Covenant destroyer
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Template:Ship Class Infobox Covenant destroyer[1][2] refers to at least two different warship classifications within the Covenant Navy.[Note 1]
Background
Two types of Covenant ships classified as destroyers have been encountered. Destroyers with a length of 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) were seen in various battles early in the Human-Covenant War,[3][4] while a destroyer with a length of approximately 647 meters (2,120 ft) was present during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV in July 2552.[2]
The destroyer is very well armed, boasting multiple point-defense pulse laser turrets, plasma turrets, a single energy projector, and a full complement of Seraph fighters. The destroyer's weapons are so potent that UNSC Navy Captain Jacob Keyes remarked that they turn UNSC ships into "Swiss cheese".[5]
This warship classification features the distinctive three-sectioned design of most heavier Covenant warships, mirroring the deadliness of its larger counterparts. Destroyers are often used as escorts for fleets or task forces and are able to hold their own in combat, while protecting more valuable ships from enemy threats.
The only specifically named Covenant destroyer class is the CPV-class heavy destroyer. This class may be one of the aforementioned destroyer types, probably the larger. A destroyer of an even larger subclassification, a super-destroyer, was fielded during the Second Battle of Harvest on March 1, 2526.[6]
Known Covenant destroyers
Gallery
A Covenant destroyer colliding with the UNSC Spirit of Fire.
Concept art of the Covenant destroyer for Halo Wars.
- Origins Destroyer.png
A Covenant destroyer as seen in Origins.
List of appearances
- Halo Wars
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: First Strike
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Halo: The Cole Protocol
- Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
- Halo Legends
Notes
- ^ While never directly stated, the Destroyer described in Halo: The Fall of Reach is obviously a different kind of ship from the ones seen in Halo Wars, Halo Wars: Genesis, and Origins, as the two types and drastically different in size.
Sources
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- ^ Halo Wars: Genesis
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 145
- ^ Halo: Evolutions: "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", page 471
