DDS-class carrier

Name: Covenant DDS-Class Carrier
Craft: Covenant Empire DDS-Class Carrier
Type: Support Carrier
Scale: capital
Length: 1,455 x 1,186 meters
Skill: capital ship pilot
Crew: 6,141; skeleton: 368/+10
Passengers: 18,423
Cargo Capacity: 30,705 metric tons
Consumables: 10 years
Slip Space Drive: x13.69
Nav Computer: yes
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 8
Atmosphere: 365; 1,050kmh
Hull: 8D+1
Shields: 12D
Sensors

Passive: 145/1D+2
Scan: 290/2D+2
Search: 435/3D+2
Focus: 14/4D+2

Weapons

4 Energy Projectors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 down
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 3-45/105/225
Atmosphere Range: 1-90/210/450km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 5
Damage: 15D

75 Plasma Torpedo Cannons

Fire Arc: Turrets: 25 forward, 25 port, 25 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 5D
Space Range: 2-12/30/60
Atmosphere Range: 4-24/60/120km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 3
Damage: 9D

150 Pulse Lasers

Fire Arc: Turrets: 50 forward, 50 port, 50 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-3/12/25
Atmosphere Range: 2-6/24/50km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 15
Damage: 5D

Complement:

100+ Seraphs
200+ Banshees
34 Spirits or Phantoms
Scarabs
Associated Armored Vehicles

Description
The DDS-class carrier is a heavy warship within the Covenant Navy and serves as a force deployment and occupation warship.

The DDS-class carrier unlike the larger and more powerful assault carrier, is a less frequent but powerful warship within the Covenant Navy. The primary role of the DDS-class carrier is to support fleet actions in space, or as an infantry deployment platform; the DDS-class carrier has three bulbous sections; its swollen center boasts a total of thirteen launch bays on both sides of the ship. It is used for command and control of large numbers of deployment waves of fighters, drop ships, and interceptors.

For a number of years leading up to the Human-Covenant war the DDS-class carrier served as a support ship in and around the High Charity Defense Fleet. In 2552 a DDS-class carrier being escorted by a pair of enemy frigates and a destroyer, attempted to seize control of the human colony world Sigma Octanus IV. When the destroyer and the two frigates were destroyed by Captain Jacob Keyes the carrier retreated until reinforcements arrived. A short month later multiple DDS-class carriers participated in the invasion of Reach and subsequent destruction of the planet. During the battle of installation 05, the DDS-class carrier Lawgiver assisted the Incorruptible during the battle against the Jiralhanae and the Flood. A DDS-class carrier would also go on to assist the Covenant in the Battle of Onyx later that month.

Like other ships within the Covenant Navy, the DDS-class carrier boasts a vast array of energy weapons. Like all space based warships, their ships come in a varying classes and sizes, though military observers note there are variance of weaponry, length, and estimated tonnage. The DDS-class carrier is armed with multiple plasma torpedo launchers, pulse laser turrets, and anterior plasma cannons.

The DDS-class carrier boasts three squadrons of Seraph fighters, two hundred Banshees and thirty-four Spirits/Phantoms that can be launched at any given moment from the thirteen launch bays located along the sides of the ship.

The DDS-class carrier is crewed by upwards of four thousand Covenant infantry, and is available for deployment on a moment’s notice via the ships gravity lift when close to a planet's surface.

Source:
thedemonapostle
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