Since it's longer than it is tall, isn't "Shaft of Autumn" more appropriate than "Pillar of Autumn"? 

It's a shame Mother of Invention isn't canon. That's a good name.

if we're talking names 'long night of solace' is easily the best ship name of any in the halo universe, human or covenant imo.

Salesmen: "Now one of the main benefits of having a giant, fuck-off cannon at the center of your ship is that it also serves as your keel, and it's in line with your engines to compensate for recoil."

That’s not even the best part of “Pillar of Autumn”. If you read “Fall of Reach”, they retrofitted the “Pillar of Autumn” MAC with a capacitor bank. This allowed it to fire 3 MAC rounds without recharge between shots. So… imagine 3 freight trucks flying at you at almost 1km/s.

My personal favorite name is "Spirit of Fire". So fitting for a ship that wasn't originally intended for combat but had the perfect crew to make up for it.

“In Amber Clad” I have always loved the way it rolls off your tongue.

Also Rip to Mama Foe Hammer. “If you've got a better idea, bring it up at the next staff meeting. Until then, shut the hell up and let me fly this thing.”

Bungie really had a knack for giving good names to ships. I hope humanity follows this old tradition of quasi-irreverent and tongue-in-cheek naming convention when we finally take to the stars. Sure, most of the UNSC names are definitely boilerplate-ish but others are a definite middle finger to what some might consider propriety. _UNSC Say My Name, UNSC Do You Feel Lucky, UNSC Tokyo Rules, UNSC Welcome To The Snipehunt, UNSC Two for Flinching, UNSC Walk Of Shame,_ and many more. Though Bungie didn't invent this sort of nomenclature, it's gotten a lot more prevalent since. In the Deathworlder universe, there's this one private-company-that-totally-not-future-SpaceX that took the idea and ran with it, making them stand out from the rest. _Three Smaller Ships In A Trenchcoat_ comes to mind.

I guess that’s one way to make an unkillable ship. Build it outta bulkheads.

One of the best quotes of Master Chiefs "Sir may I permission to leave the ship"" Person responds "why" Master Chief simply says "To give the covenant back their bomb"

Pillar of Autumn, Spirit of Fire, Forward Unto Dawn, In Amber Clad. If anyone ever gets a real space navy. They better goddamn well use badass names like these.

The UNSC 'I don't get paid enough for this' should exist

My personal favorite Halo ship name is the UNSC Two For Flinching. The perfect name for one of the smallest vessels in the fleet. A fast attack corvette, designed for hit and run attacks. Conveys the perfect image for such a vessel, suddenly feinting an attack, eliciting a pursuit or response, only for the enemy to be caught out of position and exploited elsewhere.

One of the best things about Halo is the ship names, the UNSC deserves massive kudos for that.

My personal favorite ship in the Halo-verse will always be Spirit of Fire.

Man I love how you pointed out how the UNSC use brutalist designs.

3:16 All UNSC ships Frigate size and up are just flying rail guns with crew compartments bolted on, armor plated over top, and guns slapped over that, with missiles pod banks inserted into the armor here and there

the creator of the A-10 Warthog: "i'm going to strap a plane to that gun." random dude: "Don't you mean strap that gun to a plane?" creator: "DID I STUTTER?!?!!"

The honeycomb interior structure was also cut out from the rest of the class because it was incredibly costly. It was the smallest and lightest of the cruiser class designs the unsc had and the cost ran similar to that of potentially heavy cruisers like the Marathon

The problem with "The Infinity" is that everyone says it wrong, and therefore fails to grasp the glorious, heartswelling imagery. It was actually named by an English Naval officer called Rear Admiral Sir Marmaduke Willoughby-Clungeston the Third, and was originally, before it was tragically misheard and written down incorrectly, his last words as he lay dying following an horrific Croquet accident, and spoke of his final vision as his soul departed to the afterlife, an afterlife which, as all true English types know in their hearts, is believed to be a never-ending paradise of relaxing afternoon refreshments on the lawn during a mild English summer's day. The words he uttered were, in fact, "My God... it's full of Infinite Tea."

I've always loved the aesthetics of Halo's ships, both the utilitarian look of the UNSC, and the more smooth, almost organic look of the Covenant.

