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Subject: The Largest Covenant Ship Ever in Reach

Its a trap!!!

I hope my title grabed you to at least look. I was doing some brainstorming for a BTB map inside a covie vessel

The ship will be an immense cargo vessel trumping even the largest covenant cruisers. It will be huge and resemble a whale or somesorta large sea creature. The Cargo hold will be the maps main stage. The map itself will be as big as Sandtrap..minus the minefeild that surrounds the main play area

It will have flavor text like midships "Don't let its luxury fool you - the Pious Inquisitor is one of the fastest ships in the Covenant fleet."

Instead "Ships Name is the largest covenant vessel and holds 3 cargo holds all the same size" I am sure it could be said better. But this will help give the illusion that this ship is of epic proportions.

So we will have the main area which will be big. On the one side we will have a large forcefield window even taller then a scarab and as long as the whole wall. The Forcfeild will look out into outerspace to the Sangheili Homeworld (another map Idea I had) plus some stars and cool nebulas.

In the very back there would be some inoperatable vehicles like a Scarab... But maybe you can use the anti air turret..or not. I would balance it because the scarab is in maitenace and the worms are having trouble fixing the gun so it needs to have alonger cool down rate. And its only on level to deal with air anyway. So the weapon would have a charge meeter to show when its ready. There will also be Seraph Starfighters. They are inanimate but can blow hurting a player

There will also be all the covenant halo 3 vechicles at the players desposal at each base. The bases will be random structures at the ends of the cargo hold. Along the oposite wall of the big space window will be some narrow corridors and rooms as for CQC fights. And are better alternante routs around the chaotic outside.

You will also see many plasma turrets and shade turrets

Also one of these rooms will be the survelience room. That you can look at cameras to see whats going on in various places on the map. Not all parts will be exposed but it is an advantage. This would also be a great place for the Sword to spawn or cammo

I would also like to see them put a jetpack in the game and for it to be used on the level. The ceiling of this place would definetly be high since you can fly a banshee around... but hey I used sandtrap as the model size

And this map I would like to make most stuff forgeable and for it to be like a foundry when deleted and the wall opposite of the space window can be sealed off

I also had another idea. Make a hole in the ship have a crashed pelican in the cargo hold with a small fire. The metal in the cargo hold could be shredded up a bit around the pelican. And by the entrance could have the human rocket launcher and some BRs

[Edited on 11.06.2009 12:00 AM PST]

  • 11.05.2009 11:58 PM PDT

Well, I can't really decide... it sounds great, but I feel like somethings missing from it.

  • 11.06.2009 12:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: Peruvian friend
Well, I can't really decide... it sounds great, but I feel like somethings missing from it.


well by all means add on to it if you can think of something.

I wouldnt make it a baren cargo hold like the Deathstar. I would make many structures in the hold. So as long as that type of idea isnt stuck in your head

yeah if anyone would have a suggestion post a reponse

[Edited on 11.06.2009 12:15 AM PST]

  • 11.06.2009 12:15 AM PDT

Well... how about adding a little area where Wraiths and Phantoms are produced? (Similar to the Assembly map that produces the Scarabs but WAY smaller.)

  • 11.06.2009 12:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: Peruvian friend
Well... how about adding a little area where Wraiths and Phantoms are produced? (Similar to the Assembly map that produces the Scarabs but WAY smaller.)


I like the idea of a research and development center. Halfmade wraith then there are ones you can use. They will spawn in that area

  • 11.06.2009 12:23 AM PDT
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I'll take to the sky! for I am the legendary sky king.

there needs to be a UNSC ship outside of the window as well. umezawa-san

  • 11.06.2009 12:27 AM PDT

Posted by: Madara Umezawa
Posted by: Peruvian friend
Well... how about adding a little area where Wraiths and Phantoms are produced? (Similar to the Assembly map that produces the Scarabs but WAY smaller.)


I like the idea of a research and development center. Halfmade wraith then there are ones you can use. They will spawn in that area


Or unfinished Phantoms with operable plasma turrets. (Located on the sides.)

  • 11.06.2009 12:27 AM PDT

Its a trap!!!

both ideas good

  • 11.06.2009 12:29 AM PDT

Silly me. Just forget that I exist.

