CCS-class battlecruiser

The CCS-class battlecruiser, referred to by the Covenant as the Salvation-class, is a capital warship used by the Covenant Navy.
== Specifications ==
=== Overview ===
The CCS-class battlecruiser is a mid-sized capital ship that is used in both offensive and defensive roles. The ship's large personnel and equipment capacity makes it ideal for infantry, vehicle, and matériel deployments during ground engagements. While not the largest warship in service with the Covenant fleet, is the most prominent of the Covenant's ships, and is used in large numbers at the heart of nearly every Covenant invasion force. They are often deployed in three-ship battle groups, or as command vessels for frigate and corvette flotillas.
=== Superstructure and hull ===
The CCS-class cruiser has a length of 1,782 meters, a width of 862 meters and a height of 230.8 meters, with a dry mass of 90.7 million metric tons. Like all Covenant starships, the vessel's superstructure is composed of a cobalt-nanodiamond composite with an outer hull of superdense nanolaminate plating. This hull structure is incredibly resilient, able to endure high-velocity kinetic impacts and direct strikes from energy weapons for a significant amount of time before structural integrity begins to degrade.
=== Power generation and propulsion ===
The CCS derives shipboard power from a pair of pinch fusion reactors, with two heavy repulsor engines for sublight propulsion and a slipspace borer for superluminal travel.
=== Armament and defenses ===
CCS-class battlecruisers are heavily armed and shielded. The ship's primary weapon is a ventrally-mounted heavy plasma lance. Secondary weapons include pulse laser turrets, plasma torpedo launchers and plasma cannon batteries. The ship's energy shields are capable of withstanding a significant amount of hostile weapons fire before failing.
=== Crew and compliment ===
A CCS-class requires a standard crew of 1,200 personnel, with a total troop contingent of 6,780. The ship's air wing comprises a full squadron of Type-31 Seraph fighters, as well as a number of dropships. Embarked ground vehicles include Type-46 Spectres, Type-29 Shadows, and Type-26 Wraiths.
=== Internal layout ===
==== Control center ====
Located amidships and directly above the primary muster bay, the control center is a large, rectangular space with a centralized, elevated command platform overlooking the rest of the room. Holographic controls and screens line the outer perimeter of the raised circular dais, while holographic viewscreens at the forward end of the room near the ceiling are linked directly to the vessel's auspex array.
==== Detention block ====
The CCS has a large detention block located towards the stern of the ship, comprising eight separate brigs, with four on either side of a central corridor secured by code-locked, forcefield-reinforced blast doors. Each is a rectangular room, secured with a blast door, four forcefield-secured cells on either side perpendicular to the entrance. The forcefields can be raised and lowered by a control panel on a raised platform at the far end of the brig opposite the entrance.
==== Cargo bays ====
The CCS-class battlecruiser has multiple storage bays. Retracting elevators in the decking of each bay are used to transfer both land and air vehicles into the ship's hangar bays for launching or for connection to a waiting dropship.
==== Hangar bays ====
The battlecruiser features four bisected hangar bays; two to starboard and two to port. Each bay spans three decks vertically, with loading piers and docking berths on each level to facilitate efficient large-scale troop deployment and fighter launch/retrieval. The bays feature electromagnetic barriers over the openings to allow ships to pass through them while retaining atmosphere and pressure inside the ship when the external doors are open. Each launch area in the bay is capable of housing dropships and fighter craft.
==== Gravity lift ====
== Ships of the line ==
=== Ket-pattern ===
Harbinger of Piety
Truth and Reconciliation
Endurance of Faith
Keeper of Light
=== Elefen-pattern ===
Indulgence of Conviction
Sanctity of Purification
Triumphant Declaration
Sacred Esteem
Rapid Conversion
=== Demavan-pattern ===
Certainty of Purpose
Pious Inquisitor
Purity of Spirit
Purveyor of Serenity
Sacred Promise
Undiminished Entelechy
=== Unknown pattern ===
Zealous Missionary - Participated in the Battle of Installation 05, captured by a joint UNSC-Covenant separatist strike force.
CCS-U321 - Participated in the Battle for Arcadia, destroyed by the UNSC cruisers Texas, Belfast, Armstrong and Pillar of Autumn after it was caught with its shields down.
CCS-U624 - Participated in the Battle for Arcadia.
CCS-U957 - Participated in the Battle of Helghan.
CCS-U996 - Participated in the Battle of Helghan, destroyed by a missile barrage from the UNSC cruisers New Sun and Bright Dawn after its shields were disabled by a nuclear missile launched from the UNSC Epoch.
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