Editing Relic core

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[[File:HWG SuperDestroyer.png|300px|thumb|A ''Rasus''-pattern interdictor's weapon-cores firing their red [[plasma lance]]s at [[Battle Group X-Ray]] during the [[First Battle of Harvest]].]]
'''Relic cores'''{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=220}}, also referred to as '''shrine-cores''',{{Ref/Book|Id=WF65|HWF|Page=65}} are a kind of [[Forerunner]] technology generally used for the purposes of power generation. During its reign, the [[Covenant]]'s relic-hunters and recovery teams located and secured many such cores for repurposing - usually installed into their [[Covenant starship|warships]] to augment (or even replace) the ship's existing [[pinch fusion reactor]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|WF65}} The use of an irreplaceable shrine-core was the only instance in which a Covenant ship may forgo the use of pinch fusion, using cores extracted directly from [[Forerunner starship]]s.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=224}}

The installing of relic cores is a process generally undertaken by [[Huragok]] engineers, as the inner workings of the cores' functions remain little-understood.{{Ref/Reuse|WF65}} The use of such cores was often inefficient and/or unsafe, but the Covenant viewed the recovery and repurposing of such relics as a high honour, and thus endeavoured to make use of them whenever possible.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

Covenant vessels making use of Forerunner technology in their construction may be referred to as "[[Examiner (ship type)|examiners]]". The {{Pattern|Varric|heavy cruiser}} is equipped with an array of shrine-core power plants to provide energy to its control and weapon systems.{{Ref/Reuse|WF65}} In the [[Three-letter ship classification system|three-letter transliteration codes]] used by [[United Nations Space Command]] analysts, vessels equipped with a relic core are given an O letter in the code - designating the vessel as ''Ordained''.{{Ref/Site|Id=CFMoa|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-have-s-moa|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Have S'moa|D=28|M=03|Y=2019}}

The {{Pattern|Rasus|interdictor}} is built around an array of relic cores, referred to as '''weapon-cores''', and used for the purposes of powering the ship's vast array of [[plasma lance]]s. Due to the irreplaceable nature of the cores, these ships are impossible to replicate without a new trove of cores being discovered, meaning that their loss is a significant blow to the Covenant.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=267}}

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