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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Design details=== | ===Design details=== | ||
The turret rests on an anti-gravity field emitted from a large tripod. The actuator that drives the weapon functions is considered semi-intelligent, obeying its directives with absolute precision. Shuku-pattern turrets are usually placed alongside {{Pattern|A'uo'i|sensor emplacement}}s for target acquisition.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page= | The turret rests on an anti-gravity field emitted from a large tripod. The actuator that drives the weapon functions is considered semi-intelligent, obeying its directives with absolute precision. Shuku-pattern turrets are usually placed alongside {{Pattern|A'uo'i|sensor emplacement}}s for target acquisition.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=301}} | ||
===Usage=== | ===Usage=== | ||
''Shuku''-pattern turrets were once employed by the [[Covenant]] to guard important outposts. Following the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]] and fall of the [[Covenant]], many turrets remain active at their sectors, ready to engage trespassers that do not transmit the corresponding authorization codes, now impossible to acquire with the fall of [[High Charity]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | ''Shuku''-pattern turrets were once employed by the [[Covenant]] to guard important outposts. Following the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]] and fall of the [[Covenant]], many turrets remain active at their sectors, ready to engage trespassers that do not transmit the corresponding authorization codes, now impossible to acquire with the fall of ''[[High Charity]]''.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | ||
== | ==Operational history== | ||
''Shuku''-pattern turrets were deployed in a perimeter surrounding a [[Snowbound|Covenant outpost]] on | ''Shuku''-pattern turrets were deployed in a perimeter surrounding a [[Snowbound|Covenant outpost]] on [[Strilun IV]].{{Ref/Map|H3|Snowbound}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== |