Every Human Ship in Halo (Except the Shortsword)

[@gammacompanymark]

DAMN IT I THOUGHT THE SHORTSWORD WAS A PLANE

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Technically it is

[@emilysmite9356]

Shame

[@jjr5247]

The B-56 shortsword is considered a bomber.

[@Commander_Raveth]

Aircraft is aircraft.

[@jessemurray2128]

I was waiting for you to mention it the whole video because everyone forgets it. I was going to comment that you missed it but you realized before lol. Love your videos keep up the good work

[@epic2owls]

UNSC ships really are one of the most realistic sci-fi ships out there in fiction. I can genuinely see us having stuff like this in a few centuries (even if they are just used for inter-solar system travel)

[@Spendingryan]

Yeah, around reach was when you could see parts like the bridge, radar dish, radome, turrets and VLS cells in higher fidelity which is why I like halo ships, you can see all the details that make sense and the blockyness is what I love as opposed to something like star trek where everything is more advanced and kind of hidden inside the ships.

[@fro99er2]

sorry my dude. most realistic ships are from the expanse. in halo there is "artificial gravity "(yikes), while ships in the expanse rely on "thrust gravity" or no gravity at all, expanse ships are orientated like a skyscraper, when under thrust "down" is the main thrusters at the bottom. Expanse ship Deck layouts are like that of a building, where halo ships are like earth wet navy ships, long ways . i do agree that the ships do look "industrial realistic" in halo where they look like they were made by a hundred system spanning human empire

[@Spendingryan]

@fro99er2 oh yeah for sure, the expanse is awesome, the MCRN Tachi, which is the main hero ship and gets renamed to Rocinante, interior reminds me of a navy submarine kind of because of the levels and stairs, but yeah most definetly more realistic and looks like a rocket almost.

[@Boomkokogamez]

@@fro99er2 Both are good in their own right. Im sure that we will eventually be advanced enough to build anti-gravity tech or artificial gravity tech.

[@Darqshadow]

Babylon 5 if we really want to go into this. Especially the Earth Force Star Fury. But no, all these ships really do fit into the human design philosophy.

[@tf2weeb663]

The "Light Battleship" designation of the Vindication-class is a euphemism for being the space equivalent of a Deutschland-class Panzerschiffe... In other words, a pocket battleship.

[@ryatt9365]

I’d never even heard of the Point Blank class cruiser before, it looks incredible. It reminds me of Combine architecture with the odd angles and blue lighting.

[@inkedseahear]

It's actually a fan design, by the Sins of the Prophet team that was made canon by 343.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

It's first (and possibly only) appearance, to my knowledge, is in the book Ghosts of Reach. It serves as a command center for ONI.

[@inductivegrunt94]

I honestly really love the ships of the UNSC. I love how unique and varied they are from class to class and even ship to ship.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

8:47 it delights me to know that the UNCS has a wet navy, even if an aircraft carrier is the only ship we know of

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

Yeah

[@cpMetis]

If nothing else, it's amazing just for the joke in Halo Reach where a soldier requests for artillery support. Actual gets back saying they have Aegis Fate ready to fire a mission. Soldier is like "wtf" and asks if it's wet navy. Actual replies "Nah it's a FUCKING DESTROYER IN ORBIT" and the soldier *instantly* decides getting that fire mission isn't worth being turned into paste with the enemy that's like a ridgeline away.

[@federationprime]

I'd bet they keep a healthy number of carriers on major worlds since oceans let you move airbases around, and missile carrying submarines to have anti-orbital (or at least ground strike) capabilities you can keep hidden and essentially armored against orbital attack.

[@cromwellington441]

@@cpMetiswhere can you find that joke? never heard that in all my years of playing

[@cpMetis]

