Xerxes-class Assault Carrier

Built in 2535 in light of recent losses of carriers like the Orion Class to large covenant vessels, with the prospect of having the ability to eliminate a Covenant fleet or blockade and retake a planet, however the expectations were too high, as available weapons became less effective the ships became easier targets and fell faster with many acting as troop transports near the end of the war to evacuate civilians and military equipment from any human planets back to earth and the inner colonies, two had fought valiantly during the attack by Truths fleet and one even used its sheer size to take out two ccs class battlecruisers and in the process it self. Following the end of the war with these ships being the very few left over from the torn apart fleet due to their being too slow to respond to the invasion in time, they were hastily refitted with whatever could be found ranging from new armor, the Titanium A2 to a slew of new Weapons including a scaled down Mark V MAC from and ODP since the ships required heavy weaponry. Furthermore it was given 8 more And had its old Mark 33 Naval Coilguns replaced by new Mark 40 ones, Older M42 Archers being replaced by new but fewer M58 and a Drastic increase to its point defense guns from 26 to 30 M910 Ramparts Complement was reduced in size to increase long term deployment capability but with newer vehicles to make up the difference and the installation of 200 SOEIV Pods and modern iterations of the Scorpion, Warthog supplanted by Mastodon APC’s and Kodiak Artillery to increase ground based effectiveness and new and improved foundries with new fabrication softwares. Further improvements was the introduction of 20 new shielded F-41E Broadswords in place of some Longswords.

WORK STILL IN PROGRESS