Halo: Mass Contact

by BattleshipFusou

Thirty-five years have past since the end of the Human-Covenant War. Having reclaimed most all its previous glory, the UNSC exploration locates a massive artificial construct in the outer orbit of a star. While investigating the object alongside their Sangheili allies, new aliens come forth from the construct and bring humanity into a fate they never expected. ON HIATUS

6. Christmas Info Dump

Sorry, but since I'm spending Christmas with my family, there's no new chapter today or possibly tomorrow, though rest assured, I am working on the next chapter. For the time being though, please enjoy a big info dump with a couple new ship classes you'll be seeing shortly, and the rest of the information on the Audacity class.

So first off:

Name: Constantinople

Class: Constantinople class Heavy Destroyer

Designation: CDS-001

Length: 529 meters

Width: 127 meters

Height: 227 meters

Tonnage: 10,796 tons empty

Weapons:

2x 600 ton MAC guns

52x Archer missile pods

8x Pulse laser turrets

22x 50mm AI controlled autocannons

3x 65megaton Corona nuclear missiles

4x FIGMENT nuclear stealth mines

Defenses:

Heavy shields

2.5 meters of Neo-Titanium armor

Special:

Reinforced bow for ramming

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Name:Hermes

Class: Hermes class Scout-Corvette

Hull Designation: SCV - 271

Length: 323 meters

Width: 107 meters

Height: 66 meters

Armor: 75 cm Neo-Titanium

Weapons:

1 250 ton MAC

2 Plasma Turrets

6 Pulse Laser Turrets

12 50mm Point Defense Cannons

Extra:

Prototype Meta-Material stealth hull coating

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Class: CFS class Fleet Carrier
Length: 57,923 meters
Height: 14,022 meters
Width: 21,350 meters

Weapons:

1,875 Energy Projectors
12,500 Plasma Torpedoes
180,300 Pulse Laser Turrets
970 Particle Lance Acceleration Ring Turrets
12,060 Onager Mass Accelerator Point Defense Turrets

Compliment docked on board:
1,600,000 Siren Assault fighters (Next Generation Banshee)
240,000 Seraph fighter/bombers
22 CCS class Battlecruisers
44 SDV class Heavy Corvettes

With a main hangar upon its back capable of docking and holding even the frightening CSO class Super Carrier, the CFS class Fleet Carrier admirably lives up to its designation able to carry and fully supply and repair its own escort fleet of battle cruisers and heavy corvettes along with nearly two million fighter craft capable of both atmospheric and space combat.

While a good deal less heavily armed than the only marginally larger SBN class Super Battleship, the CFS class is no less capable of being a pivotal force of the battlefield with the ability to deploy entire legions of arms with full support and even begin the construction of cities and fleet support points, The CFS class Fleet Carrier is not to be under estimated.

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Name: Audacity
Class: Audacity class Battle Dreadnought
Designation: BDN-000
History: A design far ahead of its time, the Audacity was the final class of ship designed Dr. Robert Mclees before his death during the siege of Earth. Based heavily on captured Forerunner and Covenant technology, the Audacity class was to feature weapons, armor, hull plating, shielding, and slip space technology that at the time were all purely theoretical. Towards the end of the UNSC-Covenant war, most every bit of technology scraped from the Covenant and the Forerunners was put into the Infinity class ships which served as an important testing bed and proving ground for much of the technology that would be necessary to construct the Audacity.

When it was finally deemed acceptable to begin construction, ONI funneled away funding from nearly all sectors of the government in order to pay for the lead ship, Audacity, which was being built deep in dark space between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Resources to construct the massive ship were provided by shunting massive asteroids through slip space under the guise of testing more accurate drives and sensor systems. These asteroids were then melted down and forged into the main hull of the ship in a method similar to that used by the Covenant observed during Operation: PROMETHEUS.

The hull of the Audacity class was designed from the bottom up by Dr. McLees it seemed as a spiritual successor to the now famous Halcyon class as the ship features the same honey-combed hull with thousands of structural reinforcements and hydraulic presses able to be activated in an emergency to maintain hull integrity. The Audacity's hull also benefits from a new alloy known as Neo-Titanium which is the TUG's first major step towards reproducing Forerunner hull materials.

The weapons systems of the Audacity class are built around a main quartet of 15,000 ton MACs able to accelerate their projectiles to 70% the speed of light. Heavy plasma turrets fair superior to normal Covenant versions are also featured prominently into the Audacity's weapon layout, all of which feature the so called 'Cortana' upgrades which refine the standard plasma torpedo into a needle thin lance with far superior capabilities.

The newest weapon built deep in the belly of the Audacity class is a special device based off of the remains of several marginally intact Forerunner dreadnoughts. This weapon is known as the SSRG for short and what it does is cause an uncontrolled, so to speak, slip space rupture to form at a precise set of coordinates where everything taken in by the portal is transitioned to nothing more than atomized bits. An example of the affect such a portal has can be observed in the surviving footage of the destruction of the Covenant Super Carrier, Long Night of Solace.