@@cromwellington441 It's one of the audio stories that you can listen in on from the radios throughout the game. Halo Canon has a good video on them. Voice acting is a mixed bag, but they helped a LOT at matching up the timelines of Reach and The Fall of Reach back when the game was new and people were still piecing together what was and wasn't retconned. The one in question, transcript from wiki: Dragon X-ray: "Blue Delta, this is Dragon X-ray. We are on the ground and three mikes out from the objective. Over." Blue-Delta: "Dragon X-ray, be advised that you are the only UNSC ground asset in that grid." DX: "Say again, Blue-Delta. We've got movement due east. That should be Strike Red, over." BD: "That's a negative, Dragon X-ray. I say again; be advised that you are the only UNSC asset in that area." DX: "Roger, Blue-Delta. We're picking up that movement again due east. You got something to soften it up?" BD: "You got a location, Dragon X-ray?" DX: "Grid as follows: Whiskey-Delta one-five-seven-four-one-seven-one-two, over." BD: "Roger, I copy: Whiskey-Delta one-five-seven-four-one-seven-one-two." DX: "That's correct. Request immediate support from any assets on-station." BD: "Dragon X-ray, it looks like all I've got available at this time is the UNSC Aegis Fate." DX: ".....Blue-Delta, is the Aegis Fate 'wet Navy'?" BD: "Negative, Dragon. She's currently listed as an exo-asset; a frigate." DX: "Whoa! We are less than a klick from the target area, Blue-Delta. We ain't that desperate for help." BD: "Understood, Dragon X-ray. Give 'em hell out there, and good luck, out."

[@TheDarthChief]

My favorite thing about the Infinity Class is that there is a secret 2nd one out there somewhere.

[@averagehotwheelsenjoyer1649]

Eternity was stripped for parts to repair the Infinity afaik

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

​@@averagehotwheelsenjoyer1649 Yes, but construction was still going along at least until Cortana did her thing. I don't think anything after that has come out about Eternity.

[@tetraxis3011]

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystemAfter the Infinity was damaged or destroyed, the UNSC probably accelerated construction of the Eternity.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

@@tetraxis3011 Probably? Yes. However, it is just speculation.

[@thegman117619]

I too, Mark, wish to hear more about the space trucks. I must know if future space truckers still honk their horns when colony ship kids fly past and do the fist pump thing out the port windows.

[@johngellare3507]

Watching an ODST depressurize the airlock just to stick their arm out to make the space trucks honk would be fucking hilarious

[@sp4cepigz174]

Ah I remeber being in the bus with my friend going on a field trip and successfully having a trucker do this for us hahaha it made us so happy…. Years down the line I got to do to return the favor 😂

[@wholechains62]

Is it just me or do think that it would be so cool to stumble across an ancient human ship/site in the next or future halo game.

[@johngellare3507]

From the only one we've seen, it looks flat with a small rounded oval part in the middle

[@DullyDeep]

9:05 I see what you did there. I miss RvB.

[@estoncastillo8258]

Freckles is a good boy

[@KILLERMEXICAN210]

​@@estoncastillo8258confetti gun is best gun

[@estoncastillo8258]

@KILLERMEXICAN210 "what is wrong with you people"

[@Eagle96UK]

Tucker did it…

[@CptTaylor]

i like how they blew up the infinite in a cutscene

[@ItsJustVirgil]

9:04 You have EXCELLENT taste. God I loved the Chorus trilogy.

[@TensyWasTaken]

He is cultured indeed 🧐

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

8:49 yeah, it’s not mentioned much but wet navy ships still exist. Most of them are probably museum ships (such as the by the 2500’s ancient USS Iowa) though there would likely be some modern wet navy ships. Mostly to patrol waters. Just imagine some wet navy cruiser (or battleship?) defending a port/coastal city from a covenant attack.

[@Zman6258]

You can actually see a Wet Navy ship on the Halo 3 multiplayer map Longshore! It's a drone carrier ship, you can see several drones on the flight deck.

[@mahmoudsalaheddine8358]

In a halo comic there’s a wet navy destroyer firing on a covenant warship. I can’t remember which though, I saw it in a YT short

[@breakerkilo406]

The Infinity could be an amazing ship, if 343 didn’t try to destroy it in some way every time they saw it.

[@_Highxway]

A planetary gtavity well somehow couldnt rip apart the infinity and somehow banished dreadnoughts could easily get the job done.

[@Dorian_Kellum]

My favorite navy in sci-fi. I actually really like the Infinity, and I wish we got to see it in action in more good stories. It’s a crime the Spartan Ops opening is all we got of that thing in a fleet battle. We really don’t have a lot of true space battles in the games. We can see or hear about them happening in the background, but no Mass Effect 3 ending style cutscene of two fleets going at it. Imagine how the opening salvo at Earth must have looked in Halo 2

[@RandemFellow]

Thats what Halo Homefront is for!

