Warspite-class Battle Carrier

The is an ancient and venerable warship once considered a shameful but now desperately pressed back into service. Considered a true fleet carrier, the Battle Carrier once again makes its presence known as the Swords of Sanghelios hastily refit it for war. 
Originally designed during a period of war, the shipwright responsible saw deficiencies in the Covenant's military, with multi-purpose military ships being ill suited to long term military campaigns. In an effort to save his loyal brothers and ensure victory, he designed a warship dedicated solely to the waging of war. He oversaw the design and building of the first OSS-class Battle Carrier. With its mixture of weapons and fighters, it secured victory. Sangheili Fleet Masters admired the ship for its power, and at first clamoured for the ship, but the Prophets feared its raw power, and the risk it posed to the balance of power, so had the ship marked as an Executioner, an indelible stain against its honour. Sealed away, these ships disappeared from common knowledge. 
When the Sword sought out warships, they pulled the old Battle Carriers from mothballed ghost fleets and abandoned ship yards. Possessing large complements of fighters and bombers, and long range fire power intended to hammer any warships to pieces. Unlike the more support orientated carriers preferred by the Prophets, the Warspite possesses armour and weapons that allow it to compete with Battlecruisers and Heavy Cruisers in short ranged fire fights. Once again, these ancient vessels haunted the Covenant. During their original design, they were armed with a newly designed Esoteric weapon, the Vezax-pattern Cluster Torpedo Array, which used its own independent Hyperscanner array to fire a volley of torpedoes designed to explode into a wall of smaller plasma cluster charges, each individually steered to maximise lethality. This could be used to take down squadrons of strike craft, to lay a minefield, to level a settlement in waves of burning plasma, or to coat a single target in waves of plasma fire. Such weapons were removed or deactivated, such was their destructive potential, but were reactivated to serve the Swords of Sanghelios.
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