This article is about the 'hovercraft' ships shown in the fictional universe of The Matrix series of science fiction films, comic books and video games.
The Animatrix short film "The Second Renaissance" depicts the war between men and machines which led to the creation of a computer-generated world known as the Matrix. Humans are shown using technology enabling personal vehicles and flying warships to hover above surfaces. The "hovercraft" used by the human resistance, years after the end of the war, seem to use similar technology for propulsion.
Hovercraft are designed to patrol the sewers and tunnels left over from the megacities that existed before the Man–Machine war. Their crews attempt to enter the Matrix in order to locate and free the minds of humans who are ready to understand the truth of the artificial reality. A ship's Operator remains as guide, and prepares crews with navigation data and by hacking equipment and information in the form of programs sent directly to them.
Every hovercraft is equipped with a transceiver, used primarily to broadcast a pirate carrier signal into the wireless network that forms the Matrix. This transceiver is also used to communicate with Zion Control, the security staff monitoring access into the city docks. Typically, hovercraft do not attempt to contact Zion or other hovercraft while on patrol as this could give away their position to Sentinels, killing machines that regularly hunt for ships.
Each hovercraft is also equipped with an EMP device which disables any electrical devices in the blast radius. Since this includes the equipment of the hovercraft itself, in order for the EMP to be used the craft must land and its crew cannot be connected to the Matrix. EMP activation switches are placed on the Operator console. All ships are equipped to varying degrees with ballistic gun turrets (reminiscent of World War II-era bombers, like the B-29) for close-in point defense against Sentinels, for when the EMP-weapon is unavailable or its use undesirable. The turrets are controlled by proxy at turret control stations throughout the ships, either with control sticks or by computer interface (touchscreen). They also have multiple panels on the outside, which give off an electric shock to any machines in close proximity, such as sentinels on the hull of the ship.
The hovercrafts of the fleet came in range of sizes. The smallest was the Logos, which had a crew of three, while the Mjolnir was capable of carrying at least eleven. Crew members were furnished a basic blue (if First Mate or a regular crew member), gray (if an Operator or a regular crew member) or red (if captain) tunic to wear as a uniform while docked at Zion.
The Avatar appears in the Zion Archives. Its lack of weaponry suggests that its primary function is to transport recently-freed redpills to Zion. In Hindu philosophy, an avatar most commonly refers to the incarnation of a higher being or the Supreme Being (God) onto planet Earth.
The captain of the Brahma, Kali, was seen at the captain's meeting in The Matrix Reloaded, but the ship was never mentioned during Reloaded or Revolutions. It was part of Commander Locke's defense fleet and in the MMORPG The Matrix Online it is mentioned that the Brahma was destroyed so utterly in the sentinel attack that nothing salvageable or identifiable remained.
The various Brahma designs seen in the Zion Archives bear no resemblance to any hovercraft actually seen in the films. It is possible, however, that the hovercraft resembling the Ganesha design seen landed in Bay 6 when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded is in fact the Brahma as eventually finished.
It is named after Brahma, a Hindu god who is the Creator in the Hindu trinity, Trimurti. Its captain named after another Hindu deity, Kali.
The Blue Dreamer is the mysterious Cypherite flagship captained by Cryptos in The Matrix Online. The name of the vessel likely stems from a concatenation of bluepill and the commonly accepted Cypherite slang which refers to human beings still plugged into the Matrix as dream.
In The Matrix Online very little is known about the Blue Dreamer, largely due to the nature of the Cypherite organization as one of utmost secrecy and espionage. It is, however, known that Veil became temporary commander of the hovercraft and the Cypherite organization after the program the Machines used on Cryptos to make him comply with their orders was removed by Seraph. However, when Cryptos decided to remain a Cypherite, Veil allowed him to reclaim control.
Throughout the storyline of The Matrix Online, there have been numerous other Cypherites who have served on the Blue Dreamer.