I love how there’s such a difference in ship names and tank names. Ship crews be like, we shall name our ship “The Mother of the seas” And tanks crews are like we’re gonna name out tank “Big Pappy cholo”

USNC always had cool ships, we really need a space strategy that does it justice.

My wife is into candles. Years ago she got a candle trade magazine(yeah, it’s a thing) and the cover that issue was all about Autumn Pillars. In the world of candle freaks, a Pillar is a type of candle. The opening scene of Combat evolved suggests humanity’s existence is barely flickering in the vastness of space? ‘In Amber Clad’ is something frozen in time. Jurassic Park was only possible because of insects preserved in pine sap. Bungie’s “I love Bees” promotion leading up to Combat Evolved may have significance as Master Chief is frozen in cryo when the game opens.

In Amber Clad always sounded so noble to me, like a line from some Wilfred Owen poem. It's cool to find out other people like the odd unsc names too

There is also the UNSC SayMyName, It was the Marathon class cruiser in Earth orbit that launched the ODSTs in Halo 3 ODST.

Im an ex Navy guy and the saying in the Navy was that we took weapons, built a hull around them, put all the stuff in to support the weapons and then whatever room was left was for sailors. So I understand the design ethos

for the name thing, UNSC Infinity along with its sister ship, UNSC Eternity, was not originally build to be a combat centred capital ship. it was to be a lifeboat in case the Covenant takes Earth and humanity lost the war. They were to simply fly away and run until they find a safe place to settle or just live in the ship for generations if needed. so their names may have different theme to the other combat ships.

On the plus side, needing to point the entire ship towards the target makes it harder for the target to hit back

A-10 in Space is the single most perfect description of this thing I've ever heard.

I love UNSC ships even if Infinity lacks a single ounce of subtly. With names like UNSC Unto the Breach but simplicity of a huge space gun with lots of smaller guns.

I can imagine the first time the covenant went up against one of these. They put holes in the ship, pust holes through the ship, blown parts of it off, and it's still kicking their asses. Pillar of autumn- is the pain train, receiving or giving. It took the bell and threw it at the enemy.

If you shrank it and put a pistol grip on it, it would make a believable rifle or heavy cannon.

Gunsmiths Built the Ships . Poets Named them . Except that last one .

For me, Forward Unto Dawn evokes both "Once more into the breach, dear friends" from King Henry V and Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade

The A-10 Warthog is my favorite gun ever. Now I know why I love the Autumn so much.

Halo’s names are always great because they sound like poetry

If I remember correctly there is an explanation for the warthog run somewhere in Canon. If I remember correctly it was mentioned that 343 guilty spark had a tendency to disassemble ships that crashed on the ring, and play with their insides. So the 3 KM stretch may be due to a strange experiment preformed by guilty spark.

Re: Infinity- I think it’s a fine name. Might not be up to snuff with PoA and Dawn, but we’ve also gotten ships like the UNSC Gettysburg, or Trafalgar, or Savannah.

My favorite UNSC ship name was "Two for Flinching" it was in one of the books and I think it was like a corvette or destroyer or something.

I love the UNSC naming schemes, minus the Infinite naturally

3:16 additionally I forget which book covers this but the honeycomb structure was expensive as hell so it was cut mostly for that due to the fact that it did not matter how fast the UNSC ships were the would get hit by the covenant ships energy weapons so they went more for survivability but still only so much you can do with our shields.

"The enemy is down!" have you done the Ender's Game ships?

"THERE'S NO ATMOSPHERE IN SPACE!" I kid you not, my buddy and our girls got together for beers, burgers, BS, and sat down to chew the fat, with whatever movie happened to be on in the background. "Armageddon" was on some cable channel, so we put that on and got to talking. All of a sudden, my buddy's girl (sweet girl, dumb as box of hammer handles though), exclaims, "OMG, what is that"? We all look at the TV. If you've ever seen Armageddon, you know the scene where the asteroid starts getting close, and there are those green gaseous tendrils streaming from it as the sun heats it, or whatever? She says, "what's that doing to the space air"? I stared at her for at least 15 seconds, literally dumbfounded, before I asked, "space......air"? I then had to somewhat delicately inform her that there is no air in space. That's why it's called space. But she was a theater major in college, so....

I liked, how all the other ships of the fleet, were basically, a rifle design in space. A little like in Aliens, where the ship at the start is just a big gun, not just a weapon with a ship around it; a gun, where if there was a big Gundam, you'd be in one of its hands.

