List of ships in the Matrix series

This article is about the 'hovercraft' ships shown in the crew member) or red (if captain) tunic to wear as a unictional universe of the Matrix series of science ction form while docked at Zion.
lms, comic books and video games. The Animatrix
short lm The Second Renaissance depicts the war between men and machines which led to the creation of a 1 Avatar
computer-generated world known as the Matrix. Humans
are shown using technology enabling personal vehicles,
Captain: Unknown
like a ying car called Versatran,[1][2] and ying war First mate: Unknown
ships to hover above surfaces. The hovercraft used by
the human resistance, years after the end of the war, seem
Pilot: Unknown
to use similar technology for propulsion.
Operator: Unknown
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 articial reality. A
ships 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.

Other crew: Unknown

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 o an electric
shock to any machines in close proximity, such as sentinels on the hull of the ship.

Pilot: Unknown

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
Every hovercraft is equipped with a transceiver, used pri- Earth.
marily 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 sta 2 Brahma
monitoring access into the city docks. Typically, hovercraft do not attempt to contact Zion or other hovercraft
Captain: Kali
while on patrol as this could give away their position to
First mate: Unknown
Sentinels, killing machines that regularly hunt for ships.

Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown
The captain of the Brahma, Kali, is seen at the captains
meeting in The Matrix Reloaded, but the ship is never
mentioned during Reloaded or Revolutions. It is part of
Commander Lockes defense eet and in the MMORPG
The Matrix Online it is mentioned that the Brahma is destroyed so utterly in the sentinel attack that nothing salvageable or identiable remains.

The various Brahma designs seen in the Zion Archives

bear no resemblance to any hovercraft actually seen in the
lms. It is possible, however, that the hovercraft resembling the Ganesha design seen landed in Bay 6 when the
The hovercrafts of the eet came in range of sizes. The
Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded
smallest was the Logos, which had a crew of three, while
is in fact the Brahma as eventually nished.
the Mjolnir was capable of carrying at least eleven. Crew
members were furnished a basic blue (if First Mate or a It is named after Brahma, a Hindu god who is the Creator
regular crew member), gray (if an Operator or a regular in the Hindu trinity, Trimurti. Its captain named after
another Hindu deity, Kali.
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4 CADUCEUS

Blue Dreamer

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
Captain: Cryptos
joined the crew as a replacement to Itarrot, who resigned
First mate: Veil
to undertake more important duties in the Real. Though
he remained a member of the crew, his duties as a liaison
Pilot: Unknown
were passed on to her. Another crew member, Recant,
boarded after returning to the Matrix from a period of
Operator: Unknown
inactivity as an operative during the days of the Masked.
Other crew: Barakoa, Viraconrida, Festaneve, After presenting Cypherites with a series of tests, he was
Khursun, Exivy, Rejex, Stanten, and Kerevola (Re- located and entrusted to rejoin the cause by ChloeAnn.
cursion); Tranta, Haigen, Itarrot, Esime and Recant He assisted the liaisons whenever the need arose.
(Syntax); Maruth, Sphectra, Dreami, Sutola and Li- Demonax joined the crew temporarily after the deparparus (Vector)
ture of Haigen, who was reassigned to the Real alongside

The Blue Dreamer is the mysterious Cypherite agship

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 dreamers.
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 rst 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 ocial liaison in Viraconridas 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. Festaneves
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 briey
to introduce a new liaison team consisting of Exivy, Stanten and Rejex.

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 Trantas death (during a feud with an operative named BloodlustV), Esime
remained the nal contact aboard this vessel on the Syntax instance. During the nal hours before access to the
Matrix was cut o 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 couriers nal failure, she was seen one last time
in the downtown area of Chelsea.