On Recursion, Viraconrida, the original Cypherite liaison, was captured by Scanline crew member Theptism and eventually disappeared altogether. During the time of her disappearance, however, many other liaisons on the Recursion instance became the target of suspicion and were subsequently killed or disappeared. Khursun was the first of the crew who fell under suspicion, and, after being transferred to another Cypherite ship, a traitorous crewmate uploaded a virus into his body, and he was killed. Escondido and Festaneve later met with similar suspicions, Escondido because he was made official liaison in Viraconrida's absence, and Festaneve due to his unreliability. Escondido disappeared several months after the incident, and Festaneve was eventually convinced to reinsert himself after a Zion operative presented him with substantial evidence of his crewmates intentions to harm or kill him for failing key objectives. Festaneve's current status is unknown, as it was later revealed that the process of reinsertion does not exist. The only members of the Blue Dreamer to not disappear as a result of this incident were Barakoa, who disappeared prior to it, and Kerevola, who remained a lesser-seen member of the crew. Viraconrida resurfaced eventually but only briefly to introduce a new liaison team consisting of Exivy, Stanten and Rejex.
On Syntax, Tranta and Haigen were brought aboard to assist Itarrot, who had been given the position of liaison after the death of the traitor, Diversus. Eventually, Esime joined the crew as a replacement to Itarrot, who resigned to undertake more important duties in the Real. Though he remained a member of the crew, his duties as a liaison were passed on to her. Another crew member, Recant, boarded after returning to the Matrix from a period of inactivity as an operative during the days of the Masked. After presenting Cypherites with a series of tests, he was located and entrusted to rejoin the cause by ChloeAnn. He assisted the liaisons whenever the need arose.
Demonax joined the crew temporarily after the departure of Haigen, who was reassigned to the Real alongside Itarrot. Her abrupt departure is rumored to have been due to health reasons sustained prior to joining the crew. However, Demonax soon resumed operations in the Real and left the Blue Dreamer. After Tranta's death (during a feud with an operative named BloodlustV), Esime remained the final contact aboard this vessel on the Syntax instance. During the final hours before access to the Matrix was cut off by the Machines, several of the crew members were seen standing alongside other Cypherites in Mara. Among them, it is reported, was Itarrot, Haigen and Recant.
On Vector, Sutola took leave from the Blue Dreamer in favor of operations in the Real after having served vigilantly for some time. Recruiting Sphectra (another former liaison) to his new hovercraft, they set out on an unknown mission. Their whereabouts are still unknown. Dreami also eventually departed from the ship but remained integral in leading Cypherites against the Red Pill Courier campaign organized between Zion and EPN. After the courier's final failure, she was seen one last time in the downtown area of Chelsea.
The name of the Caduceus comes from the Greek word caduceus, which is the symbol of two snakes wrapped around a winged staff, commonly associated with the messenger of the gods, Hermes. In Reloaded, its captain, Ballard, offers to remain behind and wait for contact from the Oracle. While receiving her message, the crew member Bane was attacked by Smith, who overwrote his mind. During the defense of Zion, Bane/Smith killed the entire crew and used the ship's EMP to disable at least five ships (including itself, The Icharus, The Gnosis, and The Novalis). Bane is the only survivor and is saved by the Mjolnir.
The Callapidae, called the Grey Ghost, is featured in the comic Broadcast Depth. One of its crew members, Maggie (coincidentally sharing the name of a crew member on the Mjolnir), is the mother of two children who decide to find her in the Matrix as a birthday present for her. They accidentally alert the Sentinels to the position of the ship, and its entire crew is killed. The ship apparently looks like a crab, and the name is probably a misspelling of the family Calappoidea.
The Devildog is a Mark IV Sentinel Killer Class Gunship. It is outfitted with eight synchronous turrets, two short range guns, and two laser targeted heavy impact cannons. It requires a crew of two to operate, and holds up to twelve crew members comfortably. Modified from the Mark III, it has an enhanced recharge time from igniting an EMP, and the cannonheads have been fitted with a swivel mechanism to allow for multidirectional fighting. Originally built to handle its own against a squad of Sentinels, this class of gunship was still in planning in the last days of the war. The HvCFT Devildog is the first of the Mark IV line of Sentinel Killer Class Gunships.
