Poseidon-class light carrier: Difference between revisions

{{Ship Class Infobox

|name=''Poseidon''-class light carrier

|image=[[File:Dakota_1.jpg|275px|A ship of this class participating in the Battle of Earth of 2557.]]

|manufacturer=[[United Nations Space Command]]

|class=[[Capital ship]]

|role=

|length={{Convert|2359|ft|m|sp=us|disp=flip|sigfig=3.5}}<ref name="Bulletin">[https://blogs.halowaypoint.com/en-us/blogs/headlines/posts/the-halo-bulletin-5-14-14 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''The Halo Bulletin 5.14.14'']</ref>

|width=

|height=

|engine=1 engine<ref>Visual inspection during [[Midnight]] shows only 1 engine</ref>

|slipspace drive= Presumably equipped

|hull=[[Titanium-A armor|Titanium-A battle plate]]

|armament=*[[Point defense gun|Point-defense cannons]]

|complement=

|era = [[Reclamation conflict]]

|affiliation = [[UNSC Navy]]

The '''''Poseidon''-class light carrier''' is a [[capital ship|capital warship]] class in service with the [[UNSC Navy]] in the post-[[Human-Covenant War|Covenant War]] years.<ref name="Bulletin"/>

==Specifications==

===Design details===

This class of ship is sleek, elongated and somewhat cylindrical in general shape. It consists of two major sections covered with white plating; in the fore section, the plating mostly covers the vessel's dorsal surface. This plating is absent on most of the underside of the ship and in a spar connecting the two main sections. A series of rectangular blue lights are arranged in the sections lacking the white plating.<ref name="midnight">'''Halo 4''', campaign level, ''[[Midnight]]''</ref>

==Service history==

Several ships of this class were part of [[Battlegroup Dakota]] alongside a number of {{Class|Vindication|light battleship}}s and {{Class|Strident|heavy frigate}}s and attacked the ''[[Mantle's Approach]]'' during the [[Ur-Didact|Didact]]'s [[Battle of Earth (2557)|attack on Earth]] in [[2557]].<ref name="midnight"/>

==Behind the scenes==

*Several ''Poseidon''-class light carriers appear in the background of the ''Halo 4'' level ''Midnight''; given their nature they are intended to be seen only from a considerable distance. However, exploiting a [[Midnight Vacation|glitch]] allows the player to examine these vessels up close, along with a number of {{Class|Vindication|light battleship}}s and {{Class|Strident|heavy frigate}}s. Because these ships are intended to appear only as scenery, they are rendered as brushes rather than level geometry; as such, the player can fly the Broadsword through them without harm. By the same merit the ships' in-game models are not to scale with their canonical incarnations.<ref name="Bulletin"/>

*The ''Poseidon''-class carrier and ''Vindication''-class battleship were to be featured in ''[[Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide]]'' but were cut due to space constraints.<ref name="Bulletin"/>

File:Concept art Infinity and sub-vessels.jpg|The vessel depicted in concept art of the {{UNSCship|Infinity}}.

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