A CPV-class heavy destroyer hangs above orbit over harvest once 3 of this ships were responsible for the glassing of the planet its strange know to now that the ship along with 3 Paris-class heavy frigate, 4 Charon-class light frigates, 2 Prowlers, and 2 odp are protecting the planet and its people.
After the discovery of the unedifying object on the edge of the system deference force and sectary has been double, on the CPV-class heavy destroyer Esteem bridge shipmaster Orna `Fulsamee on a raised platform in the center of the bridge oversees and supervises the running of the ship.
During this time his crew is hard at work keep him up to date of civilian and science teams ship that are studying the object.
Next to his ship the Paris-class heavy frigate Arabia Captanin Maribeau Veredi watches form one the ships many view point of the science teams ship.
After a long moment of silence on the bridge he breaks this by asking one of the officers on a update of their progress on the object "Has there been any new develop mints on the study of the object?" he asked "not at this moment but the teams have told us that is might be possible to activate the object for further study but they asking for your promising before they proceed with the activation sir.
The officer replied seeing how the object has not yet caused any probiles and wondering what the function of the object might be he give the word to proceed the officer gave the team the go a head, but unknown to the caption is that a new war is soon to spark.
After the order was given the science team begin sending a singly that they believe will activate the object after a few minutes a the object begin to power up and the energies reading spike on their monitors and sensors.
Than the center of the object started to speed why it was doing this, the sensors begin to pick up.
A unknown element once the ring started to slow down a bright flash is seen from the center that bilds most of the team but once the flash dim the center rings are spinning holding a unidinfe substance within it.
The team sent a probe near the object for further study, but once it was close enough to the object a strange beam of energies shot and grab the probe shooting it into u know space at first the probe stop transmitting wondering what the object has done to the probe they get ready to send a another one.
That is when the transmitting is resistible the team begin to reactivate the probes video screens and what they see stuns them not only do they see another one of the object fully activated they also see a large star system.
Sing as this would allow their space to be expanded beyond what is already is the civilian and science vessels get ready to go through the object.
To begin exploring the new space but that's is when the probe sees a bright flash of light then the single is lost that is when the object rings started to move fast seeing that something was about to come though the object the teams begin to move away. But just as they did this a fleet of 23 alien ship came though the object and begin to open fire on them, the first ships to be destroyed were the civilian ship all hands were lost, but just before the are destroyed themselves a sos is sent right after the ship is destroyed to the fleet at Harvest.
After hearing the sos along with the screams and cries of both fleets and seeing explosions across space both shipmaster Orna `Fulsamee begin ording his crew to battle stations.
While the unsc ship under the command of Captanin Maribeau Veredi begin moving his battle group into formation to defend the colony from the alien fleet that was fast approaching their position
"I want the odp to begin charging the super macs and deploy all long sword bombers along with Broadsword and sabre starfighters I want our own macs and archer missiles and HAVOK tactical nukes prime and ready to fire on my command and I want all ground forces deployed and colony evacuated to the fallout bunkers now!" he shouted.
After all orders were sent the officers of the ships begin to duo as he ordered the same events were happening on the heavy destroyer Esteen as it armed its pulse laser, plasma torpedo turrets along with deploying seraph and banshee fighter and phantom gunboats.
During the events that were happening around the battle group the alien fleet comes into view despite what had has been done to the civilian and science team fleet captain Maribeau Veredi hated what he was about to do.
Because of protocol with encounter a new race a first contact paking is sent by the ship AI, however the aliens cut all transimitions and stared to charge their on weapons
"Captain! The vessels are about to fire upon us!" an officer said just as he said this a bragie of acclarted rounds hit the ships "Sates report!" Maribeau shouted, "shields holding at 85% no hull breaches the Estenn is reporting that their shields are holding at 89% and no breachs as well." the taticle officer said " tale the odps to fire on their largest vessile now!" Maribeau said.
The odps begin rising the hammer as they prepare to fire at the vessiles, the slug weighs 3,000 tons and is launched at ¼ the speed of light when the hammer falls a massive boom is herd as the slug is shoot out of the odps
The round strikes the leading alien vessels on the bow tearing the ship to pieces the round keeps on going and strikes another vessels destroying it as well.
