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|length={{Convert| | |length={{Convert|3000|m|ft}}<ref name="visual">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 28''</ref> | ||
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|armament=*[[Pulse laser turret]]s | |armament=*[[Pulse laser turret]]s | ||
*[[Plasma turret]]s (2+) | *[[Plasma turret]]s (2+) | ||
|complement=*100+ [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraphs]] <ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 305''</ref> | |complement=*100+ [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraphs]]<ref name="ghost">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 305''</ref> | ||
*200+ [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] | *200+ [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] | ||
*34 [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirits]] or [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantoms]] | *34 [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirits]] or [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantoms]] | ||
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|role=*Troop deployment | |role=*Troop deployment | ||
* | *Occupation support. | ||
|era=[[Human-Covenant War]], [[Great Schism|Covenant Civil War]] | |era=[[Human-Covenant War]], [[Great Schism|Covenant Civil War]] | ||
|affiliation=[[Covenant Navy]] | |affiliation=[[Covenant Navy]] | ||
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The ''' | The '''DDS-class Carrier'''<ref name="visual"/><ref>[[Halopedia:Covenant Ship Classification Canon Debate|Covenant Ship Classification Halopedia Canon]]</ref> is a heavy [[warship]] within the [[Covenant Navy]] and serves as force deployment and occupation warship.<ref name="visual"/> | ||
== | ==Background== | ||
The DDS-class carrier unlike the larger and more powerful assault carrier, is a less frequent but powerful warship within the Covenant Navy. The primary role of the DDS-class carrier is to support fleet actions in space, or as a infantry deployment platform; the DDS-class carrier has three bulbous sections; its swollen center boasts a total of thirteen launch bays on both sides of the ship.<ref name="FoR">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach|The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 146'', ''page 171'' (2010 edition)</ref>. It is used for command and control of large numbers of deployment waves of fighters, dropships, and interceptors.<ref name="visual"/> | |||
==Operational history== | |||
For a number of years leading up to the Human-Covenant war the DDS-class carrier served as a support ship in and around the [[High Charity Defense Fleet]]. In 2552 a DDS-class carrier being escorted by a pair of enemy frigates and a destroyer, attempted to seize control of the human colony world [[Sigma Octanus IV]]. When the destroyer and the two frigates were destroyed by Captain [[Jacob Keyes]] the carrier retreated until reinforcements arrived.<ref name="FoR"/> A short month later multiple DDS-class carriers participated in the invasion of Reach and subsequent destruction of the planet. During the battle of installation 05, the DDS-class carrier Lawgiver assisted the Incorruptible during the battle against the [[Jiralhanae]] and the [[Flood]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 193'', ''page 195''</ref> A DDS-class carrier would also go on assist the Covenant in the [[Battle of Onyx]] later that month.<ref name="ghost"/> | |||
==Complement== | |||
===Armaments=== | |||
Like other ships within the Covenant Navy, the DDS-class carrier boasts a vast array of energy weapons. Like all space based warships, their ships come in a varying classes and sizes, though military observers note there are variance of weaponry, length, and estimated tonnage.<ref name="sybex">'''Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide''', ''page 73''</ref> The DDS-class carrier is armed is multiple plasma torpedo launchers, pulse laser turrets, and anterior plasma cannons.<ref name="ency">'''[[Halo: Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 265''</ref><ref name="visual"/> | |||
===Aircraft=== | |||
The DDS-class carrier boasts three squadrons of [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraph]] fighters <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 155'', ''page 191'' (2010 edition)</ref>, two hundred [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] and thirty-four [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirits]]/[[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantoms]] that can be launched at any given moment from the thirteen launch bays located along the sides of the ship.<ref name="ency"/> | |||
== | ===Military units=== | ||
The DDS-class carrier is crewed by upwards of four thousand Covenant infantry,<ref name="ency"/> and are available for deployment on a moments notice via the ships gravity lift when close to a planet's surface. | |||
==Ships of the Line== | |||
*''[[Lawgiver]]'' | *''[[Lawgiver]]'' | ||
==Triva== | |||
*There is some dispute over the length of the Carrier, for example in ''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', it mentions that the ''[[Incorruptible]]'', a ''Reverence''-class Cruiser, which is 3000 meters long, took cover behind the Carrier ''[[Lawgiver]]''. However, the ''Incorruptible'' merely took cover behind the other ship, using the Carrier's shields as a barrier to protect itself, in addition the Halo encyclopedia lists the length as 1,455 meters however he essential visual guide lists its length as 1186 meters. | |||
==List of appearances== | ==List of appearances== | ||