Deliverance-Class Assault Frigate

The Deliverance-Class Assault Frigate is a type of escort ship in service with the United Nations Space Command's Navy assembled from lessons learned and technologies acquired following the Human Covenant War. Ships of this class are used primarily in fleet escort duties, planetary defense, and zone occupation or light asset denial.

With the conclusion of the Human Covenant War and such behemoths of technological achievements such as the Infinity, Autumn Class Heavy Cruiser, and the Strident Class Heavy Frigate, the Deliverance was an eventuality. Designed to replace the now aged Charon Light frigate, with its design inspired by and piggy-backing on the Strident chassis laid out previously the Deliverance would take on the Charon's role as a carrier of large complements of troops and vehicles while still able to participate in ship-to-ship combat.

Hull and Complement
Measuring bow to stern at 595m the Deliverance is slightly longer than its Strident Cousin ship. Similarly narrow being based on the same chassis the Deliverance features a port and starboard 'wings' each bearing a port and starboard energy shield door sealed hanger bays and a laterally split hull however considerably less so than previous frigate models. Deliverance also sports an aft ventral hanger similar to the Charon however less pronounced. Like on other UNSC vessels propulsion is powered by its Deuterium fusion engines with translight power provided by its Shaw Fujikawa Translight Engine. Additional power supplies are also on board in some models for the ships compatibility with Energy Shield systems. SOEIV Bays are part of the ships ventral protrusion making up its aft hanger above which the berthing for 75 ODST's and up to 50 Spartan IV's. Overall the Deliverance typically holds an on-mission crew of 800(+/-).

Offensive
Like most sizable UNSC ships the Deliverance's primary weapon is its Mark IV, heavy coil - 94B1E6/Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, rivaling older MACs aboard heavy vessels in earlier years. The Deliverance's MAC is also tuned for double shot shield penetrating charges however increasing recharge time significantly between firings. Armed with 30 M85 Archer missile pods with 50 missiles per pod at 1,500 missiles, 4 M42 Archer missile pods with 20 missiles each at 80 missiles, and 3 M4093 Hyperion Nuclear Missiles.

Defensive
As a modern UNSC warship the Deliverance sports 8 M9X Pulse Laser Turrets, an X23 NNEMP Cannon mounted on the ventral forward nose, and 12 M870 Rampart Point Defense guns along with other counter measure systems.

Service History
With the namesake ship being commissioned eight weeks after the destruction of Requiem in 2558 the Deliverance was deployed on its maiden voyage to combat insurrectionists and remnant forces on the colonial frontier. As of the A.I. revolt lead by Cortana and the subsequent Created Crisis the condition of the Deliverance's namesake ship and thus the future of the class is unknown.

Ships of the line

 * UNSC Deliverance - Namesake ship commissioned in 2558
 * UNSC Ember Storm - (Anticipated Construction for 2558 Sister ship of the UNSC Deliverance)