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| {{Title|''Rasus''-pattern interdictor}} | | {{Era|HCW}} |
| {{Status|Canon}}
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| {{Redirect|Covenant battleship|the larger Covenant sniper vessel|Kewu-pattern battleship}}
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| {{Ship class infobox | | {{Ship class infobox |
| |name=''Rasus''-pattern interdictor | | |name=Covenant super-destroyer |
| |image=[[File:HWG SuperDestroyer.png|300px]] | | |image=[[File:Super-destroyer.jpg|300px]] |
| |manufacturer= | | |manufacturer= |
| |class=[[Battleship]] | | |class=[[Destroyer]] |
| |role= | | |role= |
| |length={{Convert|2000|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | | |length={{Convert|2000|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="he463">'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 463''</ref> |
| |width={{Convert|1000|m|ft|sp=us}}{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} | | |width={{Convert|1000|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="he463"/> |
| |height= | | |height= |
| |mass=90 million tonnes{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | | |mass= |
| |power= | | |power= |
| |engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s | | |engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s |
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| |navigation= | | |navigation= |
| |hull=[[Nanolaminate hull plating]] | | |hull=[[Nanolaminate hull plating]] |
| *Equipped with [[energy shielding]]{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} | | *Equipped with [[energy shielding]]<ref name="he463"/> |
| |armament= | | |armament=*[[Energy projector]]s |
| *12 [[Plasma lance|''Worthy Fire''-pattern relic lances]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc09}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc11}} | | *[[Plasma turret]]s |
| *10 [[Plasma beam emitter|''Luxor''-pattern heavy plasma beams]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | | *[[Pulse laser turret]]s |
| *24 [[Plasma cannon (starship)|''Melusean''-pattern heavy plasma cannons]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
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| *4 [[Plasma torpedo|''Jaet''-pattern plasma torpedo silos]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | |
| *110 [[Pulse laser turret|''Reskuk''-pattern pulse lasers]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
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| |complement= | | |complement= |
| |crew= | | |crew= |
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| |othersystems= | | |othersystems= |
| |era=[[Human-Covenant War]] | | |era=[[Human-Covenant War]] |
| |introduced=[[Age of Doubt|Twenty-Third Age of Doubt]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | | |introduced= |
| |affiliation=[[Covenant]] | | |affiliation=[[Covenant]] |
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| |2=Preston Cole | | |2=Preston Cole |
| |q2=All of them, Lieutenant. | | |q2=All of them, Lieutenant. |
| |3=[[Preston Cole]] and the Chief Weapons officer of {{UNSCShip|Everest}} during the [[Battle of Harvest]]{{Ref/Reuse|Cole}} | | |3=[[Preston Cole]] and the Chief Weapons officer of {{UNSCShip|Everest}} during the [[Battle of Harvest]]<ref name="quote">'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 465''</ref> |
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| 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]].
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| ==Overview== | | The '''Covenant super-destroyer'''<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 471''</ref> is a heavy [[Capital ship|capital]] [[warship]] classification of [[destroyer]] that was in service within the [[Covenant]]'s [[Covenant fleet|fleet]] during the [[Human-Covenant War]]. |
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| ===Design details=== | | ===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}}
| | This [[warship]] is approximately two kilometers long and one kilometer wide.<ref name="he463"/> The super-destroyer is equipped with enough weapons and firepower to destroy most [[United Nations Space Command]] [[fleet]]s from long range. It is larger than most Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the ''CCS''-class battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by the [[Covenant assault carrier]] and [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]]. |
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| 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.
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| ===Armament===
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| The interdictor 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}}
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| ===Defenses===
| | The super-destroyer's hull is composed of five bulbous sections - a swollen prow, two lateral lobes, a dorsal bulb and a protruding stern. The ship itself is a pale shade of purple. It is one of the largest ships in the Covenant fleet, being between a battlecruiser and an assault carrier in size. It is armed with [[energy projector]]s, along with pulse laser turrets and plasma torpedo batteries found on most Covenant warships. |
| 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}}
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| ==Ships of the line==
| | 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 name="gen"/> |
| *''[[Heaven's Brilliant Bier]]''
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| ==Operational history== | | ==Operational history== |
| [[File:HWG BattleGroupDestroyed.png|thumb|250px|''Heaven's Brilliant Bier'' attacks the CMA's Battle Group 4.]]
| | A super-destroyer was encountered by the [[Colonial Military Administration]]'s [[Battlegroup 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>'''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'''</ref> [[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|battlegroup]] before being destroyed by concentrated fire.<ref name="gen">'''Halo Wars: Genesis'''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"</ref> |
| 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}}
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| 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}}
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| ==Production notes== | | ==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.
| | *''[[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]]''. |
| | | *It is possible that the super-destroyer and the [[Covenant battleship]] are synonymous due to their similar structure, size, and armament. |
| ===Errors and inconsistencies===
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| ''[[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]]''. | |
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| 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}}
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| ==Gallery== | | ==Gallery== |
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| <gallery> | | <gallery> |
| File:HWG RasusInterdictor Side.png|''Heaven's Brilliant Bier'' being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces. | | File:Super-destroyer2.jpg|A Covenant super-destroyer being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces. |
| </gallery> | | </gallery> |
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' {{1st}} |
| *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' | | *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]'' |
| *''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''
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| **''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'' | | **''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]'' |
| *''[[Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
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