UNSC Vehicular and Starship weaponry.

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Vehicle Mounted Weapons:

120mm High-Velocity Gun

The 120mm High-Velocity Gun is an anti-tank weapon firing High-Explosive Anti-Tank shells at extremely high velocity, the kinetic force adding to the explosive firepower of the shell. It is the main armament of the Grizzly main battle tank, which carries two of these weapons. It is more powerful than the standard 90mm High Velocity Cannon equipped on the standard Scorpion tank.

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Class-2 Guided Munition Launch System

The Class-2 Guided Munition Launch System is a United Nations Space Command aerial vehicle-mounted weapon system.

The Hornet is equipped with two of these weapons, and each weapon system is believed to encompass a lock-on targeting missile launcher and a tri-barreled chain gun. It can be customized to fire armor-piercing missiles at a very high rate, or also fire high explosive missiles similar to a Banshee's Fuel Rod bomb. The missiles have a limited homing ability on enemy vehicles and explode after a certain amount of time being in the air.

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GUA-23/AW/Linkless Feed Autocannon

The GUA-23/AW/Linkless Feed Autocannon is a weapon in service within the UNSC Marine Corps, mounted on Hawk VTOL gunships, capable of engaging a number of enemy units of various types, ranging from infantry, to armored vehicles, to aircraft. The Autocannons are also mounted on Vulture heavy gunships, which use a 30mm round that is heavier than the Hawk's ammunition. The GUA-23 Autocannon must uses a 15mm or higher caliber round to be considered an autocannon. Hence, the GUA-23 on the Vulture is a 30mm cannon.

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KG Mk 34 Antipersonnel Flame Mortar Launcher

The KG Mk 34 Antipersonnel Flame Mortar Launcher is an attachable weapon upgrade to a standard UNSC prefabricated base turret. The flame mortar adds a bonus Anti-infantry attack to the turret and possess heavy stopping power to stun hostile infantry.

When in range, the mortar launcher shoots a ball of fire onto assaulting infantry. When it makes contact, the fireball bursts into flame and causes a small amount of splash.

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LRG Rail Gun

The LRG Rail Gun is a combined anti-vehicle/anti-structure weapon system mounted on the SP42 Cobra self-propelled artillery vehicle, designed for engaging enemy armored vehicles and structures, using a pair of combining railguns. The individual railguns are also able to be mounted on a UNSC prefabricated base turret for use as a static defensive measure.

The LRG Rail Gun is one of a few weapons of its kind in service. Most known UNSC weapons that use electromagnetism to fire solid projectiles, such as the MAC or the M68 Gauss Cannon, are coilguns which operate using completely different principles.

The most unique aspect of the LRG Rail Gun was that it featured two separate firing modes, each performing completely separate roles and duties. At its most basic stage, it used two 16 Megajoule railguns to fire 50mm armor piercing shells, with significant penetration capabilities, designed for engaging Covenant armored vehicles. Each railgun has a slow rate of fire, and requires alternating fire - the energy required to fire both railguns together is well beyond what the Cobra is capable of producing by itself. This alternating also improves the weapon's rate of fire, keeping up a more consistent output, with superior penetration to the 90mm High Velocity Cannon used by the M808B Scorpion MBT. Further, these two railguns can be retracted into the Cobra to allow the deployment of the larger 80 Megajoule railgun. This stronger weapon fires a 105mm high explosive shell at significant range, filling a more conventional artillery role. This second mode of firing requires more stability than a mobile vehicle could provide, forcing the Cobra to deploy support stands and braces to keep it stable, but allows extreme long range fire, effective against vehicles and enemy structures. A single shell to penetrate through a target and hit a second behind it.

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M202 XP Machine Gun

The M202 XP Machine Gun is a type of machine gun. It is used in automated stationary gun turrets. They were obsolete as of 2541, and used only in the training of the Spartan-IIIs. They fire Stun Rounds for training and can fire bullets if needed.

The automated stationary gun used in the training of Spartan-IIIs has a minimum angle of fire; a person can stay out of the cone of fire to avoid getting shot. Their tracking speed is limited, as the Spartan-III's were able to stay well ahead of its line of fire. They are secured to a platform by securing bolts. On the platform, the gun is hooked up by wires to: a radar array that uses radar to target, a power supply that powers the turret, and an automated fire control. They can also be disassembled and be used manually, like a normal gun. For example, this was done in the Spartan-III's training to combat the trainers with more than their bare hands.