It is one of four Zion ships, along with four EPN ships, that were involved with transferring Commander Lock during an intense battle with Machine, Cypherite, and Merovingian hovercraft. [4]
It was named after the US Marine Corps slang for a member of the Marines, "Devildog". During his bluepill life, Captain Fenshire was once a Marine.
The Ganesha appears in a concept design sketch by artist George Hull,[1] and in the Zion Archives. A vessel matching the concept design sketch can be seen landed in Bay 6 when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded, but this hovercraft is actually more likely to be the Brahma. Presumably, the Ganesha is part of the fleet sent to intercept the invading Sentinels. The ship was not initially disabled when Bane sets off the EMP, but nevertheless must have been destroyed shortly after. Its name derives from Ganesha, the Hindu god, considered as the remover of obstacles.
The Gnosis is referenced in Reloaded. Her crew is featured in Reloaded and Enter the Matrix.
When the Zion ship captains meet within the Matrix, Gnosis crew members Corrupt and Wurm are assigned to guard the door to the meeting place. When Smith arrives "looking for Neo", Corrupt speaks with him. Both Corrupt and Wurm warn the captains of the arrival of "the Feds", a trio of Matrix Agents.
When the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion, Neo is worshiped by some residents who believe he has the power to save them (he is clearly not comfortable with this). One elderly woman asks him to watch over her son, Jacob, who serves aboard the Gnosis. He can not have been shown on screen, however, because the only time a Gnosis crew member appeared on screen, they were in the Matrix, and Jacob must have been a native to Zion, barring the remote chance that both he and his mother were redpills (unlikely considering that Morpheus mentioned that they do not free a mind after a certain age). However, in the "Enter the Matrix" Game, the player is asked to save Ice and his partner, Jacob, from the Gnosis. This would then imply to him being a Redpill.
The Gnosis is part of the fleet sent to intercept the invading Sentinels. The ship is disabled when Bane sets off the EMP and subsequently destroyed.
The name of the Gnosis derives from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge, with reference to themes of Gnostic Christianity which are evident through the Matrix series.[2]
The Icharus is a ship in the fleet sent to intercept the invading sentinels in The Matrix Reloaded. Earlier in the film, when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion, and Neo is caught by Worshipers, One of them asks him to "Watch over her daughter aboard the Icharus". However, the ship is disabled when Bane sets off the EMP on the Caduceus, and the Icharus is subsequently destroyed.
The name of the Icharus derives from Icarus, a character in Greek mythology. Its captain is named after the Greek hero Ajax the Great.
The Logos is a hovercraft in Reloaded, Revolutions, and Enter the Matrix. The name is derived from the Greek word Logos which is usually translated into the English as word, but has varied meaning in philosophy, analytical psychology, and religion.
The smallest vessel in the fleet, it supports a crew complement of only three Zion personnel: Niobe, Ghost, and Sparks. Built for sheer speed over any other attribute, the Logos has the purpose of relaying urgent information as well as serving as a carrier for its two pod-born crewmen. Its combat abilities are technically negligible when compared with other ships in the fleet, but Ghost's skill with its guns allows it to nevertheless be a significant threat to attacking Sentinels.
The Logos is Mark XIV Number 14 and built in the year 2101. Mark 14:14 reads "And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?"
When Zion's attack becomes imminent, the Logos crew coordinates the recall before joining the rest of the fleet in Zion. When the Council inquires of the fate of Morpheus and his ship the Nebuchadnezzar, the Logos and the hovercraft Vigilant search for the Neb, eventually participating in a skirmish within the Matrix involving Agents and minions of the Merovingian.
