Sovereign
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Production information
Manufacturer:	Collectors of the Cycles
Class:	Sovereign-class dreadnought
Operator(s):	The Reapers
Technical information
Length:	2km
Width:	672m
Height/depth:	721m
Max acceleration:	4 kilometers per second
Engine unit(s):	Element Zero Drive Core
Power plant:	1 Element Zero drive core
Shielding:	Kinetic Barrier
Hull:	7m of Carininium
Sensor systems:	Radar Spectroscope Celestial Imaging Electromagnetic Spectral Imaging
Targetting system:	Shipwide AI
Armament:	10 thanix cannons: 3 bow, 2 starboard, 2 port, 3 mounted on each leg. 47 Anti-aircraft point defense guns
Crew:	None
Complement:	Hundreds of thousands of different types of husks
Usage
Commissioned:	197828 BCE
Destroyed:	19 July 2183 CE
Role(s):	Capital ship
Engagements:	Tidal Devastation Prothean War with the Reapers Fall of the Citadel Siege of Paravarvar XV Battle of Olos Trak Second Battle of the Quasar Fortress Third Battle of the Quasar Fortress Fall of Malantor Eden Prime War Battle of Eden Prime Battle of Feros (initial stages) Battle of Virmire Battle of the Citadel
Affiliation:	The Reapers Saren's Alliance
Fleet:	The Reapers Fleet of the Herald
Notable crew members:	Saren Arterius Benezia M'Soni
Commander(s):	Itself

"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allowed it, and you will end because we demand it."

— Sovereign

Sovereign, known to the geth heretics as the Herald, was a Sovereign-class Reaper that was built from the harvested remains of the Zeioph, the species chosen to be harvested by the Reapers during one of their thousands of cycles. After the end of the Prothean cycle, Sovereign was chosen to stay behind to act as the vanguard of the next invasion 50,000 years later. By 2183 CE, it served as the flagship of the rogue spectre Saren Arterius, where it led the geth heretics during the Eden Prime War. It met its end at the Battle of the Citadel, where it was famously destroyed by the SSV Normandy.