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Subject: YOUR Halo ship: Haloverse realistic only
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UNSC: Soft-Heartened Devil
Hull Classification: Spartan (ancient one) with helmet, behind is spears and shield.
CLASS: Prototype Destroyer Myrmidon-class
Manufacturer: UNSC Navy
Created: September 23rd, 2554
Length: 556 meters
Width: 345 meters
Height: 395 meters
Engine unit(s): Hybrid Fusion Drives (1) and secondary fusion drives (2)
Slip Space Drive: Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine Mark II
Power Plant: Cold Fusion Nuclear Reactor (1) and secondary deuterium reactors (2)
Shielding: Limited Shielding; only can resist a plasma hit before it flickers out.
Hull: 2.1 meter of Titanium-A Battle-Plate; hardened carbon carbide under-skin
Navigation Systems/Electronic Systems: Smart AI: Vladamir
Armaments:
Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (2)- Heavy Variant fires 700-tonnage inner-hardened tungsten with outer depleted uranium core. Light variant fires 450 ton, ferric chloride-tungsten "shredder" rounds.
Shiva Nuclear Warheads (6)
NOVA Nuclear Warheads (1) for emergency reasons.
Over-sized Archer Missiles Pods- Note: Each over-sized Pods consists 100 missiles each. (25)
50mm Point Defense Guns (28)
Pulse Lasers (8)
Experimental Plasma Turrets-Torpedoes(12)- Three turrets on each of side.
Complement:
550 Navy Personnel
600 Marines
50 ODSTs
Mark II Pelicans
MBT Scorpion (later A8 Tiger)
Warthogs- variant: Scouts, LAAG, Troop Transport, Guass and Rockets.
Ammunition complements
Supplies complements

History:

It was created in September 23rd, 2554, few weeks after Savior of the Damned was created, assigned to duty of protecting the flagship. As ONI assigned a SPARTAN-II to commander the Savior of the Damned, he promoted to unique rank that were granted is called Noble. (It is sorta like Specter rank for Mass Effect.) He decided to assemble a battle-group, consisting twenty-one ships thus Soft-Heartened Devil was assigned to his battle-group. Then he will proceed to start his mission to retrieve Dr. Halsey with her SPARTANs then wipe out any remaining covenant loyalists at any occupied colonies.

[Edited on 04.20.2011 5:52 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 8:07 AM PDT

I made the Savior that large for a number of reasons:

1: It's more impressive that way.
2: The size of the ship made it more resilient against Flood attacks
3: The Array requires a great amount of space for it's firing mechanisms, and an equally large amount of space for the power source to supply it.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 1:31 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 1:31 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

Name: UNSC Gambier Bay

Hull: CVL-73
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Class: Light Carrier

Original Build: UNSC Heavy Frigate
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Slipspace Drive: UNSC Merchantman 104-B

Powerplant: 4 Mark 3 Fusion Reactors
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Hull: 30cm Titanium A battleplate
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Countermeasures: None
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Armament: 1 Mark 4 MAC gun, 6 Archer Missile Pods, 5 Mark 8 deck guns
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Complement:
12 Longsword Interceptors, 5 Rapier Dive Bombers, 7 Claymore Heavy Bombers

Crew: 80 Pilots, 200 Airdale crewmen, 500 crewmen, 250 Officers, 50 Marines
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Compartments: Flight Deck, Landing Bay, Deck Gun Control, Combat Information Flight Center, Bridge, Berthings.

Armory: M6Ds(100) MA5(75) M90s(50)
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History: With the UNSC Losing huge amounts of materiel to the Covenant it became apparent that all large tonnage ships needed to be saved for large scale engagements. However, supplies and aircraft still needed to make it to the frontlines.

Thus the Casablanca class light carrier was designed and built. Built on the frame of a heavy frigate, stripped of half its armor, it's missions include ferrying longswords and other craft to the frontlines, and taking part in carrier task groups.

