Architect of Faith

Architect of Faith was a Storm Covenant vessel that was part of Jul Mdama's inital stakeout fleet that was in orbit around Requiem for nearly three years before the Forward Unto Dawn arrived.

Despite the long wait, the crew were able to keep themselves occupied by playing 'spot the star', with games spanning weeks at a time.

When the Forward Unto Dawn did arrive, at long last, the Storm Covenant ship moved in to say hello. It deployed several Elites to retrieve the Master Chief, but the first Elite to greet the Chief (who moved forward to attempt to save Chief from falling down a lift shaft) was killed by the Spartan. Confused, the Storm deployed more forces and eventually had to command them to shoot on sight, since the Chief seemed intent on killing all the Storm forces.

The Architect of Faith concluded that it would simply have to destroy the entire Forward Unto Dawn, but the Chief fired a huge missile into the ship which completely obliterated it. Stragenly enough, despite being hit with a nuclear-grade warhead, the ship fell apart like lego which baffles starship architects to this day, killing all aboard. Not long afterwards, the Didact scanned Chief and opened a portal into the lower levels of Requiem, which destroyed most of the stakeout fleet in the gravity well that followed.