VAL Support Craft

"They have these little buggers crawling all over. You never know when one of them intercepts an op and ends your life outside those bars."

- Anonymous Insurrectionist

The Variable-Application Light Support Craft (abbreviated VALSC), also known as the VAL Support Craft or colloquially as the privateer, is the foremost designation used to refer to a series of similarly based space-faring light assault and patrol vessels.

While its most prominent operator has long been the United Nations Space Command Navy, it is also employed by various colonial navies as well as a number of UN-affiliated private military companies such as Tactical SA and Haverson Defense, among others.

Having made its debut in the field in February of 2560, the VAL Support Craft is one of the few combat vessels in the UNSC Navy that have been designed entirely by a private entity, specifically Baer Industrial Yards. Baer, in addition to half a dozen other groups, manufactured more than 800 ships of the line over a course of forty years.