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| {{Ship Class Infobox
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| |image=[[File:Super-destroyer.jpg|300px]]
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| |name=Covenant super-destroyer
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| |manufacturer=Covenant
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| |model=
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| |class=[[Destroyer]]
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| |length=Approximately {{Convert|2000|m|ft|sp=us}}
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| |engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s
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| |slipspace drive=Equipped
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| |slipspace speed=Unknown
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| |shield gen= Yes
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| |hull= Unknown Covenant alloy
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| *Equipped with energy shields
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| |armament=*[[Energy projector]]s
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| *[[Plasma turret]]s
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| *[[Pulse laser turret]]s
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| |firstsight=[[2525]] - [[First Battle of Harvest]]
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| |era=[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| |affiliation=Covenant Empire
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| {{Quote|How many of the Archers, sir? How many Shivas?|Chief Weapons officer of the UNSC ''Everest''}}
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| {{Quote|All of them, Lieutenant.|Admiral Preston Cole during the [[Second Battle of Harvest]].<ref name="quote">'''Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe''', ''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole'', page 465</ref>}}
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| The '''Covenant super-destroyer'''<ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", ''page 471''</ref> is a heavy [[Capital ship|capital warship]] classification within the [[Covenant Navy]].
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| A super-destroyer was encountered by the [[Colonial Military Administration]]'s [[Battlegroup 4]] during its [[First Battle of Harvest#UNSC investigation|investigation of]] [[Harvest]] in [[2525#July|July 2525]]; the CMA [[UNSC frigate|frigates]] [[CMA Arabia|''Arabia'']] and [[CMA Vostok|''Vostok'']] were destroyed after a minute-long skirmish, while the [[UNSC destroyer|destroyer]] [[CMA Heracles|''Heracles'']] was heavily damaged and was forced to retreat.<ref>'''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'''</ref> [[Vice Admiral]] [[Preston Cole]]'s forces later encountered the same vessel during the [[Second Battle of Harvest]] in [[2526#March|March 2526]]. It single-handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's [[battle Group X-Ray|battlegroup]] before being destroyed by concentrated fire.<ref name="gen">'''Halo Wars: Genesis'''</ref><ref>'''Halo: Evolutions''', "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole"</ref>
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| So far, super-destroyers have only been encountered in operations taking place primarily in vacuum, such as the Second Battle of Harvest, as opposed to planetary defense missions. This may mean that it is designed specifically for ship-to-ship combat, unlike {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}}s and [[Covenant destroyer|destroyers]], which are also used for [[glassing]] operations.
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| ==Design details==
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| This warship is approximately two kilometers long and is equipped with enough weapons and firepower to destroy most [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] fleets from long range. It is larger than most Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the ''CCS''-class battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by the [[Covenant assault carrier]] and [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]].
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| The super-destroyer'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 an assault carrier in size. It is armed with [[energy projector]]s, 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 its large number of weapons, the ship 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 occurred when the twenty-seven ships left in Cole's fleet were able to destroy one.<ref name="gen"/>
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| ==Production note==
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| The quasi-canonical ''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp]]'' replaces the super-destroyer encountered at Harvest with the cruiser ''[[Rapid Conversion]]''.
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo Wars: Genesis]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| **''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| File:Super-destroyer2.jpg|A Covenant super-destroyer 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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