DSC-class support ship
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Supply transport[1] |
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Approx. 1,500 metres (4,900 ft)[2] |
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Approx. 400 metres (1,300 ft)[2] |
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The DSC-class support ship,[3] also simply referred to as the agricultural support ship, is a type of support vessel that was used by the Covenant, and attached to their wandering fleets.[1]
Specifications
These vessels are much smaller than a Covenant capital ship, and are not designed for combat. Rather, they are designed to provide fresh food for Covenant soldiers.[1][4] They contain large hunting preserves holding many types of animals, to be hunted, killed, and fed to the personnel within the fleet.[1][3] They also contain plants, though it is unknown whether they are used for food or not.[5]
They are primarily crewed by Huragok and Unggoy, with little to no Sangheili on board. They are occasionally commanded by a single Minor Prophet.[1]
Strangely, the "S", or Salvation, in the suport ship's three-letter classification code "DSC" indicates that the ship is a dedicated warship equipped with energy projectors.[6]
Ships of the line
- Infinite Succor – Attached to the Fleet of Particular Justice, destroyed in 2552.
Halo: Fleet Battles
Covenant DSC Support Ship
This element includes a single DSC-class support ship.
- Cost: 95 points
- Movement: 7"
- Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 4
- Build rating: 2
- Hangers: 3
- Boarding Craft: 4
- Security detail: 4
- System loadouts:
- Defense array (3)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (4)
- Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 6
- Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 8
Trivia
On the Halo Wars Skirmish map Release, there are several agricultural support ships crashed on the the map.
Gallery
- InfiniteSuccorConcept.jpg
Concept art of Infinite Succor for Halo 2
Infinite Succor during the Battle of Installation 04 in The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor.
Support ships repairing the damaged Breath of Annihilation in Halo: Escalation.
The hunting preserve on a DSC-class support ship, based on the Halo 2 concept art, in Halo: Fleet Battles.
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List of appearances
- Halo Graphic Novel
- The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor (First appearance)
- Halo Wars
- Halo: Mortal Dictata (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Escalation
- Halo: Fleet Battles
Sources
- ^ a b c d e Halo Encyclopedia, page 281 (2011)
- ^ a b File:HFB-Lotsofships.png
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Ship Happens
- ^ Halo Graphic Novel, page 15
- ^ Halo Graphic Novel, page 19
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder: Have S'moa