Javelin-class escort carrier (EXverse)

Built from a civilian ship hull, the Javelin-class heavy carrier was a medium-size carrier built by Sinoviet Heavy Machinery for the UNSC Navy, and later for the CMA Navy. Conceived as an hybrid solution between an orbital support vessels for landing operations and an escort ship capable of protecting other ships with its fighter complement, it didn't performed well neither in one role nor in the other. Poorly armed, slow but having a large hangar bay, it could be swapped from a configuration to one another; appreciated by sailors for its quiet comfortable quarters, nonetheless quarters reserved to ground troops were much more cramped, gaining the nickname Sardine.
While the Navy ordered seventy-two ships, many flag officers later appointed the fact that so many ships weren't necessary, so in 2450 Naval Command cut orders down to fifty-one; the remaining 21, however, weren't cancelled: instead, they were built for the CMA Navy. But all the drawbacks found after its introduction forced UNSC Naval Command to release a RFI for a new, heavy carrier. Due to be peace times those where Javelins entered in service, they were never used in combat against rebels, so no one would be lost, and their confrontation with later Epochs showed all their inadequacy.
Despite being put in reserve after the explosion of the Insurrection, NAVCOM never scrapped all ships, leaving them in remote depots across the human space, while CMA scrapped them all. Exactly when the Covenant showed themselves, NAVCOM started to scrap all Javelins, but it soon reverted its decision by retrofitted them, as every ship available was precious. Used also by Vice Admiral Cole in its Third Fleet during the Harvest Campaign, by the start of the Siege of the Inner Colonies all Javelins were destroyed.
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