Rasus-pattern interdictor

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Rasus-pattern interdictor
Production information
Manufacturer	Covenant
Class	Battleship
Technical information
Length	Approx. 2,000 metres (6,600 ft)
Engine unit(s)	Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive	equipped
Power output	Unknown
Shielding	Yes
Hull	Unknown Covenant alloy
Armament	Energy projectors (12) Plasma turrets Pulse laser turrets
Usage
Earliest sighting	2525 - Second Battle of Harvest
Role(s)	Naval Engagements, Orbital bombardment
Era(s)	Human-Covenant war
Affiliation	Covenant Empire

The Rasus-pattern interdictor, also known as a Covenant Battleship or a Super Destroyer, is a heavy capital warship classification within the Covenant Navy. This warship is approximately two kilometers long, has five bulbous sections and bristles with a dozen Energy Projectors - enough weapons and firepower to decimate any UNSC Fleet from long range. It is larger than most Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the CCS-class battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by the Covenant Assault Carrier and Supercarrier.

Background

The battleship was the third Covenant naval vessel to be encountered by the UNSC. One was engaged by the CMA Heracles, CMA Vostok, and CMA Arabia as well as the forces under Vice Admiral Preston Cole during the Second Battle of Harvest in what was to be the first sanctioned naval engagement between the UNSC and Covenant Empire. It single handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's fleet before being destroyed by concentrated fire.

Overview

The Battleship is made up of five primary bulbous sections and appears in a light shade of purple. It is of the larger ships in the Covenant fleet, and is extremely well armed -boasting three energy projectors at the fore of the ship and four to six on its stern. Various pulse laser turrets and plasma turrets litter the hull as well.

Though most of its power is likely used by the large number of energy projectors it uses in battle, the ship still can project an energy shield strong enough to protect it from multiple nuclear missiles and MAC rounds. However, the shielding will fail and hull will buckle under a salvo of extremely powerful concentrated fire as shown when the 27 remaining vessels in Cole's fleet were able to destroy it when the entire fleet fired a single concentrated barrage.

Appearances

• Halo: First Strike (First appearance)
• Halo Wars: Genesis
• Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
• Halo Legends
  • The Duel

Gallery

A Covenant Battleship being destroyed by an all-out barrage from UNSC forces.