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{{Title|''Ruma''-pattern light carrier}}
{{Ship Class Infobox
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|name=DDS-class carrier
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|role=Troop deployment, occupation support,<ref name="visual">''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]'', p. 28</ref> fighter transport, firing support<ref name="ENC277">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', p. 277 (2011)</ref>
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|length={{Convert|3000|m|ft}}<ref name="visual">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 28''</ref>
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|mass=272 million tonnes{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
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|power=[[Pinch fusion reactor]]<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', p. 233 (2010)</ref>
|max speed space=
|engine=[[Repulsor engine]]s
|max speed air=
|engine=[[Repulsor engine|Repulsor Engines]]
|slipspace drive=Equipped  
|slipspace drive=Equipped  
|slipspace speed=Unknown
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|shield gen=Resistant to 3 [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|MAC]] rounds or greater than 1 [[Plasma turret|plasma torpedo]]
|hull=Resistant to 100+ [[Archer missile]]s
* Equipped with energy shields
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|target=
|navigation=[[Navigation computer]]
|navigation=[[Navigation computer]]
|avionics=
|hull=[[Nanolaminate]]
|countermeasures=
|shielding=Equipped
|armament=*[[Pulse laser turret]]s
|armament=
*[[Plasma turret]]s (2+)
*2 [[Plasma lance|''Ignis''-pattern plasma lances]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|complement=*100+ [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraphs]]<ref name="ghost">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 305''</ref>
*7 [[Plasma cannon (starship)|''Morfen''-pattern plasma cannons]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*200+ [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]]
*8 [[Plasma torpedo|''Argament''-pattern plasma torpedo silos]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*34 [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirits]] or [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantoms]]
*75 [[Pulse laser turret|''Pol''-pattern pulse laser turrets]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*[[Type-47 Ultra Heavy Assault Platform|Scarabs]]
|complement=*300 [[Seraph]]s{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}}<ref name="ghost">''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', p. 305</ref>
*Associated Armored Vehicles
*200 [[Type-26 Banshee]]s{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}}
*4000+ Covenant troops
*34 [[dropship]]s{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}}
**[[Sangheili|Elites]]
|crew=3,000–4,000 personnel{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}}
**[[Unggoy|Grunts]]
**[[Kig-yar|Jackals]]
**[[Mgalekgolo|Hunters]]
**[[Yanme'e|Drone]]s
**[[Huragok|Engineers]]
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|era=[[Human-Covenant War]]
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|affiliation=[[Covenant]]
|role=*Troop deployment
*Occupation support.
|era=[[Human-Covenant War]], [[Great Schism|Covenant Civil War]]
|affiliation=[[Covenant Navy]]
}}
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The '''DDS-class carrier'''<ref name="visual"/><ref>[[Halopedia:Covenant Ship Classification Canon Debate|Covenant Ship Classification Halopedia Canon]]</ref> is a heavy [[warship]] within the [[Covenant Navy]] and serves as a force deployment and occupation warship.<ref name="visual"/>
The '''''Ruma''-pattern light carrier'''{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=263}} {{3Letter|DDS|carrier}}{{Ref/Reuse|visual}}, is a heavy [[warship]] within the now-defunct [[Covenant fleet]] that served as a force deployment and occupation warship.{{Ref/Reuse|visual}}


==Background==
==Design details==
The DDS-class carrier unlike the larger and more powerful assault carrier, is a less frequent but powerful warship within the Covenant Navy. The primary role of the DDS-class carrier is to support fleet actions in space, or as a infantry deployment platform; the DDS-class carrier has three bulbous sections; its swollen center boasts a total of thirteen launch bays on both sides of the ship.<ref name="FoR">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach|The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 146'', ''page 171'' (2010 edition)</ref>. It is used for command and control of large numbers of deployment waves of fighters, dropships, and interceptors.<ref name="visual"/>  
===Superstructure and hull===
The ''DDS''-class carrier, unlike the larger and more powerful {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}}, is a less frequently encountered, but powerful, [[warship]] within the [[Covenant fleet]]. The primary role of the ''DDS''-class carrier is to support [[Space warfare|fleet actions in space]], or as an infantry deployment platform. The ''DDS''-class carrier has three bulbous sections; its swollen center boasts a total of thirteen launch bays on both sides of the ship.<ref name="FoR">'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 146'', ''page 171'' (2010 edition)</ref> It is used for command and control of large numbers of deployment waves of [[space fighter]]s, [[dropship]]s, and interceptors.{{Ref/Reuse|visual}} Like all [[warship]]s, these ships come in a variety of classes and sizes, though military observers note there are variance of weaponry, length, and estimated tonnage.<ref name="sybex">'''Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide''', ''page 73''</ref>


