Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer

Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer
Production information
Manufacturer:	Ceres Industrial Metals
Class:	Destroyer
Technical specifications
Length:	526m (1,725.7ft)
Mass:	2 million tonnes
Engine(s):	4 fusion cores
Slipspace drive:	Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine
Hull:	Two meters of Titanium-A armor
Armament:	1 83B6R1 light MAC; 4 M60 Sentry autocannons; 56 M48 Ares missiles; 7 M870 Rampart point defense guns;
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Human-Covenant War
Introduced:	2499
Affiliation:	UNSC Navy; Colonial Military Authority;

The Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer was a class of destroyer originally in service with the Colonial Military Authority and then the UNSC Navy.^[3]

Operational history[edit]

Originally the Hillsborough-class destroyers were operated by the Colonial Military Authority. On October 7, 2525, a Hillsborough-class destroyer of Battle Group 4, CMA Heracles, was dispatched to the Epsilon Indi system to investigate the loss of communications with the planet Harvest, alongside Arabia and Vostok. Upon exiting slipstream space in the system, the three ships were attacked by a Covenant vessel. Only the Heracles survived, albeit heavily damaged, by limping back to Reach.^[4] During the war, these ships were used for internal security, or were broken up for scrap.^[1]

Ships of the line[edit]

CMA Hillsborough – The lead ship of the class^[5]
CMA Heracles – Participated in the First Battle of Harvest^[4]

Gallery[edit]

The Heracles transitions from slipspace at Epsilon Eridani.
Another view of Heracles arriving at Epsilon Eridani.
The Heracles and Battle Group 4 orbit a glassed Harvest, shortly before the fleet's near-destruction.
The Heracles (center) and its task force in orbit above Harvest.
The Heracles, damaged by its engagement with the Covenant ship over Harvest.