Vindication-class light battleship

The Vindication-class light battleship is a capital warship utilized by the United Nations Space Command in the years following the Human-Covenant War.

Design details
The Vindication ' s hull is rather flat, though the bow slants upward and forward. Several antennae protrude from the fore end. The ship has one large, primary thrust nozzle and four smaller, secondary nozzles.

Service history
The class had entered service by February 21, 2557, with at least one present at the 's commissioning ceremony. Several Vindications were part of Battlegroup Dakota and attacked the Mantle's Approach during the Didact's attack on Earth in July of that year. During the Second Battle of Requiem, at least three ships of this class deployed fireteams to the surface in order to find Dr. Catherine Halsey after her abduction at the hands of the Covenant.

Ships of the line

 * - The lead ship of the class

Behind the scenes

 * Two Vindication-class battleships appear in the background of the Halo 4 level Midnight; given their nature they are intended to be seen only from a considerable distance. However, exploiting a glitch allows the player to examine these vessels up close, along with a number of s and s. Because these ships are intended to appear only as scenery, they are rendered as brushes rather than level geometry; as such, the player can fly the Broadsword through them without harm. By the same merit the ships' in-game models are not to scale with their canonical incarnations.
 * The Vindication-class battleship and Poseidon-class carrier were to be featured in Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide but were cut due to space constraints.

List of appearances

 * The Commissioning
 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops