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The Pillar of Autumn is a heavily modified United Nations Space Command Halcyon-class cruiser in the Halo: Combat Evolved video game, often abbreviated as "POA" or "Autumn".

Before the war with the Covenant, the Pillar of Autumn was set to be decomissioned. The Halcyon-class cruiser was poorly regarded by UNSC officers and crewmen and considered to be too lightly armed and armoured for its role. After being refitted, the Pillar of Autumn was a much more formidable and powerful ship in the UNSC fleet. Modifications to the ship included reinforced armor, increased missile capacity, an improved Shaw-Fujikawa engine, and a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon capable of firing three "shredder shots" on a single charge. Overall, the ship's armaments consist of a MAC cannon, 128 Archer missile pods, 40 50mm cannons, and 4 Shiva nuclear missiles. Captain Jacob Keyes wanted to have the bridge's view port armor plated, but did not have enough time.

The Pillar of Autumn was one of few ships to escape the Covenant armada following the fall of the planet Reach. The ship made a blind jump through slipspace to the planet Threshold, location of Halo Installation 04, which The Covenant believed this ring world was their religious icon "Halo." The ship's crew believed the jump to be random, in order to avoid leading the Covenant to Earth as per the Cole Protocol; in actuality the shipboard AI, Cortana, interpreted symbols from an alien artifact into map coordinates where the ship could make a landing.

Covenant starships intercepted the Pillar of Autumn upon its arrival at the planet Threshold. Reluctant to use their more powerful weapons for fear of causing collateral damage to "Halo," the Covenant armada attacked with relatively light fire in coordination with numerous boarding craft filled with assault troops. The boarding parties were charged with retrieving senior officers, including the commanding officer Captain Jacob Keyes, for interrogation. Outmatched on their own ship, Captain Keyes later had the Autumns crew and marines escape using the remaining lifeboats.

Keyes and the rest of the command staff managed to crash the ship on the surface of "Halo," and the many surviving Marines quickly formed a formidable resistance movement. But their only chance of holding out was to search and salvage the grounded Autumn for additional weapons, vehicles and equipment for their base, before the Covenant could claim the entire ship. After 343 Guilty Spark's true intentions of activating (Halo) were revealed, Cortana and the Master Chief manually detonated the ship's nuclear fusion engines in order to destroy "Halo," preventing the escape of Flood and Covenant forces as well as the massive destruction that Halo's activation would have brought.

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