Important Events
The Harvest Campaign was a five-year campaign to retake the planet Harvest after the Covenant took over the planet and wiped out the colony on Harvest.
The Battle for Arcadia was a battle for the colony Arcadia in the Procyon system, which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Harvest Campaign.
The Battle of the Etran Harborage was a battle between the UNSC Spirit of Fire and Covenant forces lead by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee on Shield World 0459, also known as the Etran Harborage.
The Second Ark Conflict was a battle between the UNSC forces aboard the Spirit of Fire and the Banished forces under command of Atriox on Installation 00 in 2559.
Important Events
The Harvest Campaign was a five-year campaign to retake the planet Harvest after the Covenant took over the planet and wiped out the colony on Harvest.
The Battle for Arcadia was a battle for the colony Arcadia in the Procyon system, which occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Harvest Campaign.
The Battle of the Etran Harborage was a battle between the UNSC Spirit of Fire and Covenant forces lead by Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee on Shield World 0459, also known as the Etran Harborage.
The Second Ark Conflict was a battle between the UNSC forces aboard the Spirit of Fire and the Banished forces under command of Atriox on Installation 00 in 2559.
Summary
CLASS: Phoenix-class support vessel
DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 0.8 x 0.69 km
COMMISSIONING: 2473 (military refit 2520)
The UNSC Spirit of Fire was originally a colony ship, serving as a supply vessel for new colonies, but was later refitted as a military support vessel during the insurrection. It served during the Harvest Campaign early in the Human-Covenant War, helping to win back Harvest prior to disappearing from known space during the Battle of the Etran Harborage.
Service Record
The Spirit of Fire was initially built as a colony support vessel, ferrying colonists and supplies to support the UNSC's colonization effort. After the insurrection drove a wedge between outer colonists and the Unified Earth Government, the ship was refitted as a military support vessel fifty years after it initially entered service. This came only five years prior to the war with the Covenant, and the Spirit of Fire was put to great use fighting Covenant in Admiral Preston Cole's fleet, particularly at Harvest. At the end of the Harvest Campaign in 2531, the Spirit of Fire followed the Arbiter Ripa 'Moramee to Arcadia, and later the Etran Harborage, where they successfully stopped the Covenant from recovering a fleet of Forerunner warships, at the cost of their slipspace drive. The Spirit of Fire was adrift in space for the next 28 years, until it arrived at Installation 00, or the Ark, where they came into contact with the Banished. The crew managed to survive again, this time by using the Ark's own defenses against itself. As of 2559, the Spirit of Fire is still located at the Ark.
Featured Media
Though not appearing in the Halo universe until 2009 and the release of Halo Wars, the Spirit of Fire has shown up many times since then, including a detailed schematic in Halo: Warfleet.