Caduceus
Captain: Ballard
First mate: Malachi
Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Bane

The name of the Caduceus comes from the Greek word

caduceus, which is the symbol of two snakes wrapped
around a winged sta, commonly associated with the
messenger of the gods, Hermes. In Reloaded, its captain, Ballard, oers 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 ships EMP to disable at least

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ve ships (including itself, The Icharus, The Gnosis, and
The Novalis). Bane is the only survivor and is saved by
the Mjolnir.

Ganesha
Captain: Unknown
First mate: Unknown

Calappidae

Operator: Unknown

Captain: Unknown

Other crew: Unknown

First mate: Unknown

Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Parr, Red
Other crew: Maggie, Rollins, Lena
The Calappidae, 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 nd 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 resembles a crab, and the name is probably taken from the
family Calappidae.

Devildog
Captain: Fenshire
First mate: Symmetric
Pilot: Raddclif
Operator: Fuses

The Ganesha appears in a concept design sketch by artist

George Hull,[4] 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 eet
sent to intercept the invading Sentinels. The ship was not
initially disabled when Bane sets o the EMP, but nevertheless must have been destroyed shortly after. Its name
derives from Ganesha, the Hindu god, considered as the
remover of obstacles.

Gnosis
Captain: Ice
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Unknown (possibly Jacob)
Other crew: Corrupt, Wurm, and Jacob

Other crew: Ricksonol, Covenant, Adesina, Eye- The Gnosis is referenced in Reloaded. Her crew is feasOnly, Disseminated, Aesiri, Verq, Siindbad
tured in Reloaded and Enter the Matrix.
The Devildog is a Mark IV Sentinel Killer Class Gunship.
It is outtted 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. Modied from the Mark III,
it has an enhanced recharge time from igniting an EMP,
and the cannonheads have been tted with a swivel mechanism to allow for multidirectional ghting. 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 rst 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.[3]
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.

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.

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MARINER

The Gnosis is part of the eet sent to intercept the invad- The Logos is Mark XIV Number 14 and built in 2101.
ing Sentinels. The ship is disabled when Bane sets o the When Zions attack becomes imminent, the Logos crew
EMP and subsequently destroyed.
coordinates the recall before joining the rest of the eet
The name of the Gnosis derives from the Greek word in Zion. When the Council inquires of the fate of Morgnosis, meaning knowledge, with reference to themes of pheus and his ship the Nebuchadnezzar, the Logos and the
Gnostic Christianity which are evident through the Ma- hovercraft Vigilant search for the Neb, eventually partictrix series.[5]
ipating in a skirmish within the Matrix involving Agents
and minions of the Merovingian.

Icharus
Captain: Ajax
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown (one female)

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 nds 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.

The Icharus is a ship in the eet sent to intercept the in- Logos is the Greek word which literally means Word
vading sentinels in The Matrix Reloaded. Earlier in the and refers to the Christian use of it in referring to Jesus
lm, when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion, and Neo as The Word - John 1:1.
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 o the EMP on the Caduceus, 11 Logos II
and the Icharus is subsequently destroyed.
Captain: Niobe
The name of the Icharus derives from Icarus, a character
in Greek mythology. Its captain is named after the Greek
hero Ajax the Great.

10 Logos
Captain: Niobe
First mate: Ghost
Pilot: Niobe
Operator: Sparks
Other crew: None
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 eet, 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 eet, but Ghosts skill with
its guns allows it to nevertheless be a signicant threat to
attacking Sentinels.

First mate: Ghost

Pilot: Niobe
Operator: Sparks
Other crew: Soluma and Amithist (Vector server
liaison), Caelifera, Merrit, and Rylet (Recursion
server liaisons), Harkee (Syntax server liaison),
Logos II is Niobes current ship in The Matrix Online. It
is named after her original ship.

12 Mariner
Captain: Unknown
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Rook
Other crew: Deuce, Speedy, Rocket
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.

