Editing Rasus-pattern interdictor

{{Title|''Rasus''-pattern interdictor}}
{{Status|Canon}}
{{Redirect|Covenant battleship|the larger Covenant sniper vessel|Kewu-pattern battleship}}
{{Ship class infobox
|name=''Rasus''-pattern interdictor
|image=[[File:HWG SuperDestroyer.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=
|class=[[Battleship]]
|role=
|length={{Convert|2000|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|width={{Convert|1000|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}}
|height=
|mass=90 million tonnes{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|power=
|engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s
|slipspace drive=Equipped
|navigation=
|hull=[[Nanolaminate hull plating]]
*Equipped with [[energy shielding]]{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}}
|armament=
*12 [[Plasma lance|''Worthy Fire''-pattern relic lances]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc09}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc11}}
*10 [[Plasma beam emitter|''Luxor''-pattern heavy plasma beams]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*24 [[Plasma cannon (starship)|''Melusean''-pattern heavy plasma cannons]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*4 [[Plasma torpedo|''Jaet''-pattern plasma torpedo silos]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*110 [[Pulse laser turret|''Reskuk''-pattern pulse lasers]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|complement=
|crew=
|passengers=
|othersystems=
|era=[[Human-Covenant War]]
|introduced=[[Age of Doubt|Twenty-Third Age of Doubt]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|affiliation=[[Covenant]]
}}
{{Quote|no=two
|1=Chief Weapons officer
|q1=How many of the Archers, sir? How many Shivas?
|2=Preston Cole
|q2=All of them, Lieutenant.
|3=[[Preston Cole]] and the Chief Weapons officer of {{UNSCShip|Everest}} during the [[Battle of Harvest]]{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}}
}}
The '''''Rasus''-pattern interdictor'''{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=267}}, nicknamed the '''"Covenant battleship"'''{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc09|Enc09|Page=264}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc11|Enc11|Page=276}} and '''"Covenant super-destroyer"'''{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} by [[human]]ity, was a type of [[Covenant]] [[warship]] that was in service within the Covenant's [[Covenant fleet|fleet]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]]. 

==Overview==
===Design details===
The ''Rasus''-pattern interdictor is approximately two kilometers long and one kilometer wide.{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} It is larger than many Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the ''Ket''-pattern battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by other starships such as [[Covenant carrier]]s. The super-destroyer's hull is composed of five bulbous sections - a swollen prow, two lateral lobes, a dorsal bulb and a protruding stern - presumably housing the array of ancient and puissant [[Forerunner]] [[weapon-core]]s that the ship is built around. The loss of any of these ships was considered a tragic event, with a super-destroyer impossible to replicate without finding an appropriate new trove of weapon-cores.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

Given the ship's Forerunner-derived armaments, its classification as an "interdictor" may be based on the [[Ecumene]] [[Forerunner fleet|navy's]] own [[interdictor]] ships.

===Armament===
The super-destroyer is equipped with enough weapons and firepower to destroy most [[United Nations Space Command]] [[fleet]]s from long range. Considered a mobile altar of wrath, the ship is one of the most heavily-outfitted warships in the Covenant arsenal. It boasts enough firepower to take on dozens of enemy ships at once, with twelve [[Plasma lance|''Worthy Fire''-pattern plasma lances]], ten [[Plasma beam emitter|''Luxor''-pattern heavy plasma beams]], twenty-four [[Plasma cannon (starship)|''Melusean''-pattern heavy plasma cannons]] and four [[Plasma torpedo|''Jaet''-pattern plasma torpedo silos]] forming the core of its anti-starship armament.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} 

===Defenses===
Alongside the aforementioned weapons complement, the ''Rasus'' is outfitted with a considerable [[Point-defense gun|point-defense]] of 124 [[Pulse laser turret|''Reskuk''-pattern pulse laser turrets]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} Though most of its power is likely used up by its large number of weapons, the ship can project a shield strong enough to protect it from multiple nuclear missiles and [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]] (MAC) rounds. However, the shield and hull will buckle under concentrated fire, as occurred when the twenty-seven ships left in Cole's fleet were able to destroy one.{{Ref/Reuse|gen}}

==Ships of the line==
*''[[Heaven's Brilliant Bier]]''

==Operational history==
[[File:HWG BattleGroupDestroyed.png|thumb|250px|''Heaven's Brilliant Bier'' attacks the CMA's Battle Group 4.]]
The interdictor ''[[Heaven's Brilliant Bier]]'' was encountered by the [[Colonial Military Authority]]'s [[Battle Group 4]] during its [[First Battle of Harvest#UNSC investigation|investigation of]] [[Harvest]] in [[2525#July|July 2525]]; the CMA [[UNSC frigate|frigates]] [[CMA Arabia|''Arabia'']] and [[CMA Vostok|''Vostok'']] were destroyed after a minute-long skirmish, while the [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] [[CMA Heracles|''Heracles'']] was heavily damaged and was forced to retreat.{{Ref/Comic|FoRBC}} [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]]'s forces later encountered the same vessel during the [[Second Battle of Harvest]] in [[2526#March|March 2526]]. It single-handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's [[Battle Group X-Ray|battle group]] before being destroyed by concentrated fire.{{Ref/Comic|Id=gen|HWG}}{{Ref/Anthology|Id=Cole|Evo|The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole}}

Several interdictors served in the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] during the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]].{{Ref/Novel|HFS|Chapter=1}} [[2552#September's anomaly|Weeks later]], several battleships were among the vessels comprising the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s [[Truth's fleet|secret fleet]] gathered at ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. Though these vessels were intended to attack [[Earth]] without the knowledge or consent of the other [[Hierarchs]], a team of [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs]] sabotaged the platform before the invasion could commence; the battleships, as well as hundreds of other warships, were destroyed along with the station.{{Ref/Novel|Id=FS32|HFS|Chapter=32}}

==Production notes==
For the longest time, the "Covenant super-destroyer" as described in ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'' and the "Covenant battleship" as described in ''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' were considered to be two separate ship classifications, with no source explicitly tying the two together. The [[2022]] release of the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Halo Encyclopedia]]'' explicitly provided the name and statistics for the "super-destroyer" as almost identical to those described in ''First Strike'' - which included a ship two kilometres long and equipped with a dozen energy projectors.{{Ref/Reuse|FS32}} The ''Rasus''{{'}} encyclopedia-given stats match this description accurately, effectively confirming that the two ship classifications were one and the same.

===Errors and inconsistencies===
''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'' and ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]'' replace the super-destroyer encountered at Harvest with the cruiser ''[[Rapid Conversion]]''.

In the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'' and its [[Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition)|2011 reprint]], the "Covenant battleship" is erroneously listed as having a length of {{Convert|656|ft|m|sp=us}}.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc09}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc11}}

==Gallery==
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File:HWG RasusInterdictor Side.jpg|''Heaven's Brilliant Bier'' being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces.
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' 
*''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''
**''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''
*''[[Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}

{{Covenant Ships}}

[[Category:Covenant ship classes|super-destroyer]]
[[Category:Battleship classes]]