Energy Dagger

 





The Energy dagger is an energy melee weapon employed by the Sangheili, particularly the Zealot classes, during the Human-Covenant war.

Design Details

The design bears resemblance to the Energy Sword. Unlike the Energy Sword, however, it ends in a single point rather than in dual prongs. The Energy Dagger looks like a miniature Energy sword with a single blade. It is mounted to a device worn on the wrists of the user. It is about half the size of the Energy Sword.

Usage Details

The Energy Dagger is mainly used for assassinations by player-controlled Elites. Other uses include hostage killing, door hacking, wire cutting, and other unknown uses by the Covenant.

Trivia

• The energy dagger is used in Halo: Reach exclusively by Sangheili in assassinations.
• Noble Six was almost assassinated by a Sangheili using the energy dagger while investigating Visegrad Relay. The Elite climbed on top of a knocked down Noble Six and proceeded to activate and plunge the dagger downward. Noble Six was able to stop this, however, by grabbing the Elites arm and punching it in the face. It is not shown how effective the blade is in true CQC, as Carter-A259 kicks the Sangheili off of Noble Six and Catherine-B320 sends it back with fire from her M6G.
• This is the weapon Noble Six was presumably killed with, as a Zealot was seen about to deliver a coup de grace.
• While a Sangheili (of any class) is in Active Camo, the energy daggers can be seen activated.
• It is often mistaken as the energy sword in 2 cutscenes
• It bears some resemblance in both appearance and function to the Hidden Blade from the Assassin's Creed series

Gallery

A Spec Ops Sangheili using Active Camo. The Energy Daggers can clearly be seen extending from the wrists even though an assassination is not performed.

An Energy Dagger used in an assassination

A deployed Energy Dagger

A Zealot uses his Energy Dagger

A glitch that deploys both Energy Daggers

An Elite prepares to use his Energy Dagger on a Spartan

A double dagger assassination

Placement of the energy dagger in the neck, severing some major arteries.

Placement of the double dagger assassination, the blades seem to touch each other inside the body.

Elite Zealot class assassinating a Spartan III.

A close-up of the energy dagger.