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{{Title|''Ruma''-pattern light carrier}}
{{Ship Class Infobox
{{Status|Canon}}
|name=DDS-class carrier
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|image=[[file:Halo CEA terminal Ascendant Justice.jpg|300px]]
|name=''Ruma''-pattern light 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>
|length={{Convert|3000|m|ft|sp=us|sigfig=4}}<ref name="visual">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 28''</ref>
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|width={{Convert|1186|m|ft|sp=us|sigfig=4}}<ref name="visual"/>
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|power=[[Pinch fusion reactor]]<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', p. 233 (2010)</ref>
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|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
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*[[Plasma turret]]s (2+)
*2 [[Plasma lance|''Ignis''-pattern plasma lances]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
|complement=*100+ [[Type-31 Seraph]]s<ref name="ghost">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 305''</ref>
*7 [[Plasma cannon (starship)|''Morfen''-pattern plasma cannons]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*200+ [[Type-26 Banshee]]s
*8 [[Plasma torpedo|''Argament''-pattern plasma torpedo silos]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*34 [[Type-25 Spirit]]s or [[Type-52 Phantom]]s
*75 [[Pulse laser turret|''Pol''-pattern pulse laser turrets]]{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}
*[[Type-47 Scarab]]s
|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]]
|other systems=
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|affiliation=[[Covenant]]
|role=*Troop deployment
*Occupation support.
|era=[[Human-Covenant War]], [[Great Schism|Covenant Civil War]]
|affiliation=[[Covenant Navy]]
}}
}}


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"/> The "S", or Salvation, in the carrier's three-letter classification code, "DDS", indicates that the ''DDS''-class carrier is a dedicated warship capable of destroying its opponents with energy projectors.<ref name="canon fodder2">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-have-s-moa '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder: Have S'moa'']</ref>
===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==
*''[[Ascendant Justice]]''
''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>
*''[[Lawgiver]]''


==Production notes==
==Ships of the line==
In ''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', the ''[[Incorruptible]]'', a 3,000-meter long ''Reverence''-class cruiser, took cover behind the carrier ''Lawgiver''. However, the ''Halo Encyclopedia'' erroneously listed the carrier's length as 1,455 meters, rendering the ''Lawgiver'' too small to serve as the ''Incorruptible'''s cover. This was later fixed with ''Halo: The Essential Visual Guide'', in which the carrier's length is said to be 3,000 metres, making both ships to be around the same length.
*''[[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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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 details[edit]

Superstructure and hull[edit]

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 crew[edit]

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.

Armaments[edit]

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 history[edit]

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 line[edit]

List of appearances[edit]

Sources[edit]

  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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