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UNSC and Insurrectionist ships clashing.

Human starships were space faring vessels built by Humans. Humans have maintained and created numerous starships throughout their existence and numerous factions have controlled them.

Overview

Organization

A number of factions operate Human starships, including the Unified Earth Government and its branches the UNSC and the CAA. The Insurrectionist factions, the United Rebel Front and the New Colonial Alliance as well operated their own ships. Independent human governments such as the Gao Republic own their own ships also. The Covenant remnant faction the Keepers of the One Freedom also made use of some human starships. Human corporations also had ships that they used, such as the Harris-Romner Bank.

These ships are differentiated from one another in multiple ways, though the main method is through their names and their prefix. Known prefixes include:

UNSC - United Nations Space Command, Example: UNSC Pillar of Autumn, UNSC Forward Unto Dawn
- ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence, Example: ONI Acrisius
CAA - Colonial Administration Authority, Example: CAA Butterworth, CAA Casbah
CMA - Colonial Military Administration, Example: CMA Argo, CMA Laden
URF - United Rebel Front, Example: URF Origami
HRB - Harris-Romner Bank, Example: HRB Flintlock

Other identification methods include the Hull classification symbol, the Crew emblem, the UNSC REG system, the UNc system, and the UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping's Freighter identification codes.

Design and specifications

Colony ships in orbit of Luna.

Numerous shipyards across human space produced or repaired ships. The best shipyards in the Outer Colonies by 2557 were at Komoya, Sverdlovsk system.^[1] Other planets and moons that have or had shipyards are Reach, Tribute, Mars, Earth, Luna, Rhea, Biko, and Skopje.

Numerous companies produce ships as well; such as the Oros Trading Company, TanSec AB, Halifax Spacewerx, Aerofabrique SA, Reyes-McLees Shipyards, and SinoViet Heavy Machinery.

Armament

Humans have always had armed ships with an ancient example being the Fibril cutter. Post-Great Purification weapons include Archer Missiles, M910 Rampart point defense networks, Shiva-class nuclear missiles and on larger ships, the Magnetic Accelerator Cannon.

Complement

Starfighters and dropships act as complement for numerous ships and ship types. For the starfighters, there is the GA-TL1 Longsword-class Interceptor, the F-41 Exoatmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter, the Open Frame 92/Extra-Vehicular Activity, and the YSS-1000 Prototype Anti-Ship Spaceplane. For dropships, there are the Pelican line of ships, the Condor line, the D82-EST Darter, and the D96-TCE Albatross.

History

Ancient history

Main article: Prehistoric human civilization

Ancient human ships including an Ancient human cruisers.

Humanity was once a highly advanced spacefaring civilization, spanning a number of star systems. They operated a number of ships, including the Prime cruiser. Many human starships fought at the Battle of Charum Hakkor during the Human-Forerunner wars. Following which, humanity was fragmented and de-evolved into a variety of subspecies and lost all space travel knowledge in the process.

Rise of humanity

Main article: Domus Diaspora

An unknown human ship class, in the midst of the chaos of the 22nd-century.

Due to the Great Purification, humanity had to rebuild it's space based efforts. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to be in space, again.^[2] Unfortunately, It wouldn't be until 2291 before humanity relearned the secrets of Slipstream Space, thanks to the efforts of Tobias Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa^[3] In 2362, the first extra-solar colony ship was created, named the Odyssey. This sparked a wave of colonization.^[4] Along with the Odyssey, the first known ship of the prolific Phoenix-class colony ship was built.^[5] These colonization ships were built or otherwise serviced above Luna.^[6]

Insurrection

Main article: Insurrection

By 2490, humans had established 800 colonies, divided by the prospering Inner colonies and the under developed Outer Colonies.^[4] Political tension existed because of this division. One of the starting factors of the resulting insurrection was the Callisto Incident which saw the capture of the UNSC Callisto.^[7] Space warfare between the UNSC and insurrectionist factions took place.

Around this time, the CAA Chalybeate touched down on Komoya for repairs in the Sverdlovsk system, but wouldn't take flight again. Instead, over decades more ships would land, forming a ship-based city on the moon.^[8]

The UNSC developed a number of ship classes during this period including the Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser,^[9] the Orion-class assault carrier,^[10] and the Halcyon-class light cruiser.^[11]

Human-Covenant war

Main article: Human-Covenant war

The wreckage of UNSC ships over Camber.

At the start of the war, the UNSC stripped the Colonial Military Administration of most of it's naval resources and gave them to NAVCOM.^[12]

Over the course of the Human-Covenant war, the UNSC saw huge losses in terms of starships lost. Though with the war, new developments came. Construction on the UNSC Infinity, post-Halo's largest starship, in 2544.^[13]

Post-war

The Infinity with its Autumn-class heavy cruiser escorts.

After the war, an unprecedented addition human ships was created, the energy shield. The Autumn-class heavy cruiser, the Strident-class heavy frigate and the Infinity-class supercarrier were all added to the UNSC's fleet; all three had built in shielding.^[14]^[15]

As well, the various ship battles over the course of the war created debris fields over human colonies. One instance of this was over Tribute.^[16] Civilians could also scavenge some of these ruined ships and even claim them using loopholes in the maritime salvage law.^[17]

Types

Warship

Main article: Warship

The UNSC has operated most of humanity's post-Great Purification fleets, including their most powerful warships. These include the powerful cruisers, carriers and a battleship class. Smaller vessels include corvettes, frigates, and destroyers.