==Operational history==
The carrier's hull is reinforced with over thirty meters of [[nanolaminate hull plating]] and equipped with [[energy shielding]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 266'' (2010 edition)</ref> A single [[plasma torpedo]] is capable of causing several layers of the hull to boil away. The shieldless hull of a ''DDS''-class carrier is capable of withstanding heat of up to three hundred degrees Celsius, with no actual damage done to the carrier's structure.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''pages 76-79'' (2010 edition)</ref> Only at extreme temperatures of over seventeen hundred degrees Celsius does minor hull tearing and conduit melting occur.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 84''</ref> However, at such high temperatures, the superstructure of the vessel becomes considerably softened.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 223''</ref>
For a number of years leading up to the Human-Covenant war the DDS-class carrier served as a support ship in and around the [[High Charity Defense Fleet]]. In 2552 a DDS-class carrier being escorted by a pair of enemy frigates and a destroyer, attempted to seize control of the human colony world [[Sigma Octanus IV]]. When the destroyer and the two frigates were destroyed by Captain [[Jacob Keyes]] the carrier retreated until reinforcements arrived.<ref name="FoR"/> A short month later multiple DDS-class carriers participated in the invasion of Reach and subsequent destruction of the planet. During the battle of installation 05, the  DDS-class carrier ''[[Lawgiver]]'' assisted the Incorruptible during the battle against the [[Jiralhanae]] and the [[Flood]].<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 193'', ''page 195''</ref> A DDS-class carrier would also go on assist the Covenant in the [[Battle of Onyx]] later that month.<ref name="ghost"/>


==Complement==
===Complement and crew===
===Armaments===
The ''DDS''-class carrier boasts three hundred [[Type-31 Seraph]] [[starfighter]]s,{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}} divided into three different squadrons,<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 155'', ''page 191'' (2010 edition)</ref> two hundred [[Type-26 Banshee]]s, and thirty-four [[dropship]]s—either {{Pattern|Dextro Xur|Spirit}}s or {{Pattern|Ru'swum|Phantom}}s—that can be launched at any given moment from the thirteen launch bays located along the center sides of the ship.{{Ref/Reuse|ENC277}}{{Ref/Reuse|ency}}
Like other ships within the Covenant Navy, the DDS-class carrier boasts a vast array of energy weapons. Like all space based warships, their ships come in a varying classes and sizes, though military observers note there are variance of weaponry, length, and estimated tonnage.<ref name="sybex">'''Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide''', ''page 73''</ref> The DDS-class carrier is armed with multiple plasma torpedo launchers, pulse laser turrets, and anterior plasma cannons.<ref name="ency">'''[[Halo: Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 265''</ref><ref name="visual"/>


===Aircraft===
The ''DDS''-class carrier holds a crew of three to four thousand Covenant infantry,{{Ref/Reuse|ency}} most of which were [[Huragok]] in the case of ''Ascendant Justice'', with a light company of [[Unggoy]] and only a hundred [[Sangheili]].<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 63''</ref> The crew was available for deployment on a moments notice via the ship's [[gravity lift]] when close to a world's surface.
The DDS-class carrier boasts three squadrons of [[Type-31 Exoatmospheric Multi-role Fighter|Seraph]] fighters <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 155'', ''page 191'' (2010 edition)</ref>,  two hundred [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] and thirty-four [[Type-28 Troop Carrier|Spirits]]/[[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantoms]] that can be launched at any given moment from the thirteen launch bays located along the sides of the ship.<ref name="ency"/>


===Military units===
===Armaments===
The DDS-class carrier is crewed by upwards of four thousand Covenant infantry,<ref name="ency"/> and are available for deployment on a moments notice via the ships gravity lift when close to a planet's surface.  
Like other ships within the Covenant fleet, the ''DDS''-class carrier boasts a vast array of energy weapons. The ''DDS''-class carrier is armed with seven [[plasma torpedo]] launchers, numerous [[pulse laser turret]]s, and anterior plasma cannons.<ref name="ency">'''[[Halo: Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 265''</ref>{{Ref/Reuse|visual}} The "S", or Salvation, in the carrier's three-letter classification code, "DDS", indicates that the ''DDS''-class carrier is a dedicated warship.<ref name="canon fodder2">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-have-s-moa '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder: Have S'moa'']</ref>


==Ships of the Line==
==Service history==
*''[[Lawgiver]]''
''DDS''-class carriers participated in the [[Fall of Reach|invasion]] of [[Reach]] and subsequent destruction of the planet.{{citation needed}} At least one, ''[[Ascendant Justice]]'', was assigned to the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] and pursued {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} to [[Installation 04]] after the battle.<ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', ''[[Priority Broadcast Log/Eleventh Cycle, Third Unit|Adjunct]]'' (2010 edition)</ref>{{Ref/Reuse|canon fodder2}} Following the [[Battle of Installation 04]], ''Ascendant Justice'' was captured by [[UNSC]] forces and captained by Vice Admiral [[Danforth Whitcomb]],<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 79''</ref> until its destruction during [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]].<ref name="fs396">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 396'' (2010 edition)</ref>