In combat thanks to it's laughable speed and power (the engines produce 60% of what a destroyer is capable of) it stays out of combat and instead launches all her craft into the fight. Her MAC guns and missiles are used for self defense only and even then, if they end up within range of a Covenant ship, something has gone very wrong.

They are largely a joke within the Fleet, but fulfill a vital job.

  • 04.14.2011 4:19 PM PDT

I like. A kind of escort carrier/merchant ship hybrid.

  • 04.14.2011 5:15 PM PDT

Games I like:,
Half-Minute Hero
MBU
Portal
Halo 3 is the best Halo ever
Maps I like: Turf, Avalanche, Pylon, Sandbox, Breakpoint and many more.

Remember, its a proto-type Heavy destroyer. The original build had 12 Metres titanium armour.

And yes, it is the most heavily armoured ship in the fleet.

  • 04.15.2011 2:32 AM PDT

Posted by: Multijirachi
Remember, its a proto-type Heavy destroyer. The original build had 12 Metres titanium armour.

And yes, it is the most heavily armoured ship in the fleet.


dude, that is over 65 feet of solid armour, that is actually wider than a modern Arleigh Burke class destroyer which is only 59 feet wide. also the time scale in which it was built, towards the end of the war when resources were very very limited, why would someone give something as small as a destroyer 20 metres of armour, that is enough to armour ten normal destroyers when you think about it...? also shields as well, if shielded, why all the armour?

  • 04.15.2011 4:25 AM PDT

Posted by: OniLink147
Posted by: Dustin 6047
i thought it had to be halo-realistic

Some of these ships are just pure god modding. There are only a few that are realistic.


+1 to that, think the 'halo-realistic' point has been very much lost. especially with all the Forerunner faster than light drives, shields and insane amounts of armour. for example only one ship I know of during the war had ten metres of armour, that was Trafalgar which was a rather important asset, that had way more armour than anything else in the fleet.

maybe more 'stringent' rules should be put into place to prevent all this sort of thing. things like no reverse engineered Forerunner drives, since humans probably don't even understand how they work! if a ship is using armour other than Titanium-A, why, please explain the differences so understanding is attained. special weapons, give us some 'background' for the weapon, how its intended to work, why it is there, or else you have no 'feel' for the thing.

  • 04.15.2011 4:56 AM PDT

I'm dual-weildin' mah SMG's!

My UNSC Ship

UNSC: Jester to her Majesty
Hull Classification: Sniper Rifle
CLASS: UNSC Destroyer MkII
Manufacturer: UNSC Navy
Created: October 1st, 2550
Length: 750 meters
Width: 180.5 meters
Height: 150 meters

Engine unit(s): Deuterium nuclear fusion reactor MkII (Cleaner and more sustainable drive created from absorbing particles in slipspace. Doubles the speed and manoeuvrability of the vessel.
Slip Space Drive: Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine.
Power Plant: Primary Hybrid Antimatter Reactor and two secondary deuterium reactors.
Shielding: Shielding based on the Covenant 'Bubble Shield'. Maximum protection, but for only a short time-span (1-2 minutes)
Hull: 2.5 meter of Titanium-A Battle-Plate

Ship Commander Navy Captain Rudy Vendetta
Navigation Systems/Electronic Systems: Leroy, A.I shadow of a covenant Huragok.

Armaments:
Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (2)
Shiva Nuclear Warheads (8)
Over-sized Archer Missiles Pods- Note: Each over-sized Pods consists 100 missiles each. (45)
50mm Point Defence Autocannons (Dual Barrelled) (20)
Complement:
150 Navy Personnel
500 Marines
100 ODSTs
Mark II Pelicans
Vulture Heavy Gunships
Sparrowhawk Light Gunships
Scorpion Tanks
Warthogs- variant: Scouts, LAAG, Troop Transport, Guass and Rockets.
SPARTAN October Squad.
Ammunition complements
Supplies complements


