Hades-class heavy cruiser

The Hades-class heavy cruiser was a heavily armed class of heavy cruisers used by the United Nations Space Command during both the Insurrection and the Human-Covenant War. Designed as a aggressively deployed attack cruiser as part of the UNSC's rearmament program along with the Io-class light cruiser, at the time the Hades were considered one of the most heavily armed class of warships in the fleet with two heavy coil Magnetic Accelerator Cannons and thirty though these armaments would eventually become outdated and would be superseded by the Marathon-class in 2517. The class was still in service by the Human-Covenant War and the class suffered horrendous losses in the early years of the war where their relatively thin armor and lack of internal bracing made them vulnerable to plasma weapons and the class was rendered extinct by 2531.