The alien fleet now down to 21 ships begin to deploy fights and shuttles down to the colony of Harvest, on the surface the deference grid of Onager mass drivers, M71 Anti-Aircraft Gun, and severly missile batters begin to fire upon the invasion force both shuttles and gunship begin to explode across the sky a few are able to land and deploy their forces.
In space the alien fleet has been reduce to 13 ship while the unsc has yet to suffer a single lost one of their ship but severely fighter squareness have been destroyed, while on the ground where a large invasion force has mobilize and is laying siege to the city.
In one of the building near the heart of the city a group of 22 Marines seat up a choke point for a platoon of alien soldiers coming down a desired road across from them a 2 man team of snipers take position and start marking targets of interest once the alien reach the Turing point in the road that's when the sniper take out the leadership of the platoon causing a panic the Marines fire upon the alien as well taking more of them down.
But once the platoon restbilies leadership they begin concentrate their efforts on were the Marines are because they move though out the floor their on making look as though their being attack by a larger force. After taking multiply casualties they begin to fall back to a seconder position were a convoy of their tanks begin to form behind them the tank begin to fire at the building that the Marines are station at, "fall back! Fall back!" the leader of the squad shouted as mass accelerated rounds begin to tear into the side of the building cutting into one of the Marines and injuring two, just as the alien begin to advance onto their postion as the tanks provide suppression fire a massive rumbling sound is heard then the surrounding area begins to shake.
The Marines begin to chare as around the turning point in the road is the largest ground vehicle in unsc history the Mammoth along with two mantis walkers as they near the aliens they begin firing ever heavy weapon they have at the massive war machines but all they hit is its energy shield as they attempt to returit.
The main weapon of the Mammoth a Mini-Mac cannon fires at the alien armor column destroying all but one and reducing the platoon to just a hand full of alien soldiers left and which the mantis mop up the last of them.
On the other side of the city a massive ground and air battle between the alien that thanks to HIGH-COM AIs have been able to hack into their coms and date banks have learned the name of the alien and the reason for the attack.
The turains as they are called are a peacekeeping force of a government body known as the citadel council and the cause of the attack is due to a law that the humans had no knowledge of.
The law invalos around the object know as a Mass Relays and open of dormant ones is forbidden duo to encounter with an alien race that resuasltied the destruction of countless planets.
As the battle escalates the space battle has gone from bad to worse for the turians has their fleet has now been reduce to just 8 ships while the human have only lost 4 one Paris-class heavy frigate, 3 Charon-class light frigates.
But only though the uses of focus fire power, on the ground the turians have been pushed back to their fire base they have set up but the deference are slow crumbling On the battle field the turians were begin pushed back a little by little upon the arrive of the odst and Sangheili specops the Human/Sangheili combine effort has allowed them to reclaim all the ground the Turians had once gain.
However the siege of the fire base has proven difficult duo to well entrenchments the Turians had made. A 4 wave attack group lay a full frontal assault on the fire base the first wave consist of 25 Grizzly main battle tanks and 20 SP42 Cobras the second wave consist of 250 Marians and Sangheili warriors, thread wave is 15 Mark IX Armor defense system or Mantises, the fourth and final wave are 4 Mammoths.
As the ground assault against the Turian firebase keep up, in space the Turian fleet have lost all but 5 ships that are now hanging above orbit near the firebase to begin evocation. The human fleet stay hover over the city along with the heavy destroyer Esteem, the human fleet has lost 2 Paris-class heavy frigate and the last Charon-class light frigates has taken heavy damage the Esteem has taken minor damage and is performing repairs now. A Turian shutters arcs across the sky to the fleet aouther one flyes next to it only for a wave of misslis to knock it out of the sky the other one makes it to a Turian frigate that's been in low orbit to pick up the shuttles but most want make it.
Two more entrenchments are all that stands between the fire base and the 4 wave attack group as the Human tank formation continues to break though the Turians defenders the Marians and Sangheili warriors moup up and stragglers and prevent any boarding attempts on the tanks.
The Manties keep the sky around them clear and help break hard points in the Turians lines, the 4 Mammoth have been blasting at the fire base itself destroying parts of the walls that make up the base and firing at the shuttles taking off.
The Turians begin falling back to the last defeces line as the attack group smashes though the second defeces line, before the group lay siege on the last line the Esteem hovers over head and adds more forces to the group though drop pods and 2 v2 Scarab to add and breaking the line.