History:
Built as one of 5 specialized Destroyers. Engagements include;
Fall of Reach (2552)
-Assault on Covenant Fleet of Particular Justice along with the 4 Sister Destroyer class ships and UNSC Orbital station Delta (UNSC Jester to her Majesty was the only one to come out of the confrontation)
-Defense of New Alexandria's Orbital Elevators.
- Assault and Destruction on Covenant CCS-Class Battlecruiser inbound for New Alexandria.
-Escort of Civillian Evac ships from Reach.
Battle of Earth (2552)
-Battle of New Mombasa
-Orbital Skirmish over Voi
Battle of Installation 00 (2552)
- Escort of UNSC Frigate Forward Unto Dawn.
-Orbital Battle alongside Covenant Separatist Fleet of Retribution.

UNSC Jester to her Majesty is currently patrolling in formerly Covenant Controlled space for Loyalist forces.




[Edited on 04.15.2011 6:56 AM PDT]

  • 04.15.2011 6:45 AM PDT

nice compromise on shields there, also nice little part about four of them being lost, one remaining adds a bit of character!

on another note, why are there no Light Cruisers, Escort Carriers, Battlecruisers, stuff like that? also why no post-war ships, lots of possibilities around guys!

  • 04.15.2011 3:16 PM PDT

UNSC Guadalcanal (CL-483)

Class: Escort Cruiser (Light Cruiser)
Dimensions: 782 Metres x 101 Metres x 56 Metres
Armour: 2 Metres Titanium-A
Propulsion: 3 Main Engines, 6 Secondary Engines
Power Plant: 2 Deuterium Fusion Reactors
Mass: ~2,250,000 Metric Tons
Crew: 320 Enlisted Personnel, 10 Officers, 1 Smart AI

Armament:

1 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, 80 Oversized Archer Missile Pods, 12 Double Barrel Cannons, 30 Point Defence Guns.

Description:

The Guadalcanal was constructed in 2548 over Mars, one of the first of a new class of Light Cruiser designated the 'Europa' class. These Light Cruisers are specialist fleet vessels and carry no ground forces, there primary function is to escort larger vessels such as carriers into combat zones, with their large battery of cannons they excel at getting close to enemy combatants and engaging at short ranges. Their size puts them almost immediately between Frigates and Cruisers however their two metres of armour offers substantial protection and their powerful engines grant them impressive speed and agility.

Visually Europa class Light Cruisers bare similarities to larger cruisers, looking quite similar to the Halcyon class except for the batteries on both sides. Another notable difference is the triangular arrangement of the main drives and position of secondary drives, also the bridge mounted high up is different from the Halcyon. The Guadalcanal saw action in the Human - Covenant war and was ultimately destroyed at the Battle of Earth, after substantial engagement and stripped of most of her armour she was hit around two thirds down her length by a Covenant Energy Beam which severed the engineering section and caused almost total loss of power.

Reports claim even after the engineering section was severed her main batteries kept firing for around two minutes, until she finally succumbed to the fatal damage, no crew escaped and Guadalcanal went down with all hands. Her hull identification plate was recovered and is now situated at the Museum commemorating the Human - Covenant war for all to see, complete with a plaque containing the names of all her crew.

  • 04.15.2011 3:50 PM PDT

^ I like, but I have a few ideas. As it's a light cruiser, I'd keep the length the same as other cruisers, 1km minimum, and reduce the armour. Traditionally battlecruisers would mount heavy guns on a light hull. And I would increase the crew slightly, 320 seems low for such a large ship.

This isn't really a starship, but it is a Halo vehicle. Another craft I made up for a story I'm working on.

D77-SIC (Stealth Infiltration Craft)

Length:30.5 meters
Wingspan:23.3 meters
Height:10 meters
Weight:146,000 lbs

Propulsion:
Two primary thrust engines located amidships
Ten maneuvering thrusters in four vector pylons
Thrusters incorporate advanced baffle system which drastically reduces audible noise and radiated heat.

