Covenant Summit

This article is about the Covenant building. For the map in Halo 5: Guardians, see Summit.

The Covenant Summit.

The summit is a deployable structure used by the Covenant and its remnants. They serve as an extension option on the Covenant's citadel firebases, and are designed for the mass manufacture and maintenance of aerial vehicles. It serves as a counterpart to the air pad and apex structures employed by the United Nations Space Command and Banished, respectively—with the latter bearing a considerable visual similarity to the summit itself.

Overview

The summit is a large deployable structure capable of being deployed as an extension on a Covenant citadel or minibase. Under the command of summit-masters, they serve as field airbases and are capable of being teleported into their mounts from an orbiting Covenant starship.

Summits are capable of mass-manufacturing, maintaining and upgrading a large variety of Covenant vehicles. These include the Bkowe'nei-pattern Vampire and the various design patterns of Banshee, and Phantom. Huragok may also be serviced at a summit, when not housed in their own dedicated Huragok recharge stations.

Operational history

Summits were used by the imperial Covenant during their planetary warfare campaigns during the Human-Covenant War. These included deployments on Arcadia and Trove.

In the post-war era, summits continued to see use in the Covenant remnant led by Jul 'Mdama. In February 2558, one such installation was deployed by 'Mdama's forces on Requiem and was the site of an attack by Fireteam Shadow during the Requiem Campaign. During the installation, the Spartan-IVs used TQ-8 seeker drones to help their attack on the base, though the mission was interruped with Shadow's recall for a more urgent mission to board and destroy a Zanar-pattern light cruiser, Panom's Canticle. To speed up their evacuation from the site, Shadow stole a Phantom dropship docked at the summit site to use for transportation.

In-game information

Halo Wars

The Summit in-game in Halo Wars.

"Covenant aircraft are constructed at the Summit. Aircraft upgrades are also in this structure."

— In-game description

The Summit is a Covenant building featured in Halo Wars. It costs 150 and requires a tech level of 0.

The summit serves as the Covenant counterpart to the UNSC Airpad and constructs units such as Banshees, Vampires and Engineers. All the air-based unit upgrades are researched at the Summit. Unlike the UNSC Airpad, which requires a tech level 2, the summit can be built at a tech level of 0, making an early "Banshee rush" fairly easy. Like all buildings in Halo Wars, it takes the color of the player's team.

Name	Type	Cost			Description
		Population	Tech	Resources
Engineer	Support Unit	1	1	250	A support unit that repairs and heals nearby allied units.
State of Grace	Upgrade	N/A	1	350	Increases repair rate.
Harmonious Digestion	Upgrade	N/A	2	700	Increases movement speed.
Banshee	Main Air	2	1	200	Mainline air unit, Banshees are armed with both plasma cannons and fuel rod cannons.
Boost	Upgrade	N/A	1	200	Enables Speed Boost Ability.
Repeating Cannon	Upgrade	N/A	2	400	Increases the rate of fire for the Banshee's weapons.
Sacrifice	Upgrade	N/A	3	700	Banshees attempt to crash into ground targets and inflict area damage when destroyed.
Vampire	Anti-Air	2	2	250	Counter-air aircraft, heavy needler turret can track and engage enemy air in a large area.
Stasis Drain	Upgrade	N/A	2	400	Stasis Ability now drains target hitpoints and heals the Vampire.
Stasis Bomb	Upgrade	N/A	3	700	When a target is drained with the Stasis Ability, it explodes, doing area-effect damage.

Gallery

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  Various concept explorations of the Summit.

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  The in-game asset for the Summit.

List of appearances

• Halo Wars (First appearance)
• Halo Legends
  • Origins
• Halo: Vertical Umbrage
• Halo: Battle for the Blood-Moon (Mentioned only)