=)

[Edited on 11.06.2009 1:46 AM PST]

  • 11.06.2009 1:11 AM PDT

But, there is one other suggestion. You know how you are able to hit a button in the "Longshore" map to extend the bridge? How about adding a button that starts operating the machinery in the cargo hold? For example, you see an unfinished Wraith hanging on a gravity-crane, and then, when you hit the button it'll finish going through it's assembling process, and then another one comes out, etc. Basically, it'll be like watching the Scarabs come out one by one in "Assembly" but with much more machinery in use.

Or, for my next suggestion. There'll be a main switch somewhere on the ship, (This time it doesn't have to be in the cargo hold that you mentioned.) And this switch will trigger the Excavation beam on the ship, and there'll be multiple windows where you can look out of, look down and see a planet getting glassed by the beam, (Most likely Reach.)

  • 11.06.2009 1:14 AM PDT

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I would say this would be a great idea. They should put a game-mode for certain maps where your a squad of UNSC troops(You can be a marine, spartan,or and ODST. It will be random)move through a large map swarming with covenant and find an objective.
Throwing firefight in Reach would be great too.


But the largest Covenant ship is "High Charity", Followed by "Unyielding Hierophant" then the unnamed covenant capital ship in Reach.

  • 11.06.2009 1:26 AM PDT
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Covenant ships all measurements are accurate and definitive.

Assault carrier
length: 17,540ft
span: over 2,828ft

Destroyer
length: 4,920
span: unspecified

Battle ship
length: 656ft
span: unspecified

Cruiser
length: 3,280-4,775ft
span: unspecified

Light cruiser
length: 984ft
span: unspecified

CCS-CLASS Battle cruiser
length: 5,847fr
span: 2,827ft

Supercarrier
length: 17,552ft
span: unspecified

Carrier
length: 4,790ft
span: unspecified

Frigate
length: 3,280ft
span: unspecified

stealth corvette
length: 1,590ft
span: unspecified

Take your pick.


Source: Halo Encyclopedia.

  • 11.06.2009 2:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: DiegoM0927
I would say this would be a great idea. They should put a game-mode for certain maps where your a squad of UNSC troops(You can be a marine, spartan,or and ODST. It will be random)move through a large map swarming with covenant and find an objective.
Throwing firefight in Reach would be great too.


But the largest Covenant ship is "High Charity", Followed by "Unyielding Hierophant" then the unnamed covenant capital ship in Reach.



high charity's more of a city style space station.

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If desired

High Charity
216 miles in diameter.

  • 11.06.2009 2:07 AM PDT

Well out of the ships you suggested, which one would have something similar to our suggestions?

  • 11.06.2009 2:38 AM PDT

Corn, Oil, and Wine... We need more wine...

Well the name would most likely be one of the Covenant flagships, Ascendant Justice. Huge ass thing.

  • 11.06.2009 3:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: Nevermind
Covenant ships all measurements are accurate and definitive.

Assault carrier
length: 17,540ft
span: over 2,828ft

Destroyer
length: 4,920
span: unspecified

Battle ship
length: 656ft
span: unspecified

Cruiser
length: 3,280-4,775ft
span: unspecified

Light cruiser
length: 984ft
span: unspecified

CCS-CLASS Battle cruiser
length: 5,847fr
span: 2,827ft

Supercarrier
length: 17,552ft
span: unspecified

Carrier
length: 4,790ft
span: unspecified

Frigate
length: 3,280ft
span: unspecified

stealth corvette
length: 1,590ft
span: unspecified

Take your pick.


Source: Halo Encyclopedia.


Well bungie set the canon so I would like this to be a new ship. Or it could of been their best ship never to return from a mission to look for a rumored Forerunner world

I want the ship to epic and legendary in proportions. So bigger then the current largest ship. I was thinking around 2 to 2.5 times bigger then the largest

  • 11.06.2009 12:28 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

Excavation beam is really a great idea. It would be some great icing on the cake. I would also like to think of some buttons that are useful to gameplay also.

I liked the survelience room. But I am sure people can come up with more ideas

  • 11.06.2009 12:30 PM PDT
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Rawr Im a dino!

How about as big as sandbox minus gaurdians?

