UNSC Heracles

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UNSC Heracles
File:UNSC Heracles.png
Production information

Class:

UNSC Destroyer

Specifications

Length:

485 meters

Width:

242.50 meters

Height:

600 meters

Powerplant:

Deuterium(reserve) Fusion cores

Engine:

4 fusion cores

Slipspace drive:

Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine

Hull:

2 meters of Titanium-A battleplate

Armament:

Complement:

Pelican Dropships

Service information

Last sighted:

2525

Destroyed:

(was Heavily damaged During Harvest Campaign

Participated battles:

Known commanders:

Captain Maribeau Veredi

Affiliation:

UNSC Navy

 

The UNSC Heracles was a UNSC destroyer commanded by Captain Maribeau Veredi. And the lead ship of Battlegroup 4

Operational History

On October 7, 2525, The Heracles, along with the rest of Battlegroup 4, the UNSC Arabia and UNSC Vostok were sent into the Harvest system to discover why the Colonial Administration Authority had lost contact with both the colony and the scout ship Argo. It discovered the planet destroyed, the Argo missing, and a Covenant vessel in orbit. After a short battle, the Arabia and the Vostok were destroyed and the Heracles was forced to retreat. Due to the extensive damage it had taken during the battle, the Heracles took several weeks to return to Reach.[2] The ship was repaired at Reach, and later returned to reclaim Harvest as part of Admiral Preston Cole's battlefleet.

While at Harvest, it recovered a RQ-XII drone left by Jilan al-Cygni eight months earlier.[3]

Trivia

  • The ship was named after the legendary hero of Greek mythology, Heracles.

Sources

  1. ^ What those critics forgot that a UNSC Destroyer sported 2 MAC guns, 26 oversized Archer missile pods and 3 nuclear warheads. Only seven meters longer than a frigate. No single ship fighters. Almost as heavy than 2 frigates combined mass.
    --Halo: The Fall of Reach page 139
  2. ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 96.
  3. ^ Halo:Contact Harvest, Pg. 391

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