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UNSC Remembrance-class Frigate

Design
After the human-covenant war, The UNSC found itself in need of a good number of ships to replace its decimated fleet. In a record two months, the UNSC fleet yards was able to design and lay the keel for the first Remembrance-class frigates. Although they were much smaller than the older frigates, and had weaker MAC cannons, they were excellent ships and the UNSC placed orders for 20 of them.

Remembrance-class frigates are formed from a 200-foot diameter pipe, which is cut into 50-foot sections, which were stuffed with decks and bulkheads, and welded back together. The front of the ship featured the muzzle of the MAC cannon, as well as the slipspace drive and a point-defense autocannon. It also contains a special launch bay that holds the Shiva and Archer missiles, preventing them from being damaged by weapons fire. Amidships is the HEV launcher, as well as the legs which hold the ship when it is landed on a planetary surface. The tail end contains the only launch bay, the sub-light engines and two more autocannons.

Early use
The first Remembrance-class, the UNSC Remembrance, was launched in 2556, just 3 years after it was designed. Although it was destroyed two years later by a rouge Brute Assault Carrier, it managed to destroy the brute ship’s weapons system and take a CCS-class cruiser with it. The brute cruiser appeared over a colony world where the Remembrance was escorting a supply convoy that had just arrived from earth. Combined fire from the colony’s slipspace COM launcher and the Remembrance dropped the Cruser’s shields and mangled its shield generator. As the Remembrance moved in to finish it off, a Assault Carrier appeared and fired it’s energy projector, melting most of the front of the ship. The captain ordered all of the pelicans loaded with Scorpion tanks and reversed gravity generators mounted on them. The brute ships turned their attention to the transport ships, Allowing the Remembrance the time it needed to launch the Pelicans. The Brute captain figured that the humans were attempting to board his ship, a futile maneuver, and did not fire at the Pelicans. The dropships flew inside the shields and dropped the Scorpions near the brute ship’s weapons before retreating. Meanwhile, the cruiser headed towards the colony, and the Remembrance used its secondary thrusters to de-orbit itself, colliding with the cruiser in the upper atmosphere, destroying both ships. The Carrier, lacking most of it’s offensive weapons and one of it’s shield generators, and with cannon fire battering it’s hull, was forced to retreat.

UNSC Marine comments
“Their nice ships, but nowhere near the size of the old Frigates. And, I once seen one of them fire at an Assault Carrier. The shields didn’t just stop the round, they made it BOUNCE OFF!” -UNSC Officer “The armor is decently strong, and the fact you’ve got two autocannons covering the launch bay is nice, but the crew quarters are cramped, there aren’t enough vehicles embarked, and the mess hall doesn’t have any good food.” -UNSC Marine “These ships ain’t pretty. But their good ships, and a few dozen of them will decimate a brute cruiser pretty quickly.” -UNSC Officer