A/N: Another codex chapter this one for The different covenant factions ground weapons, armor, and vehicles. Next will be Covenant space based combat. I am working on the next chapter for the main story but I am stuck right now, it is hard coming up with where the story is going and I apologize. The lack of Action is wearing thin on me as I can picture these scenes well but I am not going to be writing a fic that just is one action scene to the next with no character progression. Also I would like to thank Halo Fannon for some of the weapon ideas, mainly from the sections Weapons of the Jiralhanae Alliance, Weapons of the RIS. As well as Halo SPV3. These allowed me to not need to come up with something from scratch. I did have ideas for a Needlershotgun but saw that one was on Halo Fannon when doing research into needlers.
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CIS Infantry weapons. (Typically using Halo-4 Halo-5 style weapons)
The CIS chose to break away from the Type-25 Directed Energy Rifle, better known as a plasma rifle and have made the main weapon for their infantry units as the Type-21 DER, also known as the Plasma Repeater. This weapon while larger and slower rate of fire is more accurate due to having a stock.
Type-25s are not completely phased out by the CIS and instead given to High Ranking Unggoy, Kig-Yar, and Yanme'e. Veteran Sangheili still carry Plasma Rifles as secondary weapons, the CIS navy also utilizes these weapons.
Blamite based weapons have seen a decrease in use in the CIS due to the Servants of Abiding Truth basing all of their weaponry around it so have decided to export most of their blamite to the SoAT. Though many still use these weapons within the CIS it is typically out of their own pocket and not issued.
One of the newest weapons implemented into the CIS and favored by the Kig-Yar Ruutian Snipers is the Type-53 Sangheili Anti-Infantry Carbine, it is a variant of the typical carbine with an enhanced scope, it also has a slight charge mode that allows a more powerful shot to be fired. And while it does have more range than the typical Carbine its range still does not compare to that of the Beam Rifle. (can be found on the halo fannon wiki Type-52_Sangheili_Anti-Infantry_Carbine)
Another Variant of the Type-51 Carbine was the Type-52 Particle Carbine, and energy based battery powered version of the Type-51, this weapon was developed in the CIS trend of more accurate and variable weaponry to better develop squad tactics. (The Halo SPV3 Carbine)
Recent experiments with Massless-matter, also known as Element Zero, Ezzo, and Zero Matter have resulted in a new anti-personnel weapon. The Type-4 Antipersonnel Gravitational Grenade or gravity grenade is an excellent weapon to pull enemy units out of cover. It works by generating a Gravimetric field that draws in enemies caught in the field before exploding after approx. 10 seconds.
Most weapons utilized by the CIS are typical plasma and energy based weapons. The CIS are trying to distance themselves from conventional ammo weapons such as the Needler line, and the fuel rod line as their energy weapons can recharge themselves using energy from their suits.
The vehicles utilized by the CIS have changed only aesthetically with the only new vehicle being a new main battle tank that has the chassis of a Wraith and a plasma cannon resembling that of a scorpion tank. Its secondary armament consist of one maned plasma turret and two smaller side turrets (the halo 2 wraith plasma cannons) while this tank is unusual it has proven itself against the Jiralhanae Empire. (actually thought of this while watching the Clone wars tv show and I just looked at the Droid AAT and went, you know...paint that purple and it wouldn't look out of place with the covenant)
The Armor utilized by the CIS favors the armor of the Covenant before the battle of Reach as it allowed each rank to be better discerned other than by color which is now mainly aesthetic. The CIS Navy how ever utilized the combat harnesses utilized by the covenant during the Battle of Earth, Delta Halo, and the Ark. (CIS army uses Halo Reach while CIS Navy uses Halo 2/3)
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Jiralhanae Empire
The Jiralhanae are as their nicknames suggests brutish in the development of their weapons, mostly resulting in weapons with blades, spikes, exploding parts, and almost all of them utilize conventional munitions. The few that do not would be the Type-25 DER-J or Brute plasma rifle, and a Type-25 DEP-J or Brute plasma pistol. Both weapons fire a red plasma that fires faster and tends to lead to more pain. Like a typical Plasma pistol the Brute variant has an over-charge mode that fires an unstable bolt of plasma thats magnetic containment fails upon contact with any physical object and its plasma spills out in a napalm like fashion similar to that of the Type-3 aintipersonnel firebomb also utilized by the brutes.
