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Subject: Realistic Covenant Fleet

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If the Covenant were to send a small Fleet to recover a Forerunner artifact, but expected Human resistance in the location of the artifact (a Inner Colony World), what would be a realistic Fleet?

Number of ships? Types of ships? Leader ship?

  • 04.12.2011 6:06 PM PDT
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Semper Fictor

Dozens, maybe even hundreds. All of them military vessels.

  • 04.12.2011 6:10 PM PDT

the phrase "zerg rush" comes to mind

  • 04.12.2011 6:10 PM PDT

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Yikes. I first thought a dozen.

  • 04.12.2011 6:11 PM PDT

I am Field Master Avu Med 'Telcam, Servant of the Abiding Truth, and I have many brothers.

A god who creates tools is still a god. It is not for us to impose qualifications upon the divine or presume to guess its intentions.

A typical Covenant Fleet is roughly 100 warships, but if you were mentioning a "small fleet" that is called a Covenant Task Force. Either way, the types of ships would more than likely vary from a CCS-class Battlecruiser, a Covenant Destroyer, and as the flagship (Correct term for leader ship), an Assault Carrier. This is all based off the idea you are using a small amount of vessels. As for the Commander of this operation, you could use either a Field Marshall or a Fleet Master, both known to command a small forces of ships.

  • 04.12.2011 6:11 PM PDT

Ignore my gamertag. It's actually Dragonzzilla.

Posted by: matman25402
A typical Covenant Fleet is roughly 100 warships, but if you were mentioning a "small fleet" that is called a Covenant Task Force. Either way, the types of ships would more than likely vary from a CCS-class Battlecruiser, a Covenant Destroyer, and as the flagship (Correct term for leader ship), an Assault Carrier. This is all based off the idea you are using a small amount of vessels. As for the Commander of this operation, you could use either a Field Marshall or a Fleet Master, both known to command a small forces of ships.
Thank you.

  • 04.12.2011 6:13 PM PDT

It would depend on the importance of the human colony. Something like Reach was guarded by over 100 ships, in addition to 20 Super MAC orbital guns and thousands of ground assets. The Covenant used over 250 ships there.

Typically I would want a super cruiser or assault carrier, 20 or so cruisers and an equal number of destroyers.

  • 04.12.2011 6:13 PM PDT

Depends on the Artifact, they sent over 300 ships to Reach just for a crystal they didn't recover until a couple of weeks later in slipspace, even if they were just fragments.

Lets say it's a small planet such as Arcadia, low population, not much of resistance. They would send around a dozen ships, possibly more. They sent over 30 just for Onyx which barely had a fleet to defend. So it would definitely be a high number.

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I am Field Master Avu Med 'Telcam, Servant of the Abiding Truth, and I have many brothers.

A god who creates tools is still a god. It is not for us to impose qualifications upon the divine or presume to guess its intentions.

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Posted by: matman25402
A typical Covenant Fleet is roughly 100 warships, but if you were mentioning a "small fleet" that is called a Covenant Task Force. Either way, the types of ships would more than likely vary from a CCS-class Battlecruiser, a Covenant Destroyer, and as the flagship (Correct term for leader ship), an Assault Carrier. This is all based off the idea you are using a small amount of vessels. As for the Commander of this operation, you could use either a Field Marshall or a Fleet Master, both known to command a small forces of ships.
Thank you.
If you have any other Covenant related questions I'd be happy to help.

  • 04.12.2011 6:15 PM PDT

I don't think the Covenant knew about the Forerunner artefacts on Reach when they initially attacked, I think they sent so many ships because they knew Reach was an incredibly important and well-defended human world.

  • 04.12.2011 6:19 PM PDT

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I don't think the Covenant knew about the Forerunner artefacts on Reach when they initially attacked, I think they sent so many ships because they knew Reach was an incredibly important and well-defended human world.


They did. An artifact on Sigma Octanus IV led them to Reach. Also Reach had Humans. Covenant wanted all of Humanity dead. Therefore they attacked Reach.

  • 04.12.2011 6:26 PM PDT

The sneaky little probe that attached itself to the Iroquois lead the Covenant to Reach, the artefact on Sigma IV held the location of Halo, which is how Cortana found it in the first place.

  • 04.12.2011 6:30 PM PDT
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The number and type of ships at Sigma Octanus may provide a decent comparison. First they sent in a carrier, destroyer, and two frigates, encountered resistance, and then returned with a much larger fleet. Anyone want to check the size/composition of the fleet they came back with?

The sneaky little probe that attached itself to the Iroquois lead the Covenant to Reach, the artefact on Sigma IV held the location of Halo, which is how Cortana found it in the first place.

The artifact held both the location of Halo and Reach. Cortana uses some of the information on it to find Halo, and Ackerson(and later Halsey) discovers some of the information on it points to Reach. I believe this is also confirmed in an interview somewhere with Eric Nylund/Trautmann.

The way I've seen is that the probe let the Covenant know that Reach was a Human held world, and the artifact let them know there was important forerunner stuff to be found.

[Edited on 04.12.2011 6:54 PM PDT]

  • 04.12.2011 6:33 PM PDT

Yes, really

First a few dozen, to assess the power of the Humans, then as many as deemed necessary.

  • 04.12.2011 6:49 PM PDT