The Logos is later disabled when it is attacked by a massive horde of Sentinels as well as a Sentinel Tow Bomb, necessitating the use of its EMP. As a result, it survives the assault, but it is depowered as an unavoidable side effect. The hovercraft Mjolnir finds it shortly, rescuing the crew of the destroyed Nebuchadnezzar and giving the Logos a jump-start. Later, Niobe does give the Logos to Neo and Trinity so that they can travel to the Machine city, in an attempt to stop the war with the Machines. The Logos is rendered inoperable on impact when it crash-lands in the Machine City.
"Logos" is the Greek word which literally means Word and refers to the Christian use of it in referring to Jesus as "The Word" - John 1:1.
Logos II is Niobe's current ship in The Matrix Online. It is named after her original ship.
The Mariner is featured in the comic, "There are no Flowers in the Real World". It has been attacked by Sentinels and all but one member of the crew, Rocket, has died. He survives for days without any real food or water, but then is killed by an agent just before he is found.
The largest ship in Zion's fleet, Mjolnir is the ship that locates the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar after their ship is destroyed by a sentinel tow bomb at the end of The Matrix Reloaded. They have also picked up Bane, who appears to be the only survivor of the battle between the Sentinels and the Zion fleet, but has in fact been taken over by Smith.
Much of The Matrix Revolutions takes place on the Mjolnir, as against Captain Roland's better judgment, Niobe lets Neo and Trinity (and a stowed-away Bane) take the Logos in an attempt to reach the Machine City.
With the remaining crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Logos, the Mjolnir races back to Zion, relying on Niobe's piloting skills to steer the ship through the narrow mechanical tunnels. The ship's position is discovered by a large group of Sentinels when trying to reach the mechanical tunnel (the hull scraped a piece of rubble), and the Sentinels attack. Niobe's opinion of the ship's construction is that it 'has a fat ass.', as she commented during her travel of the mechanical tunnel. Reaching the city as it is under attack by thousands of sentinels, and with their communications antenna destroyed, the Mjolnir crash lands in Zion's dock and sets off its EMP. This destroys the attacking sentinels, but as an angry Commander Lock warns Roland and Morpheus, they have also crippled the city's defenses against any subsequent attacks.
This ship's name is derived from Mjölnir, the hammer of the Norse thunder god, Thor. Because of this, most characters refer to the ship as the Hammer. Except for Roland, all members of the crew have gun-related names: "Maggie" is short for "magazine" or "Magnum"; AK is named after the AK series of assault rifles; Colt is named after the Colt line of pistols; and Mauser is named after the Mauser pistol (and possibly rifles). Roland may be named after the protagonist of The Dark Tower, who was a gunslinger, or the Roland from the medieval epic La Chanson de Roland, or the Roland surface-to-air missile system, or Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner from the 1978 Warren Zevon song, or Roland, the King of Planet Druidia from Spaceballs or more likely renowned French-Canadian gunman Roland Sigfried.[3] Also note that Charles "The Hammer" was the great grandfather of the Roland from the medieval Chanson.
The Mjolnir's commissioning plaque reads "Mark XIV No. 62 Made in the USA Year 2111". Mark 14:62 reads "And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven."
The Nabonidus is Morpheus' second ship, following the Nebuchadnezzar's destruction. It is the hovercraft from which he enters the Matrix in the MMORPG The Matrix Online. Recently, months after his still debated death, the Captain's beacon of the Nabonidus was traced in the Matrix. A code pulse device set off by the Kid revealed a transparent RSI that resembled Morpheus and appeared to be in pain, implying that Morpheus is alive and still in possession of the Nabonidus, hidden somewhere in the real world.
