Covenant CCS-Class Battle Cruiser - Most Detailed Breakdown

sleek predatory shark-like the ccs-class battle cruiser is one of the most numerous covenant ships and has come to be ingrained into the imagination of swathes of displaced refugees from the human covenant war images of this powerful capital ship has haunted the dreams of survivors of glassed colonies for three decades fear is normal when confronting something you do not understand so in the interests of giving those who are haunted by this vessel some respite it's time we understood what makes this beast work [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hey everyone welcome back to installation zero zero and today we give the covent ccs class battle cruiser the most detailed treatment as this is a ship we will be opting to look at our overall exterior hull and superstructure and then analyze her from stem to stern looking at each of the three major hull sections as we go the law regarding this vessel is substantial with information gleaned from naval engagements and the direct mission logs of master chief when he boarded the truth and reconciliation on alfa halo however there are areas where information is sparse i will use references from halo warfleet halopedia in-game law and information from the books to flesh out as much as humanly possible but there will inevitably be some areas that a degree of speculation will take place however when these arise i will notify you as such and use known principles of science and technology offset by my qualifications and knowledge of materials science and technology to explain them as best i can with all that said let's do this the ccs class battle cruiser is a mid-sized covenant capital ship it is one of the most recognizable ships in the covenant fleet with a sleek shark-like predatory design by far one of the most common types of covenant ship the ccs has been encountered by unsc forces at practically every space-born engagement since the beginning of the human covenant war the ccs measures 1782 meters or 5850 feet in length 862 meters or 2830 feet in width and 230.8 meters or 757 feet in height with a mass of 90.7 million metric tons this puts the ccs's width at 30 meters more than the burj khalifa is tall and being over twice the length and if landed ground side would be two and a half times taller than the statue of liberty and a little less than the mass of the entire human population of north and south america and europe combined ccs class battle cruises tend to be deployed in three ship battle groups where their armament agility maneuverability and power can be utilized to devastating effect capable of individually carrying an entire invading army of covenant personnel and equipment in the early days of the human covenant war a single ccs class battle cruiser could effectively invade and neutralize the average human colony on its own the shielding of the ships alone has been witnessed as being able to withstand a near direct strike from a shiva nuclear warhead and can deal out devastating damage from its plethora of energy-based weapon systems the most notable ship of the line was the truth and reconciliation a ship that served with the fleet of particular justice the second largest fleet of the entire covenant military which was the same fleet headed by thel vladimir eventually to be known as the arbiter the ship saw battle alongside the fleet over nearly three decades of war playing a part in the fall of reach and a pivotal role in the battle of installation zero four where eventually met its end at the actions of one first lieutenant melissa mckay as with all covenant ships the cts makes extensive use of energy shield systems while the ship doesn't appear to have any immediately visible shield emitters it could be that the lights along the whole surface may be some of them with others integrated directly into the nano composite armoured hull of the ship itself i say this because there is a notable texture to the hull of the ship a small cellular hexagonal pattern features extensively across the hull and it just so happens that the shielding when excited appears to show a similar repeating hexagonal pattern this leads me to the conclusion that at the boundaries of the hexagonal pattern on the hull are quantum scale shield emitters that effectively project a good distance above the hull the shielding emitters create an electromagnetic field of oscillating polarity in this geometric pattern with close enough field density to avoid collapse but not too close which may result in a short circuit these now enlarged hexagonal electromagnetic elements then contain the shield's primary medium which is still assumed to be a highly charged plasma medium and is then injected or projected into the space between the fields and becomes the hexagonal shield element which are all aligned creating the body of the energy shield when not excited by an external energy source the shielding is invisible to the eye when the shielding begins to take damage they flare the colour of the shield's flare indicate the energy level of the shielding the shielding of covenant ships tends to be blue the blue appearance of the energy shields indicates that the energy shielding systems operate at a high frequency meaning they also require more energy to operate due to the relationship between energy and shield strength this makes the shielding of the ccs class