[@willtanker7684]

I love the idea from the start that we, as a species, will lock in our interstellar status when we refer to the moon as "Luna" seeing as almost every sci-fi property that involves a human race that developed on Earth has done so. Truly a self fulfilling prophecy

[@RoyalFusilier]

If nothing else, we're going to need something else to call 'the moon' once we can visit more than one of them.

[@wolfspride95studios82]

Luna is the Spanish word for Moon so a good chunk of earth population already calls it that way. We are only waiting for the people from the north, Asia, Africa, Middle East and part of EU in order to fulfill the prophecy. 😮

[@triplebog]

I think an alternative to the "light battleship" implying a "heavy battleship" is that the battleship may have gotten a bad wrap in recent conflict. If, say, battleships went a similar route as carriers during the human covenant war, where they turned out to be way too expensive and slow. The political will may not have been there to rebuild a new battleship, given their so recent failure. So instead, the new ship line was rebranded a "light battleship" to imply more flexibility and speed. I like stuff like this that alludes to the broader political world and behind the scenes puppeteering that it takes to get a massive trillion dollar spaceship line manufactured

[@m4x927]

"Dudyn sky gmbh" sounds like what you'd hear when you pushed an empty bucket down a staircase.

[@dantheman627]

The idea of a random ship we see for 30 seconds in the background at the end halo reach being the most advanced spacecraft humanity has is pretty funny.

[@Gelo1014]

12:00-12:50was just a whole lot of Prowler greatness

[@Gingerbread23386]

It's nice to see another Vessels of the UNSC video, kinda excited to see the redo of the destroyer classes. Or even some of the carriers that aren't well known.

[@teamdoghouse82880]

You once asked in one of your videos whether people would prefer short videos, or longer compilations. I would definitely go with the longer compilation format. Just my personal opinion, but I really enjoy these longer videos discussing the ships from my favorite sci-fi franchise.

[@jakethompson9814]

whenever you run out of halo ships to discuss try Mass Effect, nobody talks about ME ships enough.

[@RansydMango]

Great video. And small blooper at 5:16

[@ryan_1099]

Love seeing some of the more niche lore get out there. Also that crashed ship on C h o r u s looks a little like a Mulsanne at the butt don't it

[@Vulpes2024]

It’s Chorus not partition

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

1:43 Kuushan Shipyards? A homeworld reference? Nice

[@MetalGearUltima]

Those booster frames are the most anime thing I've seen in a halo. And that's even considering the naked AI waifu

[@halocraft314]

I find it surprising that in Red vs. Blue, Malcom Hargrove used a Halbert class destroyer as his ship, the _Staff of Charon_ while Dr. Leonard Church used what is probably a Charon class frigate as the _Mother of Invention_ . I mean, one's literally the Charon class, the same name as Hargrove's company!

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Church used a Paris, not a Charon. The Charons are in 3 and have that large hanger bay between the engine pods. Church's ship uses the Reach model, which is the Paris class.

[@halocraft314]

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem Huh. I didn't know that. Thanks!

[@OplackTheSwift]

The mona lisa? OH GOD NO

[@MCLegend13]

8:47 gotta love that the ocean Fairing Navy still exists if the Crassus Class Super Carrier is what the Ocean fairing Aircraft Carriers look like now I am curious to see what the ocean fairing Cruisers, Destroyers, Frigates and Corvette’s look like. Maybe something like much larger versions of the Littoral Combat ships or the Zumwalt Super Destroyer. Maybe even a much larger version of the Type 26 City Class Frigate.

[@killdrod]

You had me rolling, when you were trying to say Dudyn shy Gmbh. That was gold right there.

[@taggerung890]

This is dope, loved learning about these. Thanks!

[@jonathan_1177]

Let’s go I’ve been looking for a video about this but couldn’t find it

[@jordanhewins5446]

These videos are some of my favorite Halo lore videos, and are the only ones that I know of that go so in depth with the amount of ships in the Halo universe.

[@spoonyhalo90k]

my favorite unsc frigate is the strident because it is 1 major story beat away from being a straight up forerunner ship

[@NathanWibe]

9:06 I love that little reference there

[@TaT420X]

So many of these ships are just thought up by Nyland

[@fro99er2]

great video i love halo and i never knew how deep their ship lore is. i appreciate the depth of your video keep it up!

