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Rapid Conversion was a cruiser used by Covenant.[1] In 2525, it was commanded by Maccabeus and later by his nephew Tartarus.[6]
Service history
Rapid Conversion was originally decommissioned by the Sangheili for their own use, but was deemed worthy of use by Jiralhanae. Many of its systems, including weapons and gravity lifts, were disabled. Upon taking command of the vessel, War Chieftain Maccabeus commissioned a number of changes to its interior decor, including an authentic facsimile of a traditional Jiralhanae feasting hall with doors and ceiling supports of forged steel and lighting provided by primitive oil lamps on clawed floor stands.[7] The crew was comprised of a pack of ten Jiralhanae, roughly sixty Unggoy, and over a hundred Yanme'e responsible for the vessel's upkeep.
Human-Covenant War
The warship was used to deploy troops and vehicles, such as Spirits and Choppers, to the surface of Harvest during the First Battle of Harvest and also used as the Covenant's command center. Though its weapon system, a plasma torpedo turret, had been disabled, the Huragok Lighter Than Some was able to repair them in time for the ship's actions against Harvest and its colonists.
Later, going into low orbit over Harvest's surface in order to deliver troops and gather the relics they sought, Rapid Conversion fell into a trap that had been laid by Captain Ponder and his troops and was hit by two rounds from a mass driver based on Harvest's surface. The first round did little damage. The second round, however, passed completely through the warship, severing the connections between the ship's reactor and anti-grav generators, causing the ship to plummet to the planet's surface.[2]
In the following months, however, the crew managed to repair the ship and began to glass Harvest, eventually reducing the planet's surface to cinder.[8] In April, Rapid Conversion destroyed the Colonial Military Administration scout ship Argo.[9] Six months later, the CMA's Battle Group 4, consisting of the Heracles, the Arabia, and the Vostok, was sent to investigate the loss of contact with Harvest and the Argo; the battle group was almost completely destroyed by a Rasus-pattern interdictor Heaven's Brilliant Bier that was holding station over the planet.
Great Schism
After ascending to the title of Chieftain of the Jiralhanae, Rapid Conversion remained under Tartarus' control. During the Great Schism, following Tartarus' death on November 3, 2552, Sangheili assassins led by Resa 'Azavayl under the banner of the Silent Shadow eliminated the remaining members of Tartarus' crew aboard the ship.[10]
Crew
Jiralhanae
Unggoy
Huargok
Production notes
Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp and Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series depict Rapid Conversion in place of the Heaven's Brilliant Bier that Battle Group 4 canonically encountered at Harvest.[11]
Gallery
Rapid Conversion over Harvest.
The crew of Rapid Conversion was slaughtered by the Silent Shadow.
Rapid Conversion over Utgard.
List of appearances
Notes
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest refers to the Rapid Conversion simply as a cruiser. In the Halo: Fall of Reach comic adaptation, the vessel is depicted in the likeness of a Ket-pattern battlecruiser. While this may indicate that the ship was a battlecruiser, it may also be an artistic liberty similar to the way the ovoid-shaped Unrelenting is depicted as a Ket-pattern battlecruiser. Based on the visual depiction in Fall of Reach, Rapid Conversion may also have been a Zanar-pattern light cruiser (properly introduced in Halo 4), since the CRS class is virtually identical to the CCS class in outward appearance. However, the animated adaptation clearly portrays the ship as a CCS based on its scale in comparison to the ships of Battlegroup 4, and Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo used a Ket-pattern battlecruiser model from Halo 3 to portray Conversion. Later media such as Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo established that the Zanar-pattern typically has no complement, much oppose to Covenant deployments of troops and vehicles, including Spirits and Choppers, from a single cruiser during the First Battle of Harvest. As such, this make the possibility of Rapid Conversion being a CRS-class being very unlikely.
Sources
- ^ a b Halo: Contact Harvest, page ???
- ^ a b Halo: Contact Harvest, page 336-342
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 226
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 200
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 346
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 194
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 194-195
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 382
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 391-396
- ^ Halo: Tales from Slipspace - Hunting Party
- ^ Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Reaching Out (Retrieved on Sep 8, 2015) [archive]