First Pillar of Dawn's Light

The First Pillar of Dawn's Light [Liturgical Tongue: Hershrannedan Huon] is a large Assembly Forge located in the Nauke system. It was miraculously saved when the Flood consumed High Charity, and was moved steadily toward the Holy Ecumene until it finally came to a rest in the Strewn Shore in 2555. The engineering and political struggles to move such a large and important object meant that the assembly forge was a political pawn long before it came to rest in orbit over Nuake-VI.

Assembly Pools
T-26 Ghost T-29 Spirit Nuake Phantom Terraforming equipment

Allegiance
Although legal and de-facto ownership of the Assembly Forge is strongly contended, stewardship of the assembly forge is held by Ordo Adernth, a Bishop of the Ministry of Fabrication. Ordo was an accomplished engineer and theoretician when he was appointed to the Forge nearly thirty years before the fall of High Charity. After decades of directing the forge, he knows its inner workings better than anyone alive. This knowledge is irreplaceable in the Post-War world, though the Arbiter's Coalition tried, and were forced to reinstate him when corrupt designs ran amok in the assembly forge's pattern buffer.

Ordo Adernth was only a lay preacher in prior years, but the cataclysm of the Fall triggered a religious revelation, and he spent much of his captivity studying scripture. Upon his release, Ordo became active in the Diocese of the Strewn Shore and often delivered sermons on holy days. His fiery, literally pulpit-pounding sermons inspired UNSC servicemembers, who found "First Pillar of Dawn's Light" to be a mouthful, to rename the assembly forge "Ordo's Smithy".