User:MastahCheef117/Reno-class Carrier

Summary
The Reno Carrier was a medium-armed Carrier in the UNSC Naval Forces. It carried an average amount of strikecraft and was a formidable foe when having a small escort flotilla against a Covenant Battlecruiser.

Design
The Reno Carrier is several hundred feet longer than the Marathon-class Cruiser, the main Flagship for most UNSC Naval Flotillas and Fleets. It was a massive ship compared to smaller strikecraft and frigates, and was common support ships of naval bombardment fleets.

Armament

 * One Sub-MAC Cannon
 * Twenty "Archer" Missile Pods
 * Fifteen "Archer" Missiles per Tube
 * Three Main Hangars
 * Forty Longswords, fifteen Shortswords, and twenty Pelicans per Hangar.
 * One Shiva Nuclear Warhead Tube
 * One Shiva Nuclear Warhead MKII

One Sub-MAC Cannon
Since the tonnage of the Reno Carrier was so great it could not sustain a proper MAC defense cannon, the UNSC engineers came up with an alternative: a Sub-MAC. It fired a small MAC round approximately seventy-yards in diameter, enough to shed an Apocalypse Destroyer's armor. It did very little against Covenant ships, but could be set to a setting which ignited the MAC mid-air to detonate it, blinding Covenant starships long enough for escape.

Twenty Archer Missile Pods
The Reno Carrier design has a rather primitive amount of Archer Missiles, because of the overwhelming weight of it's strikecraft in it's three hangars. It's good enough to badly damage a Covenant Frigate, but wouldn't stand a chance against an entire fleet.

One Shiva Nuclear Warhead Tube
The Reno, unlike most carriers in the UNSC's arsenal, has a last-ditch effort to help destroy a crippled Covenant ship. It carries a single Shiva Nuke, a MKII class, enough to decimate two or three grouped-together Frigates. It's blinding white light upon impact is also a perfect distraction.

Engines

 * One Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive MKIII
 * One Advanced Nuclear-Powered Reactor
 * Two Backup MKII Plasma-Powered Reactors

One Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace Drive
The MKIII Shaw-Fujikawa in the Reno is the basic slipspace drive used among UNSC warships.