video. Suggest checking some of the Halo wikia articles, they're well put together on the different ship classes and have good referencing to the source material.

[cinematicplays]

Love halo can’t wait for halo infinite

[glectarful]

You once told me in a live stream q and a that you wouldn't move from star wars content, thanks for suprising me!