13 Mjolnir ("Hammer")

14 Nabonidus

Captain: Roland

Captain: Morpheus

First mate: Colt

First mate: Unknown

Pilot: AK

Pilot: Unknown (Possibly Morpheus)

Operator: AK
Other crew: Maggie, Mauser

Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown

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 Captains beacon of the Nabonidus was traced in the
Matrix. A code pulse device set o by the Kid revealed a
transparent RSI that resembled Morpheus and appeared
to be in pain, implying that Morpheus is alive and still in
Much of The Matrix Revolutions takes place on the Mjol- possession of the Nabonidus, hidden somewhere in the
nir, as against Captain Rolands better judgment, Niobe real world.
lets Neo and Trinity (and a stowed-away Bane) take the It was later revealed that the Morpheus RSI making apLogos in an attempt to reach the Machine City.
pearances across The Matrix was in fact a simulacrum
The largest ship in Zions eet, 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 eet, but has in fact been taken
over by Smith.

With the remaining crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and the

Logos, the Mjolnir races back to Zion, relying on Niobes
piloting skills to steer the ship through the narrow mechanical tunnels. The ships 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. Niobes opinion of the ships 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 Zions dock and sets o its EMP. This destroys the attacking sentinels, but as an angry Commander
Lock warns Roland and Morpheus, they have also crippled the citys defenses against any subsequent attacks.

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 Generals 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 Morpheuss 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 ll 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.

This ships name is derived from Mjlnir, the hammer

of the Norse thunder god, Thor. Because of this, most The name is derived from Nabonidus, the last king of the
characters refer to the ship as the Hammer. Except for Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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 ries; Colt is named 15 Nebuchadnezzar ("Neb")
after the Colt line of pistols; and Mauser is named after the Mauser pistol (and possibly ries). Roland may
Captain: Morpheus
be named after the protagonist of The Dark Tower, who
was a gunslinger, or the Roland from the medieval epic La
First mate: Trinity
Chanson de Roland, or the Roland surface-to-air missile
Pilot: Dozer, Link
system, or Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner from
the 1978 Warren Zevon song, or Roland, the King of
Operator: Tank, Link
Planet Druidia from Spaceballs or more likely renowned
French-Canadian gunman Roland Sigfried.[6] Also note
Other crew: Apoc, Cypher, Mouse, Neo, Switch
that Charles The Hammer was the great grandfather of
the Roland from the medieval Chanson.
The Nebuchadnezzar i /nbknzr/, named after
The Mjolnirs commissioning plaque reads Mark XIV Nebuchadnezzar II and nicknamed the Neb, is the main
hovercraft featured in The Matrix and Matrix Reloaded;
No. 62 Made in the USA Year 2111.

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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.

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NOVALIS II

16 Neos Hope
Captain: Kid

First mate: Shimada

In The Matrix, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar is search Pilot: Unknown (May be lled by Shimada)
ing for Neo, whom Morpheus believes to be The One.
When they nd him, he is trained and taken to see the
Operator: Unknown (may be lled by Shimada)
Oracle. While returning from the Oracle, Cypher betrays
Other crew: Reposco and roolith (Recursion lithe crew, gives Morpheus to the Agents, and kills Dozer,
aisons) Fuscienne and Catalyn (Syntax liaisons),
Apoc, and Switch, Mouse being already dead. Neo and
Adenias (Syntax crew member), Pentothal (Vector
Trinity manage to save Morpheus from the Agents, afliaison)
ter 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 Neos Hope is Kids designated ship in The Matrix Online
Morpheus, Trinity and Tank were waiting for Neo to re- and the agship for the E Pluribus Neo splinter organizaturn to the real world through a portal before detonating tion.
the EMP, disabling the ship and the Sentinels.
In Matrix Reloaded, the ship is seen again. Since the
events of the rst lm, 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
Merovingians 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 Sentinels tow
bomb at the conclusion of Reloaded, after Neo leaves the
Architect and rescues Trinity. The crew escapes before
the ships destruction thanks to Neos newfound ability to
identify and assume limited control over Sentinel hardware using his powers as The One as shown at the conclusion of the lm. 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.

