Ascendant Justice

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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:24 pm

Armament: 7 Capital Plasma Turrets, Plasma Beam

Ascendant Justice is a flagship-class Covenant cruiser. Covenant flagships are rarely seen. These behemoths are covered by plasma turrets and are filled with many of the Covenant's best troops. These ships also carry an unusual amount of engineers, presumably to keep the ship running and battle-capable for far longer than it could otherwise. These ships are the backbone of the Covenant armada. They are the ships that carry the military command personnel and give out orders during battle.

The flagships carry a very different weapon than most of the Covenant capital ships use. It fires a very small beam of energy, theorized to be plasma or light, at tremendous speed. It cuts through all known UNSC ship defenses and can literally cut ships to pieces, though the Covenant seem to simply target a ship's reactor core which destroys the whole ship. This weapon has a very extreme range and can be fired while the flagship isn't even in the midst of battle.

This type of ship was seen at the Fall of Reach in 2552. Thermal and intrusive scans were unable to gain any significant information on it's full armament.