Armament:
1x M72 SPL (Stealth Projectile Launcher)

Defenses:
Comprehensive active/passive EM jammer suite
Exterior hull coated in Radar Absorbent Material (RAM)
Lead/Faraday mesh embedded in hull material substrate

Description:

A very rare (and very expensive) variant of the ubiquitous D77 Pelican drop ship. 4,500 hours of labour by specialist fabricators and nearly 3,000,000 credits over the base cost of a standard Pelican yields a draft suitable to covert pickups and drop-offs. The SIC fills a gap in the UNSC fleet. Pelicans are not optimized to infiltrate heavily defended areas, and ODST drop pods provide no method for extraction.

Aside from it's matte black paint job and striking gold canopy, the SIC is to the casual observer almost indistinguishable from a standard D77. The colour is from the coating of radar and lydar absorbing paint that coats 89% of the craft's exterior, excluding only the cockpit windows and engine exhaust ducts. The gold colouring of the canopy is from actual gold mesh embedded in the material, which prevents EM emissions from escaping the cabin.

Mounted under the nose of the SIC is a rather ugly collection of aerials, lenses and sensor ports, which together forms the Advanced Telemetry And Surveillance Package (ATASP). Incorporating thermal, optical and EM sensors, the ATASP provides the SIC an unrivalled view of the battlefield. It even has a built in gas chromatography and mass spectrometer, allowing the SIC to literally smell it's targets.

The majority of the extra labour and cost associate with the SIC come from the installation of the advanced baffle system to the SIC's myriad of thrusters and engines. They require precision manufacturing and installation, and are built from expensive nanocomposites.

The SIC typically operates with a flight-crew of four; a pilot, co-pilot, weapons officer and electronic warfare officer. Unlike standard Pelicans, the SIC can't carry a vehicle or external supply canisters. They would provide a return of radar, negating the SIC's stealth modifications.

The SIC has a light weapons load-out; typically if the situation has deteriorated to the point where the SIC is called to intervene the mission is blown. However if the need arises to quietly dispose of a guard or sentry, the SIC can employ its M72 Stealth Projectile Launcher (SPL).

The M72 is essentially a much-modified M68, the archetypal Gauss cannon carried by anti-armour Warthogs. But where the M68 accelerated a 15cm tungsten slug to hypersonic speeds, the M72 launches a meter-long steel dart at just under the speed of sound. Firing from a revolver-like magazine that holds 6 rounds and function essentially like a very large, very expensive crossbow.

Propelled by magnetism and travelling at less than the speed of sound, the dart can nevertheless hit targets up to 500 meters away and can penetrate thinly armoured targets, like vehicles, windows or walls.

EDIT:
After reading some of the comments about my Forerunner ship, I decided to replicate it with google Sketchup. I haven't gotten very far, but I find it interesting nonetheless. The little speck in the upper left is a model I found of the POA, which is 1170 meters.

Weaponship Scale

[Edited on 04.15.2011 7:59 PM PDT]

  • 04.15.2011 5:34 PM PDT

nice, comprehensive description there like. the ship sketch, is it circular, like a Halo? or is that nothing like what its going to look like in the end?

  • 04.16.2011 11:50 AM PDT

The circle is just the mid-section of the ship, it's going to have a 3-pronged triagular bow like the Forerunner Dreadnought from Halo 2 and 3. The aft section is going to be a 6-sided prisim, with a large triangular fin srt on each of the 6 sides.

[Edited on 04.16.2011 12:07 PM PDT]

  • 04.16.2011 11:53 AM PDT

sweet, should be interesting to see. so its for a piece of fan-fiction? been quite a fan of Halo based short stories as well, its such a potentially rich universe to explore, think Forerunner ships offer huge potential for artistic creativity since the only one we have ever really seen is the Dreadnought, so its a blank slate really.

  • 04.16.2011 12:05 PM PDT

But typically metals have a crystalline structure, it's not arranged into strands like actual polymer.