One of the Scarabs that was drop from the Esteem begins to lays siege to the fire bass after moving though the Turians last line of deference it begin soften up the area around the bass for the main force to arrive. As the last line is soon to fall one of their frigates begin to distend to the planet to quicken the evacuation of their ground forces but the ship comes to close to the battle ground and is shoot down by one of the Mammoths Mine-Macs.
Once the group attack the fire bass itself a company of Spartan-IV along with shipmaster Orna `Fulsamee and his bodyguard a pair of Mgalekgolo landed on the battle to speed up the processes of taking the fire bass.
Oma`Fulsamee and his guard follow his to the center of the bass to ether kill or capture the Turian that was commanding the Turians as he reaches the base.
After cutting through dozens of Turian solders he sees the last survivors being loaded onto the lasts of the shuttle as he observes the area that the shuttles are located he see two Turians given orders to the other solders loading up onto the shuttles.
As the last group of Turian solders are about to be loaded up onto the shuttles Oma`Fulsamee along with his Mgalekgolos bodyguards approce the group as the Turians open fire on them Oma`Fulsamee and bodyguard charge at the group.
Oma kills severely with his energy sword will the Mgalekgolo fire their assault cannons, as the last Turian solder falls Oma spots one of the commanders of the Turians and begins to charges at him disbit being hit multiply times even after his shield falls he is able to reach him form one swap of his sword slices the Turian weapon and half
Just as he tries to recovery Oma slices his sword agine the Turian screams and pain as his left arm is cut off As he tries to get up Oma grabs him by the throat and brings him up to eye level.
wishing for the Turian to see his face before he dies just before plugging the sword into his chest the other Turian commander comes from behind stabs a dagger into his back forcing him to drop the other Turian as he is drag away by severely solders to a wanting shuttle the last thing he sees before he passed out from blood lost is seeing his closes friend die after a sword was plunge into his chest.
The last of the shuttles arc across the sky trying to reach their frigate that's hanging in low orbit as they reach the ship a mass wave of missiles race towards the shuttles.
The one that's leading the group gets hit on one of its thrusters resulting and the shuttle ramming into another leaving only three left once they enter the frigate the ship regroups with the others as they make a quick FTL jump to the relay and jump out of the system after this the unsc begin taking causals and damage report and send the in-tail to command about what happen.
Beta by Kurogane7
Codex Ship Halo/Mass Effect
CPV-class heavy destroyer
Manufacturer:
Covenant
Class:
Destroyer
Role:
Glassing operations
Ship-to-ship warfareGround assault
Planetary occupation
Technical specifications
Length:
1,664 meters (5,460 ft)
Width:
1,350 meters (4,400 ft)
Engine(s):
Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive:
Equipped
Hull:
Unidentified Covenant material
Equipped with Energy Shields
Armament:
One energy projector
Multiple pulse laser turrets
Multiple plasma torpedo turrets (two anterior-mounted)
Overview
The CPV-class heavy destroyer is the predominant offensive ship in the Covenant Navy, being primarily used for ship-to-ship warfare andglassing operations. CPVs are deployed aggressively, often being the first ships in a fleet to engage the enemy.CPV-class destroyers are sufficiently equipped to serve as occupation vessels during planetary assaults, in lieu of the more occupation-centeredCCS-class battlecruiser and CAS-class assault carrier.
Design
The CPV-class heavy destroyer features a roughly teardrop-shaped fore section that droops downward, forming a bulbous protrusion; the dorsal surface of this section contains a recessed area. Near the aft end, the hull splits into six sleek, winglike structures. The shortest pair face outward at a slightly upward angle, the mid-sized structures curve upward at an inward-facing angle, and the largest structures curve downward, also facing inward.
CPVs carry large complements for ground engagements, including numerous infantry and ground vehicles. They also carry a large number of aircraft, including Seraph exoatmospheric fighters and Banshee attack craft, and Vampire atmospheric fighters. CPVs can also use their gravity lifts to help assemble prefabricated bases.
Armament
The CPV destroyer is built for heavy combat. It is armed with ventrally mounted pulse laser turrets, which can provide point defense, particularly against single ships. The destroyer is also equipped with several plasma torpedo turrets; two of these turrets are mounted on the inside of each downward-facing wing structure, two more are mounted on the vessel's anterior, and at least two more are mounted laterally. It is also armed with a single ventral energy projector, or "cleansing beam", for use in low-altitude glassing.