Insurrectionists as well managed to capture or otherwise procure warships. The Iliad, a United Rebel Front frigate, was known to harass and attack UNSC ships around Eridanus II in 2517.^[18] The URF also operated a destroyer, the URF Origami.^[19]

Ships of the type

Insurrectionist ships

Faction	Class	Ship Name	Notes
United Rebel Front	Charon-class light frigate	Iliad
	Destroyer	URF Origami
	Unknown	Gateway
Unknown	Charon-class light frigate	Bellicose	Captained by Lyrenne Castilla.

CMA ships

Main article: Colonial Military Administration

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Charon-class light frigate	CMA Arabia
Charon-class light frigate	CMA Vostok
Hillsborough-class destroyer	CMA Heracles

Independent government ships

Faction	Class	Ship Name	Notes
Gao Republic	Basilisk	Independence
Gao Republic	Patrol corvette	Esmeralda

Colony starships

Main article: Colony ship

Humanity maintained numerous colony ships, the Phoenix-class colony ship, the Star Charter-class colony support ship, and an unidentified colony ship.

Ships of the type

CAA ships

Main article: Colonial Administration Authority

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Phoenix-class colony ship	CAA First Reverie
Springhill-class mining ship	CAA Heavy Burden
Unknown	CAA Butterworth
	CAA Chalybeate
	CAA Casbah
	CAA Irbid

Corporate ships

Faction	Class	Ship Name	Notes
Liang-Dortmund Corporation	Star Charter-class colony support ship	Meridian 5-Alpha	Grounded to Meridian
Liang-Dortmund Corporation	Unknown	NZ-111 27	Colonized Darkstar Station, Meridian

Other

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Unknown	Odyssey	Colonized Reach

Cargo ships

Several cargo ships and Freighters were created by humans. This includes the Parabola-class freighter, the Laden-class freighter, the Bactrian-class freighter, the Unidentified civilian cargo ship, and the Mariner-class transport ship.

Ships of the type

Civilian ships

Main article: Civilian vehicles

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Parabola-class freighter	Laden	Unknown
Mariner-class transport ship	Ace of Spades	Unknown
Unknown	Distancia	Unknown
	Finnegan's Wake	Unknown
	Floral Express	Unknown
	Kestrel	Destroyed
	Petya	Abandoned
	Pilgrims' Pride	Destroyed

Non-human operated ships

Faction	Class	Ship Name	Notes
Keepers of the One Freedom	Laden-class freighter	True Light

Yacht

Main article: Yacht

Yachts are personal luxury craft in use by civilians primarily.

Tug

Main article: Tug

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Tug	Galileo's Worst Enemy	Unknown

Other

Civilian ships

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Unknown	HRB Flintlock	Securities transit ship
	Two Drink Minimum
	National Holiday	Destroyed in Insurrectionist bombing

CMA ships

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Unknown	CMA Season of Plenty
	CMA Laden
	CMA Argo

Gallery

A line up of several UNSC warships, including carriers, cruisers, a frigate and a destroyer
Various ancient human warships including a one class of cruiser
Phoenix-class colony ships

Sources

^ Halo: Renegades, chapter 1
^ Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe, Human Colonization of Space, p. 42
^ Halo 3, multiplayer map Orbital
^ ^a ^b Xbox.com: Halo Storyline (Defunct, Copy on HBO Forums, Wayback Machine, and Halopedia)
^ Halo: Outpost Discovery, Hall of History
^ Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo, Domus Diaspora, p. 52-53
^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, p. 436
^ Halo: Renegades, chapter 1
^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Bulkhead Banter
^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Armory Amore
^ Halo: Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, page 60
^ Halo Wars - Collectible: Halo Wars Timeline Events
^ Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo, page 133
^ Spartan Ops - Episode 1: Departure
^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - En Voyage
^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide, page 179
^ Halo: First Strike (2010) - Adjunct
^ Halo: Fall of Reach, Boot Camp
^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 36-37

Class	Ship Name	Hull classification symbol	Last known captain	Fleet/Last known battlegroup or task force
Charon-class light frigate	UNSC Aegis Fate	FFG-307		Seventh Fleet
	UNSC Forward Unto Dawn	FFG-201	Miranda Keyes	Seventh Fleet
	UNSC Grafton	FFG-318	Francis Mallarde	Epsilon Eridani Fleet

UNSC Marathon Heavy Cruiser				Capital Ship, Medium (95 PTS)
		Movement	8"	Systems Loadout
		Damage Track	6 • 6 • 3	Hard Burn (2") Missile Barrage* Point Defense (4) Titanium Armour (3)
		Build Rating	2
		Hangars	2
		Boarding Craft	2
		Security Detail	2
Primary Weapon	Range	Weapon Loadouts	Arc	Dice
Heavy Mac	16/32"	MAC (2)	F	8

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