Another weapon that differs from typical brute weaponry is the Type-25 Munitions Launcher or Shredder is a brute variant of the typical needler that uses a red version of blamite only found on the brute homeworld of Doisac, now the Shredder lacks the homing capability of normal Needlers and fires slower but its needles are much more deadly. The weapon still does a supercombine like its brother the needler.
The Jiralhanae still use their typical Spiker, Mauler, and brute shot weapons with another couple weapon seemingly entering their mainstays. The Type-25 munitions pistol or Peircer is a weapon that follows suit with the spiker in pistol form firing superheated spikes but a slower rate and easily concealed. Another new weapon is the Type-51 Ripper is a scaled up assault rifle variant of the spiker and Peircer weapons and seems to be an lower officer weapon.
Like most their weapons the Jiralhanae love to make explosive weapons and with this next one it shows. taking the main body of a Type-2 antipersonnel Spike Grenade and attaching three fuel rod cells onto it created the Type-5 Antipersonnel cluster grenade that utilized the fuel rod guns rounds in a grenade making it very deadly.
The Jiralhanaes vehicle complement consists of old refurbished Covenant technology utilizing a jagged rough look over the Covenant smooth style. (Banished from Halo Wars 2).
The Jiralhanae have been shown to use armor from every generation of Jiralhanae armor, from Before the battle of Reach, to the Battle of the Ark, and the Banished. (Any brute armor from the Halo games can be seen in the Jiralhanae ranks, Halo 2 brutes being essentially the lowest rank)
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The Swords of Abiding Truth:
The SoAT utilize primary Blamite and Human made projectile weaponry. The Needler, Needle Rifle, Needlescattergun and the Needlecannon are some of their weapons.
The Needlescattergun is actually an ancient sangheili designs close combat weapon similar to a UNSC shotgun and functions the same way. The Needlecannon is essentially a fuelrod gun that fires chuncks of blamite that went fire shatter in a fragmentation pattern similar to a brute spike grenade going off and if enough of the shards hit a target, said target will supercombine.
Another old weapon utilized by the SoAT is the Type-34 Automatic Rifle also known as the Shrieker. Essentially it is an assault rifle variant of a needler that does not have any tracking similar to the Needlescattergun and Needlecannon. It makes up for this in a fast fire rate. The main pistol used by the SoAT is a needle pistol that fires the same larger rounds of the needlerifle with he firing rate and a needlers tracking.
One interesting weapon the SoAT uses that is not of ancient sangheili design is the Kig-yar blamite dagger which is a dagger with a blade of blamite that once stabbed into an opponent and the blade broken will supercombine in 3 seconds resulting in a devastating explosion.
The SoAT utilize vehicles custom made from UNSC armories to fit Sangheili designs.
SoAT armor utilizes ancient designs resembling that of Kaidons and the Arbiters armor.
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The Storm Covenant:
Jul'Mdama's Covenant utilize all the technology of the old Covenant with one key difference being the Type-55 DER or Storm rifle, a weapon that seems to favor Jiralhanae tactics of firing a lot of plasma at your enemy in a short time. While this weapon can be effective in ambush tactics its fairly poor accuracy at sustained rates of fire during long engagements make it not a viable option to be adopted into the CIS as their main rifle.
The vehicle design of the Storm is the same as that of the Covenant before the great schism as many of the surviving San'Shyumm have sought refuge in the Storm trading their skills in vehicle and weapon crafting for safety.
The Armor utilized by the Storm resembles the armor from the Battle of Reach but lacking the undersuit showing much more of the wearers skin. This has lead to the Storm adopting stronger energy shielding to better protect themselves. (Halo 4 and 5 armor)
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This Concludes Armor and weapons utilized by the CIS and Covenant Remnant factions, we apologize if this information was not what you were looking for, currently there is a page being created to go more into detail.
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A/N Another codex down, I kinda hinted at it but I am thinking of making a wiki for Halo Mass Convergence. Thanks to making this I thought of some good ideas for the stories progression and even found a couple new weapon ideas I might bring into the story. I hope you are liking this. As always have a wonderful Night/Day.