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| {{Title|''Huygens''-class survey ship}} | | {{Title|''Huygens''-class survey ship}} |
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| |name = ''Huygens''-class | | |name=''Huygens''-class survey ship |
| |image = [[File:HINF Concept Huygens.jpg|300px]] | | |image=[[File:HINF Concept Huygens.jpg|300px]] |
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| |modules = <!--/Individual or /Class sub-modules should be placed here--> | | |manufacturer=[[Aerofabrique SA]]{{Ref/Reuse|Id=CFShippin}} |
| {{Infobox/Ships/Class | | |class=Survey ship{{Ref/Reuse|Id=CFShippin}} |
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| |class identification = | | |length={{Convert|85|m|ft}}{{Ref/Reuse|Id=CFShippin}} |
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| |class in service = [[2499]]-present{{Ref/Reuse|CFShippin}} | | |navigation= |
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| | |era=[[Insurrection]]<br/>[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]<br/>[[Created conflict]] |
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| |type = Survey ship{{Ref/Site|Id=CFShippin|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-shippin-out|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Shippin' Out|D=2|M=02|Y=2022}}
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| The '''''Huygens''-class survey ship''' is a survey ship in [[civilian]] service throughout [[Human colonies|human space]].{{Ref/Reuse|CFShippin}}
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| ==Overview==
| | The '''''Huygens''-class survey ship''' is both a [[civilian]] [[Human starship|ship]] and [[UEG]] ship in use across [[human colonies|human space]].{{Ref/Site|Id=CFShippin|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/news/canon-fodder-shippin-out|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Shippin' Out|D=2|M=02|Y=2022}} |
| ===Design details===
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| The ''Huygens'' is a [[human starship]] in the lower end of the mass range of interstellar spacecraft, measuring just {{Convert|278.9|ft|m|disp=flip}} in length. It maintains a crew of ten, alongside a complement of thirty passangers.{{Ref/Reuse|CFShippin}} | |
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| ===Operational history=== | | ==Service history== |
| The ''Huygens''-class entered service in [[2499]], and became the premier survey ship of the Unified Earth Government{{Ref/Reuse|CFShippin}} - presumably used by the [[UEG Cartographic Corps]] for mapping the expansion of the human colonial sphere. | | The ''Huygens''-class entered service in [[2499]]. Ships of the class were used to survey [[glassing|glassed]] worlds, and to chart [[slipspace]] routes to the known [[Halo Array|Halo rings]]. Later, some of these vessels were pressed into military service following the [[The Reclamation]] to hunt for raiding targets while evading [[Guardian Custode]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=CFShippin}} |
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| In the [[Post-Covenant War conflicts|wake of]] the [[Human-Covenant War]], ships of the class were used to survey [[glassing|glassed]] worlds and to chart [[slipspace]] routes to the known [[Halo Array|Halo rings]]. Some of these vessels were pressed into military service within the [[United Nations Space Command]] following the [[The Reclamation]] to hunt for raiding targets while evading [[Guardian Custode]]s.{{Ref/Reuse|CFShippin}}
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| ==Production notes==
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| The ''Huygens''-class fulfills a broadly similar role to one of the non-canon ideas suggested by [[Isaac Hannaford]] for the {{Class|Gladius|heavy corvette}} during the production of ''[[Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo]]''. When designing the ''Gladius'' for the book, Hannaford envisioned the corvette as a highly versatile platform that could be used in scientific and exploration efforts. Appropriately, many of Hannaford's concept illustrations focused on a non-combat exploration ship, UNSC ''Carl Sagan''.{{Ref/Twitter|Isaac_Hannaford|1437845998861107201|Isaac Hannaford|Quote=This ship in particular was before the missiles and railguns were added....so I imagined it as a science vessel, perhaps decommissioned and repurposed. The Corvette platform is nimble and flexible.|D=27|M=04|Y=2022}} Notably, like the ''Huygens'', the ''Gladius'' is also manufactured in-universe by [[Aerofabrique SA]]—possibly a callback to this origin story.
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| ==Trivia==
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| The ''Huygens''-class survey ship is either named in reference to [[Wikipedia:Christiaan Huygens|Christiaan Huygens]], a [[Wikipedia:Dutch people|Dutch]] astronomer who notably discovered [[Saturn]]'s largest [[Natural satellite|moon]] of [[Titan]], or the [[Wikipedia:Huygens (spacecraft)|''Huygens'' spacecraft]], a space probe named after Christiaan Huygens and was the first spacecraft to land on Titan.
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
| {{Ref/List}} | | {{Ref/List}} |
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| [[Category:Human ships]] | | [[Category:Human ships]] |
| [[Category:UNSC ship classes]]
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