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Template:Ship Class Infobox The CSO-class supercarrier is a powerful Covenant capital warship, primarily designed for command and control duties for fleets, as well as support for occupation forces. Such vessels are typically deployed only during invasions of worlds with high strategic value.[1] It is the largest known Covenant ship seen in the Human-Covenant War.[2][3]
Design
The supercarrier is an extremely large and well-equipped capital ship, easily dwarfing most other Covenant starship classes. The vessel looks nearly identical to the CAS-class assault carrier, sharing the smaller ship's design of several bulbous sections and a hook-like prow. Along with the CAS, the CSO is designated a Class-Five flagship carrier by the UNSC due to its common use at the center of fleets.[1] Despite the ship's enormous size, the CSO is fully capable of concealing both itself and a small escort fleet with active camouflage,[4] a feat which most smaller, more easily concealed Covenant ships are ironically incapable of performing.
Service history
Multiple supercarriers of the Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity defended the Covenant's mobile holy city, High Charity,[5] and one such vessel served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose.[6] During the Fall of Reach the supercarrier Long Night of Solace spearheaded the Covenant invasion of Reach as the flagship of the Fleet of Valiant Prudence, deploying numerous ground assets to the surface of Reach via teleportation spires and destroying the Template:UNSCship.
During Operation: UPPER CUT, Spartan Jorge-052 transported an improvised slipspace bomb toward Long Night of Solace aboard the corvette Ardent Prayer while SPARTAN-B312 locked course with the supercarrier. After SPARTAN-B312 was jettisoned from the hangar, Jorge manually detonated the bomb, destroying both the corvette and the supercarrier at the cost of his own life.[7][8]
Ships of the line
Gallery
- Reach - Supercarrier.png
A render of a supercarrier, dorsal view
A port-side view of a supercarrier's ventral face
The supercarrier Long Night of Solace over Reach
Long Night of Solace being destroyed by a slipspace rift
Visual and scale comparison between a supercarrier and an assault carrier
A view of a supercarrier's ventral suface, showing its darker coloration in contrast to an assault carrier's
Concept art of the supercarrier Long Night of Solace
- Solace Destroyed.jpg
Concept art of the Solace's destruction
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List of appearances
- Halo: First Strike (First appearance)[note 1]
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Halo: Reach
- Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Note
- ^ a b In Halo: First Strike, (both the original and 2010 printings), Ascendant Justice is consistently stated to be three kilometers long. This indicates that Ascendant Justice, despite being considered a supercarrier, is not part of the CSO class. However, the ship's identification as a supercarrier is probably a typographical error; given her length, she is likely a heavily modified assault carrier or part of another, unidentified carrier class.
Sources
- ^ a b Data Drop Four
- ^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 28
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 236
- ^ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedessential - ^ Halo: First Strike, page 338
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, pages 236 - 239
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level Tip of the Spear
- ^ Halo: Reach, campaign level Long Night of Solace
