Cruiser
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The Cruiser is a type of heavily armed and armored capital warship in both the UNSC and Covenant fleets, emphasizing weaponry and armor over starfighter compliments.
Role
Even though both major fleets possessed warships of such classifications, the tactical philosophies of the two species were different. The Covenant, while possessing many different cruiser classifications, used carriers as the powerhouses of their fleets. The UNSC, on the other hand, used cruisers as their heaviest warships. It may just be a coincidence but in Blizzard's game StarCraft the Protoss have flagships called carriers and the Terrans have flagships called Battlecruisers.
However, it should be noted that Covenant cruisers dwarfed their UNSC counterparts, and are more powerful.
Subclassifications
Further more, there are likely to be different subclassifications of cruisers: light cruisers, medium cruisers, heavy cruisers, battlecruisers, and supercruisers, in order of increasing tonnage and power.
Cruiser Classifications
Covenant Cruisers
- Covenant Supercruiser - 4500+ meters
- Reverence-class Cruiser - 3000 meters
- Covenant Battleship - 2000 meters
- CCS-class Battlecruiser - 1782 meters
- Covenant Cruiser - 300-1455 meters
- Covenant Light Cruiser - 300 meters
UNSC Cruisers
- Marathon-class Cruiser - 1192 meters
- Halcyon-class Cruiser - 1170 meters
