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Commonwealth
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The Commonwealth in the Chi Ceti system in 2525.
Ship history
Unified Earth Government

Name:

Commonwealth

Class:

Paris-class heavy frigate[1]

Namesake:

Commonwealth

Operator:

UNSC Navy[2]

Manufacturer:

alt SinoViet Heavy Machinery[3]

Decommissioned:

Some time prior to August 2552[1]

Captain(s):

Wallace[2]

General characteristics

Type:

Frigate[3][4]

Length:

535 meters (1,755 ft)[3][4][5][6][7]

Width:

199 meters (652 ft)[4][5][6]

Mass:

1.3 million tonnes[3]

Power plant:

Fusion reactor[8]

Maneuver drive:

Fusion drive (2 primary, 6 secondary)

Slipspace drive:

Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine[9]

Complement:

Hull:

60cm[8] Titanium-A armor[5][6]

Armaments:

Air facilities:

One primary hangar bay located in the lower mast of the ship[5]

 

The UNSC Commonwealth was a Paris-class heavy frigate of the UNSC Navy.[1] In 2525, its commanding officer was Captain Wallace.[2]

Service history[edit]

Service history[edit]

The Commonwealth firing Archer missiles at the Unrelenting.

In 2525, the UNSC Commonwealth was used to transport the SPARTAN-IIs along with Catherine Halsey to the Damascus Testing Facility on the planet Chi Ceti IV. While transporting the crew to the installation, the ship came under attack by a Covenant Zanar-pattern light cruiser, Unrelenting. During the engagement, the Commonwealth was able to fight off the cruiser long enough to perform a flyby orbit of Chi Ceti IV to deploy its crew onto the planet, intending to then return to a point in space 20 million kilometres from the planet to make repairs and act as bait in the event that the cruiser returned.[2] While the crew were on the ground, Commonwealth continued to engage the ship, sustaining heavy damage including the following:

  • Communications and navigation dishes destroyed.[11]
  • Armor in sections 3-7 down to four centimeters from 60 cm.[11]
  • Hull breach in section three.[11]
  • Ship AI memory core overloaded.[11]
  • Leak in the port fuel tank.[11]
  • Fire in sections one through twenty. (Atmosphere vented, fire extinguished.)[11]
  • Port armor destroyed.[11]
  • Decks two through seven in section one melted away. Decks two through five in sections three, four and five out of contact.[11]