It was later revealed that the Morpheus RSI making appearances across The Matrix was in fact a simulacrum created by The General in hopes of deceiving his followers into thinking he had in fact returned. The General furious at the fact that his Sim had been discovered tried to de-activate it, but to his surprise the Morpheus Simulacrum had taken on a life of its own and turned on its creator. It refused to submit to The General's will and a battle between both The General and the Morpheus Simulacrum ensued. The General was defeated by the Morpheus Sim and escaped to the shadows once again. The Morpheus Sim now resides within The Matrix a free program because of the faith of Morpheus's followers. The program itself admitted that it was their faith in him, and the fact that it didn't want to let them down, that made him want to fill the shoes of the great captain of Zion. It is not known if there is any connection between the real Morpheus and the Morpheus Simulacrum.
The name is derived from Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
The Nebuchadnezzar (pronounced /ˌnɛbəkəˈnɛzər/ ( listen)), nicknamed the Neb, is the main hovercraft featured in The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded; it is used by the main characters Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity.
The dedication plaque on its core read "Mark III No. 11; Made in the USA; Year 2069." The Christian Bible's Mark 3:11 reads "And whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught sight of him, they would fall down in front of him shrieking, 'You are the Son of God!'"
In The Matrix, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar is searching for Neo, whom Morpheus believes to be The One. When they find him, he is trained and taken to see the Oracle. While returning from the Oracle, Cypher betrays the crew, gives Morpheus to the Agents, and kills Dozer, Apoc, and Switch, Mouse being already dead. Neo and Trinity manage to save Morpheus from the Agents, after which Neo becomes the One, now being able to see coding in the Matrix and manipulate it. The ship was heavily damaged when Sentinels invaded the ship while Morpheus, Trinity and Tank were waiting for Neo to return to the real world through a portal before detonating the EMP, disabling the ship and the Sentinels.
In Matrix Reloaded, the ship is seen again. Since the events of the first film, Tank has died, and Link has replaced him as operator. After Neo visits the Oracle again and confronts the Smith virus, the crew goes to a restaurant called Le Vrai and takes the Keymaker from the Merovingian's captivity. Later that night, with the help of the crews of the Vigilant and the Logos, and the exile Keymaker, Neo enters the Source and speaks to the Architect.
The Nebuchadnezzar is destroyed by a Sentinel's tow bomb at the conclusion of Reloaded, after Neo leaves the Architect and rescues Trinity. The crew escapes before the ship's destruction thanks to Neo's newfound ability to identify and assume limited control over Sentinel hardware using his powers as The One as shown at the conclusion of the film. The Sentinel hurls the bomb from outside EMP range, detonating on contact with Nebuchadnezzar, The crew are found by the hovercraft Mjolnir very shortly after.
The name Nebuchadnezzar is a Biblical reference to Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, from the Book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar ('the Great') was famous for his conquests of Israel in Biblical times (specifically Judah and Jerusalem). He also built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the lost Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) for his wife. He has a dream he can't remember but keeps searching for an answer. Morpheus makes reference to this after the Nebuchadnezzar is destroyed with the line "I have dreamed a dream; but now that dream is gone from me". Nebuchadnezzar's dream is found in Daniel 2:1-49.
The Nebuchadnezzar was named after the largest sized bottles used in wine production. While writing the Matrix, the Wachowski brothers asked about the name of the giant display bottle of Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin at the cafe they frequented in Chicago. The bottle was a "nebuchadnezzar."
Neo's Hope is Kid's designated ship in The Matrix Online and the flagship for the E Pluribus Neo splinter organization.
The Novalis is referenced in Reloaded as part of the fleet sent to intercept the invading sentinels. It is disabled when Bane sets off the EMP on the Caduceus, and is subsequently destroyed.
In the MMORPG The Matrix Online, it is mentioned that the wreckage of the Novalis was in fairly good shape, and the ship was quickly rebuilt using spare parts available in Zion, and renamed the Novalis II.
Its name comes from Novalis, an 18th century German novelist and poet.
In The Matrix Online it is said that the Novalis II was built from the salvaged wreckage of the Novalis.