Operational history
After the battlecruiser Rapid Conversion began destroying Harvest's population centers in February 2525, many CPV-class heavy destroyers were deployed to continue glassing the planet. CPV-class heavy destroyers were deployed throughout the Harvest Campaign, which lasted from 2526 to 2531. During the Covenant's counterattacks in the early years of the campaign, CPVs were used to glass areas that had been secured by the United Nations Space Command, eradicating most of the human presence on Harvest; this cycle continued until the planet's liberation in February 2531.
Near the end of the Battle of Arcadia, the UNSC Spirit of Fire pursued a CPV to a mysterious planet, which was later revealed to be a Forerunner Shield World. One such vessel, possibly the one that Spirit of Fire pursued from Arcadia, was present at the Shield World; there, it engaged Spirit of Fire after a midair collision between the two ships. The destroyer dispatched several large boarding parties, supported by Banshees, Vampires, and plasma torpedo fire, in an effort to disable the human vessel, though the attack was repelled. UNSC Battle Group Sierra-3 destroyed a CPV-class destroyer at the Battle of 18 Scorpii in 2543.
CPV-class heavy destroyers also appeared in large numbers during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV and the Fall of Reach in 2552.
Charon-class light frigate
Role:
Escort of capital shipsExpeditionary land warfare supportTechnical specifications
Length:
490 meters (1,607 ft 7 in)
Width:
156 meters (511 ft 10 in)
Height:
139.2 meters (456 ft 8 in)
Engine(s):
Naoto Technologies: V4/L-DFR
Slipspace drive:
Series IV CODEN/SFTE
Other system(s):
Energy shielding (circa 2558)
Hull:
60cm Titanium-A battle plate [citation needed]
Armament:
Mark II, Light Coil – 83B6R3/MAC (1)
M58 Archer missile pods (50)30 missiles per pod
M870 Rampart 50mm point defense guns(4x triple-linked)
Unidentified secondary defense guns (6x quad-linked)
Unidentified tertiary point defense guns (3)
M4093 Hyperion nuclear delivery system(3 silos)
Complement:
Total: 782
MarinesOrbital Drop Shock TroopersD96-TCE Albatrosses (2+)
D77/D79-TC Pelicans (12+)Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicles (12+)M12 Force Application Vehicles (20+)M808 Main Battle Tanks (4+)AV-14 HornetsHull and complement
At 490 meters in length, the Charon is a rather small vessel. Owing to its enlarged hangar bay, the Charon-class frigate is better suited to landing forces groundside than other frigate ship's sublight power plant is a Naoto Technologies: V4/L deuterium fusion reactor. Translight power is provided by a Series IV CODEN Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. The Charon has a maximum crew and complement of 782. It can carry several D77 or D79-TC Pelican dropships as well as around two dozen ground and air vehicles.
Armament
The Charon-class frigate's primary armament is a Mark II, Light Coil – 83B6R3 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon. It also boasts fifty M58 Archer missile pods, each of which carries thirty missiles. Two M870 Rampart point defense turrets are mounted on either side of the hull, each of which has three 50mm guns. In addition to the Ramparts, each side of the ship boasts three quad-linked guns of a different type; given their downward-facing orientation, these appear to be designed for both point defense and bombardment akin to the M910 point defense network. A third type of point defense gun is mounted aft, both on the main hull and on the wings. Rather than theShiva-class nuclear missiles carried by most UNSC warships, the Charon sports three M4093 Hyperion silos.
Paris-class heavy frigate
Class:
Frigate
Role:
Escort of capital shipsAtmospheric fire supportTechnical specifications
Length:
535 meters (1,760 ft)
Width:
199 meters (650 ft)
Height:
162.08 meters (531.8 ft)
Engine(s):
Fusion drive (2 primary, 6 secondary)
Slipspace drive:
Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine
Hull:
Titanium-A battle plate
Armament:
Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (1)Archer missiles (50 pods)Point defense guns (12)
Complement:
UNSC MarinesShock TroopersD77-TC Pelican dropshipsSingle Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion VehiclesHistory
Prior to the Insurrection of the late 25th century, the concept of a "heavy" frigate was considered a gross misuse of the UNSC's funding. In the years following the coup d'etat on Eridanus II and the rebels' capture of the UNSC Bellerophon, there was much more support for a shake-up of the UNSC's relatively lax and ill-defended fleet. These upgrades would take effect during the disastrous Operation: TREBUCHET.
