Audacity
Production information
Manufacturer:	Builders
Role:	Exploratory vessel
Specifications
Engine:	Reaction drive
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Length:	~100 meters (328 ft 1 in)[1]
Width:	30 meters (98 ft 5 in)[1]
Armament:	Lightly armed[1]
Service information
Year introduced:	98,395 BCE
Last sighted:	Centuries after97,445 BCE
Participated battles:	Forerunner-Flood war Battle of the greater Ark
Noteworthy crewmembers:	Keeper-of-Tools Dawn-over-Fields Clearance-of-Old-Forests Chant-to-Green Birth-to-Light
Known commanders:	Librarian Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting
Affiliation:	Forerunnerecumene

TheAudacity was a uniqueForerunner ship originally constructed for theLibrarian's research mission toPath Kethona and later adopted by the Lifeshaper as her personal vessel. After her death, it became the vessel ofBornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, the former IsoDidact.^[2]

History[edit]

TheAudacity was commissioned around98,395 BCE for aLifeworker-led mission to thesatellite galaxy ofPath Kethona to explore the possible origins of theFlood. It was designed and constructed by theBuilders, with the challenges of its mission—namely, the unusually longslipspace journey—in mind. The design and construction of the ship took ten years; approval from the Council for the mission took another ten. Over a million volunteered to be part of the ship's crew on the great expedition. Seven were chosen, including the Librarian herself, three Builders including one namedKeeper-of-Tools and another known asDawn-over-Fields, aMiner namedClearance-of-Old-Forests, and two Lifeworkers,Chant-to-Green andBirth-to-Light. Despite the Builders engineering the ship specifically for the mission, the journey was demanding for its occupants as well as the ecumene at large; despiteAudacity crossing the intergalactic gulf in several jumps, the required causal reconciliations accrued significant space-time debt, slowing down slipspace travel across the galaxy and forcing the crew into stasis for portions of the journey.^[1]

Following the expedition, the Librarian appropriated the ship as her personal transport. In the final days of theForerunner-Flood war, she and theIsoDidact used the vessel to travel to thegreater Ark after theFlood ravagedNomdagro, with theUr-Didact's flagship,Mantle's Approach, following. When the Ur-Didact was preparing to process thehuman inhabitants ofOmega Halo with theComposer, the Librarian attempted to save them by taking theAudacity to the firing path of the Composer, but was pushed aside by atorsion field projected by theMantle's Approach.^[3] After the incident, the Librarian followedMantle's Approach toRequiem aboard theAudacity, intent on stopping the Ur-Didact's genocidal schemes by locking her husband in aCryptum. TheAudacity was allowed inside due to the Librarian's transponder codes and she succeeded in her plan.^[4]

Afterwards, the Librarian used the ship to travel toErde-Tyrene where she also spent her last days before the firing of theHalo Array.^[4] It was returned to the Ark byChant-to-Green who used it to return at the Librarian's request.

Over a century later,Audacity was one of the few ships the Forerunners had left aside fromkeyships found on the Ark used in thereintroduction.Audacity was used by Bornstellar's team toreturn toMaethrillian and retrieve two more ships for the Forerunners exodus from the galaxy, theslipspace flakes they needed for the ships and to restore theDomain through theOrganon. When Abaddon revealed itself, it shut downAudacity, but the ship's power was restored whenGrowth-Through-Trial-of-Change sacrificed herself to restore the Domain and Abaddon disappeared.^[5]

Audacity was kept by Bornstellar and Chant-to-Green who used it to settle on their new homeworld in another galaxy. After the two decided to give up technology for a simpler lifestyle,Audacity was left abandoned on a nearby mountain with their personal armor aboard. After being reminded of theHalo Array by a story he toldhis son, Bornstellar paid a brief visit to the long-abandoned ship and his old armor.^[6]

List of appearances[edit]

• Halo: Silentium(First appearance)
• Halo: Fractures
  • Promises to Keep
  • Untitled story
• Halo: Point of Light(Mentioned only)
• Halo: Epitaph(Mentioned only)

Sources[edit]

• Forerunner ships