Dreadnaught

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Dreadnaught
The Dreadnaught and its fleet moments before the Awoken attacked.
Production information

Manufacturer:

Oryx, the Taken King[1]

Model:

Capital ship

Technical specifications

Length:

3444 to 3500 kilometers (2140.002 to 2174.799 miles)[2][3]

Other system(s):

Hull:

Segmented Worm corpse[1]

Armament:

  • 2 paracausal cannons[10]
  • Interdimensional rifts[11]

Crew:

Millions

Complement:

Tombships

Usage

Role(s):

Flagship[12]

Affiliation:

Blood of Oryx[4]

 

"My throne world is vulnerable. I am going to move it."
"Where?"
"Into a mighty dreadnaught. I shall keep my glorious mind cosmos inside a titanic warship."
— Oryx and Kagoor[13]

The Dreadnaught is a massive Hive spaceship that serves as the fortress of Oryx, the Taken King, who came to the Solar System to enact his revenge against the Guardians for killing his son.[14] Accompanied by a fleet of Hive warships and Tombships, the Dreadnaught entered into orbit around Saturn after having been stalled by the Awoken and stayed there for the rest of the Taken War until Oryx's defeat.

History

According to an analysis by Ghost, the Dreadnaught may pre-date the formation of the Earth, making it at least 4.54 billion years old.[15][16]

Oryx decided to construct the Dreadnaught to house the High War, his Ascendant Realm, after a Vex incursion accidentally caused by his son, Crota, demonstrated its vulnerability.[13][17] Once it was completed, his first act with it was to attack the Nicha Thought-ship and the Harmonious Flotilla Invincible that defended it.[1] While the Flotilla was easily destroyed by the Dreadnaught's death impulse weapon, the Thought-ship proved to be a trap set by Quria, Blade Transform, who launched a second invasion of Oryx's throne, but was quickly defeated.[13]

When Crota was killed by Guardians in revenge for the Great Disaster,[18] Oryx was wroth with fury. Setting everything he had planned aside, he brought his fleet to the Solar system to exact retribution upon the Guardians—specifically the one who struck the killing blow. When he arrived at the Solar system, in the vicinity of Saturn, Oryx and his ships were met by the Awoken. After a fierce battle he ended it by obliterating both sides.[19] Without a fleet to continue his crusade Oryx turned his attention to the Martian Cabal, who were already aware of him,[20] and halved their forces to build his Taken army.[19][21]

The Cabal uncharacteristically sent out a distress call, which was answered by none other than Crota's killer, who barely escaped with their life when Oryx discovered them.[19] Back on the Dreadnaught Oryx and his lieutenant, Ecthar, Sword of Oryx conversed about his captives.[19] Later, the Guardian returned in Eris Morn's jumpship equipped with modified stealth tech, attempting to infiltrate the Dreadnaught; unfortunately, the cloak fell away and the Dreadnaught detected them anyway. Nonetheless, as their ship was destroyed, the Guardian entered the Dreadnaught. After disabling its superweapons and encountering an entrenched Cabal force,[6] the Guardian tracked a Cabal Commander and his men to an active portal; after the Cabal were destroyed, along with attacking Thrall, the Guardian unsuccessfully tried to enter the portal, and then departed, denying Oryx his vengeance a little longer.[9]

Returning again, this time armed with Crota's vestige, the Guardian enters the heart of the Dreadnaught and faces Oryx. After a pitched battle, Oryx's physical body is slain and he is forced back into his Ascendant Realm, taking his power with him. Eris Morn later approached the left behind Willbreaker and retrieved a crystal to construct a weapon, seemingly following a plan she and Mara Sov had created earlier.[15]