Design
The heavy frigate is essentially a more heavily-armored variant of the standard UNSC frigate, equipped with more point-defense guns to provide stronger support in battle situations. The heavy frigate lacks the small hangar present on the standard frigate, but its additional firepower means that it can easily handle Covenant fighter craft and can hold its own against small Covenant warships, as shown when the heavy frigate UNSC Savannah engaged the much larger Covenant corvette Ardent Prayer during the Fall of Reach. Heavy frigates are also capable of atmospheric maneuvering and are occasionally used by the UNSC for ground-support operations.
Starships
Large Military Vessels
FrigatesFrigates are light escort and scouting vessels. They often have extensive GARDIAN systems to provide anti-fighter screening for capital ships, and carry a squad of marines for security and groundside duty. Unlike larger vessels, frigates are able to land on planets.
The most important role filled by frigates is reconnaissance. Sensors, unlike ships and communications employing the mass effect, are limited to the speed of light. Subsequently, a stationary observer can only detect a vessel one light-year away when its light arrives at the observer's location, one year after leaving said vessel.
Because faster-than-light attackers always arrive before defenders can detect them with luminal sensors, attackers can always surprise defenders. For defense, fleets surround themselves with spheres of scouting frigates scanning for enemy ships and transmitting warnings to the main body.
Frigates achieve high FTL cruise speeds because of their high-performance drives. They also have proportionally larger thrusters and lighter design mass, allowing them greater maneuverability. In combat, speed and maneuverability make frigates immune to long-range fire of larger vessels.
In fleet combat, frigates are organized into "wolf pack" flotillas of four to six. Wolf packs speed through enemy formations, hunting enemy vessels whose kinetic barriers have been taken down by fighter-launched disruptor torpedoes. The wolf pack circle-strafes vulnerable targets, using their superior speed and maneuverability to evade return fire.
CruisersCruisers are middle-weight combatants, faster than dreadnoughts, and more heavily-armed than frigates. Cruisers are the standard patrol unit, and often lead frigate flotillas. Cruisers cannot land on medium or high-gravity worlds, but do possess the ability to land on low-gravity planets.
Cruiser-weight starships are the standard combat unit encountered away from large naval bases, the "poor bloody infantry" of most fleets. Nimble scouting frigates have neither the punch nor the stamina to stand up to serious combat, and the mighty dreadnoughts are a strategic resource, carefully hoarded and committed to the most critical battles.
Cruisers perform routine independent "show the flag" patrols in settled systems and lead flotillas of frigates in small engagements, such as pirate suppression campaigns. In major fleet engagements, cruiser squadrons support the dreadnought battle line by screening their flanks against enemies attempting to maneuver for a main gun "bow shot" from their vulnerable broadsides.
CarriersCarriers are dreadnought-sized vessels that carry a large number of fighters. All races provide their fleets with organic fighter support. Cruisers fit a handful in the space between the interior pressure hulls and exterior armor. Dreadnoughts have a hangar deck within the hull. Humans – who had only recently "graduated" from surface to space combat – were the first to build ships wielding fighters as the main armament.
In fleet combat, carriers stay clear of battle, launching fighters bearing disruptor torpedoes. Fighters are the primary striking power of the ship; if a carrier enters mass accelerator range of the enemy, things have gone very wrong.
It is possible to recover and rearm fighters during combat, though most carriers seal the flight deck and try to stay out of the way. The flight deck is essentially a corridor through the armor and into the heart of the vessel. A single well-placed torpedo is enough to gut a carrier.
DreadnoughtsDreadnoughts are kilometer-long capital ships mounting heavy, long-range firepower. They are only deployed for the most vital missions. A dreadnought's power lies in the length of its main gun. Dreadnoughts range from 800 meters to one kilometer long, with a main gun of commensurate length. An 800-meter mass accelerator is capable of accelerating one twenty-kilogram slug to a velocity of 4025 km/s (1.3% the speed of light) every two seconds. Each slug has the kinetic energy of about 38 kilotons of TNT, about two and a half times the energy released by the fission weapon that destroyed Hiroshima.
The Treaty of Farixen stipulates the amount of dreadnoughts a navy may own, with the turian peacekeeping fleet being allowed the most. The turians have 37 dreadnoughts, the asari had 21, the salarians had 16.