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| {{Ship
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| |image=[[Image:SuperCarrier3j.jpg|300px]]
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| |name=Covenant Battleship
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| |manufacturer=[[Covenant]]
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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}}<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', page 264</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 Engines]]
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| |slipspace drive=equipped
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| |slipspace speed=Unknown
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| |poweroutput=
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| |power=
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| |shield gen= Yes
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| |hull= Unknown Covenant alloy
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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=*[[Energy projector]]s (12) <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', page 301: "''...there were even bigger vessels with five bulbous sections that were two kilometers stem to stern and had a dozen deadly energy projectors''"</ref>
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| *[[Plasma turret (starship)|Plasma turrets]]
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| *[[Pulse laser turret]]s
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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=[[2525]] - [[Second Battle of Harvest]]
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| |role=Naval Engagements, [[Orbital bombardment]]
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| |era=[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| |affiliation=[[Covenant Empire]]
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| }}
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| The '''Covenant battleship'''<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', page 32</ref> is a heavy [[Capital Ship|capital warship]] classification within the [[Covenant Navy]]. This warship is approximately two kilometers long and is equipped with 12 [[Energy Projector]]s - enough weapons and firepower to decimate any [[UNSC]] [[Fleet]] from long range. It is larger than most [[Covenant]] [[warship]]s, even surpassing the keel length of the {{Class|CCS|Battlecruiser}}, but itself is dwarfed by the Covenant [[Assault Carrier]].
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| ==Background==
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| Multiple battleships defended the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. {{citation needed}}
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| A battleship was encountered by the {{UNSCShip|Heracles}}, {{UNSCShip|Vostok}}, and {{UNSCShip|Arabia}} as well as the forces under [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]] in the [[Second Battle of Harvest]]. It single handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's fleet before being destroyed by concentrated fire.<ref name="gen">'''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'''</ref><ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe|Halo: Evolutions]]''', ''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''</ref>
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| So far, battleships have been encountered in strictly space-based combat areas (around Covenant space stations and in Harvest's orbit). This may mean that it is designed specifically for ship-to-ship combat, as opposed to [[CCS-class Battlecruisers]] and [[Covenant destroyer|destroyers]], which are also used for glassing operations.
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| ==Appearance==
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| The battleship's hull is composed of five bulbous sections - a swollen prow, two lateral lobes, a dorsal bulb and a protruding stern. The ship itself is a pale shade of purple. It is one of the largest ships in the Covenant fleet, being between a Battlecruiser and Assault Carrier in size. It is armed with 12 energy projectors, which is unprecedented on a Covenant ship of its size, along with pulse laser turrets and plasma torpedo batteries found on most Covenant warships.
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| Though most of its power is likely used up by the large number of energy projectors it uses in battle, the ship still can project a shield strong enough to protect it from multiple nuclear missiles and [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] rounds. However, the shield and hull will buckle under concentrated fire as shown when the 27 ships left in Cole's fleet were able to destroy one.<ref name="gen"/>
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| *''[[Halo Legends]]''
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| **''[[The Duel]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]''
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery widths="120" orientation="landscape">
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| File:SuperCarrier1.jpg|A Covenant Battleship being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces.
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| </gallery>
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| ==Sources==
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| <references/>
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| {{CovenantShips}}
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