Colony ship

A colony ship is a vessel designed to transport colonists and equipment required for planetary colonization, including terraforming equipment to alter a planet's original atmosphere and/or biosphere to become compatible with human habitation. Colony ships also carry prefabricated colony starter units to serve as early settlements until more permanent habitats can be built. After the colonization process is fully underway, the vessel itself may also be dismantled and repurposed to serve as the groundwork for a colony, with the power reactor used to power the settlement, and the ship's AI construct repurposed to function as the colony's Planetary Security Intelligence, as was the case with the UNSC Skidbladnir when Harvest was colonized.