Plasma lance

A plasma lance is a kind of energy projector employed by Covenant starships as an ultra-heavy anti-ship weapon. Plasma lances fire tightly-focused streams of plasma at their enemies, dealing a great deal of kinetic and thermal damage. At close range, plasma lances are capable of cutting un-shielded warships in half.

Scaled-down forms of plasma lances known as plasma emitters may also be present on larger warships, intended for use as general-purpose anti-ship weaponry. Plasma emitters emit continuous beams of plasma capable of being used to bore into a planetary surface to excavate Forerunner artifacts.

Unique and individual designs
The flensing lance turret entered service during the Ninth Age of Reclamation.
 * Muesh-pattern flensing lance turret
 * - One such weapon was present on the Kewu, and was considered considerably more powerful than the regular energy projectors used by the Covenant. The Ministry of Concert commissioned the Kewu-pattern battleship for policing other Covenant warships, indicating they were the Muesh-pattern's intended targets.

Worthy Fire relic lances are built upon weapon-cores of Forerunner origin. In Covenant usage, they were in service by the Twenty-Third Age of Doubt.
 * Worthy Fire relic lance
 * - five such weapons were included on the Rasus-pattern, each sourced from an irreplaceable Forerunner weapon-core.

Heavy and superheavy plasma lances

 * Lances of the Faithful

The Lances of the Faithful were an array of 32 superheavy plasma lances serving as the primary defenses of High Charity, alongside 1,900 plasma beam emitters.

The Urpeon-pattern superheavy plasma lance was introduced into Covenant service as early as the Third Age of Discovery and Fourth Age of Conversion.
 * Urpeon-pattern superheavy plasma lance
 * - 12x Urpeon-pattern plasma lances
 * - 2x Urpeon-pattern plasma lances
 * - 2x Urpeon-pattern plasma lances

The N'nap-pattern plasma lance was in service as early as the Twentieth Age of Discovery.
 * N'nap-pattern heavy plasma lance
 * - 1x N'nap-pattern plasma lance. The installation of the oversized N'nap-pattern lance requires sacrificing most other crew comfort considerations aboard the Rothen-pattern fireship.

The Razu-pattern heavy plasma lance was employed by Sangheili forces during the Former Age prior to the War of Wills and formation of the Covenant.
 * Razu-pattern heavy plasma lance
 * - 12x Razu-pattern heavy plasma lance batteries


 * Ventrax-pattern heavy plasma lance
 * - 1x Ventrax-pattern plasma lance

Light and regular plasma lances
The Baen Ka-pattern plasma lance was in service during the Third Age of Discovery.
 * Baen Ka-pattern plasma lance
 * - 1x Baen Ka-pattern plasma lance

The Ignis-pattern plasma lance was in service as earlier as the Eighteenth Age of Doubt and Seventh Age of Reconciliation.
 * Ignis-pattern plasma lance
 * - 1x Ignis-pattern plasma lance
 * - 2x Ignis-pattern plasma lances

The Emri Ka-pattern plasma lance was in service by the Sixth Age of Conflict.
 * Emri Ka-pattern light plasma lance
 * - 4x Emri Ka-pattern plasma lances