DSC-class support ship

DSC-class support ship
Production information
Manufacturer:	Primary Assembly Forges
Class:	Auxillary support ship
Role:	Food production, seminary, Supply transport
Technical specifications
Length:	1,550 metres (5,100 ft)
Height:	Approx. 400 metres (1,300 ft)
Mass:	82 million tonnes
Power plant:	Pinch fusion reactor
Engine(s):	Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Navigation system(s):	Navigation computer
Hull:	Nanolaminate hull plating Equipped with energy shields
Armament:	12 Melusean-pattern heavy plasma cannons 8 Jaet-pattern plasma torpedo silos 20 Pallio-pattern pulse lasers
Complement:	4 Type-28 Ticks 7 Obedientaries 150 Warriors
Crew:	1 Precentor 40 Hieromonks 10 Celebrants 110 Superiors 20 Engineers 9,800 Menials
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Human-Covenant War Post-Covenant War conflicts
Affiliation:	Covenant Jul 'Mdama's Covenant

The DSC-class support ship, 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.

Overview

The DSC is not designed for combat but rather is used to provide fresh food for Covenant soldiers. The support ship contains large hunting preserves holding many types of animals to be hunted, killed, and fed to the personnel of the fleet. Vessels of the class are primarily crewed by Huragok and Unggoy, with little to no Sangheili on board, and are occasionally commanded by a single Minor Prophet. Strangely, the "S" (for Salvation) in the classification code "DSC" indicates that the ship is a dedicated warship.

Ships of the line

Mjern-pattern

• 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: Plasma 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 Covenant Supported DSC Support Ship This element includes a DSC-class support ship and one SDV-class heavy corvette. Cost: 115 points Movement: 7" Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 5 Build rating: 3 Hangers: 4 Boarding Craft: 4 Security detail: 5 System loadouts: Defense array (4) Glide (4") Labyrinthine Point defense (5) Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays Range: 10/20" Weapon loadouts: Plasma Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard Dice: 8 Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes Range: 12/24" Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma Firing arc: Forward Dice: 8 Covenant Reinforced DSC Support Ship This element includes a DSC-class support ship and two SDV-class heavy corvettes. Cost: 135 points Movement: 7" Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 6 Build rating: 4 Hangers: 5 Boarding Craft: 4 Security detail: 5 System loadouts: Defense array (5) Glide (4") Labyrinthine Point defense (6) Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays Range: 10/20" Weapon loadouts: Plasma Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard Dice: 9 Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes Range: 12/24" Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma Firing arc: Forward Dice: 10

Covenant Escorted DSC Support Ship This element includes a DSC-class support ship and one ADP-class escort. Cost: 115 points Movement: 7" Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 5 Build rating: 3 Hangers: 3 Boarding Craft: 4 Security detail: 5 System loadouts: Defense array (4) Glide (4") Labyrinthine Point defense (6) Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays Range: 10/20" Weapon loadouts: Plasma Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard Dice: 7 Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes Range: 12/24" Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma Firing arc: Forward Dice: 12 Covenant Defended DSC Support Ship This element includes a DSC-class support ship and two ADP-class escorts. Cost: 135 points Movement: 7" Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 6 Build rating: 3 Hangers: 3 Boarding Craft: 4 Security detail: 5 System loadouts: Cloaking system Defense array (4) Glide (4") Labyrinthine Point defense (6) Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays Range: 10/20" Weapon loadouts: Plasma Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard Dice: 7 Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes Range: 12/24" Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma Firing arc: Forward Dice: 14

Trivia

On the Halo Wars Skirmish map Release, there are several agricultural support ships crashed on the map.

Gallery

• InfiniteSuccorConcept.jpg

  Concept art of Infinite Succor for Halo 2.

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  Infinite Succor during the Battle of Installation 04 in The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor.

• DSCflood.png

  A crashed DSC-class support ship infected by the Flood on the map Release in Halo Wars.

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  Support ships repairing the damaged Breath of Annihilation in Halo: Escalation.

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  The hunting preserve on a DSC-class support ship, based on the Halo 2 concept art, in Halo: Fleet Battles.

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  DSC model for 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