  • 11.06.2009 12:33 PM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

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I'm hoping for a map similar to the area where Master Cheif frist runs into brutes in the novel "First Strike".

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Posted by: Madara Umezawa
Posted by: Nevermind
Covenant ships all measurements are accurate and definitive.

Assault carrier
length: 17,540ft
span: over 2,828ft

Destroyer
length: 4,920
span: unspecified

Battle ship
length: 656ft
span: unspecified

Cruiser
length: 3,280-4,775ft
span: unspecified

Light cruiser
length: 984ft
span: unspecified

CCS-CLASS Battle cruiser
length: 5,847fr
span: 2,827ft

Supercarrier
length: 17,552ft
span: unspecified

Carrier
length: 4,790ft
span: unspecified

Frigate
length: 3,280ft
span: unspecified

stealth corvette
length: 1,590ft
span: unspecified

Take your pick.


Source: Halo Encyclopedia.


Well bungie set the canon so I would like this to be a new ship. Or it could of been their best ship never to return from a mission to look for a rumored Forerunner world

I want the ship to epic and legendary in proportions. So bigger then the current largest ship. I was thinking around 2 to 2.5 times bigger then the largest


you cannot invent cannon and slip it into the story. The covenant don't make specialized ships what they make are mass produced and copies.

Do you have any idea how bloody huge some of those ships are!

  • 11.06.2009 10:55 PM PDT

How to spell "space"?

S-P-ACE! SPACE!

Thi' shi' 's biggeh, boi!

:)

  • 11.06.2009 11:10 PM PDT

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no offense 'stosh', but I don't think you're funny
Posted by: stosh
No offense, but I don't think you're the armor 'king'.
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Maybe like the Flood Level in Halo CE, where Keys gets Floodulized.

  • 11.06.2009 11:18 PM PDT

Its a trap!!!

Posted by: Nevermind
Posted by: Madara Umezawa
Posted by: Nevermind
Covenant ships all measurements are accurate and definitive.

Assault carrier
length: 17,540ft
span: over 2,828ft

Destroyer
length: 4,920
span: unspecified

Battle ship
length: 656ft
span: unspecified

Cruiser
length: 3,280-4,775ft
span: unspecified

Light cruiser
length: 984ft
span: unspecified

CCS-CLASS Battle cruiser
length: 5,847fr
span: 2,827ft

Supercarrier
length: 17,552ft
span: unspecified

Carrier
length: 4,790ft
span: unspecified

Frigate
length: 3,280ft
span: unspecified

stealth corvette
length: 1,590ft
span: unspecified

Take your pick.


Source: Halo Encyclopedia.


Well bungie set the canon so I would like this to be a new ship. Or it could of been their best ship never to return from a mission to look for a rumored Forerunner world

I want the ship to epic and legendary in proportions. So bigger then the current largest ship. I was thinking around 2 to 2.5 times bigger then the largest


you cannot invent cannon and slip it into the story. The covenant don't make specialized ships what they make are mass produced and copies.

Do you have any idea how bloody huge some of those ships are!


more then you know i can even compare their dimensions to the Halo ring, super star destroyers, the star trek ships, and etc

Show me where I can find a source that says. The Covenant can only have these ships at the time and that they have to produce mass quatantees of them or else no.

And also tell me what says that the covenant cant make any prototype vessels that werent in mass production yet

and the reason why i wanted it bigger then the really big covie vessels were 2 reasons. The ship can have the illusion of being more epic and there for not your run of the mill cruiser
secondly i did it because of the size of the cargo. I want the illusion that ship can carry 2 more of these cargo holds. I am guessing that all the covenant ships dont have cargo areas that big especially 2 more of them.

I just dont remember out of all the books I read that the covenant could absolutley not have any other ships that were listed especialy the possibility of a secret prototype

[Edited on 11.07.2009 12:24 AM PST]

  • 11.07.2009 12:18 AM PDT

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Hmm just had a cool idea since Peruvian friend came up with the idea of this to be a vehicle manufacturing vessel. Perhaps this ship carries lots of vehicles for battle. And can even make its own and replace destroyed ones. Or create extra over the quantity that it can hold since I am sure that the ship could contain an entire ground invasion force by itself

  • 11.07.2009 12:28 AM PDT

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