Guardians later began mapping the Dreadnaught to patrol and keep in check the Hive and Taken, and discovered the Court of Oryx in the process.[22] At the urging of Eris[23][24] and the Vanguard they challenged the Court and slew them all.[25] Shaxx's Redjacks also secure a training ground aboard the ship.[26] In addition, following Dead Orbit's report, Guardians stop a Cabal team from destroying the Dreadnaught core,[27] and later on, a distress signal from within the Dantalion Exodus VI.[28] Alak-Hul, a Darkblade present during the first failed attempt on Crota's life, is located and murdered in the ship's depths;[8] a Hive ritual to infuse an Ogre with Taken power is stopped as well.[29] Finally, a Guardian Raid team, led by Crota's killer, penetrated into the Ascendant Realm and challenged and slew the rest of the Ascendant Hive, killing Oryx once and for all.[30]

Without Oryx and his family the Dreadnaught remains in orbit about Saturn. Malok, Oryx's nephew, attempted to seize control but was driven away to the Moon.[31][32]

Design

The Dreadnaught's hull is carved out of a segment from the corpse of the Worm god Akka,[1] whom Oryx had previously slain in order to learn the power to Take.[33] Oryx turned the High War "inside out" by tying it into the structure of the Dreadnaught.[1] In effect, his Ascendant Realm has become the Dreadnaught and vice versa, becoming physically mobile and thus more difficult to attack.[1][34]

Its design is a consistent rectangular hexahedron along its length, while the ends taper inward toward the center. Four main spines protrude from the bow while the end has one engine. Numerous lesser spines protrude outward both bow and aft.[35] One of the Dreadnaught's most notable features is a massive parabolic dish built into its side nearest the bow, which is the emitter for a paracausal superweapon capable of decimating fleets[13] and even destroying a portion of Saturn's rings.[19] As the weapon charges, energy travels laterally along the Dreadnaught's hull from each end until it reaches the dish, where it is collected and released in a devastating spherical pulse that expands outward from the ship, destroying or severely damaging anything in its path.[10][35] Designed by Ir Halak and Ir Anûk, the weapon draws on Oryx's power to briefly evert the Ascendant Realm within the Dreadnaught out into the physical realm.[11] This is essentially the same principle as an Oversoul death impulse.

Apart from this weapon, the Dreadnaught was also capable of remotely generating "eversive breach events," creating interdimensional rifts either to Take nearby organisms or to attack a given area with a short-lived stream of energy.[11] The Dreadnaught was capable of maneuvering in a manner impossible for conventional spacecraft because of its paracausal origins;[36] furthermore, it continuously emitted exotic radiation in the form of sterile neutrinos, phaetons, mass growl, gravity waves, and axions, with significant spikes in this radiation being correlated with the breach events taking place across the Solar system at the onset of the Taken War.[11] The Dreadnaught also generated its own gravitic field.[37]

Activities

The Dreadnaught is a massive destination with its own Patrol mode and other activities. The Dreadnaught includes many Raid-like secret locations and puzzles that players can revisit and solve to earn special rewards. Players will not only have to find a way inside the Dreadnaught in story missions, but also plant the beacons to be used later in patrol.[14] Though it is a Hive ship, it is defended primarily by Oryx's personal army of Taken; in addition, a Cabal strike force has breached the interior and can be encountered engaging both the Hive and Taken.[38][39]

Patrol

Story Missions

Strikes

Raid

Crucible

Interior

The inside of the Dreadnaught is vast and dangerous.[40] Reports indicate the ship is host to numerous biomes hostile to all life except the Hive[41] and Worms.[42] Hadium[43][44] and Wormspore[45] litter the ground in many areas, including beautiful orbs called sootpearls buried inside the rot.[46] Sacrifial stones entombed with the souls of lesser Hive dot the place in strange nooks and cranies[47] while prisons to torture the Hive's captives are found deeper inside.[8]

Locations

Secret Chests

There are a number of chests hidden within the Dreadnaught that can only be opened with keys. To obtain the keys, one needs to kill Hive in the Hull Breach area until one drops the Wormsinger Rune. Use the rune on a console inside one of the side rooms in the Hull Breach area to summon a Hive Ogre champion. Killing the Ogre drops a Wormfeeder Rune; killing fifty more enemies turns the rune into one of nine keys which are used to open any of the chests below:

Flavor text Key
"Near the breach where foes invade, nestled with worms in a cave." Requires Key of Eir.
"Near the breach but down below, where only heroes dare to go." Requires Key of Ur.
"Not the breach, but on the path where lords and princes feed their wrath." Requires Key of Xol.
"In the Mausoleum find the key where maggots lurk blind." Requires Key of Maggots.
"Along the Mausoleum walk, toward the Breach where invaders dock." Requires Key of Wyrding.
"In the Mausoleum, 'tween a path the living have not seen." Requires Key of the Spawn.
"In a cave near the Court, "along the road where maggots pave." Requires Key of Akka.
"In an area near the Court, where debts are paid, on the ledge where faith is laid." Requires Key of Yuul.
"In the Court of Oryx and just below, where but the bravest dare to go." Requires Key of Gnashing Teeth.

Trivia

  • Fan theories abound as to the actual size of the Dreadnaught. Devoted fans used known data about Saturn's rings and recently investigated comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko's size to estimate that the Dreadnaught is approximately between 3444 to 3500 kilometers (2140.002 to 2174.799 miles) long.[2] To put that in perspective, that is equivalent to the width of the continental United States, or the size of Earth's Moon,[3] making it one of the largest ships to appear in science fiction, surpassing even the 160 kilometer Death Star II of Star Wars.
  • Sterile neutrinos, phaetons (or dark photons), and axions are all hypothetical particles proposed in connection to dark matter.

Gallery

  • The Dreadnaught and its fleet approaching Saturn

    The Dreadnaught and its fleet approaching Saturn

  • Taken Fleet Concept Art

    Taken Fleet Concept Art

  • Dreadnaught Concept Art

    Dreadnaught Concept Art

  • Concept Art of the battle between Awoken fleet and the Dreadnaught

    Concept Art of the battle between Awoken fleet and the Dreadnaught

  • Concept art of the Dreadnaught's main cannon

    Concept art of the Dreadnaught's main cannon

  • A Render of the Dreadnought

    A Render of the Dreadnought

  • Another Render of the Dreadnought

    Another Render of the Dreadnought

  • Render of the Dreadnought's main weapon

    Render of the Dreadnought's main weapon

  • Inside the Dreadnaught

    Inside the Dreadnaught

  • An outdated Director map of the Dreadnaught

    An outdated Director map of the Dreadnaught

  • The Dreadnaught's main weapon, firing.

    The Dreadnaught's main weapon, firing.

  • The energy pulse from the Dreadnaught's main weapon, destroying everything in its path, including a pair of smaller Hive ships that were caught in its radius.

    The energy pulse from the Dreadnaught's main weapon, destroying everything in its path, including a pair of smaller Hive ships that were caught in its radius.

  • Hull Breach

    Hull Breach

  • Trenchway

    Trenchway

  • The Founts

    The Founts

  • The Hanging Crypts

    The Hanging Crypts

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List of appearances

References

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  2. ^ a b reddit: A mathematical analysis of the Dreadnaught's size.
  3. ^ a b YouTube: How Big is The Dreadnaught? (Thats No Moon!)
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    "I’m ordered to board and capture the Hive flagship. At any cost."
    — Primus Ta'aun
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  40. ^ Ishtar Collective - Dreadnaught Veteran
  41. ^ Ishtar Collective - Dreadnaught Reconnaissance
  42. ^ Ishtar Collective - Ghost Scan: Worm
  43. ^ Ishtar Collective - Reforging the Blade
  44. ^ Ishtar Collective - Hadium Flake
  45. ^ Ishtar Collective - Wormspore
  46. ^ Ishtar Collective - Sootpearl
  47. ^ Ishtar Collective - Ghost Scan: Sacrifial Stone
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