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Imperator-Class Super Carrier

"Gentleman! Behold! Have you ever seen a ship this big!?"

- Human Civilian being overdramatic

The Imperator-Class Type-24 Heavy Siege Super-Carrier is a new model of Super Carrier developed by and for the use of the Imperium of the Sangheili Empire military. Created to replace the aging Covenant Super-Carrier, this remarkable feat of technology exceeds its predecessor in multiple areas.

Specifications
The Imperator-Class is an Heavy Class vessel designed for the ISE Navy. In appearance, it looks much like all Covenant ships, a bottlenose “Head”, with a wider body, however unlike many light-medium ships, the Super-Carrier possesses a third section just a little smaller than its body that is connected directly to the back of the body. It has a primarily silver/purple hull and, and like Assault Carriers it has a very large hangar area, capable of supporting 2-3 UNSC Frigates. The Hangar takes up about one fourth of the ship, as specified by the fact that it is a carrier, the rest of it is primarily quarters to accommodate the large ISE army that is always present on an active duty vessel.

Weapons Systems
The Imperator-Class as a Heavy Super-Carrier, sports many types of weaponry in superior numbers, and wields a weapon previously found exclusively on Covenant Super-Cruisers, the Photon Beam Cannon, an extremely thin beam able to cut through the hulls of several UNSC ships at once. In addition it boasts a more advanced Energy Shielding than the older classifications, which is required in a Carrier to guarantee safe passage of the army it carries.

Its weapons systems are as follows:


 * 14 Plasma Torpedo Launchers
 * 7+ Energy Projectors (May not be fired simultaneously)
 * 6 Pulse Laser Turrets
 * Numerous Plasma turrets
 * 1 Photon Beam Cannon

Shielding System
The Imperator-Class wields the most sophisticated in Sangheilian Shielding technology, around about 50% more potent and sophisticated as a Covenant Assault Carrier, making even Super-MAC Guns need to for several times. The shield was developed by a contingent of human and Sangheili scientists working with Huragok on already existing methods of shielding present on the previous model of Covenant Super-Carrier. Utilizing several innovative developments by the humans scientists, working models and concepts by the Sangheili, and refinements by the Huragok, the new shielding is capable of sustaining large nuclear explosions, able to fend off Shiva missiles, HAVOK bombs, and to an extent Covenant Anti-Matter detonations (It should be noted that the shields failed after a few seconds in testing when exposed to the Covenant Bomb, however the ship remained completely unscathed, and the shields were back in effect merely 25 seconds later). In enhanced testing, the shield withstood 12 individual MAC rounds before beginning to fade, and easily withstood 3 Super-MAC shots before starting to fail.

Unfortunately, the shielding is naturally susceptible to plasma based weapons, even so however the shielding is 50% as potent to even plasma devices, meaning in a skirmish with another Covenant style vessel, it still has the upper hand.

Development
The model was designed in 2579CE, however full conception and implementation of the class was not authorized by the Imperial Admiral until 2591CE because of financial inconveniences that sprang up during the First Remnant Wars. The Model was further postponed because of the serious drawbacks during the Accidental War, the model being of such colossal size and cost that only two were created before the wars end, only one seeing active combat during the First Battle of Te, where it gave a decent fight against Vincicitum Forces because the opposing forces had never seen the style of ship before, and therefore had no knowledge of how to psychically sabotage it. The Single Super-Carrier present, the Ascendant Veracity survived several hours into the battle before being disabled via its engines being crushed. Although unable to move, it continued to fire into the Marionette Fleet and managed to enter Slipspace when both sides retreated by ordering a Assault Carrier nearby to open a Slipspace portal around it.

By 2609CE, the ISE had 20 of them in active service dispersed through its Imperial Fleets

Trivia

 * The Imperator-Class is the largest vessel in the ISE Imperial Navy, and aside from the Forerunner Dreadnought that was scavenged from Installation 00, the largest classification of vessel in the Milky Way Galaxy.
 * Imperator is a Latin word that originated as a title in Ancient Rome meaning; “Commander in Chief” or “General of the Army”.
 * The Fleet of Decisive Judgment possesses one such ship that replaced its former Supercarrier, the Adamant Wisdom. The new Carrier sports the same name.

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