UNSC Preston J. Cole

The UNSC Preston J. Cole was one of ONI Section 3 last ditch weapon plans in the war against the Covenant and created in secret. Easily dwarfing most ships, both Covenant and UNSC. They are fearsome ships, using dozens of experimental technologies to create the most fearsome fighting ships to ever haunt the stars. Armed with the new experimental fighter defence, the SPARTAN laser turret which used a pair of dual SPARTAN lasers to burn through Seraphs with ease, an advanced nuclear fusion reactor first pioneered by the but uses six sub reactors to power three reactors, one that powers the ship systems and engines, the other to power weapon and countermeasure systems and the final one powers its manoeuvring engines for aiming its MAC guns or evading more powerful Covenant weapons. To ensure its survival, a Covenant torpedo counter-guidance system was integrated into its defense mechanisms, recieved as a good will gesture from the Sangheili at the beginning of the Great Schism and subsequently reverse-engineered by ONI scientists.
It sports two forward facing Super MAC guns, capable of easily destroying the heaviest of covenant ships in a single blow or aimed at one then fired one at a time at two different targets. It mounts eight standard MACs on turrets that are designed to defeat frigates and destroyers closing on the ship. While it possesses an outside bridge which is heavily armoured it has another bridge buried deeper inside the ship though rarely used except in the destruction of the primary bridge. It houses large complements of Marine forces and Longswords, making it as effective as a carrier. They were built in separate pieces over dozens of systems, including a large chunk being made in various places such as Reach and the Sol system. They were secretly put in the system by Red-0112. Its armor is incredibly thick, even compared to other cruisers. Nobody has released a cost on it and rumour has it ONI paid and created it with a mixture of mass extortion, slave labour and other underhand methods but these are only rumours. It is the first of three experimental Battleships being built in secret.
Category:Battleships
Category:Individual UNSC Ships