The RCS-class armored cruiser is a Covenant capital warship classification.[1]
Overview
The armored cruiser's primary roles are patrol and planetary occupation. The RCS is 2,000 meters long, 1,000 meters wide, and 296 meters tall. It is the second-largest cruiser of the former Covenant fleet, overshadowed only by the ORS-class heavy cruiser. Armed with plasma torpedo turrets, pulse laser point-defense cannons, and a ventral energy projector, it is also outfitted with a stasis enfolder system;[1] this technology is presumably a much larger version of the stasis cannon used by the Type-29 Vampire.[2]
Operational history
The RCS's use during the Human-Covenant War was largely overshadowed by the CCS-class battlecruiser, the mainstay of the fleet. Following the end of the war, however, many surviving battlecruisers were commandeered by Kig-Yar scavengers or independent Sangheili factions. As a result, the RCS-class armored cruiser took on a more predominant role in Jul 'Mdama's reformed Covenant.
Several RCS-class cruisers were assigned to Jul 'Mdama's fleet occupying Requiem in February 2558, escorted by a much larger number of comparatively diminutive CRS-class light cruisers.[3] One was destroyed when the UNSC Infinity emerged from slipspace and rammed it. Another fled the shield world after 'Mdama set the planet on a collision course with the local star.[4]
Gallery
The UNSC Infinity rams through an RCS-class armored cruiser.
An RCS cruiser and its CRS escort flee Requiem.
List of appearances
- Halo 4
- Spartan Ops (First appearance)
Sources
- ^ a b Cite error: Invalid
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- ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide
- ^ Halo 4, Halo: Infinity