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The '''Type-28 boarding craft'''<ref name="VIS">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'''</ref> is a [[Covenant]] ship specifically designed for [[boarding]] an enemy vessel.<ref name="cairo">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Cairo Station]]''</ref>
The '''Type-28 Intrusion Vehicle''', also known as the '''Type-28 boarding craft'''<ref name="VIS">'''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'''</ref> or simply the '''Tick''', is a [[Covenant]] ship specifically designed for [[boarding]] an enemy vessel.<ref name="cairo">'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Cairo Station]]''</ref>


==Overview==
==Overview==

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Type-28 Intrusion Vehicle
A cropped screenshot of the R'sisho-pattern Tick boarding craft on the level Cairo Station.
Production information

Manufacturer:

Assembly Forges[1]

Role:

Boarding craft[1]

Technical specifications

Length:

20.5 metres (67.3 ft)[1]

Width:

23.1 metres (75.8 ft)[1]

Height:

9.5 metres (31.2 ft)[1]

Engine(s):

Impulse drives[1]

Chronological and affiliation

Era:

Human-Covenant War

Affiliation:

Covenant

 

The Type-28 Intrusion Vehicle, also known as the Type-28 boarding craft[2] or simply the Tick, is a Covenant ship specifically designed for boarding an enemy vessel.[3]

Overview

The Covenant, although their ships are fully capable of reducing most UNSC vessels to heaps of molten slag in a matter of minutes, have also shown a desire to board and hopefully capture a human vessel, in hopes of capturing valuable information from their computers. Thus far, they have done so by using boarding craft. This has only been done a couple of times, at 23 Librae and on the Pillar of Autumn. Infantry are deployed into the heart of a vessel for purposes the UNSC can only speculate. Suggestions and evidence collated so far for motivations have been:

  • To collect information/specifications of UNSC military equipment, vehicles, weapons, etc.
  • To capture key members of the vessels crew and thus unlock classified UNSC intelligence including the location of Earth.
  • To destroy or capture a shipboard AI.
  • To destroy the vessel from within (such as the Athens Station and Malta Station Orbital Defense Platforms during the Battle of Earth).

Operation

When a UNSC ship is being attacked by Covenant forces, if the Covenant determine that the ship holds valuable navigational data, AIs, or other materials, the Covenant may attempt a boarding operation. In such a situation, the boarding craft is used. So far, the Covenant have proved highly intelligent in their entry points, having burnt holes through hangar bay windows or used the empty UNSC escape pod docking rings to board a vessel.[4]

The boarding craft is a reusable vessel and are able to leave the UNSC ship and return to a nearby cruiser should the need to retreat occur. When the craft boards via windows it seems to use the outer edge of the boarding tube to superheat the glass, thus the glass does not shatter.[3]

Types of boarding craft

Boarding craft are first encountered in Halo: Combat Evolved, used by the Covenant to board the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. These craft were only viewed partially and internally with only the boarding tube being accessible and the cockpit being off-limits behind a locked door. These vessels usually carried a compliment of up to 8-10 Covenant warriors, usually Unggoy and Sangheili.

Boarding craft were also responsible for the destruction of the ODPs Athens and Malta stations. Unlike in Halo: Combat Evolved, these boarding craft could be clearly seen through the station's windows. The craft used a long boarding tube to penetrate the windows of the station. The entrance/exit to the boarding tube was covered with an impenetrable energy shield that only allowed their considerable complement of Covenant soldiers out. The boarding tube seemed to function on a similar basis to the gravity conveyors found in the Covenant holy city High Charity. The tube, once deployed, had a superheated rim to melt glass instead of shattering it, therefore cooling down so air cannot escape.[3]

Halo: Fleet Battles

Covenant Type-28 Boarding Craft

  • Flight slots: 0
  • Movement: 12"
  • Damage track: 4
  • Security detail: 2
  • Systems loadout: Heroic save (Trooper)

Trivia

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  • In Halo: Combat Evolved, they contained two Overshield power ups in the far corners of the pods, probably put there for the use of any Sangheili in need of assistance that were on board.
  • In Halo 2, players cannot enter the boarding craft even when the shields for the entrance are turned off.

Gallery

  • The interior of a Covenant boarding craft in Halo: Combat Evolved.

    The interior of a Covenant boarding craft in Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • A group of Covenant soldiers prepare to board the Pillar of Autumn in Halo: Combat Evolved.

    A group of Covenant soldiers prepare to board the Pillar of Autumn in Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • A Covenant boarding craft in Halo 2.

    A Covenant boarding craft in Halo 2.

  • The interior of a Covenant boarding craft in Halo 2.

    The interior of a Covenant boarding craft in Halo 2.

  • A Covenant boarding craft attached to Cairo Station in Halo 2.

    A Covenant boarding craft attached to Cairo Station in Halo 2.

  • An in-game profile view of the Covenant boarding craft with docking tube extended in Halo 2.

    An in-game profile view of the Covenant boarding craft with docking tube extended in Halo 2.

  • Another in-game preview of the Covenant boarding craft with docking tube retracted in Halo 2.

    Another in-game preview of the Covenant boarding craft with docking tube retracted in Halo 2.

  • In-game preview of the back end of the Covenant boarding craft.

    In-game preview of the back end of the Covenant boarding craft.

  • Concept art of the boarding craft in Halo 2: Anniversary.

    Concept art of the boarding craft in Halo 2: Anniversary.

  • A Covenant boarding craft attached to Cairo Station in Halo 2: Anniversary.

    A Covenant boarding craft attached to Cairo Station in Halo 2: Anniversary.

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e f Halo Waypoint: Tick
  2. ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide
  3. ^ a b c Halo 2, campaign level Cairo Station
  4. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Pillar of Autumn

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