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DSC-class support ship
Production information
Manufacturer:	Primary Assembly Forges
Class:	Auxillary support ship
Role:	Food production, seminary, Supply transport
Technical specifications
Length:	1,550 metres (5,100 ft)
Height:	Approx. 400 metres (1,300 ft)
Mass:	82 million tonnes
Power plant:	Pinch fusion reactor
Engine(s):	Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive:	Equipped
Navigation system(s):	Navigation computer
Hull:	Nanolaminate hull plating Equipped with energy shields;
Armament:	12 Melusean-pattern heavy plasma cannons; 8 Jaet-pattern plasma torpedo silos; 20 Pallio-pattern pulse lasers;
Complement:	4 Type-28 Ticks[citation needed]; 7 Obedientaries; 150 Warriors;
Crew:	1 Precentor; 40 Hieromonks; 10 Celebrants; 110 Superiors; 20 Engineers; 9,800 Menials;
Chronological and affiliation
Era:	Human-Covenant War; Post-Covenant War conflicts;
Affiliation:	Covenant; Jul 'Mdama's Covenant

Revision as of 10:17, March 31, 2018

The DSC-class support ship,^[4] also simply referred to as the agricultural support ship, is a type of support vessel that was used by the Covenant, and attached to their wandering fleets.^[2]

Overview

The DSC is not designed for combat but rather is used to provide fresh food for Covenant soldiers.^[2]^[5] The support ship contains large hunting preserves holding many types of animals to be hunted, killed, and fed to the personnel of the fleet.^[2]^[4] Vessels of the class are primarily crewed by Huragok and Unggoy, with little to no Sangheili on board, and are occasionally commanded by a single Minor Prophet.^[2] Strangely, the "S" (for Salvation) in the classification code "DSC" indicates that the ship is a dedicated warship.^[6]

Ships of the line

Mjern-pattern

Infinite Succor – Attached to the Fleet of Particular Justice, destroyed in 2552.

Halo: Fleet Battles

Covenant DSC Support Ship

This element includes a single DSC-class support ship.

Cost: 95 points
Movement: 7"
Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 4
Build rating: 2
Hangers: 3
Boarding Craft: 4
Security detail: 4
System loadouts:
- Defense array (3)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (4)
Primary Weapon: Plasma Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 6
Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 8

Covenant Supported DSC Support Ship

This element includes a DSC-class support ship and one SDV-class heavy corvette.

Cost: 115 points
Movement: 7"
Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 5
Build rating: 3
Hangers: 4
Boarding Craft: 4
Security detail: 5
System loadouts:
- Defense array (4)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (5)
Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 8
Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 8

Covenant Reinforced DSC Support Ship

This element includes a DSC-class support ship and two SDV-class heavy corvettes.

Cost: 135 points
Movement: 7"
Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 6
Build rating: 4
Hangers: 5
Boarding Craft: 4
Security detail: 5
System loadouts:
- Defense array (5)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (6)
Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 9
Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 10

Covenant Escorted DSC Support Ship

This element includes a DSC-class support ship and one ADP-class escort.

Cost: 115 points
Movement: 7"
Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 5
Build rating: 3
Hangers: 3
Boarding Craft: 4
Security detail: 5
System loadouts:
- Defense array (4)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (6)
Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 7
Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 12

Covenant Defended DSC Support Ship

This element includes a DSC-class support ship and two ADP-class escorts.

Cost: 135 points
Movement: 7"
Damage Track: 7 • 6 • 6
Build rating: 3
Hangers: 3
Boarding Craft: 4
Security detail: 5
System loadouts:
- Cloaking system
- Defense array (4)
- Glide (4")
- Labyrinthine
- Point defense (6)
Primary Weapon: Plamsa Cannon Arrays
- Range: 10/20"
- Weapon loadouts: Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward/Port/Starboard
- Dice: 7
Secondary Weapon: Plasma Torpedoes
- Range: 12/24"
- Weapon loadouts: Missiles/Plasma
- Firing arc: Forward
- Dice: 14

Trivia

On the Halo Wars Skirmish map Release, there are several agricultural support ships crashed on the map.

Gallery

InfiniteSuccorConcept.jpg

Concept art of Infinite Succor for Halo 2.
Infinite Succor during the Battle of Installation 04 in The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor.
DSCflood.png

A crashed DSC-class support ship infected by the Flood on the map Release in Halo Wars.
Support ships repairing the damaged Breath of Annihilation in Halo: Escalation.
The hunting preserve on a DSC-class support ship, based on the Halo 2 concept art, in Halo: Fleet Battles.
DSC model for Halo: Fleet Battles.

List of appearances

Halo Graphic Novel
- The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor (First appearance)
Halo Wars
Halo: Mortal Dictata (Mentioned only)
Halo: Escalation
Halo: Fleet Battles

Sources

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Halo: Warfleet, pages 68-69
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Halo Encyclopedia, page 281 (2011)
^ File:HFB-Lotsofships.png
^ ^a ^b Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Ship Happens
^ Halo Graphic Novel, Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor
^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder: Have S'moa

[warfleet-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Halo: Warfleet, pages 68-69

[enc281-2] Halo Encyclopedia, page 281 (2011)

[ships-3] File:HFB-Lotsofships.png

[Ship_happens-4] Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Ship Happens

[5] Halo Graphic Novel, Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor

[canon_fodder2-6] Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder: Have S'moa

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 *7 [[Sangheili Major|Obedientaries]]
 *150 Warriors
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+|crew=*1 [[Minor prophet|Precentor]]
 *40 Hieromonks
 *10 Celebrants
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 ==Ships of the line==
-===''Mjern''-pattern''===
+===''Mjern''-pattern===
 *''[[Infinite Succor]]'' – Attached to the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]], destroyed in [[2552]].