==Trivia==
==Ships of the line==
There is some dispute over the length of the Carrier. For example, in ''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', it mentions that the ''[[Incorruptible]]'', a 3,000-meter long ''Reverence''-class cruiser, took cover behind the Carrier ''Lawgiver''. In addition the ''Halo Encyclopedia'' lists the length as 1,455 meters while the ''Essential Visual Guide'' lists its length as 1,186 meters.
*''[[Ascendant Justice]]'' – Participated in the [[Battle of Installation 04]], captured by UNSC, and was destroyed during [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]]{{Ref/Reuse|fs396}}


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Flood]]''
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
**''[[Halo: The Flood#2010 bonus content|Adjunct]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]''
**''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''


==Sources==
==Sources==
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Latest revision as of 01:19, October 25, 2022

Ruma-pattern light carrier
Production information

Class:

Carrier

Role:

Troop deployment, occupation support,[1] fighter transport, firing support[2]

Technical specifications

Length:

3,000 meters (9,843 ft)[1][3]

Width:

1,186 meters (3,891 ft)[1]

Mass:

272 million tonnes[3]

Power plant:

Pinch fusion reactor[4]

Engine(s):

Repulsor engines

Slipspace drive:

Equipped

Navigation system(s):

Navigation computer

Hull:

Nanolaminate

Shielding:

Equipped

Armament:

Complement:

Crew:

3,000–4,000 personnel[2]

Chronological and affiliation

Era:

Human-Covenant War

Affiliation:

Covenant

 

The Ruma-pattern light carrier[3] (UNSC three-letter classification: DDS-class carrier)[1], is a heavy warship within the now-defunct Covenant fleet that served as a force deployment and occupation warship.[1]

Design detailsEdit

Superstructure and hullEdit

The DDS-class carrier, unlike the larger and more powerful CAS-class assault carrier, is a less frequently encountered, but powerful, warship within the Covenant fleet. The primary role of the DDS-class carrier is to support fleet actions in space, or as an infantry deployment platform. The DDS-class carrier has three bulbous sections; its swollen center boasts a total of thirteen launch bays on both sides of the ship.[6] It is used for command and control of large numbers of deployment waves of space fighters, dropships, and interceptors.[1] Like all warships, these ships come in a variety of classes and sizes, though military observers note there are variance of weaponry, length, and estimated tonnage.[7]

The carrier's hull is reinforced with over thirty meters of nanolaminate hull plating and equipped with energy shielding.[8] A single plasma torpedo is capable of causing several layers of the hull to boil away. The shieldless hull of a DDS-class carrier is capable of withstanding heat of up to three hundred degrees Celsius, with no actual damage done to the carrier's structure.[9] Only at extreme temperatures of over seventeen hundred degrees Celsius does minor hull tearing and conduit melting occur.[10] However, at such high temperatures, the superstructure of the vessel becomes considerably softened.[11]

Complement and crewEdit

The DDS-class carrier boasts three hundred Type-31 Seraph starfighters,[2] divided into three different squadrons,[12] two hundred Type-26 Banshees, and thirty-four dropships—either Dextro Xur-pattern Spirits or Ru'swum-pattern Phantoms—that can be launched at any given moment from the thirteen launch bays located along the center sides of the ship.[2][13]

The DDS-class carrier holds a crew of three to four thousand Covenant infantry,[13] most of which were Huragok in the case of Ascendant Justice, with a light company of Unggoy and only a hundred Sangheili.[14] The crew was available for deployment on a moments notice via the ship's gravity lift when close to a world's surface.

ArmamentsEdit

Like other ships within the Covenant fleet, the DDS-class carrier boasts a vast array of energy weapons. The DDS-class carrier is armed with seven plasma torpedo launchers, numerous pulse laser turrets, and anterior plasma cannons.[13][1] The "S", or Salvation, in the carrier's three-letter classification code, "DDS", indicates that the DDS-class carrier is a dedicated warship.[15]

Service historyEdit

DDS-class carriers participated in the invasion of Reach and subsequent destruction of the planet.[citation needed] At least one, Ascendant Justice, was assigned to the Fleet of Particular Justice and pursued UNSC Pillar of Autumn to Installation 04 after the battle.[16][15] Following the Battle of Installation 04, Ascendant Justice was captured by UNSC forces and captained by Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb,[17] until its destruction during Operation: FIRST STRIKE.[18]

Ships of the lineEdit

List of appearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, p. 28
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition), p. 277 (2011)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 263
  4. ^ Halo: First Strike, p. 233 (2010)
  5. ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, p. 305
  6. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 146, page 171 (2010 edition)
  7. ^ Sybex Halo: Combat Evolved PC Strategy Guide, page 73
  8. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 266 (2010 edition)
  9. ^ Halo: First Strike, pages 76-79 (2010 edition)
  10. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 84
  11. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 223
  12. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 155, page 191 (2010 edition)
  13. ^ a b c Halo: Encyclopedia, page 265
  14. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 63
  15. ^ a b Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder: Have S'moa
  16. ^ Halo: The Flood, Adjunct (2010 edition)
  17. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 79
  18. ^ a b Halo: First Strike, page 396 (2010 edition)

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