CAS-Class proposed profile changes

[Soldier_Blue]

I propose the following changes to the CAS-Class Assault Carrier profile:

Tier: 7B with Plasma Torpedoes | 7C with Energy Projectors | 6A with continuous bombardment

Name: CAS-Class Assault Carrier

Origin: Halo

Age: Unknown; likely been in service as much as 2000+ years

Classification: Covenant Empire and Sangheili naval carrier, assault ship, Capital ship

Wielders: Covenant Empire, Sangheili

Powers and Abilities: FTL space travel, troop and vehicle transport, naval (space) warfare, planetary bombardment and life-wiping, can act as a flagship and lead planetary invasions

Attack Potency: City level with Plasma Torpedoes (a weaker ship fragmented a 3 km asteroid with a single shot which equals 27 megatons of TNT) | At least Town level with Energy Projectors (can one-shot a 1.2 km long Marathon-class Heavy Cruiser) | Continent level with continuous bombardment (is capable of glassing a continent and boiling off a planet's oceans with continuous bombardment from orbit)

Speed: Lightspeed attack speed with Energy Projectors, Massively FTL+ travel via Slipspace

Durability: At least Town level, likely much higher, without energy shields (Unrelenting, a much weaker and much smaller vessel, survived a direct hit to her hull from the MAC gun of a UNSC frigate which fires a 600 tonne projectile at 30 km/s); At least City level+ with energy shields (shields of much weaker and smaller ships such as the CCS-Class cruisers are capable of surviving one hit from a Shiva-class nuclear missile)

Range: At least 3,000 km with Plasma Torpedoes and Pulse Laser Turrets (Unrelenting, a much weaker and much smaller vessel, was capable of hitting targets at this range with her plasma torpedoes and pulse laser turrets); Up to 100,000 km with Energy Projectors

Weaknesses: A section of the ship's energy shields must be downed for Pulse Laser Turrets to fire. Can be boarded easily once its shields are down. A nuclear weapon detonation inside its energy shields can greatly magnify the effects of the blast.

 

[Fllflourine]

Is there any proof that the energy projectors are lasers or something along those lines? IIRC they are plasma.

 

[Soldier_Blue]

Is there any proof that the energy projectors are lasers or something along those lines? IIRC they are plasma.

The fuel source is indeed super-hot plasma but the beam itself actually operates in a manner similar to particle beam weaponry rather than in a manner reminiscent of the plasma rifle/pistol and torpedos. Furthermore, The Fall of Reach novel explicitly states that it is a beam weapon numerous times. At one point, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn even thought they were Pulse Lasers.

The Covenant energy beams looked like pulse lasers . . . but tinged silver white, the same scintillation effect that they'd seen when their shields were hit.

Cortana pulled the view back and slowed the record frame by frame — the beam punctured through the entire ship, emanating below H deck by the engines.

The beam moved through the Minotaur, slicing a ten-meter-wide swath.

"Projected beam path cut through the Minotaur's reactors," Cortana said.

"A new weapon," Captain Keyes said. "Faster than their plasma. Deadlier, too."

The titanic Covenant vessel Keyes had seen before was back. It fired its brilliant blue-white beam — a lance across space — that struck the destroyer Herodotus, one hundred thousand kilometers distant. The beam cut clean through the ship, stem to stern, bisecting her.

Another beam flashed from the Covenant vessel. Another ship — a carrier, the Musashi — was severed amidships as it moved to cover the orbital guns. The aft section of the ship continued to thrust forward, her engines still running hot.

A javelin of blue-white energy from the Covenant ship slashed at the Pillar of Autumn. The beam struck, and cut through the hull. The Pillar of Autumn slid into a flat spin as the explosive decompression knocked the ship off course. As the Autumn spun, the Covenant energy beam carved a spiral pattern in the hull, shredding armor and puncturing deep into the ship.

The ship lurched sickeningly as the beam played across the portside Archer pods; the missiles detonated in their tubes. Keyes was nearly thrown from the command chair as the deck bucked beneath him.

 

[Antvasima]

This seems reasonable to me.

 

[Soldier_Blue]

I'll take that as an okay to go ahead and edit it then.

 

[Antvasima]

That is probably fine.

 

[Soldier_Blue]

I've made the changes. If they look okay to you, feel free to lock the page and this thread. If there are any doubts, feel free to bring them up.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. I will lock this thread then.