[@glennpruess6936]

Ngl, it would've been hilarious and interesting if the UNSC used the 4 iwoa class bb's for their wet navy

[@Jimmy_Rings]

12:48 That is for sure the coolest looking Halo Ship I’ve seen

[@themrfives]

I just realized the mona lisa looks like the USG Ishimura from dead space.

[@FoxandCro]

Can't wait for you to talk about prowler. Hope you go into a little depth on the Point Of No Return.

[@fragmentdemon3939]

This is the first time i ever thought of colony ships not taking back of after they land

[@captc0ck5lap60]

... The Kuushan Shipyards? I'm glad someone setting up the lore had good taste lol.

[@CarlitoAnimacoesStudios]

Yea lol😂

[@Biblicallyaccurateseal]

"spiny pillor bois" had me laughing harder then i should have 😂

[@MeddlerPropagandist14]

Halo legends origins ll

[@rustydean772]

Really wish that Halo Space ship boardgame stuck around.

[@volair8362]

that red vs blue reference was goated

[@icyknightmare4592]

The Infinity is the best thing 343 ever made.

[@mr.m1garand254]

Bridge on the bottom of the pillar of autumn is wild to me but I also understand it lol

[@starpaladin6294]

I caught that RvB reference there mate.. nice

[@andrewwilliam7890]

Very nice, it got a laugh out of me

[@BatteredWalrus]

Wasn't there an intact ancient human ship discovered, I vaguely remember it being mentioned in one of the halo books?

[@dinviesel4649]

5:16 man i thought my phone was going off lol

[@S0l0117]

Always thought the Mulsanne class was fucking beautiful. Especially when that laser goes off…

[@ChuvaktheGreat]

I didn’t know I was waiting for the wet navy, but I was excited. But it’s only 1! :( Anyway good job, the civilian ships were all cool!

[@skyraider87]

25:12 IT'S A SPACE TOMCAT! Even down to the name, its literally a Space F14

[@Deneb_ibou]

The UNSC heavy battleship that you search is the Thanatos class Heavy battleship, built alongside the UNSC Infinity, it's a heavily armored ship with incredible weapon capacity. It was originaly designed to defend the Infinity from attacks and capable to take on it's own a CAS class. Unfortunately his design had a big flaw that was the lack of point defense, the only one that was ever produced has been crippled by a fleat of bombers.

[@BaconShelf]

The Thanatos is not a canon warship; it was created by us on Sins of the Prophets, and its backstory was further fleshed out by editors on the Halo Fanon fanfiction wiki. Nothing about its design or lore is canon.

[@Deneb_ibou]

@@BaconShelf Congratulations it was so well made I was sure it was cannon 😅

[@GoNo117]

Great video, like the honourable mentions at the end lol

[@guts60]

The Spirit of Fire’s condors will always be badass with the amount of guns they carry XD

[@pac1841]

I share your enthusiasm for civilian ships and even military ships that are for support and logistics instead of combat.

[@Ghost-bc4fx]

Fella really loves his ships

[@exporaptor]

I really like the way the S-14 is really similar to the real life F-14

[@Nanorator]

Sadly quite a few Sabres were lost when the slipspace bomb on the Ardent Prayer took out the Long Night of Solace supercarrier

[@ironscavenger]

1:52 "Dudin Sky GmbH" -> GmbH is a German abbreviation for "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung" which is a common type of company in Germany. Translates to limited liability company.

[@dk6419]

Love to get a video on the prowler, and easily my favorite ship in Halo.

[@DaytonaRoadster]

Light Battleship doesnt even make sense. If its light on armor but heavy on weapons and speed, that would make it a Battle Cruiser

[@itzyaboimemez2074]

Agreed. Hell, the Valiant-class is a literal battlecruiser but name. Its too confusing.

[@emilysmite9356]

The greatest ship ever built! And it got bopped in 4 minutes :]

[@nimbusshadow-wings]

Would love a game were an ancient human fleet is found and everyone realizes they were just as strong as the forerunners, and were the progenitors choice for the future

[@RandemFellow]

Oh, we got that shit already. The Babysitter short from Halo Legends takes place on a former Ancient Human colony! They recovered some power armor from it from the old days

[@amog8202]

3:50 Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion... steeled themselves for what needed to be done. I see now why they left you behind. You were weak, and gods must be strong.