The following is an excerpt from Tyndall’s personal records:
At the time, there were nine servers, and each one had a different fate for Neurophyte:
Vashuo was killed by Toorima when she betrayed Zion and joined the Cypherites. She was captured and put under arrest, but was freed by either Gemaskeerd or Enmascarado, two of her fellow Cypherite operatives. It was after her escape that she revealed herself as Veil, the Controller for the Cypherite organization (alongside its leader, Cryptos, a former Zion captain). At this point, her whereabouts are unknown and she is wanted by all three organizations.
Its commissioning plaque reads "Mark VI No. 16 Made in the USA Year 2079". In the New International Version, Mark 6:16 reads "But when Herod heard this, he said, 'John, the man I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!' ". The Osiris is named after the Egyptian god, Osiris, who was raised from the dead by his wife Isis.
In the Animatrix film "Final Flight of the Osiris", this ship discovers the Machine army digging down towards Zion. After they are attacked by Sentinels the crewmember Jue enters the Matrix to send a desperate message using an emergency broadcast drop:
Just after Jue has dropped this message, the ship is destroyed by Sentinels. Its message, however, is retrieved by the Logos with an emergency operation by Captain Niobe and First Mate Ghost in Enter the Matrix, and Zion is warned of the army.
The Pequod was mentioned in both "There are no Flowers in the Real World" and "Hunters and Collectors". In the former story, the ship is on a rescue mission to save Rocket, a crew member jacked in aboard the Mariner after all of the other crew members had died. In the latter story, this ship has been destroyed in a Sentinel attack and the only surviving member is its captain Flint, who spends much of his time collecting artifacts from the surface to learn about human history before the Matrix.
The ship's core reads "Mark III No. 9 Made in the USA Year 2096". It could possibly be an error, because the Nebuchadnezzar was Mark III No. 11 and made in the USA Year 2069. However, Mark 3:9 reads, "And he spake unto his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him." The biblical passage indicates a proposed exit Jesus could make to "rescue" him from the crowd. The biblical passage would be an appropriate derivation for "There are no Flowers in the Real World", being that the Pequod was sent to rescue Rocket. However, if the Mark III hovercraft series was constructed in 2069, it would have been most likely retired soon after. The 2096 models might have been something similar or completely unrelated. The relation of Mark III between the Nebuchadnezzar and the Pequod is currently unknown.
The name of the Pequod is a reference to the name of Ahab's ship in the novel Moby-Dick. "Hunters and Collectors" borrows from the novel and even features it in the ruins of a surface city. The relationship to a ship called Mariner is a further reference to the novel.
The Polaris is mentioned in the comic "Hunters and Collectors". Nova, the narrator, was a member of its crew. The ship's name is derived from Polaris (also known as Alpha Ursae Minoris), the current northern pole star.
A message to players of The Matrix Online was broadcast from the hovercraft Prometheus. The ship is named for Prometheus, one of the titans from Greek mythology. This Titan is responsible for giving Fire to humanity.
The Saltpillar is a Mark XIV (model number 27) small reconnaissance class hovercraft originally outfitted for the purpose of scouting the tunnels of the Real for threats to the city of Zion. In its time, the ship has, however, been refitted with stronger plating and armaments, though it retains a great deal of maneuverability. The Saltpillar is also known as one of the smaller ships in the Zion fleet as far as crew size is concerned, at one time being occupied solely by its captain, Neoteny, and his first mate, Wanzer. The mission of this ship has, since its inception, been the elimination of the Cypherites. The second goal of ending the war in Zion's favor was added to the mission statement of the Saltpillar when the Truce was shattered.
The Saltpillar was one of the four Zion hovercraft involved with the transport of ex-Commander Jason Lock, and was the only Zion/EPN coalition hovercraft to be disabled during the battle.[4]
The name Saltpillar is derived from the biblical story of Lot, whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt when she turned to look back at the city of Sodom, which God had ordered them to flee.
Scanline is an independent crew of informants and data scroungers. Their Motto, "Scan for Truth", is generally spoken at the end of any conversation with an operative in the Matrix, and they spread information about the goings on behind all organizations to anyone willing to listen. Distribution of this information may occur in person, but Scanline also sends out transmissions which can be obtained via a Scanline Receiver, which crew members will sometimes hand out.
