Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette

Ceudar-pattern
Class attributes
Operators:	Covenant Covenant remnants Swords of Sanghelios Jul 'Mdama's Covenant Banished
Manufacturer:	Forgemasters of Tanus Gorgon Assembly Vault
Naval architect:	Master Shipwright Ckmu 'Raboree Apprentice Hiveseeker Tek'ch
In service:	Twentieth Age of Discovery - present
General characteristics Type: Corvette Length: 956 meters (3,140 ft) Width: 399 meters (1,310 ft) Height: 175 meters (570 ft) Mass: 8 million tonnes Power plant: Pinch fusion reactor Maneuver drive: 4 Callipoas-pattern repulsor engines Slipspace drive: Tyros-pattern borer Crew: 16 Superiors 2 Huragok 20 Menials Troops: 50 Obedientaries 50 Warriors 130 Thralls Hull: Nanolaminate plating Shielding: Morelia-pattern shield generator Other systems: High-tier auspex array High-tier proselytization network uplinks Ushab-pattern stealth generator Armaments: 6 Melusean-pattern heavy plasma cannons 16 Carnax Nu-pattern plasma bombardment mortars 11 Phot-pattern pulse lasers Air wing: 2 Dextro Xur-pattern Spirits 8 Type-26 Banshees 10 Elsedda-pattern Banshees 8 Type-31 Seraphs 104 insertion pods Air facilities: Dorsal landing pad Central hangar bay rated for heavy dropships and medium strikecraft

"What the hell are those things?"

— Cadet Thomas Lasky, upon seeing SDV-class heavy corvettes for the first time

The Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette (UNSC three-letter classification: SDV-class heavy corvette) is a class of corvette, formerly in service with the Covenant fleet and one of multiple design patterns of ship under the SDV banner. Manufactured by both the Forgemasters of Tanus and the Gorgon Assembly Vault, these corvettes rarely engage in ship-to-ship combat (though if pressed, they are capable of taking on human frigates on more-or-less even terms); instead, they typically escort capital ships, deploy space fighters in fleet engagements, and screen support ships from enemy fast-attack craft. Although they typically serve as heavy escorts within a fleet, the Ceudar can operate independently of support for extended periods of time.

Mass-assembled during the Twentieth Age of Discovery, Ceudar-pattern heavy corvettes were originally commissioned for charting distant stars and dangerous slipspace routes, or aiding the Covenant navy in war. During the Human-Covenant War, the Ceudar saw heavy use against humanity, most prominently during the Fall of Reach. With the collapse of the Covenant empire, these corvettes are now serviced by the Covenant's successors.