Rasus-pattern interdictor

Covenant super-destroyer
File:Super-destroyer.jpg
Production information
Class:	Destroyer
Technical specifications
Length:	2,000 meters (6,600 ft)
Width:	1,000 meters (3,300 ft)
Engine(s):	Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Hull:	Nanolaminate hull plating Equipped with energy shielding
Armament:	Energy projectors Plasma turrets Pulse laser turrets
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Human-Covenant War
Affiliation:	Covenant

Chief Weapons officer: "How many of the Archers, sir? How many Shivas?"

Preston Cole: "All of them, Lieutenant."

— Preston Cole and the Chief Weapons officer of UNSC Everest during the Battle of Harvest

The "Covenant super-destroyer" was a term used by the United Nations Space Command to describe a type of Covenant warship that was in service within the Covenant's fleet during the Human-Covenant War.

Specifications

Design details

This warship is approximately two kilometers long and one kilometer wide. The super-destroyer is equipped with enough weapons and firepower to destroy most United Nations Space Command fleets from long range. It is larger than many Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the CCS-class battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by other starships such as the CAS-class assault carrier and CSO-class supercarrier.

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 projectors, along with pulse laser turrets and plasma torpedo batteries found on most Covenant warships.

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 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.

Operational history

A super-destroyer was encountered by the Colonial Military Administration's Battle Group 4 during its investigation of Harvest in July 2525; the CMA frigates Arabia and Vostok were destroyed after a minute-long skirmish, while the destroyer Heracles was heavily damaged and was forced to retreat. Vice Admiral Preston Cole's forces later encountered the same vessel during the Second Battle of Harvest in March 2526. It single-handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's battle group before being destroyed by concentrated fire.

Production notes

• Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp and Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series replace the super-destroyer encountered at Harvest with the cruiser Rapid Conversion.
• It is possible that the super-destroyer and the Covenant battleship are synonymous due to their similar structure, size, and armament.

Gallery

• Super-destroyer2.jpg

  A Covenant super-destroyer being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces.

List of appearances

• Halo Wars: Genesis (First appearance)
• Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
  • The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole
• Halo Mythos (Mentioned only)
• Halo: Silent Storm (Mentioned only)