Vindication-class light battleship

The Vindication-class light battleship is a capital warship utilized by the United Nations Space Command during the post-war era.

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. The ship is equipped with experimental energy shielding.

Armaments
The Vindication-class is designed as a ship-killer, intended to hunt down Covenant carriers and support ships before they can engage. To this end, the Vindication is equipped with two gargantuan Mark X Superheavy MACs, mounted in two 76G3V5 MAC batteries. The superheavy MACs have a long charge time, and thus the Vindication requires extensive support from friendly ships to defend itself while preparing a new volley. The MAC armament is supplemented with fifty M58 Archer missile pod and four M60 Sentry naval autocannons - alongside twenty M910 point-defence guns.

Post-war
The Vindication-class was launched from Martian Metals Shipyards in 2554. At least one Vindication was present at the 's commissioning ceremony on February 21, 2557. Part of Battle Group Dakota, several assaulted the Mantle's Approach during the Didact's attack on Earth in July 2557. During the Requiem Campaign in early 2558, 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

Production notes

 * 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.
 * Vindication-class ships can be seen at the Battle of Alpha Corvi II in a hologram in Issue #1 of Halo: Collateral Damage. While this was initially implied to suggest the Vindication had an extensive service history in the Human-Covenant War, the 2022 Halo Encyclopedia established the Vindication as having been first launched in 2554 - rendering this comic panel non-canon.

List of appearances

 * The Commissioning
 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops
 * Halo Mythos
 * Halo: Collateral Damage