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CAA Chalybeate

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CAA Chalybeate
Production information

Role:

Colony ship

Specifications

Length:

1,500 metres (4,900 ft)[1]

Slipspace drive:

Equipped

Service information

Affiliation:

Colonial Administration Authority

 

The CAA Chalybeate was a Colonial Administration Authority colony ship.[1]

Design details

Powerplant/Propulsion

The ship, and later the city it founded, was powered by a Fusion reactor.[1]

Crew and complement

The Chalybeate could hold over 10,000 colonists.[1]

Operational history

In the 2490s, the Chalybeate landed for repairs in a mudflat on the moon Komoya in the Sverdlovsk system. The ship didn't take off again and instead stayed landed on the moon. Other starships began collecting around the parked ship, eventually forming a city.[1]

By 2557, roads had been built through the Chalybeate to connect to various other parts of the city. The ships artificial intelligence had become a superintendent for the thriving city, managing other shipboard AIs and maintaining the city's defense, communications satellites and other municipal functions.[1]

Trivia

Chalybeate is the name for a type of iron-based mineral water, and the name of several small towns in the United States.

List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d e f Halo: Renegades, Chapter 1, p. 8