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{{Status|Canon}}
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{{Title|''Springhill''-class mining ship}}
{{Title|''Springhill''-class mining ship}}
{{Infobox/Ships
{{Ship Class Infobox
|name           = ''Springhill''-class
|name=''Springhill''-class mining ship
|image           = [[File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-03.jpg|300px]]
|image=[[File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-03.jpg|300px]]
|caption        = CAA ''Heavy Burden'', as depicted in a [[War Games]] simulation.
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|class=Mining ship
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|role=Mining/ore transport
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|class identification = [[Hull classification symbol]]: '''CFM'''{{Ref/Reuse|adrift}}
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|class operator      = [[Colonial Administration Authority]]
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|engine=[[Fusion drive]]
|class built          = <!--How many ships of this class were constructed-->
|slipspace drive=[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
|class in service    = [[Human-Covenant War]]
|navigation=[[Navigation computer]]
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|armament=None
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|era=*[[Insurrection]]
*[[Human-Covenant War]]
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|affiliation=*[[Colonial Administration Authority]]
*[[United Nations Space Command]]
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|maneuver drive  = [[Fusion drive]]s (2 primary, 2 secondary)
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The '''''Springhill''-class mining ship''' ([[hull classification symbol]]: '''CFM'''){{Ref/Reuse|adrift}} is a type of [[human]] [[civilian]] starship, predominantly used for mining and transporting resources between worlds.{{Ref/Book|Id=evg208|H4EVG|Page=208}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=132}} Select vessels of the class are utilised by military forces like the [[United Nations Space Command]] and refit as wartime ordnance transports; these ships may be referred to instead as '''''Springhill''-class transports''', {{Ref/Book|H4EVG|Page=231}} though it is unclear whether this is simply an alternate nomenclature or a deliberate subclassification of ship.


==Overview==
The '''''Springhill''-class mining ship'''<ref>'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 208''</ref> is an old mining vessel class that hails from the [[Unified Earth Government]]'s colonial period.<ref>'''[[Halo 4: Official Game Guide]] Collector's Edition''', ''page 324''</ref>
 
==Specifications==
===Design details===
===Design details===
The ''Springhill''-class of vessel has an overall broadly flat structure, with two rows of seven cylindrical pods lining the central axis of the ship. The aft has a large [[bridge]] tower which rises up and over the vessel, with a domineering view of the dorsal surface. The vessel has four [[fusion drive]]s mounted on the aft of the vessel; two primary and two secondary.{{Ref/Map|Id=adrift|H4|Adrift}}
These mining ships were already considered ancient by the beginning of the [[Human-Covenant War]], these vessels which was originally used for mining gaseous materials from nearby gas clouds or gas giants by skimming the planet's surface for processing.
 
However, by the time of the Human-Covenant War, resource constraints and/or desperation has forced some, like the [[CAA Heavy Burden]] into being repurposed as a construction and ordnance transport ship; housing the [[HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark II (D) armor system]] in the process.<ref name="IGN"/><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcQWCGpcPAo&feature=related ''Halo 4 Full Gameplay Match on Adrift - Infinity Slayer'']</ref><ref name="venture">[http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/05/11-things-learned-about-halo-4/2/ '''VentureBeat''': ''11 new things we've learned about Halo 4 (with video)'']</ref>


On select vessels of the class chosen by the UNSC for refit as ordnance transport ships, two towering docking rigs are installed with one on both the port and starboard sides.{{Ref/Reuse|evg208}} The docking rigs are large enough to house a [[HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark II (D) Geyrion]] in a UNSC retrofit of the class.{{Ref/Reuse|adrift}}


==Ships of the line==
==Ships of the line==
*{{CAAShip|Heavy Burden}} (CFM-88) - Repurposed by the UNSC as an ordnance transport during the [[Human-Covenant War]].
*[[CAA Heavy Burden|CAA ''Heavy Burden'' (CFM-88)]] - Repurposed by the [[United Nations Space Command]] as an ordnance transport during the [[Human-Covenant War]].
 
==Service history==
''Springhill''s are an older classification of vessel, and retain a strong presence across [[Human colonies|human space]] even despite the emergence of newer and more vessels such as the {{Class|Aestuum|mining ship|}}.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} They are operated by various mining corporations{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} alongside the [[Colonial Administration Authority]] (CAA); these display a CAA ship prefix.{{Ref/Reuse|evg208}}
 
During the [[Human-Covenant War]], ''Springhill''s were commandeered by the UNSC and retrofit as ordnance transport ships. One such example, {{CAAShip|Heavy Burden}}, would retain its CAA prefix even despite its conversion to a wartime logistics ship. The ''Springhill''-class mining ships saw extensive use during the early Human-Covenant War, though the ''Heavy Burden'' served until the [[Battle of Kholo]] in [[2539]]. The ship was later the subject of a [[War Games]] map simulation.{{Ref/Reuse|evg208}}


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
===Concept art===
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:H4_CAAHeavyBurden_Rear_Concept.png|Concept art of the mining ship.
File:H4_CAAHeavyBurden_Rear_Concept.png|Concept art of the mining ship.
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File:H4_Adrift_LoadingBay_Concept.jpg|Concept art of a lone soldier in Loading Bay 04-A7.
File:H4_Adrift_LoadingBay_Concept.jpg|Concept art of a lone soldier in Loading Bay 04-A7.
File:H4_Adrift_MiningPlatform_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the ship's industrial lattices.
File:H4_Adrift_MiningPlatform_Concept.jpg|Concept art of the ship's industrial lattices.
</gallery>
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-Rear.jpg|External rear view of the mining ship's engines in Adrift.
 
===Screenshots===
<gallery>
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-Rear.jpg|External rear view of the mining ship's engines.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-01.jpg|Another external rear view of the vessel.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-01.jpg|Another external rear view of the vessel.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-02.jpg|Port side view of the mining ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-02.jpg|Port side view of the mining ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-04.jpg|Another view of the ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-04.jpg|Another view of the ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-05.jpg|View of the large, main structure of the ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-05.jpg|View of what is assumed to be the mining vessel's command bridge.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-06.jpg|A row of cylindrical pods on the ship's dorsal surface.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-06.jpg|A row of cylindrical storage pods on the ship's dorsal surface.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-Schematics.jpg|Schematics of the ship.
File:H4-MP-CFM88-MiningShip-Schematics.jpg|Schematics of the ship.
</gallery>
</gallery>
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==Sources==
==Sources==
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{{Human Ships}}


{{Human civilian ships}}
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[[Category:Ship classes]]
[[Category:Ship classes]]

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