IRT to the UNSC Infinity, if they had wanted to use Infinity but keep to the normal naming convention (you forgot Spirit of Fire from the RTS) they may have run into problems since "To Infinity and Beyond" was kind of already taken.

Ahh, the "UNSC Assimilate This".

I suppose that depends on how you view orientation of space craft in a 3D space. Plus rule of cool. On the name anyway. A ship naming tradition video would be sweet.

I love the Autumns sister ships name “Dawn Under Heaven”

So if you overtake UNSC Infinity did you go “To infinity, AND BEYOND!”?

I’m sad he didn’t say anything about “Spirit Of Fire”

Pillar makes more sense if you use the Ender's Game line of thinking... the enemy's gate is down, or in other words the direction of the main group of enemies is down.

Ahh, my favorite names in sci-fi, like the UNSC Say My Name

Most halo ship names sound downright poetic. As for early human ships, I think the combat focused ones will deploy arrowhead shaped drones, heavily armored bows and sides on a steep slope with most of the sensors and maneuvering bits on a relatively unarmed rear, to do the fighting while they run like hell.

I love the UNSC naming schemes. Sometimes ships will be named traditionally, like after battles (UNSC Iwo Jima, UNSC Tralfalgar, UNSC Stalingrad, UNSC Saratoga) or given single word names of words meant to inspire awe or impress people (UNSC Infinity, UNSC Eternity) some named after old terrestrial ships (UNSC Canberra, UNSC Musashi, also UNSC Saratoga. Even one named after the Space Shuttle Endeavour.) Then you have naming schemes that are unique to the UNSC, things that sound like mythological names or references (UNSC Pillar of Autumn, UNSC All Under Heaven, UNSC Song Of The East) and then you have the ships names after phrases (UNSC Do You Feel Lucky?, UNSC Say My Name, UNSC Long Time Coming.) It's just an amazing variety of naming schemes and all of them are impressive in some way, be it impressive or intimidating, historical or modern, even some being downright humorous, like the crew use the ships motto as the name. Most UNSC ship names have their own personality, while also being a name you can say in a dramatic situation while maintaining a level of seriousness. This is also not an exhaustive list (I'm not going to write a novel here lmao,) there's also place and planet/moon names (UNSC Seattle, UNSC Io) scientific/mathemical concepts (UNSC Parabola UNSC Edge of Umbra,) some named after works of fiction or notable historical figures (UNSC Midsummer Night, UNSC Armstrong, respectively.)

The thumbnail text is basically story of A-10. EDIT: and I love how that was developed in the video. But yeah... in space there in no reason to not make your main weapon on a fixed mount like this. And I totally agree with that trend where outside ST all human ships have function over form.

Going along with the general style of the UNSC ships, may I make a suggestion: Sulaco. (If you don't have the Colonial Marines Technical Manual, I strongly encourage you go get a copy; the details of the Sulaco and space combat are *wonderful*.)

Everything warthog relatable is by default cool

If you look at the size of the end hangar in the last level and consider there are 8 of those seen in other scenes the actual ship length would come around 4.5 kilometers.

Your thumbnail said, "building a ship around a gun" and the first thing I thought of was the Warthog. Imagine my surprise...

I remember calling the “Pillar of Autumn” the “Forward Unto Dawn” and I feel stupid.

@SacredCowShipyards Doing these videos, you may want to read the Halo Novel "The Fall of Reach" as that covers a LOT of the Technology inner-workings and Tactics of the Starships/Navy which is later lost from the following Novels, as they have a Canonical storyline. And any Technology Workings mentioned in a previous Novel doesn't go into the same detail in further Novels.

Honorable mention: UNSC Spirit of Fire from the Halo Wars games

My favorite UNSC ship is literally named after a battle. It’s the UNSC Trafalgar.

Lowkey is love to hear your thoughts on some of the ships from “lilo and stitch” because why not

I wanna be mad that you're insulting halo but "shaft of autumn" is probably the best joke yet

UNSC Say my name, UNSC two for flinching. All that needs to be said lads

One point - bridge placement

The technically correct term is Honking Great Space Gun

I love how they name ships in the Halo universe, both for the humans and the aliens. In the Covenant's side they name ships with a more religious vibe to it, really bringing on their culture altoghether: Long Night of Solace Solemn Penance Seeker of Truth Resplendent Fervor There are all awesome.

