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| {{Title|UNSC ''Minotaur''}}
| | ==Summary== |
| {{Status|Canon}}
| | The '''''UNSC Minotaur''''' was a [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Destroyer|destroyer]]. The ''Minoutar'' was stationed at the planet [[Reach]] in August 2552 when 314 [[Covenant]] vessels attacked. During the ensuing [[The Battle of Reach|battle]], the ''Minoutar'' was destroyed by a Covenant [[Flagship]]. The Covenant ship fired a needle-thin lance of energy at the ''Minoutar'', which struck it on A deck, aft. The beam went through both sets of Titanium-A Battleplate, every deck, and the ship's reactor, exiting through H deck by the engines. The beam cut a ten-meter wide swath through the vessel, destroying it completely. the beam in question fired by a sort of covenant charged pulse laser; the weapon was mounted on a covenant flagship. Only two have yet been encountered, one of which was destroyed by the [[Iroqouis]], the other was captured by The Master Chief, Warrant Officer Polaski, Corporal Locklear, Sergeant Johnson, Cortana, and Lieutenant Haverson after the destruction of Installation 04.<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], page 298 and 320</ref>. |
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| |class=Destroyer
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| |slipspace drive=[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
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| |hull=Two meters of [[Titanium-A armor|Titanium-A battleplate]]
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| |armament=*Two [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]]s<ref name="weapon">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 139''</ref>
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| *Twenty-six [[Archer Missile]] pods{{Ref/Reuse|weapon}}
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| *Three [[Shiva-class nuclear missile]]s{{Ref/Reuse|weapon}}
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| |destroyed=[[2552#August|August 30, 2552]]
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| The '''UNSC ''Minotaur''''' was a [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] that served during the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552]].
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| ==Fall of Reach== | | ==Sources== |
| During the invasion of [[Reach]], a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] ship fired an [[energy projector]] beam at the ''Minotaur's'' aft end. The beam burned a ten-meter whide hole through the ship, piercing ''A'' deck, destroying the reactor, and exiting on ''H'' deck near the engines. The ''Minotaur'' was completely cut in half within seconds.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 298''</ref><ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 320''</ref>
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| ==Trivia==
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| *The ''Minotaur'' is likely named in reference to the [[wikipedia:Minotaur|mythological creature of the same name]]. The Minotaur was a half-man, half-bull creature that lived in the labyrinth beneath the palace of the king of Crete and devoured anyone who entered its lair.
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
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| | [[Category: UNSC]] |
| [[Category:Destroyers]] | | [[Category: Star Ships|Minoutar]] |
| [[Category:UNSC ships]] | |