The UNSC also had M202s mounted in automated base defense turrets during 2531. The platforms had three M202XP MGs mounted, and they were more sophisticated than those used in the training of Spartan-IIIs, allowing for a larger field of fire.

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M247T Medium Machine Gun

The M247T Medium Machine Gun, formally known as the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M247, is a variant of the M247 General Purpose Machine Gun that is outfitted on the M808B Main Battle Tank as either a coaxial-mounted or pintle-mounted anti-infantry weapon. It was also installed on the Grizzly tanks.

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M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun

The M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun, nicknamed the "Vulcan", is a United Nations Space Command Defense Force vehicle-mounted machine gun. It is used as the primary armament on the standard M12 Light Reconnaissance Vehicle.

The M41 LAAG is the standard weaponry of the M12 Warthog LRV, although similar on the M312 Elephant HRVs, the Elephants fire rate is slightly more powerful. It is a triple-barreled, electric-powered, linkless, belt-fed weapon. It fires 450 to 550 12.7x99mm armor penetrating rounds per minute. Turret traverse rate is 100 degrees per second and weapon elevation rate is 60 degrees per second. Recoil from sustained fire is prodigious and negatively impacts accuracy at long range. It also works quite well for taking out Banshees and other lightly-armored vehicles.

As stated above, the M41 uses 12.7x99mm rounds, also known as the .50 BMG round, or .50 caliber. The name BMG comes from the 20th-century M2 Browning Machine Gun the cartridge was designed for. It is well known for its legendary stopping power. It is normally considered an anti-materiel round, as it can take out both light armor and infantry at great range. The bullet is even capable of stopping a car dead in its tracks, shooting a round right through its engine block.

The 12.7x99mm rounds is capable of exerting upwards of five times as much damage as the 7.62x51mm rounds used in the MA5 series of assault rifles, and the M41 is a relatively accurate example of its power compared to the smaller 7.62mm round. This was only evident in Halo: Combat Evolved, as damage per-hit in Halo 2 was dramatically less powerful. To balance this out, the rate of fire on the M41 was increased to roughly 900 rounds per-minute, and accuracy was increased significantly from the Halo: Combat Evolved version.

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M512 Smooth Bore High Velocity Cannon

The M512 90mm Smooth Bore High Velocity Cannon is a United Nations Space Command armament that is mounted on the M808B Main Battle Tank.

The M512 90mm SBHVC is the primary weapon of the M808B Main Battle Tank, and is mounted on the rear of the tank's chassis. The weapon's design remains for the most part unchanged from 20th century tanks, the 90mm cannon is mounted in a fully traversing turret weapon mount, this allows the cannon to rotate 360 degrees and to move -10 to approximately +60 traverse. A gyroscope is used to stabilize the cannon, allowing it to be effectively aimed and fired at the "short halt" or on the move.

The 90mm High Velocity Cannon is fitted with insulating thermal jackets to reduce gun-barrel warping caused by uneven thermal expansion. Unlike modern tanks however, the 90mm Cannon is mounted on the aft section of the Scorpion's chassis and contains no crew compartment as the loading is done autonomously and the targeting and firing is done electronically from the crew compartment.

The M512 uses a wide variety of 90mm ammunition, however the most commonly employed is the 90mm tungsten Armor Piercing Ballistic Capped Round. This type of round sacrifices armor penetration for larger amounts high explosive filler, this round is accelerated at a high velocity and can strike a target at extremely long ranges. Another type of ammunition employed is the S1 Canister Shell, the S1 Canister provides Scorpion equipped tanks with destructive capabilities without the use of traditional high explosives. The Canister round is lethal against enemy infantry when machine guns or other weaponry cannot be used effectively. The S1 is also effective at breaching walls and damaging structures or other vehicles.

The M512 can effectively destroy any light vehicle with only one shot, the cannon has very little recoil and may be attributed to an added muzzle brake or its design, even heavy vehicles like the Covenant Type-25 Assault Gun Carriage can only withstand three rounds before being destroyed. Because of its high area-of-effect and high velocity it is a very useful anti infantry weapon as well, able to kill even the toughest infantry like the Hunter in just one shot. One shot from a 90mm Cannon is also very effective at destroying walls or structures if enough shots are fired at it.

