Anchor 9

''This article is about the space station. For the Halo: Reach level, see Anchor 9 (level).''

Anchor 9 was a vessel refit station in service with the UNSC Navy during the Human-Covenant War. It had multiple hangar bays, with several YSS-1000 Sabre fighters stored inside. In addition, it had docking umbilici for larger vessels such as frigates. The station also was surrounded by frigate repair facilities, which had several half-built ships in and around them.

History
The station was in orbit around Reach during the Fall of Reach in August 2552, and was defended by Sabres during Operation: UPPER CUT. The station's defenses were off-line when the Covenant attacked, and a group of Sabres was deployed to repel the incoming waves of Banshees and later Seraphs. When the third wave of Covenant fighters arrived, Anchor 9's point defense guns came back online. During the third wave, several Phantoms arrived and attempted to attack the station, but were destroyed. After the Phantoms were destroyed, the remaining Seraphs and Banshees retreated. SPARTAN-B312 and Jorge-052 then docked in one of the station's hangars. Jorge left the Sabre to arm a Slipspace drive attached to a Pelican dropship; this Slipspace drive would be used as an improvised bomb against Long Night of Solace, a Covenant supercarrier. The soon detached from Anchor 9 to provide cover for the Sabres as they attacked and attempted to board an enemy corvette, Ardent Prayer, which was inbound to refuel with the supercarrier. Almost immediately after the supercarrier was destroyed, the Covenant Fleet of Particular Justice arrived near Anchor 9. The station was likely destroyed shortly after the fleet's arrival.

Trivia

 * Anchor 9 bears a remarkable resemblance to the , a mobile hospital platform and research facility.
 * Anchor 9 is also the setting of a multiplayer map of the same name.
 * The top half of the station vaguely resembles the number 117. Whether this is intentional is unknown.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Reach
 * Noble map pack