I almost thought you'd bring up and laugh at the giant gap with draw bridge being a huge cut out point in the ship, in a frontal area that doesn't visibly exist from outside viewing. That part of the level gets memed on where a level accurate version looks split in half and connected by that tiny bridge beam.

i believe the design philosophy "take a big gun and bolt on whatever else a ship needs" was also used in sins of a solar empire by the TEC (human) faction, especially the marza dreadnought and the ragnarov titan.

They took the idea of the A-10 and applied it to a MAC cannon

just wait till he finds out that most of the UNSC's ships are also just guns with engines

Forget cavalry charges. Forward Unto Dawn evokes a Bloody CRUSADE!

"we got a really big gun, build a ship around it" and that's how the A10 Warthog was born

The UNSC ship designers were looking at history books, saw the A10 Warthog and were like “That, I want that, but bigger, and in space.”

Infinity should’ve definitely been named something grander. Personally I would’ve gone with ‘UNSC Heart of Sol’, other great names I’ve heard are; Visage of Hringhorni, Harvest Moon, Everlasting Reach, Cole’s Stand, Keye’s Spirit & Noble Will. Hell even ‘Touch/ Vision of Infinity’ sounds better if they insist on keeping the infinity part. My own fan ship is called Cold Night of Bastogne and even that sounds better.

*Me:* (reads a thumbnail caption) _"So, basically a deep space version of A-10 Thunderbolt, huh?"_

You referencing this as the A-10 Warthog scaled up to a capital ship made me giggle, giant gun? check, functionally indistructible? check, expensive and constantly threatened by budgetary staff wanting to replace them, yet beloved by troops and crews? check.

yeah, 343 kinda messed up on quite a few things in their desperation to make Halo their own, naming the "Infinity" is just one example.

Here is a good starship name: Hammer of Sol

A10 made into a ship is exactly how it is built and I love it

They did let their kid name it. Bungie's perpetual child, 343

The _Infinity_ is named that because it's not a gunboat. It's a _carrier._ The UNSC's first attempt at making a supercapital like the Covenant _Long Night of Solace._ But unlike the Covenant's plasma beams, MAC guns can't swivel. So it's a floating army base with the strongest shield in known space, enough forces to conquer a planet on its own, _and_ mated frigates.

Hmm, to make the Infinity fit in with the UNSC ship names, why not call it the Reach of Infinity? It also works as a pun as well since Reach was where the first Spartan IIs were created as well as their base of operations in a way and well, MP in Halo 4 and 5 is basically you training with others in the Infinity which is your base of operations.

Pillar of Autumn looks exactly like a handgun with a ship wrapped around it, quite literally.

I would assume the ship length mismatch comes down to the age old naval tradition of lying about how big your ship actually is.

Best named UNSC ship has to be the UNSC Bum Rush

Is it just me or does the "Forward Until Dawn" look like some kind of sci-fi sniper rifle with a box mag????? Edit: Forgot to add that Amber Clad ALSO looks like a gun

Halo is the most likely glimpse at what future humans would build in terms of ship design.

even though spinal mounts have practicality issues i still cannot deny how fricken cool they are and i love halo unsc designs for this very reason its a space cannon with engines attached and that is just the epitome of awesome

i always wonder if they build a ship around the mac cannon like we build a plane around a Gatling gun ( a-10)?

What's strange about the autumn to me is that it was docked on reach at the end of the game- as in, in-atmosphere, the final level has you walk right up to it to deliver something before it takes off. Literally how???

sees the internal honeycomb structure. jeez, no wonder literally everything on that monster was still intact even when instarusted for unknown reasons. heck even the unfastened warthogs in the garage were not smashed by it bellyflopping into the halo.

The trumbnail perfectly describes UNSC shipbuilding philosophy. 😂😂😂

if i remember right the Pillar of Autumm main gun round when hit it will shatter causing more damage to target.

I have some questions: How big is a compressed cube? Is each cube compressed to the same density? What if I left a Borg cube at the dock? Would my insurance cover cube-ification? Why cubes specifically?

The Autumn blowing itself up to destroy Alpha Halo is literally the definition of “If I’m going down, I’m taking you with me.”

This is how they built the A-10. We built this big gun “Put a plane on it”