The M512 is unable to fire on anything too close to the cannon, or the Scorpion's chassis, as the cannon cannot traverse that close. The cannons high area-of-effect means that precision kills are next to impossible - friendly infantry or vehicles near the target are likely to feel the force of the blast as much as the intended target. The 90mm cannon must be reloaded after every shot and takes between three to four seconds, the time it takes for the cannon to reload may give the enemy enough time to react against the tank; and the smoke trail the round leaves behind when fired, compromises the tanks location making it easy for enemy anti-armor personnel to locate the Scorpion.

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M638 Autocannon

The M638 Autocannon is employed in both anti-personnel and anti-armor roles, and is exclusively mounted as a chin gun on the UH-144 Falcon. It fires explosive rounds that can injure targets close to the impact area. It is effective against both infantry targets and stationary gun emplacements like the Shade turret, and even allows the Falcon to hold its own against multiple Banshees. Sustained fire from an M638 is capable of destroying Phantom dropships.

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M68 Asynchronous Linear-Induction Motor

The M68 Asynchronous Linear-Induction Motor, more commonly known as the M68 Gauss Cannon, is a weapon that fires hyper-velocity, high-density projectiles similar to those of a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, except on a much smaller scale. It can be mounted on a stationary stand, or on the rear of the M12G1 Warthog LAAV.

The M68 ALIM uses an asynchronous linear-induction motor to produce a bipolar magnetic field capable of launching a 25x130mm projectile at an incredible speed of just under Mach 40, or approximately 13.7km per second. The great velocity of the projectile is the key to the stopping power and performance of the Gauss cannon, giving it exceptional armor penetration.

The M68 ALIM is applied primarily in an anti-vehicle capacity by UNSCDF ground forces, though it can be used to devastating effect against infantry. It is often seen mounted on the Warthog in the same manner as the M41 LAAG, and while it does not possess the LAAG's extreme rate of fire, it displays near-pinpoint accuracy and overwhelming firepower, usually killing infantry targets with a single shot, and heavily damaging those in the immediate vicinity of where the round impacts. Its intended usage is similar to that of a 102mm SC-HE Rocket Turret, though the rocket turret does not possess the all-around utility and adaptability of the M68 ALIM.

The M68 is an extremely accurate weapon, useful against against most enemy units. It has proven to be devastating against light-armored vehicles, it can take out a Ghost or a Banshee in one or two shots (depending on shot placement). The weapon is rather effective against Wraiths as well, provided the driver can out-flank the Wraith and fire upon its unprotected backside before it brings its plasma mortar to bear. The M68 is also very deadly if used against infantry, however users should aim at the most dangerous units like Sangheili, Jiralhanae and Mgalekgolo in order to make full use of the weapon.

The M68 has few disadvantages, mainly the weapon's slow fire rate. It is also quite difficult to use at long ranges, especially when shooting at moving targets.

The Gauss Cannon can also cause permanent hearing damage when fired within 20 meters of unprotected infantry.

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M79 Multiple Launch Rocket System

The M79 Multiple Launch Rocket System is a missile launcher mounted on the M12R Light Anti-Armor Vehicle.

The M79 MLRS fires six missiles per volley, and can lock on to aircraft such as Banshees and Falcons.

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MG460 Automatic Grenade Launcher

The MG460 Automatic Grenade Launcher, MG460 AGL for short, is a vehicle-mounted UNSC grenade launcher found mounted on the UH-144 Falcon. It appears in place of the Falcon's usual fuselage-mounted machine guns. It is semi-automatic, as opposed to the M319's single-shot break-action. As with the M319, the user can hold down the trigger to delay detonation, and release the trigger to detonate the grenade manually. Just as with the M319, detonating the grenade manually will trigger an EMP burst.

The weapon has an electronic counter on the side of the weapon, which goes from 'READY' to 'IN AIR' when launched, and displays 'BOOM' when it detonates.

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X23 NNEMP Cannon

The X23 NNEMP Cannon is a weapon in service with the UNSC Marine Corps. Gremlin support vehicles are equipped with one of these turrets for anti-armor combat. Its special EMP ability is entirely ineffective against infantry.

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XM511 Heavy Grenade Launcher

The XM511 Heavy Grenade Launcher is a weapon mounted onto the MAAT-9 Wolverine anti-aircraft vehicles for use as a secondary weapon to defend it against ground attacks by infantry or vehicles.

