Cruiser:
The Cruiser is a type of heavily-armed and armored capital warship in Covenant fleets, emphasizing weaponry and armor over starfighter complements.
Even though both major fleets possessed warships of such classifications, the tactical philosophies of the two factioms were different. The Covenant, while possessing many different cruiser classifications, used carriers as the powerhouses of their fleets.
However, it should be noted that Covenant cruisers dwarfed their UNSC counterparts and are much more powerful. For example, even the smallest Covenant cruisers contain powerful shields that are capable of withstanding several MAC rounds.
Covenant Light Cruiser:
The Covenant Light Cruiser is a capital warship classification within the Covenant Navy. Covenant Light Cruisers have been described as resembling "luminous manta rays". Several Light Cruisers were used over Reach during the occupation campaign. Their numbers are limited and thus see infrequent use.
Technical specifications:
- Length- 300 meters (984.25 feet)
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Shielding- Yes
- Navigation system- Associated Intelligence
- Armament-
Covenant Cruiser:
A Covenant Cruiser is a type of heavy-tonnage Covenant starship within the Covenant Navy. The Covenant Cruiser, however, should not be confused with the Covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser.
The Cruiser is larger than the Covenant Light Cruiser but is smaller than the Covenant Carrier. They are armed with five Plasma Turrets and laterally-mounted pulse lasers, but lack a compliment of supplementary Seraph-class Starfighters. Like other Covenant ships, the Covenant Cruiser is roughly oblong in shape with touches of a purple and blue color scheme.
Technical specifications:
- Length- 1,000 metres (3,300 ft)-1,455 metres (4,770 ft)[1]
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Slipspace Drive- Yes
- Shielding- Resistant to 1 Plasma Turret burst
- Hull- Resistant to 2 Plasma Turret bursts or 1 Shiva missile
- Armament
- Plasma Turrets (5)
- Laterally-mounted Pulse Lasers
- Complement
- Jiralhanae
- Kig-yar
- Mgalekgolo
- Unggoy
- Crew- Few Thousand
CCS-class Battlecruiser:
The CCS-class Battlecruiser is a heavy warship used by the Covenant Navy, one of several different designs of capital ships they employ. The primary use of these ships are either to transport ground forces, or to engage enemy ships, as they are quite capable of engaging in ship to ship combat. They are also commonly tasked with glassing operations.
The CCS classification is the most well known type of Covenant warship, one of the few which the UNSC has been able to gain decent intelligence from, via the Truth and Reconciliation in particular. The battlecruiser is a long, vaguely organic-shaped spacecraft (often referred to having many bulbous sections), capable of launching dozens of fighters, dropships, and Boarding Ships. Typically armed with a vast arsenal of energy weapons, it is smaller than the rarer and more powerful Assault Carriers, but larger than the more common Frigates and Destroyers, equipped with the standard energy shield generators, pulse laser turrets, and plasma torpedo launchers, and used as a main heavy warship by Covenant Loyalists. It appears to be capable of both space warfare and supporting ground operations, capable of deploying upwards of a thousand troops of various races, as well as support vehicles and aircraft through its gravity lift.
The Control Room of a CCS classification, known as the "bridge" in human terminology, is located, as on all known Covenant starships, in the midsection of the Battlecruiser, protected by thick armor in addition to the ship's shields. A raised platform in the center of the spacious room ringed with holographic controls is the Combat Information Center, or CIC, of the Control Room. These controls are most likely for fire control, navigation, sensors, ship diagnostics, internal security monitors, etc. In front of the command center is a large holographic "banner" which is used for navigation purposes. The crew in the control room usually consists of a Jiralhanae Ship Master who stands on the central platform and is in charge of giving orders and commanding his vessel, accompanied by, in most cases, High-Ranking Jiralhanae Chieftains that patrol the lower level of the control room, who are responsible for maintaining the security of the ship.
Like most warships in the Covenant fleet, the CCS-class is also equipped with a single ventrally-mounted gravity lift, enabling the quick and easy transportation of personnel, vehicles, equipment and supplies to a planet's surface. Objects or personnel placed in it are propelled upward or downward rapidly by an anti-gravity field, and are able to gently disembark, despite the high speeds occupants can reach.
The CCS classification has at least two brigs for holding prisoners, though they may have more since these ships have not been fully explored. Each is a rectangular room with four force field-secured cells on either side, for a total of eight per brig. Each cell can accommodate a large number of prisoners, although normally only one is placed in each cell, probably for security purposes against the possibility of an organized escape attempt. The fields are impenetrable to all hand held weaponry, projectile or energy, but can be lowered by a holographic control panel on a raised platform on the far side of the brig opposite the entrance, the guards post. The cells are arranged at the periphery of a spacious room, with guards patrolling the central section. The guards usually have active camouflage, using their stealth to monitor the prisoners.
