User:EternalSonic1997/UNSC Pillar of December

The UNSC Pillar of December is a Halcyon-Class light cruiser constructed in 2552 sometime after the Pillar of Autumn's destruction on the Original Installation 04. It was one of the last models, constructed shortly before the Prophet of Regret attacked the Planet Earth. It was made as a tribute to the Autumn, having some of it's missle upgrades, and featuring more reactors to add more power to the model. It lacks the modified Mac Cannon, however. It is sometimes called the Autumn II, the  Second Autumn, or more commonly the December.

Construction
The Pillar of December was built as a tribute to the Pillar of Autumn following the Battle of Installation 04's climax. It borrowed many of weapon upgrades, though subtracted the Mac cannon upgrade. The primary upgrade gained with the December that was not present with the Autumn was the December's added reactors in-order to give it more power. It was finished at the start of the Battle of Earth.

It's first Crew was an Un-named Captain and hundreds of other personnel alongside many UNSC Marines. Upon the Start of the Prophet of Regret's attack, the ship was deployed into an early use.

Battle of Earth (2552)
The December's first use in the UNSC was during the Battle of Earth when the Prophet of Regret attacked the Human Homeworld. It was deployed very early in the attack, and was one of if not the only Halcyon-class light cruisers involved within the attack. The December itself was one of if not the only Halcyon-class light cruisers involved in the start of the battle. It's role was to protect the planet from the Covenant forces, and it managed to successfully destroyed at least three CCS-class battlecruisers. It remained above Earth for the rest of the Battle, and managed to survive even when the Prophet of Truth and his fleet arrived.

Once Truth's fleet arrived, The Pillar of December remained above Earth's atmosphere. It used on a Special Operation to destroy a covenant cruiser that had a Prophet that the captain believed was Truth on-board it. They used a special ODST batallian to infiltrate the ship and sucessfuly kill the Prophet only to discover the Dreadnought was where Truth really was. Regardless, it continued it's fight in the battle of Earth, though took heavy damage from the size of Truth's fleet at Earth. Despite the damage, it pushed through the Covenant forces and destroyed a minor Assault Carrier before the battle moved onto the Ark. December and it's crew followed the forces leaving onto the Ark.

Battle of Installation 00 (2552-2553)
Once December followed the other forces into the Battle of Installation 00, the Pillar of December was one few UNSC ships to engage Truth's fleet above the Ark. It did not enter the Atmosphere or land on the Installation, but did manage to survive through-out the dogfight between the forces. It destroyed many Covenant Loyalist ships, including two assaultcarriers and six battlecruisers before another battlecruiser arrived and attacked it along with numerous other vessels from the Covenant. During this attack, it was severely damaged to the point that it's weapons were unable to be operated. The Captain decided as an evasive maneuver to activate the slispace drive and escape before his vessel was destroyed by enemy forces. December then remained at an undisclosed location in the galaxy, due to losing power shortly after the slipspace drive usage.

Stranded in Space (2553-2570)
The December's disappearance did not go un-noticed. The Captain himself had the AI assigned to the ship (Mitsuki) send out a distress beacon to the UNSC shortly after it was confirmed the damage of the ship was too great to risk another slipspace travel, and that they were in unknown territory. The December stayed Missing in Action for years, with it's surviving crew decreasing as supplies began to shorten. Many of the Marines had been deployed out to the Battle of Installation 00 or were killed. It's weapons were completely damaged, and the Captain made the decision to stay in the spot that ship was stranded at. This was up until 2573. By that time, many members of the crew were deceased. Also during this time came the descent of Mitsuki's state. She fell into rampancy around 2560, and in her rampancy she killed off some of the ship's own crew and began talking in complete non-sense.

Xhar's attack (2571)
In 2571, the vessel was approached from the rear by a CCS-class battlecruiser named Ultimate Elegance that was commanded by Kig-Yar shipmistress Xhar. The ship's forces boarded the December, using her lack of defenses as a prime reason for relentless attacks. The Kig-Yars easily killed the forces remaining within the December, and once Xhar herself arrived the Captain and the crew within the cockpit were captured and presumably killed following the ship leaving the area.

Re-Discovery (2573)
The ship's distress beacon was finally answered by the UNSC. A Recovery ship was finally sent out and successfully located the ship near the remains of Installation 04 at the gas giant of Threshold. Due to Mitsuki's rampancy, she was deleted from the ship shortly after the UNSC ODSTs arrived and stormed through the ship. There were no records of Xhar's attack found on the ship, leaving the fates of the crew a mystery to the UNSC.

Repairs and New Crew (2573)
Following the Re-Discovery of the December, the ship was given proper repairs and refitted with a completely new crew. It's new captain is Blaineley Patterson and the new A.I in place of Mitsuki is an A.I. named Zeta. The ship is currently docked at a UNSC location on the planet Eternity. The ship also hosts a Spartan-III on-board,

Former Crew

 * Un-named captain (deceased as of 2571)
 * Mitsuki (deleted as of 2573)

Current Crew

 * Captain Blaineley Patterson
 * Zeta
 * Brandon-G229

Trivia

 * The original working names of the Pillar of December were the Pillar of Winter and the Pillar of Spring. They were changed due to those two names being present in other fanons. One of which being a deleted page.
 * It was highly based off of the Pillar of Autumn after upgrades. This is capitalized by two of the December's nicknames' being Autumn II and The second Autumn.
 * It's name, Pillar of December, is the same as it's month of rediscovery, which is December 1st, 2573.
 * The picture used for this article to represent this ship is of the Pillar of Autumn.