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Unnamed UNSC anti-aircraft turret

The Unnamed UNSC anti-aircraft turret is a UNSC weapons emplacement.

Multiple such turrets were placed around ONI Sword Base on Reach. One such turret was located at Airview Base. These turrets were also seen defending the Sabre Program Launch/Research Range from Seraphs and Spirits, capable of taking them out effectively.

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Unnamed UNSC missile battery

The Unnamed UNSC missile battery is a surface-to-air missile battery used by the UNSC Army. Two such batteries were used to cripple a Covenant corvette holding station over New Alexandria, thus allowing three civilian transports to escape the city. These batteries fire powerful warheads as they are capable of puncturing a Covenant vessel's hull.

Each battery can hold up to three missiles.

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Starship Weapons:

80mm Ball-Mounted Rotary Cannon

The 80mm Ball-Mounted Rotary Cannon is a weapon carried on UNSC Booster Frames. Each Booster Frame carries two of the cannons, which are mounted underneath the wings of the craft. They have an extremely high rate of fire.

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M1024 ASW/AC 30mm ALA Cannon

The M1024 ASW/AC 30mm ALA Cannon is a UNSC projectile weapon mounted on single ship starfighters. A pair of M1024 cannons is mounted on the YSS-1000, near the cockpit, as its main armament. It is noticeable that few shots destroy Type-27 XMF and take down the shields of a Seraph.

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M41 Extended Light Anti-Aircraft Gun

The M41 Extended Light Anti-Aircraft Gun, abbreviated M41 ELAAGat, is a weapon carried on UNSC Booster Frames. The weapon is a variant of the M41 Light Anti-Aircraft Gun designed to operate in vacuum. It fires gas-jacketed, armor-piercing depleted uranium shells with pressurized atmospheric contents to ensure an explosive percussion in a vacuum or other challenging environments.

The weapon is mounted in the rear of the Booster Frame, where it can be operated by another soldier.

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M92 Principle Gauss Cannon

The M92 Principle Gauss Cannon is a weapon carried on UNSC Booster Frames. The weapon functions similar to a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, albeit on a much smaller scale. The M92 PGC comprises the primary weaponry of the Booster Frame, and runs the entire length of the craft.

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Multiple Independently Targeted Vehicle Pod

The Multiple Independently Targeted Vehicle Pod, abbreviated MITV Pod, is a weapon carried on UNSC Booster Frames. The pods each fire numerous smaller missiles which are capable of inflicting extensive damage on both Covenant energy shielding and starship hulls alike. Each Booster Frame carries twelve of the pods.

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AAA Helix Gun

The AAA Helix Gun is a United Nations Space Command starship-mounted point defense weapon. The autocannon can be found affixed to a human capital ships.

The AAA Helix system worked as a point-defense weapon. If provided sufficient range by use of Helix guns that were capable of intercepting incoming missiles and, presumably, boarding and fighter craft. Their description as being "spun up and hot," is a description of their gatling gun qualities. They were computer or AI-operated, as with virtually all other ship-mounted autocannons.

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ASGM-10 Missile

ASGM-10 Missiles are guided ordinance used by the UNSC. They are used mainly aboard small spacecraft such as the Longsword Interceptor. They yield a high explosive payload and can cause serious structural damage to targets without any shielding. They are specialized for attacks on single ship fighters such as the Covenant Seraphs. They are much like the UNSC Archer Missiles.

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Archer Missile

Archer Missiles are ship-to-ship missiles carried by UNSC capital ships for engaging enemy warships in space combat. UNSC ships usually carry large numbers of them, their sheer numbers making up for their underperformance against Covenant shield technology, though unprotected ships are able to be destroyed by Archer missile strikes to the hull and superstructure.

Prior to the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC found the missiles to be effective against combatant ships, likely Insurrectionist-controlled ships. Against the Covenant, however, they realized that the defensive measures employed by the enemy ships such as energy shields and point defense lasers suddenly rendered Archer missiles near-obsolete - lasers were able to pick off up to half of the missiles launched, and those that hit were rarely enough to penetrate the shields. At least one Covenant ship class, the Stealth Corvette, possesses jamming measures that interfere with the guidance systems. Tactics were developed to counter this, using the more devastating but slower-firing Magnetic Accelerator Cannons to break through the shields, rendering the hulls vulnerable, but on the whole Archers proved to be ineffective weapons against the Covenant. Smaller ships, such as boarding craft or fighters, are much easier targets, and Archers may be used in support of ground forces, launched from orbit to strike a ground-based target.

