A Ceudar-pattern corvette using its Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortars to besiege SWORD Base during the First Battle of Sword Base.[1]
- "Corvette over the starport pounded the hell out of the place."
- — Sergeant Marcus Stacker, after a corvette bombarded the New Alexandria Starport[2]
The plasma bombardment mortar is a ship-to-surface plasma weapon system employed by the Covenant.[3] Bombardment mortars are a powerful orbital bombardment system capable of launching an indiscriminate and unrelenting barrage of plasma mortar shells down on an enemy territory and surface targets[4], such as infrastructure and infantry.[5] Within the Covenant fleet, the mortar gunners aboard destroyers were trained to obey their orders without question or mercy, even if those orders resulted in the incidental loss of faithful Covenant warriors in the target area.[3]
Known types
The Covenant maintained several plasma mortar design patterns.
- Carnax Et-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
- Sinaris-pattern heavy destroyer - 40x Carnax Et-pattern plasma bombardment mortars[6][7]
- Wik-pattern light destroyer - 40x Carnax Et-pattern plasma bombardment mortars[6][7]
- Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
- Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette - 16x Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortars[5][8][9]
- Fet-pattern plasma bombardment mortar
- Varric-pattern heavy cruiser - 16x Fet-pattern plasma bombardment mortars[10][11]
List of appearances
- Halo: Reach (First appearance)
Sources
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level ONI: Sword Base
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level Exodus
- ^ a b Halo: Warfleet, page 60-61
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 261
- ^ a b Halo: Reach Official Strategy Guide, page 440: Legendary Edition
- ^ a b Halo: Warfleet, page 60-61
- ^ a b Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 266-267
- ^ Halo: Warfleet, page 76-77
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 268-269
- ^ Halo: Warfleet, page 64-65
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 264-265