Nue Advance Fighter

The is an advanced fighter, first utilized by the Obsidian Circle, then later the Swords of Sanghelios as an elite superiority fighter. With no equal, save perhaps the F-290A Cutlass, the Nue is a tremendous force-multiplier for any battle. 
==Description==
===Role===
As an advanced fighter, the Nue's role is to excel in all areas. It exceeds the Seraph and Tengu
in armament, speed, and agility, and carries the capability to devastate fighters, or warships in combat. Its advanced avionics give it a noticeable edge in combat, and the passive stealth features furthers the distance between itself and other fighters. 
The Nue is primarily left in the hands of the most elite and capable pilots, who can best make use of it's unique capabilities to bring victory. 
===Armour and Protection===
===Weapons===
As befitting its role as superiority fighter, the Nue is equipped with a variety of powerful weapons. It carries four Vidan Kha-pattern Heavy Plasma Cannons as its primary weapon. Each is a work of art, with intricate plasma coils, laser powered cooling shrouds that force a web like lattice around the gun, and new plasma generators carrying all the hallmarks of Forerunner artifice. Each cannon is incredibly precise, and can rapidly fire for prolonged periods, tearing even heavily armoured fighters to pieces. The gravitic mirrors used to focus it are so precise they can be direct to hit any target in a cone around it. 
Secondary to this, is a hidden weapon. Beneath the cockpit, it carries a powerful Stov Marh-pattern Phased Pulse Laser. Perhaps the most powerful pulse laser in terms of power to weight ratio, the laser can fire a protected beam for almost three seconds, and is capable of cutting into warship armour with ease. Closer to a warship grade pulse laser, the Stov Marh-pattern is so prohibitively expensive that it can't be made in any great numbers. The Nue must open up to fire, making it vulnerable for a few short moments. 
===Sensors and Electronics===
===Engines and Powerplant===
==History==
===Development===
The Nue was originally designed as part of the Dreadnaught program, a plan to build a colossal warship to bring the San'Shyuum to heel during the War of Beginnings. Unlocking ancient Forerunner secrets, unsealing ancient vaults, and rapidly accumulating their knowledge, they hoped to gain parity with the San'Shyuum's own Forerunner ship. One element of this was creating a strikefighter that would grant them superiority in battle. To this end, they examined the husks of recovered Despair-class Fighters, looking into incorporating their technologies and wonders into Sangheili war machines.
The Nue unfortunately never left prototyping. As the first prototypes underwent testing, the Council overrode Arbiter Gorre 'Refum and agreed to peace, placing the entire Dreadnought project in jeopardy. The few prototypes finished were destroyed in acts of sabotage, denying them, and their technologies, to their hated enemy. They became a sacrifice, necessary to hide the Dreadnought. With the San'Shyuum became convinced that the secret project only concerned new fighters, and pursued those involved, allowing the Dreadnought to remain hidden. San'Shyuum analysis of the recovered wrecks informed many advances that lead to early Covenant craft, though these were imperfect replicas created from partially damaged fighters, resulting in their derivatives being equally imperfect. 
A surviving example, and the design plans, were hidden in a Temple to Kalmaras on the world of Vurssak. Following the end of the War of Beginnings, Vurssak's Forerunner weather control systems were damaged by San'Shyuum exploration, causing them to rapidly fail, and render the world dead and lifeless. The temple fell to ruin, until it was occupied by the Obsidian Circle. Making their hidden base on this world, they discovered the Nue fighter, and made it their primary fighter craft. In the resulting attacks on the Swords of Sanghelios, the Nue fighters quickly laid their Sword contemporaries low. This prompted the launch of an operation to find, and recover the design. With the mission a success, the Sword implemented the Nue with their existing Keystones, finalising the design, and launching it.
===Use with the Swords of Sanghelios===
==Variants==
Category:Covenant Aircraft