Sentry-class Heavy Corvette

"Its the natural evolution of the Gladius" -Naval CommanderThe Sentry-Class Heavy Corvette is the ideal patrol craft. Cheap and reliable with great autonomy capabilities mixed with stealth systems. Its interdiction skills work best against smaller or like sized craft, with swarm tactics being effective against larger prey.

Acting as a buffer for smaller task forces, a police craft for secured regions of space, and a patrol vessel ensuring eyes and ears on the fringes of UEG space the Sentry affords larger warships to focus more on their mission critical functions while the Sentry picks up on and capitalizes on auxiliary duties.

Specifications
At 260m bow to stern the Sentry-Class Heavy Corvette, is appropriately, a tanker of sorts within in its family. With its sleek Covenant inspired contours the Sentry personifies many of the technological achievements garnered from the albeit costly Human-Covenant War.

Armament
Equipped with the same magnetic accelerator cannon seen on its predecessor, the Gladius-Class Heavy Corvette, the weapon is more of a counter measure compared to its two GEW Plasma Torpedo Silos. Working in tandem with eachother are its Mark 55 Castor Naval Coil guns and MX-9 Dual Pulse laser turrets which deter enemy missile fire and smaller strike craft from getting too close.

Complement
Crewed by a minimum of three naval crewmen effectively the warship has a crew of twenty fully staffed. Berthing however offers the Sentry the opportunity to be outfitted with twenty additional comfortable personnel. Whether this is a marine detachment, an ODST force, or scientific teams the Sentry being so small is able to insert small ground teams into otherwise inaccessible locations with ease and without detection.

Service History
Entering service in February of 2558 the Sentry was active for barely a year when the Created crisis began. Thankfully, the cheap production costs and small size of the vessel allowed for dozens of Sentry-Class Heavy Corvettes to be actively patrolling the outer colonies or policing peaceful controlled systems.

Trivia

 * The Sentry-Class Heavy Corvette is the first corvette under the Post-War Fleet Line Initiative.