Notably, Strayshot was highly involved in an investigation of Dr. Rajilich's notes, which culminated in September 2007, after several dedicated operatives broke the numerous encryptions on files and gained access to data nodes which gave the positions of an exile program known as 991.
Theptism, after he was involved with the disappearance of Cypherite liaison Viraconrida, and was keeping her imprisoned on a downed hoverbarge somewhere in the Real, was captured by the Merovingian liaison, MadHattah, and kept locked away in a prison construct.
Additionally, the newest member of Scanline, Trifid, is also the most recently deceased. Trifid was originally a member of E Pluribus Neo, who was not prominent until he defected to the Cypherite cause and became "Maskharah". After having plans to export weapons caches through the Matrix foiled by members of the E Pluribus Neo organization, Trifid was captured and interrogated, only to be rescued later by Scanline, and to become one of their crew. Resuming his original handle of Trifid, he was an active member of the crew until the end of the Truce, when his Emergency Jackout Protocol malfunctioned, and he was gunned-down by EPN liaison Reposco.
The Shiva appears in the Zion Archives. It can be briefly seen when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded, landed in Bay 10. Presumably, the Shiva is part of the fleet sent to intercept the invading Sentinels. The ship was not initially disabled when Bane sets off the EMP, but nevertheless must have been destroyed shortly after. Shiva is the third form of God as the Destroyer, one of the Trimurti (popularly called the "Hindu trinity").
The name of the ship Vigilant means "watchful and alert", and its commissioning plaque reads "Mark XIII No. 32 Made in the USA Year 2106." Very fittingly, in the New International Version Mark 13:32 reads: "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."
In Enter the Matrix, Vigilant crew member Axel has been captured by Agents. The crew of the Logos happen to turn up at the airport, just as he is being transported, and they undertake a perilous rescue attempt, Niobe gets him off of the plane where he lands in the hands of an Agent. Ghost continues to pursue when Axel buckles his seatbelt and careens the car out of control, killing the agent, but severely wounding his leg, which is indicated in The Matrix Reloaded by his use of a leg brace.
When Morpheus makes his case to the Zion Council that only Neo can save them from the oncoming Machine onslaught, Soren is the first to offer the services of his ship and his crew to Morpheus's plan. The Vigilant crew is assigned the task of hacking into the city's power grid to disable the security systems of the Source building.
As Soren and his team make their way to the control room, in the real world, a group of sentinels has located the Vigilant. The sentinels fire a tow bomb at the ship, and as Axel and Jax rush to take action, a walkway collapses (weakened earlier when Axel's limp dislocates one side of the rail), causing Axel to fall, and a sharp prong from the walkway to impale Jax. The bomb hits the ship and explodes, killing all on board. Inside the Matrix, Soren and his crew collapse as their real-world bodies die.
The Vishnu appears in a concept design sketch by artist George Hull,[5] and in the Zion Archives. It can be briefly seen when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded, landed in Bay 5. Presumably, the Vishnu is part of the fleet sent to intercept the invading Sentinels. The ship was not initially disabled when Bane sets off the EMP, but nethertheless must have been destroyed shortly after. The ship's name is derived from Vishnu, the second form of God as the Preserver in the Trimurti.
There are five unnamed ships included in the Matrix comics and one from The Animatrix. One is a ship used for carrying potentials and is unnamed. Another crashed in the fetus fields, and only one of its crew members survived. He found a strange man who knew nothing of the Matrix but was convinced that the fetus harvesters were dragons. A third was stolen by a group of rebels who attracted agents for the thrill of it and were not allied with Zion. The fourth ship was used to destroy money that had a virus attached to it and the fifth and final unnamed ship was used by a crew that saved a girl who could change her residual self image. The fifth ship from The Animatrix was featured in Program.
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