The UNSC Midsummer Night (Hull classification symbol FFG-219) was a UNSC light frigate. Prior to his promotion to Captain in 2552, Lieutenant Jacob Keyes served aboard this frigate and later transferred to the UNSC Iroquois, a UNSC destroyer.
Overview:
In 2535 the Midsummer Night was equipped with stealth capabilities by ONI, in exchange for help with a special mission. The frigate had it rough from the start. During her shakedown mission of enforcing the Cole Protocol on civilian ships, some of her complement ODST's were caught in an Insurrectionist trap aboard the civilian cargo hauler Finnegan's Wake that resulted in over 20 Killed-in-Action and approximately a dozen Wounded-in-Action. From there, she gave support to ONI operatives on Charybdis IX that were trying to root out the source of the illegal trading of plasma weapons. A UNSC Pelican pilot attached to the Night, named Jeffries, lost his life to rebel rockets during this engagement, and ODST's had to rescue Keyes and his team.
Midsummer Night then followed an Insurrectionist ship to a structure known as the Rubble. The ship attempted to stealth its way through the Insurrectionist structure. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Badia Campbell, one of the bridge officers, was an Insurrectionist sympathizer, who wounded several officers and fatally wounded Commander Zheng before being stopped by Lieutenant Keyes. She then committed suicide with her own weapon. Before she died, Campbell sabotaged the ship and alerted the Rubble to the ship's presence. The Midsummer Night was then forcefully commandeered by the rebels. It is unknown how many marines and personnel died in this engagement. The rebels presumably repaired it as it was in working condition later.
Later, the ship would be taken back by Lt. Jacob Keyes with the help of the Rubble AI, Juliana, who saw the UNSC presence as the only way to save the citizens under her charge. Keyes and the surviving bridge crew would then use the ship to deploy Gray Team and its ODSTs onto the Covenant city of Redoubt and its two nearby AA guns in order to open the city to a bombardment. Several ODSTs died in the attempt, but the mission was a success.
From there on out, the ship was used to guard the habitat Exodus while it fled to the relative safety of UNSC controlled space. The ship was damaged in the effort but was able to make it back and receive repairs. She survived the end of the war and is currently being upgraded with technology recovered from both the war with the Covenant and technology recovered from the Onyx Dyson Sphere as well as her super structures size and stealth systems to serve as the HQ for Operation: Final Dawn, an operation to find and kill all remaining Covenant Loyalist forces while rescuing stranded or captured UNSC personnel behind enemy lines. she is the second ship to be outfitted with these upgrades initially she was to serve in the same battle group as the UNSC Infinity but was re-tasked by Fleet Admiral Hood. Spartan-II/III Blue team is stationed on board as well as a battalion of ODST's and a battalion Regular marines
Technical Specifications:
Class: Paris Class Heavy Frigate
Slipspace Drive: Hybrid Forerunner/Covenant Slipspace Drive core
Shielding: Hybrid Forerunner/Covenant Shielding System
Hull: 60 centimeters (2.0 ft) of Titanium-A armor
Sensor systems : Hybrid Forerunner/Covenant Long range Scanning Device
Armament: Same MAC Gun the Pillar of Autumn had can fire 3 rounds on one charge (1 MAC Cannon)
Archer Missile Pods (40) 30 missiles/pod
Shiva-class Nuclear Missiles (3)
NOVA Nuclear Fission Bomb (The NOVA Bomb is a cluster of nine nuclear fusion warheads encased in a lithium triteride case. When the warheads are activated, the lithium triteride shell focuses the blast in upon itself, multiplying the destructive power a hundredfold. 1)
Pelican Transports (8, 4 Modified for Spartan ops)
Longsword Fighter Interceptors (8 Fighters armed with 105mm cannons and 12 Archer Missiles)
M808B Scorpion Tanks (6)
M12 Force Application Vehicles (Warthogs, 12)
Covenant Plasma torpedo launchers (8, four on each side of the ship)
Forerunner Light point defense laser cannons
Hybrid Forerunner/Covenant Energy Projector(1) mounted below the MAC cannon
Role: Stealth ship, long range attacks, ship to ship boarding, counter insurgency operations, etc....
