Covenant destroyer: Difference between revisions

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|manufacturer=[[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]

*Super-destroyer

|length={{Convert|647|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="FoR">'''''Halo: The Fall of Reach''''', ''page 146''</ref> or {{Convert|1500|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="ENC">'''''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''''' - ''Chapter nine: Transport'', page 270</ref>

|width=1,350 metres (4,429 ft)<ref name="essential">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 48''</ref>  

|engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s

|shield gen=Resistant to one [[plasma turret|plasma torpedo]] or two [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] rounds or one [[energy projector]] hit.

|hull=Resistant to one plasma torpedo or one MAC round.

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|complement=*[[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraph fighters]]

*[[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirit dropships]]

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|era=[[Human-Covenant War]]

|affiliation=Covenant Navy

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Two types of Covenant ships classified as destroyers have been encountered. Destroyers with a length of {{Convert|1500|m|ft|sp=us}} were seen in various battles early in the [[Human-Covenant War]],<ref>''Halo Wars''</ref><ref>''Halo Wars: Genesis''</ref> while a destroyer with a length of approximately {{Convert|647|m|ft|sp=us}} was present during the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552#July|July 2552]].<ref name="FoR"/>

The destroyer is very well armed, boasting multiple point-defense [[pulse laser turret]]s, [[plasma turret]]s, a single [[energy projector]], and a full complement of [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraph fighters]]. The destroyer's weapons are so potent that [[UNSC Navy]] [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]] remarked that they turn UNSC ships into "Swiss cheese".<ref>'''''Halo: The Fall of Reach''''', ''page 145''</ref>

This warship classification features the distinctive three-sectioned design of most heavier Covenant warships, mirroring the deadliness of its larger counterparts. Destroyers are often used as escorts for [[Covenant fleet|fleets]] or [[Task force|task forces]] and are able to hold their own in combat, while protecting more valuable ships from enemy threats.

There are two known classes of destroyers, the [[CPV-class heavy destroyer]] and the RPV-class light destroyer. The CPV-class may be one of the aforementioned destroyer types, probably the larger. A destroyer of an even larger subclassification, a [[Covenant super-destroyer|super-destroyer]], was fielded during the [[Second Battle of Harvest]] on [[2526#March|March 1, 2526]].<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''': "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 471''</ref>

 

==Destroyer Classifications==

 

*[[Covenant super-destroyer|Super-destroyer]]

*[[CPV-class heavy destroyer]]

*[[RPV-class light destroyer]]

 

==Known Covenant destroyers==

{{Covenant Destroyers}}

<gallery widths="150">

File:HW genis back cover.png|Three Covenant destroyers [[glassing]] [[Harvest]] on the back cover of ''Halo Wars: Genesis''.

File:Origins Destroyer.png|A Covenant destroyer as seen in ''Origins''.

*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''

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[[Category:Covenant Ships]]