Notice that the trench along the dorsal structure is no longer black along its full length. Compare the image of an Assault Carrier from Halo 2 (below) to Bry's images of a Halo 3 Assault Carrier here. A carrier would also go on assist Covenant forces in the Onyx Conflict later that month.I'm surprised and more than a little disappointed that I didn't notice this before now.īetween Halo 2 and 3 the Covenant Assault Carriers received a number of design changes. ĭuring the Battle of Installation 05 and the Great Schism, the light carrier Lawgiver assisted Incorruptible during the battle against the Jiralhanae and the Flood. However, the carrier did succeed in deploying 34 dropships to the surface of the planet to initiate an invasion. When the destroyer and the two frigates were destroyed by Captain Jacob Keyes, the carrier retreated until reinforcements arrived. On July 17, 2552, a carrier, escorted by a pair of Covenant frigates and a destroyer, attempted to seize control of the human colony world Sigma Octanus IV. įor a number of years leading up to the Human-Covenant War, several Covenant carriers were served as support ships and some along with "supercarriers" were assigned in the Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity of the defense fleet of High Charity. Operational history Ĭovenant forces have long made use of various carrier classes within their fleets.
As it is less common and more powerful than a Covenant cruiser, it is most likely designed to act as a command ship and provide fighter support during engagements. It is armed with multiple plasma torpedo silos and pulse laser turrets. Measuring 1,455 meters (4,790 ft) in length, it boasts 13 launch bays that contain a total of 300 Seraph fighters, 200 Banshees, and 34 dropships, and is crewed by more than 4,000 Covenant troops. There is also an unidentified model of light carrier. One, the Sublime Transcendence, led the Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose, while another commanded the Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity. Very large and powerful warships rarely documented by the UNSC, like other models of supercarrier they are often used as flagships for Covenant fleets, and may be used by Prophets as their personal command ships. There is also another model of Covenant supercarrier, which has a length of 32,490 meters (106,593 ft).
The Covenant sometimes referred to these classes as "supercarriers" to distinguish them from lighter carrier vessels that filled support roles. There are three main heavy-tonnage carrier classes: the DDS-class carrier, the CAS-class assault carrier, and the CSO-class supercarrier.
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