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| {{Ship Class Infobox
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| |name=Covenant battleship
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| |manufacturer=
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| |line=
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| |model=
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| |class=[[Battleship]]
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| |length={{Convert|2000|m|ft|sp=us}}<ref name="fs">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 297''</ref>
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| |width=
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| |height=
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| |mass=
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| |max accel=
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| |max speed space=
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| |max speed air=
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| |engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s
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| |slipspace drive=Equipped
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| |slipspace speed=
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| |poweroutput=
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| |power=
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| |shield gen=
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| |hull=[[Nanolaminate hull plating]]
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| |sensor=
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| |target=
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| |navigation=
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| |avionics=
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| |countermeasures=
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| |armament=*12 [[energy projector]]s<ref name="enc"/>
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| *[[Plasma turret]]s
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| *[[Pulse laser turret]]s
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| |complement=
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| |crew=
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| |skeleton=
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| |passengers=
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| |capacity=
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| |consumables=
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| |othersystems=
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| |firstuse=
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| |firstsight=
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| |role=
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| *Naval engagements
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| *[[Orbital bombardment]]
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| |era=[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| |affiliation=[[Covenant]]
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| }}
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| The '''battleship''' is a heavy [[capital ship|capital warship]] classification used by the [[Covenant]].<ref name="enc">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 276'' (2011 edition)</ref>
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| ==Overview==
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| The battleship is exceptional among Covenant vessels in that it possess twelve [[energy projector]]s, making it one of the best-armed ships within the Covenant fleet. This massive firepower allows the battleship to engage enemy vessels from extreme range and makes it ideal for defending key locations and vessels.<ref name="enc"/> The battleship is two kilometers long (equivalent to the {{Class|RCS|armored cruiser}}) and its hull bears five of the bulbous sections characteristic of Covenant vessels.<ref name="fs"/>
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| ==Service history==
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| Several battleships served in the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] during the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 32''</ref> [[2552#September's anomaly|Weeks later]] several battleships were among the vessels comprising the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s [[Truth's fleet|secret fleet]] gathered at ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. Though these vessels were intended to attacked [[Earth]] without the knowledge or consent of the other [[Hierarchs]], a team of [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs]] sabotaged the platform before the invasion could commence; the battleships, as well as hundreds of other warships, were destroyed along with the station.<ref name="fs"/>
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| ==Trivia==
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| Both editions of the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'' mistakenly refer to the battleship as 200 meters long. This would make the vessel two-thirds the size of the {{Class|CRS|light cruiser}}, the Covenant's smallest known warship.<ref name="enc"/>
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| It is quite possible that the [[Covenant super-destroyer|Covenant super-destroyer]] encountered by [[Preston Cole|Admiral Cole's]] fleet at [[Harvest]] (as depicted in [[Halo Wars: Genesis]] and [[Halo: Evolutions]]) belonged to this class. This is because both vessels are described as being two kilometers long, having five bulbous sections and being armed with multiple energy projectors. This evidence adds credibility to the theory that the "battleship" and the super-destroyer belong to the same class of vessel.
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
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| ==Sources==
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| <references/>
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| {{CovenantShips}}
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