Anyway, it seems to me that once the UNSC began encountering the Covenant they should have switched to a ceramic armour, which while not as strong as titanium, would be much better at resisting Covenant energy weapons, especially plasma.

  • 04.16.2011 1:59 PM PDT

Screw it, it's the future, maybe they found a way.

Maybe have is so that during the casting process they embed a polymer within the metal structure, something like carbon or kevlar fiber, creating a type of composite armour.

  • 04.16.2011 2:08 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Well it would be a Halcyon class cruiser with-

Posted by: spud
Halo realistic only


Oh.

It would be made of unicorn horns and would fly with fairy wings. Magic dust would shield it and it could shoot giant lollipops and gumdrops at enemy ships to make them happy and not want to fight. It would have two giant robotic arms for hugging other ships.

  • 04.16.2011 2:11 PM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

UNSC California
United States Class
CRU-029

Class: Light Cruiser

Built on: Unique Hull
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Powerplant: 2 Mark 7 UNSC Navy Slipspace Drives
3 UNSC Mark 8 Fusion Drives
12 Emergency thrusters
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Armor: 2 Meters of Titanium A Battleplate, 5 cm of plasma ablasive coating

Armament: 5 M5A2 MAC Guns, 200 Archer Missile Pods, 3 Shiva Thermonuclear warheads, 20 Mark 8 Deck Guns
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Crew: 500 crewmen, 100 officers, 200 Marines, 150 ODSTs, 20 pilots

Complement: 4 Longsword interceptors, 50 lifepods
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Bio: The first UNSC ship designed to attack ships of a smaller tonnage, the United States class was designed to attack Covenant frigates and destroyers, not to attack ships of it's own class.

Its armor reflects this choice, being only as thick as that of a destroyer. However, this removed mass allows for another MAC gun on the bow, more Archer missiles, and space for 12 18 inch diameter deck guns capable of launching high velocity, high explosive, and nuclear loads in a 360* field of fire.

  • 04.16.2011 2:54 PM PDT

composite is the way forward, better overall protection than pure metallic armour, an example six inches of Dorchester armour (Challenger II) is way superior to six inches of steel plate. had composite armour in my post-war ships for a while after doing some research into the thermal properties of materials like Boron Nitride and other similar materials. also electrostatic armour to nullify most of the highly charged plasma, as a concept anyway based entirely on the interactions between plasma and electromagnetic fields.

biggest question for me, what would be the purpose of introducing a polymer to a metallic structure, other than to prevent shattering potentially. it wouldn't change the metallurgical properties of the actual armour material to any real extent, would be better off removing the metallic component completely, replacing it with something like a ceramic material for their superior thermal properties. another thing worth noting, simple reflection is an effective method of heat dissipation since mirrors can reflect some of that energy back toward the source or into space. how much energy is based entirely on what is being fired at it and how perfect your mirror is.

  • 04.16.2011 3:13 PM PDT

^ I don't know, I was just giving the guy some ideas. You'll note that above I suggested replacing titanium armour with a ceramic material.

@ Gottalovec4: Why does your ship have 2 slipspace drives?

[Edited on 04.16.2011 3:34 PM PDT]

  • 04.16.2011 3:31 PM PDT

would guess in-case on breaks? bet Spirit of Fire wishes they had a back-up, ha!

  • 04.16.2011 4:34 PM PDT

"Peace, gentlemen...
Peace is the ultimate goal of the Traxus Project.
Peace not in our time but in the future.
Future generations will benefit from the work begun here today.
Gentlemen, I give you the Traxus Project"

Not entirely sure. For now, either a Covenant seraph, or a small, intact Forerunner vessel.

  • 04.16.2011 5:16 PM PDT
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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.

Covenant Plasma burns at 3000 degrees centigrade right?
Then why are human ships not coated in an outer layer of Tungsten? It resists heat up to 3422 degrees centigrade, as well as having the highest tensile strength of any naturally ocuring material

  • 04.16.2011 6:10 PM PDT