Rasus-pattern interdictor

The Covenant super-destroyer is a heavy capital warship classification within the Covenant Navy.

Background
A super-destroyer was encountered by the, , and as well as the forces under Vice Admiral Preston Cole in the Second Battle of Harvest. It single handedly destroyed thirteen ships in Cole's fleet before being destroyed by concentrated fire.

So far, super-destroyers have been encountered in strictly space-based combat areas (around Covenant space stations and in Harvest's orbit). This may mean that it is designed specifically for ship-to-ship combat, as opposed to CCS-class battlecruisers and destroyers, which are also used for glassing operations.

Design details
This warship is approximately two kilometers long and is equipped with enough weapons and firepower to decimate any UNSC fleet from long range. It is larger than most Covenant warships, even surpassing the keel length of the CCS-class battlecruiser, but itself is dwarfed by the Covenant assault carrier.

The super-destroyer's hull is composed of five bulbous sections - a swollen prow, two lateral lobes, a dorsal bulb and a protruding stern. The ship itself is a pale shade of purple. It is one of the largest ships in the Covenant fleet, being between a battlecruiser and assault carrier in size. It is armed with energy projectors, along with pulse laser turrets and plasma torpedo batteries found on most Covenant warships.

Though most of its power is likely used up by the large number of weapons it uses in battle, the ship still can project a shield strong enough to protect it from multiple nuclear missiles and MAC rounds. However, the shield and hull will buckle under concentrated fire as shown when the 27 ships left in Cole's fleet were able to destroy one.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
 * The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole
 * Halo Wars: Genesis