[@Slender_Man_186]

I’d love a game that’d just get rid of Frank’s retconned “ancient humanity.”

[@HenryGengler]

Loved the mass effect clip in a halo video

[@draco-1179]

Adding to the Battleship class is the Thanatos-class Battleship, i dont really remember if it had the heavy ir superheavy designation, but it was featured in SotP

[@TNickGuyPerson]

28:08 Gamma's phone does the buzz buzz

[@lozmaster6441]

Dude, the booster game looks so fucking cool in my opinion.

[@Meta-Breaker]

WET NAVY

[@Tacit_helmet]

I think you MAY have missed one really obscure one; a research vessel named Archent moon or something like that

[@lorehunter3182]

Good vid but if there was any vessels you missed it would have to be the SKT-9 Bumblebee lifeboat/shuttle basically the thing that landed you on Halo in CE.

[@gammacompanymark]

I wasn't counting drop pods or escape shuttles

[@ariffetorlase9783]

1:42 today i learned there's a g*dd*mn homeworld reference in halo.

[@AlexDeBrema]

so there are also germans making erquipment in the halo universe.. interesting

[@TangoSuckaa1]

Did you include the stealth modified frigate from the Cole protocol? It was pretty cool, oni had helped stealth it for a special mission.

[@tuscan9617]

Great video Mark!

[@lorewriter1776]

9:06 No, you had it right the first time.

[@JpStryder]

I felt the forerunner upgraded Ace of space was heavily influenced by that ship that lands on reach in the credits.my headcanon is that it was the ace o spades or that humanity fully started to integrate forerunner tech

[@NotAUtahMormon]

We need Halo ship games

[@Kurt_051]

I believe the UNSC command shuttle was described as a larger version of the bumblebee life boat. So for visual reference think of that.

[@eccodreams]

why does it feel like I'm watching a video on a recording of a CRT

[@EvilEnjar]

NGL I was kinda excited for the boats.

[@timesthree5757]

Sounds like the military industrial complex is alive and well.

[@Tallacus]

I am sure a Colony ship would be as well armed as a navy ship, out on the frontier you never know if you are going to need all that weaponry, at least the MAC gun can be repurpose for an orbital Mass Driver. Great Video btw, I love these breakdowns, the only other franchise that does this well is the ships in the Expanse.

[@edd.5169]

Now I may eat my meal.

[@Spendingryan]

It's odd that the NMPD needs a space-plane, when something similar to a hornet or falcon would work as space capability wouldn't be needed.

[@BaconShelf]

The NMPD has an orbital tether to manage, so it's likely that their duties extend up into low orbit.

[@Spendingryan]

@BaconShelf You know I totally forgot that, makes perfect sense, it's literally the biggest and most obvious structure in the city and I missed that lol

[@chaddyboy3901]

Let’s go another video by the man himself

[@thecatpilot4002]

1:50 Where the hell is Lockheed Martin at?

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

The Infinity was the most powerful human vessel ever built? In the words of Master Gunns from Halo 2, "My ass!" Forerunner era human ships have to have been at least comparable to the Forerunner ones, so they would absolutely be superior to Infinity. Otherwise, good video. Didn't notice any real errors, and it was entertaining.

[@sdonbrradd]

No mention of the Artemis? She qualifies as the missing battleship you are looking for.

[@pyroslev]

As OP and (formerly) plot armored as Infinity was, You can't argue against it. It felt right to have the baddest ship in the galaxy for a bit.

[@MrHaypro]

The Vindication class is just a Typhoon from Eve Online

[@tylerwech2550]

Wasn't the D75-DC/G the one that was prepped to hunt down the Master Chief in H4, though? If that's the case, we do actually have a visual

[@joshuaaxford516]

Since you didnt cover the Vulture gunship, I'm gonna assume its an aircraft.

[@the_don4671]

I forgot the ending of Reach takes place that far in the future

[@Domaty]

6:25 is that the usg ishimuras distant cousin lol?

[@demonkillzyt8826]

Am I the only one who thinks that sinoviet is just Lockheed martin

[@redguard5742]

I just realized that at 5:16 your phone rings on the recording