17 Novalis
Captain: Tirant
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown
The Novalis is referenced in Reloaded as part of the eet
sent to intercept the invading sentinels. It is disabled
when Bane sets o 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.

The name Nebuchadnezzar is a Biblical reference to Its name comes from Novalis, an 18th-century German
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, from the Book of Daniel. novelist and poet.
King Nebuchadnezzar ('the Great') was famous for his
conquests of Israel in Biblical times (specically Judah
and Jerusalem). He is also assumed to have built the 18 Novalis II
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the lost Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) for his wife. He has a dream
Captain: Sawayaka
he cannot remember but keeps searching for an answer.
Morpheus makes reference to this after the Nebuchad First mate: WanNi
nezzar is destroyed with the line I have dreamed a dream;
Pilot: Neurophyte
but now that dream is gone from me. Nebuchadnezzars
dream is found in Daniel 2:1-49.
Operator: Tamarin
The Nebuchadnezzar was named after one of the largest
Other crew: Vashuo, Lelan, Toorima, Oniyuzu,
sized bottles used in wine production. While writing the
Odran, Al3xandra
Matrix, the Wachowski siblings asked about the name of
the giant display bottle of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin at
the cafe they frequented in Chicago. The bottle was a In The Matrix Online it is said that the Novalis II was built
from the salvaged wreckage of the Novalis.
"nebuchadnezzar.
The following is an excerpt from Tyndalls personal
records:

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Novalis II, Retted Pacer Class Hovercraft,
designated 227. Novalis II is our rst new hovercraft, even if it is one of our old ones...

crew became more than the rst new hovercraft... they became a symbol of the new Zion
emerging from war.

The war was hard on everyone in Zion, but

the Zion Military took perhaps the hardest hit.
With almost every single one of their trained
redpills killed, and almost all of their hovercrafts destroyed, there was a faction within the
Military that wanted to write o the Matrix entirely. Luckily for todays redpills, an aggressive training program began instead hoverbarges were built, redpills recruited, and the
Matrix continued to be the center of the battle for the future.

Combining the roles of diplomats, soldiers, and

even entertainers, the crew of the Novalis II has
emerged from these critical rst months ready
to help Zion and humanity nd their way.

It was soon discovered, however, that an older

style of hovercraft was needed. These hovercraft were fast, and stealthy, and most important, they allowed a group of redpills to
work independently of Zion without eyes looking over their shoulders. With that in mind, the
Military set out to survey what was left of their
old eet.
Many hovercrafts, like the Brahma, were destroyed so utterly that nothing usable could be
salvaged. Others, like the wreckage of the Novalis, were in fairly good shape. The Novalis
ight-frame was more or less intact. With replacement parts already present in Zion, it was
soon up and running. The only question remained: who would crew this ship?
Concurrent with the lack of hovercrafts, the
Zion Military was faced with a shortage of
trained redpills. Most were killed at the end of
the war, and those who remained were either
in training or too inexperienced to take command. It was these rst days after Neos Truce
that Zion faced a crisis of condence.
Faced with a need to move fast and talk its
way out of most of its problems, Zion most
needed a person able to handle the pressures
of being the rst hovercraft captain after the
Truce. This new captain needed to be able to
talk when talk was needed, but ght hard when
the going got tough. With the resurrection of
the Novalis, now named by her captain Novalis
II, came the promotion of a promising young
redpill, Sawayaka
Sawayaka found herself in a unique situation.
Both the Machines and Exiles placed unusual
emphasis on her appointment. Considered the
forerunner of a new era, Sawayaka and her

Neurophyte was infected by a kill code virus

while inside the Matrix.
At the time, there were nine servers, and each one had a
dierent fate for Neurophyte:
On Regression, Proxy, Iterator, Enumerator, and
Output, she was recovered by Zion and restored to
full health.
On Linenoise, she was recovered by Zion but died
in the process of extracting the killcode embedded
in her brain.
On Method, the Machines recovered her and restored her to full health, and she became a Machinist
operative as a result.
On Heuristic and Input, the Machines recovered her
and extracted the killcode at the cost of her life.
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.