Archer missiles are usually stored in pods of thirty, although Destroyers and Cruisers employ oversized missile pods to carry a larger payload. Both Frigates and Destroyers carry twenty-six pods, though as mentioned, Destroyers carry a larger number per pod.

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Fusion Rocket

The Fusion Rocket was a type of UNSC warship ordnance. These rockets proved to be inefficient against Covenant shielding, and they were also impractical because they had no guidance system, and they took a long time to accelerate. The UNSC typically used these to lay waste to relatively stationary targets, such as orbiting space stations.

Typically, UNSC Carriers carried two Rockets and Marathon-class Cruisers carried five.

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Magnetic Accelerator Cannon

The Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, also known as Mass Accelerator Cannon, MAC Gun and MAC Cannon, is a large coilgun that serves as the primary offensive weapon for UNSC warships. Larger versions, nicknamed "Super" MACs or the "big stick", of these are used as orbital defense platforms. MAC guns are the only non-nuclear weapons in the UNSC arsenal capable of effectively reducing or destroying Covenant capital ships' energy shields. Smaller shipborne versions can take as many as three hits to overload a shield while an orbital platform can put a hole through any Covenant vessel even with fully charged shields.

The operation principle of a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon is the same as that of a coilgun. The cannon fires a massive metal projectile using a linear system of magnetic fields coils down a long shaft, increasing the projectile's velocity until it carries an incredible amount of kinetic energy. The ship-based models use ferric, ferrous, or depleted uranium cores, while orbital platforms and station-based versions use ferric tungsten rounds.

The size of a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon is such that it is normally an integral component of a warship's structure. Some types of Defense Stations are literally built around the massive weapon for orbital defense.

A standard ship-based MAC fires slugs of either ferric tungsten or depleted uranium at around 30 kilometers per second. The high muzzle speed gives the 600-ton slug the kinetic energy and momentum necessary to damage a target and partially mitigates the unguided nature of the slug and its lack of maneuverability. Orbital Defense Platforms fire a 3,000-ton slug at "point four-tenths" the speed of light, around 12,000 kilometers per second.

Magnetic Accelerator Cannons are built into the superstructure of a ship or weapons platform, requiring that it maneuver in order to aim the weapon. Shipboard versions generally require an AI to aim the cannon, as the projectiles are unguided. Orbital platforms have dedicated targeting computers.

The firing process uses electromagnetism to fire a ferromagnetic-tungsten slug at high velocity. An extremely large amount of current is put through the first solenoid (coil of conducting wire) which creates a strong magnetic field which attracts the metal slug. As the slug passes into the solenoid, the solenoid is quickly turned off and the second solenoid, which is further up, turns on, which attracts the now high velocity metal slug just like the first solenoid, and the process is carried on. By the time the slug is fired out the end of the barrel it has been accelerated to a speed of approximately 30 kilometers per second for a ship-based MAC and around 12,000 kilometers per second for a "Super" MAC. For ODP, a pair of thrusters on the bottom side of the station fire for a couple of seconds to counteract the acceleration imparted to the station. It normally takes five seconds to recharge the capacitors as well as load the slug, which is why boarding craft are usually deployed to take the stations out.

The standard ship-mounted MAC fires a 600-ton ferric-tungsten projectile with a depleted uranium core at 30,000 meters per second. The large amount of energy needed to fire the weapon is particularly onerous on a warship, and the extended recharge time is a significant factor in combat against Covenant warships as multiple MAC rounds are required to penetrate Covenant shields. At 270 terajoules per shot a single ship based MAC round can destroy any unshielded Covenant ship in one shot.

Shipborne MAC draw power from the ship's reactor and require a charge of the weapon's magnetic coils in order to be fired. It takes three shots from the standard MAC cannon to effectively lower the shields of a covenant ship and destroy it. The time it takes to bring the MAC's systems to full charge on a UNSC vessel is the deciding force in a conflict. Thus, while a vessel may not run out of ammunition for a long time (depending on the size/weight of the shots and the capacity of the ship), a captain or commander has to carefully analyze the situation of a battle and use his shots strategically. The weapon can be fired even when not at full charge, but the range and velocity of the projectile is greatly diminished.

