CCT-Class Heavy Patrol Cruiser

DESCRIPTION:
 
CCT-Class Heavy Patrol Crusiers where used by the covenant (and later the Banished) as colonial defence ships and space stations defence as well. These ships are similar in design of a ccs-class battlecruiser from afar. The only way to distinguish them from a CCS is by the long spine on top of the ships hull.
HISTORY AND ARMAMENT : 
The ships where out fitted with a slip space drive, shielding and on very rare occasions cloaking technology making them almost invisible. This allowed the ships to travel undetected by any UNSC scanners. 
Their Hull was made out of Nanolaminate and equipped with inner energy shielding. They where typically armed with fifty two Meilusean-Pattern heavy plasma cannons, twenty Our-Pattern plasma torpedoes and one Vendrax-Pattern heavy plasma lance. Surprisingly this type of ship was lightly armed compared to other cruisers but it’s main weapon was it’s self. The ship would charge an enemy vessel and ram it hoping to destroy the vessel. The sacrificial behaviour of this ships ment that they had to be constantly manufactured in covenant ship yards. 
One of these ship yards would be camtured by Atriox and the banished giving them more fire power to tackle both the humans and the covenant. 
This class of ship was normally commanded by brutes due to the age of the class. This however was something the brutes overlooked when combating an enemy. It didn’t stop the cruisers from ramming and putting a hole in a carrier of superior fire power. It was also the ramming feature that caused the covenant time and money to build them. 
They would see battle right up to the end of the covenant empire and into the years of the covenant remnants, finding service in Jul Mdama’s covenant, The Swords of Sangheilios, The Banished and The Haunted as base security, planetary blockades, surface bombardment, stealth missions and suicide attacks.
The two most notable ships of this class where the cruisers ‘Effective Discourse’ and ‘Eternal Vision’. They where the two ships on patrol near Arcadia when the ‘Pompeii’ and its support group arrived. The two ships would attempt to engage and managed to destroy at least two destroyer before the ‘Pompeii’ and the remaining destroyers the ‘Armistice’ and ‘One for the Money’fired upon the cruisers. The ‘Effective Discourse’ was destroyed first followed by the ‘Eteranl Vision’.
LIST OF KNOWN SHIPS:
* Effective Discourse
* Eturnal Vision
* Constant Tribulation
* Destructive Ascension 
Category:Covenant ships
Category:Cruiser classes