19 Osiris
Captain: Thadeus
First mate: Jue
Pilot: Robbie
Operator: Robbie
Other crew: Five others, names unknown
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.

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In the Animatrix lm "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:
This is Thadeus, captain of the Osiris. It is
18:03 on 12-14, and I fear this will be our last
transmission. Less than two hours ago we were
pinned between two search units near BZ 218. We tried to outrun them on the surface
when our sensors went completely berserk. We
didn't believe what our equipment was telling
us until we ran smack into the middle of it. An
army. Their army. Its massive, hundreds of
times the size of anything we've fought. We
are under heavy pursuit and have sustained critical damage. We are going to attempt an emergency broadcast drop in the Matrix. After that,
all we can do is hope that somehow this disk
reaches Zion, and if it does, then it is not too
late.

SALTPILLAR

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
Ahabs 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.

21 Polaris
Captain: Unknown
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown

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.

20 Pequod

Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Nova
The Polaris is mentioned in the comic Hunters and Collectors. Nova, the narrator, was a member of its crew.
The ships name is derived from Polaris (also known as
Alpha Ursae Minoris), the current northern pole star.

Captain: Flint
First mate: Unknown

22 Prometheus

Pilot: Unknown

Captain: Unknown

Operator: Unknown

First mate: Unknown

Other crew: Unknown

Pilot: Unknown

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 ships 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

Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown
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.

23 Saltpillar
Captain: Neoteny
First mate: Wanzer
Pilot: Microcoulomb

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Operator: Wanzer

Theptism, after he was involved with the disappearance

of Cypherite liaison Viraconrida, and was keeping her
Other crew: Ryumanjisen, Shinte
imprisoned on a downed hoverbarge somewhere in the
Real, was captured by the Merovingian liaison, MadHatThe Saltpillar is a Mark XIV (model number 27) small tah, and kept locked away in a prison construct.
reconnaissance class hovercraft originally outtted for the Additionally, the newest member of Scanline, Trid, is
purpose of scouting the tunnels of the Real for threats to also the most recently deceased. Trid was originally
the city of Zion. In its time, the ship has, however, been a member of E Pluribus Neo, who was not prominent
retted with stronger plating and armaments, though it until he defected to the Cypherite cause and became
retains a great deal of maneuverability. The Saltpillar is Maskharah. After having plans to export weapons
also known as one of the smaller ships in the Zion eet as caches through the Matrix foiled by members of the E
far as crew size is concerned, at one time being occupied Pluribus Neo organization, Trid was captured and insolely by its captain, Neoteny, and his rst mate, Wanzer. terrogated, only to be rescued later by Scanline, and to
The mission of this ship has, since its inception, been the become one of their crew. Resuming his original handle
elimination of the Cypherites. The second goal of ending of Trid, he was an active member of the crew until the
the war in Zions favor was added to the mission statement end of the Truce, when his Emergency Jackout Protocol
of the Saltpillar when the Truce was shattered.
malfunctioned, and he was gunned-down by EPN liaison
The Saltpillar was one of the four Zion hovercraft in- Reposco.
volved with the transport of ex-Commander Jason Lock,
and was the only Zion/EPN coalition hovercraft to be disabled during the battle.[3]
25 Shiva
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 ee.