There are at least four hangar bays aboard the a vessel of CCS classification - two to starboard and two to port side. They are each three-tiered, with a large amount of space between the floors and ceilings of each level. Each bay contains various vehicles, such as Spirit-class dropships, on the bottom floor, with a pillar-like platform used for dismounting passengers rising up and connecting to the second level. Covenant troops are arrayed upon the second and third floors, with multiple stationary plasma shields and Shade infantry plasma turrets.
A plasma magnetic containment field operates at the mouth of the hangars, retaining atmosphere while in space transit. It denies the movement of all forms of matter attempting to enter or leave the shuttle bays.
Most of the ship is comprised of a labyrinth of network of corridors, with circuitry concealed behind purple metal casings. At junctions, gaps in the ceiling and floor appear to accommodate Huragok maintenance personnel, allowing them to float between levels easily and quickly. The corridors appear to be of a curved shape, with doors that open by a three-way system.
There are various, virtually indestructible doors upon the CCS classification. Unlocked ones are outlined in white light, while locked ones have crimson light. They are protected from electronic intrusion by a 128,000-bit modulating encryption key, but this key can be penetrated by a UNSC AI, after a couple of minutes.
Every ship obviously features an engine room. The engines are, of course, more powerful and faster than human engines. This is likely because the Covenant aids the primary nuclear power source with a plasma power source, allowing power to almost be doubled. The engine room, one could imagine, would be a large chamber with nuclear reactors and possibly plasma energy cores. Also there would be large tubes containing the actual engines. There would also be a manual terminal where repairs and orders from the engines can manually be made, should the Control Room's control over the engines ever stop working.
Technical specifications:
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Shielding- Energy Shields
- Hull- Unknown Hull Material
- Length- 1.782 kilometres (5,850 ft)[1]
- Width- 862 metres (2,830 ft)[1]
- Height/depth - 230.8 metres (757 ft)
- Armament-
- Pulse Laser Turrets
- Plasma Turrets
- Energy Projector (1)
- Plasma torpedo launchers
- Complement-
- Type-25 Rapid Assault Vehicle
- Type-32 Rapid Assault Vehicle
- Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft
- Type-25 Assault Gun Carriage
- DX-class Dropships or Type-52 Troop Carrier
- Seraph-class Starfighter
- Capacity - Hundreds of vehicles and soldier compliments.
Reverence-class Cruiser:
The Reverence-class Cruiser is a Covenant warship classification within the Covenant Navy.
The Reverence-class Cruiser is stated to be 3 kilometers long, twice as long as the noticeably armored and fortified Covenant Destroyer. This Cruiser classification fielded and supported a vast complement of soldiers and was also used as a Flagship for small Task Forces.
Although the Reverence-class boasted two Energy Projectors and seven Plasma Torpedo tubes, it could only fire one Energy Projector at a time, typically only the forward-mounted one and two Plasma Torpedoes simultaneously due to energy constraints.
Reverence-class Cruisers are 3 kilometers long; about the length of the UNSC Carrier.
Technical specifications:
- Length- 3000 meters (9,842 ft)
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Slipspace Drive- Yes
- Power output- Enough to power its engines, 2 plasma torpedoes and the shield at the same time
- Shielding- Yes (able to resist a maximum of 4 Plasma Torpedoes)
- Hull- Unknown Covenant Alloy (able to resist a maximum of 2 Plasma Torpedoes)
- Armament
- Energy Projector (2+)
- Laterally-mounted Plasma Torpedo launchers (7)
- Complement- Seraph-class starfighters
- Crew- Several Thousand
- Other systems- Possible Covenant AI
Covenant Battleship:
The Covenant Battleship was a heavy Capital Warship classification within the Covenant Navy. This warship was approximately two kilometers long, had five bulbous sections and bristled with a dozen Energy Projectors - enough weapons and firepower to decimate any Loyalist Fleet from long range. It was larger than most Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the CCS-class Battlecruiser, but itself was dwarfed by the Covenant Assault Carrier.
Technical specifications:
- Length- 2,000 metres (6,600 ft)
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Slipspace Drive- Equipped
- Shielding- Yes
- Hull- Unknown Seperatist alloy
- Armament- Energy Projectors (12)
Covenant Supercruiser:
The Covenant Supercruiser is a classification of extremely powerful capital Covenant warships within the Covenant Navy.
Its length of 3.5 kilometers was over three times that of the UNSC Marathon-class Cruiser.
These ships were durable enough to withstand one nuclear mine detonation, or even three Magnetic Accelerator Cannon rounds and nearly five hundred Archer missiles. However, during the Fall of Reach, it used a hit-and-run tactic to avoid fire from the Orbital Defense Platforms' "Super" MACs.
Technical specifications:
- Length- 3576 meters (11,732 feet)
- Engine unit(s)- Repulsor Engines
- Slipspace Drive- Yes
- Shielding- Resistant to 3 MAC rounds and 488 Archer missiles or 1+ Nuclear mines
- Hull- Resistant to greater than 1 Shiva missile
- Armament
- 5 Energy Projectors
- Pulse Lasers
- Plasma Torpedoes
- Crew- Several Thousand
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