An average UNSC frigate sports one MAC system, while a standard destroyer may possess two. UNSC cruisers carry two and UNSC carriers carry more.

UNSC Orbital Defense Platforms typically mount larger and more powerful versions of the standard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, nicknamed "Super" MACs or the "big stick".

These cannons fire a 3000-ton ferric-tungsten round at 12,000 kilometers per second, impacting with a massive amount of kinetic energy, equal to approximately 51.6 gigatons of TNT. No known ship, UNSC or Covenant, has been shown to survive the impact of one of these rounds. Against Covenant shield technology, the rounds possess enough kinetic energy to punch through shields, cut through the ship, and, upon exit, still retain enough energy to cripple or destroy a second ship.

It is theorized that if a ship's armor or shields were to absorb all the kinetic energy of a super MAC round, the release of thermodynamic energy would still vaporize the ship. By receiving power from ground-based power plants, orbital platforms could achieve recharge and reload times as short as five seconds.

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Moray Space Mine

Moray Space Mines are explosives built by the UNSC for use in deep-space combat. These mines carry a high explosive payload and small chemical propellant drives that allow them to track specific targets or maintain a pre-defined coordinate location in space.

They are dropped from the bays of Longsword Interceptors to mine locations within space from hostile incursions. They use both proximity and remote detonators and have very high explosive payloads.

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NOVA Bomb

The Nova Bomb is a Human very high-yield combination of nine nuclear fusion warheads, used by the United Nations Space Command.

The NOVA Bomb is a cluster of nine nuclear fusion warheads encased in a lithium triteride case. When the warheads are activated, the lithium triteride shell focuses the blast in upon itself, multiplying the destructive power a hundredfold. This gives the NOVA Bomb an unprecedented payload for its size. Its capability to destroy a planet has earned it the nickname the "Planet-Killer". It should be noted that on the one recorded event when a NOVA Bomb was detonated in the midst of a fleet close to the planet Joyous Exultation, it scorched one quarter of the planet's surface due to a high concentration of thermal energy inside the planet's atmosphere; it also shattered a nearby moon.

The NOVA Bomb's explosive power is quickly depleted due to the lack of particles or atmosphere around it when detonated in space. This results in a much quicker release of energy, with the possibility of even further multiplying its damage to ships, planets, moons, and other celestial objects due to the lack of energy absorbing particles in space. However if detonated inside a planet's atmosphere, a portion of the total energy generated would be dispersed throughout the atmosphere. The density as well as composition of the atmosphere are the largest contributing factors when determining how much energy is dispersed.

It was intended for the NOVA Bomb to be used in space against the Covenant Fleet during the Battle of Reach.It was left on Reach and "repurposed" by Admiral Whitcomb. His reasoning was that "either the Covenant pack those bombs up and take them home for study, a possibility that I hope to God happens. A bomb like that could crack their homeworld in two. Or, the bombs stay here and they'll stop the Covenant on Reach..."

The only documented triggering of a NOVA Bomb occurred when it was accidentally detonated by a group of Huragok stationed on the Covenant Sublime Transcendence. Immediately after Kwassass, a fellow crew member, deciphered Admiral Whitcomb's message, the Huragok, through their curiosity and frenzied obsession, fixed the circuitry of the bomb, detonating it despite Kwassass's attempts to stop them. The Huragok completed the detonation timer's circuit, which promptly resulted in its activation. The resulting explosion occurred between a Covenant outpost planet Joyous Exultation and its moon, Malhiem, scorching half of the planet and shattering the moon. The resulting winds on Joyous Exultation flattened cities and spawned tidal waves. Radiation flooded the planet and killed everything living on it, penetrating the surface of the planet to its core. Every ship within the NOVA Bomb's range, save for those on the opposite side of the planet, boiled and vaporized in an instant. It is unknown what the Covenant did with the planet, but it is no longer capable of supporting life.

The NOVA Bomb explosion completely destroyed three-fifths of the fleet that was there, totaling over 300 ships. Eighteen Destroyers, two Cruisers, one Carrier and the Flagship Incorruptible escaped the NOVA Bomb explosion due to a Slipspace jump en masse just seconds prior to the explosion. Other ships arrived to reinforce the Incorruptible arrived from Joyous Exultation, suggesting that they escaped the bomb's detonation as a result of being positioned on the opposite side of the planet.