Captain: Unknown
First mate: Unknown
Pilot: Unknown

24 Scanline
Captain: Unknown

Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown

The Shiva appears in the Zion Archives. It can be briey

seen when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in The
Matrix Reloaded, landed in Bay 10. Presumably, the
Pilot: Unknown
Shiva is part of the eet sent to intercept the invading
Sentinels. The ship was not initially disabled when Bane
Operator: Unknown
sets o the EMP, but nevertheless must have been de Other crew: Strayshot, Acheronia, Theptism, Tri- stroyed shortly after. Shiva is the third form of God as
d (Recursion), Alethiana, Daxil, Derouter, Leton, the Destroyer, one of the Trimurti (popularly called the
Runtrace (Syntax), Betzalel, Kaveri, Palliate (Vec- Hindu trinity).
tor), Hynek (Recursion)
First mate: Unknown

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. Rajilichs notes, which culminated in September
2007, after several dedicated operatives broke the numerous encryptions on les and gained access to data nodes
which gave the positions of an exile program known as
991.

26 Vigilant
Captain: Soren
First mate: Vector
Pilot: Unknown (Maybe Jax)
Operator: Jax
Other crew: Axel, Binary
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 ttingly, in the New
International Version Mark 13:32 reads: No one knows

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REFERENCES

about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor in the fetus elds, and only one of its crew members surthe Son, but only the Father.
vived. He found a strange man who knew nothing of the
In Enter the Matrix, Vigilant crew member Axel has been Matrix but was convinced that the fetus harvesters were
captured by Agents. The crew of the Logos happen to dragons. A third was stolen by a group of rebels who atturn up at the airport, just as he is being transported, and tracted agents for the thrill of it and were not allied with
they undertake a perilous rescue attempt, Niobe gets him Zion. The fourth ship was used to destroy money that had
o of the plane where he lands in the hands of an Agent. a virus attached to it and the fth and nal unnamed ship
Ghost continues to pursue when Axel buckles his seat- was used by a crew that saved a girl who could change
her residual self-image. The fth ship from The Animabelt and careens the car out of control, killing the agent,
but severely wounding his leg, which is indicated in The trix was featured in Program.
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 rst to oer the services of his ship
and his crew to Morpheuss plan. The Vigilant crew is
assigned the task of hacking into the citys 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 re a tow bomb at the ship, and
as Axel and Jax rush to take action, a walkway collapses
(weakened earlier when Axels 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.

29 Miscellaneous ships in The Matrix Online

The Juggernaut (Zionite, captained by Cinquez)
The Titan (Zionite, Captained by RedBindi)
The Hand of God (EPN, Captained by Steelle)
The Nanshe (Cypherite)
The Metal Gear (Zionite, Captained by SSJTrunks.
First Mate Kurayamino)
The Neos Pride (Zionite, captained by LadyFrost)
The Black Dahlia (Merovingian, Captained by
Villemar; First Mate Japes)

27 Vishnu
Captain: Unknown
First mate: Unknown

30 See also
Simulated reality

Pilot: Unknown
Operator: Unknown
Other crew: Unknown
The Vishnu appears in a concept design sketch by artist
George Hull,[7] and in the Zion Archives. It can be
briey seen when the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion in
The Matrix Reloaded, landed in Bay 5. Presumably, the
Vishnu is part of the eet sent to intercept the invading
Sentinels. The ship was not initially disabled when Bane
sets o the EMP, but nevertheless must have been destroyed shortly after. The ships name is derived from
Vishnu, the second form of God as the Preserver in the
Trimurti.

31 References
[1] Behind The Voice Actors - Voice Of 01 Versatran
Spokesman. Behind The Voice Actors.
[2] Transpersonal Management: lessons from the Matrix
trilogy. google.com.mx.
[3] Sony Online Entertainment - Home.
rums.station.sony.com. Retrieved 2014-07-28.

Fo-

[4]
[5] Journal of Religion & Film: Wake Up! Gnosticism and
Buddhism in The Matrix by Frances Flannery-Daily and
Rachel Wagner. Unomaha.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
[6] The Mystery of Larry Wachowski By PETER WILKINSON, Posted Jan 12, 2006, Rolling Stone

28

Unnamed ships

There are ve 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

[7]

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