Freighter

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The Laden, a Parabola-class freighter.

Freighter is a classification for interstellar vessels. These ships are neither armed nor well-protected, consisting almost entirely of cargo bay space for their transported goods. Many freighters are operated entirely by navigation computers and managed by planetary AIs, however some are still crewed by humans.

Humanity

Many freighters are maintained by the Unified Earth Government, mostly to move supplies, food, and equipment to and from fringe worlds in the Outer Colonies. Most of these are maintained by the UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping, whose commercial fleet consists of hundreds of light freighters. Some private companies and individuals also maintain their own freighters. Some freighters were also used by militant Insurrectionist factions, such as the Eridanus rebels to supply their hidden base. Freighters operated by the UNSC have the hull classification symbol of DDA. Larger freighters are sometimes also converted into prison ships, used to transport convicts and goods to and from penal colonies.

Freighter classes

• Bactrian-class freighter
• Laden-class freighter
  • True Light
• Parabola-class freighter
  • Laden
• DCS propulsion pod-container configurations
  • Bulk Discount
  • Contents Under Pressure
  • Horn of Plenty
  • This End Up
  • Wholesale Price
• Unidentified
  • Distancia
  • Finnegan's Wake
  • Floral Express
  • Mighty Sparrow
  • Mona Lisa (converted into a prison transport)
  • Petya
  • Pilgrims' Pride
  • UNSC Nereid
  • UNSC Onan
  • UNSC Antaeus (a modified dropfreighter fitted with experimental energy shielding technology]]).

Covenant

The crash site of a Covenant freighter on the Ark.

The Covenant also operated freighters. During the Battle of Installation 00, one such vessel was shot down by the defensive installations of the Ark, crashing into the installation and exposing the Forerunner superstructure underneath the surface. In 2559, this site became a point of confrontation between the Banished and the forces of the UNSC Spirit of Fire during the Second Ark Conflict.

List of appearances

• Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
• Halo: First Strike
• Halo: Contact Harvest
• Halo: The Cole Protocol
• Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
  • The Mona Lisa
• Halo: Fall of Reach
  • Boot Camp
• Halo: Escalation
• Halo: Mortal Dictata (Mentioned only)
• Halo: Nightfall
• Hunt the Truth
• Halo: Tales from Slipspace
  • Undefeated
• Halo Wars 2
• Halo: Point of Light