extremely powerful in my video about how powerful macs are we came to the conclusion that a super mac can destroy two capital ships and severely injure a third and we calculated that a supermac is rated at 52.44 gigatonnes and since the ccs class is a capital chip we estimated in order to destroy a ccs it would take 21 gigatons however we're not talking about destroying the ship outright we're looking into the shield strength it's widely accepted that the major advantage of covenant ships is the energy shield so even if two-thirds of the total energy required to kill htcs was taken up dropping the shields that would give the shields an estimated energy fail capacity of 14 gigatons that's the equivalent of one million hiroshima bombs link to the aforementioned video is in the video description it is also noteworthy that in order for the ship to fire its weapons the shielding nearby the respective weapon has to be dropped creating a temporary but accessible hole in the shields and thus a possible weakness to be exploited [Music] the ccs's whole surface is purple in color and accented by cyan plasma conduits and a nearly iridescent sheen the armor plating of the hull is a nanolaminar alloy this means that varying metals and alloys are layered in a process that makes the materials fully dense while also layering different atomic structures of metals and alloys in specific orientations and at thicknesses on the sub-micron scale the reason that the exact alloy that has been used in much of the covenant plating is unknown or cannot be ascertained is because a single sample of a nanolaminar armor plating will have such a plethora of metals and alloys layered on the nano scale at different orientations that any given sample simply would not meet any known iteration or permutation of any one known element alloy or composite this technique of layering materials on the nanoscale can be employed to create alloys with properties such as improved toughness strength thermal properties and corrosion that are a function of the interfaces in the nano layers they can be created by using a bath containing multiple metal ion elements by changing the current at precise moments to select a different element it can create a layered structure some nanolaminar alloys have shown eight times the resistance of carbon steels to degradation and in some cases no measurable degradation whatsoever this makes the armored hull of the ccs significantly more resistance damage than even the unsc's titanium a battle plate although direct nuclear blasts can burn and peel away the armor plating while kinetic rounds like that of the unsc's mac weapons will puncture the hull and tear through the armor like tissue paper if the hull is unshielded the superstructure of the ship appears to be modeled around the ship's dominant features the teardrop shaped hull section along the top appears to denote a line of superstructure while protruding struts and apparent hard points along the belly of the ship seem to indicate a more conventional keel-like design this provides all the structural rigidity needed from the ship with cross bracings and additional structure being connected to this main superstructure the ccs has an impressive armament of weapons for both defensive and aggressive action this includes one profeso pattern excavation beam which fires a thin beam of highly energetic particles or plasma it typically requires a brief charging period during which time a visible maelstrom of plasma appears around the emitter the beam has an effective range of over one hundred thousand kilometers the beam varies in color based on the effective power output of the weapon at any given time but it generally appears as a silver white colour similar to the scintillation effect that is seen when a covenant ship's energy shields are hit beams in the red purple orange and blue spectra have also been observed one ignis pattern plasma lance which is a kind of energy projector employed by covenant starships as an ultra-heavy anti-ship weapon plasma lances fire tightly focused streams of plasma at their enemies dealing a great deal of kinetic and thermal damage a close range plasma lances are capable of cutting unshielded warships in half 16 serpents patent plasma torpedo silos upon contact a plasma torpedo causes severe damage to the target boiling armor or overloading shields the weapon can be used in conjunction with pulse laser turrets and energy projectors to destroy entire unsc fleets 42 sono pattern plasma cannons these cannons are most prominently mounted in arrays and fire only in a straight line and are less powerful than plasma torpedoes the bolts fired by plasma cannons are typically blue or blue purple 50 gon pattern pulse lasers the pulse laser turret is one of the covenant's primary weapon systems often classified as a point defense weapon and compared to the unsc's point defense guns on top of the impressive ship-borne weapons and armaments the ccs also carries a large number of troops and equipment including 180 obedient trees otherwise known as commanding officers at the rank of major 2 500 warriors likely referencing the minor elites 4 to 100 thralls which likely means the lower races of the covenant 500 menials or domestic servants likely referring to the attending maintenance crew of yanmi or drones two hurricane engineers eight superiors likely referring to officer general and shipmaster sangali the ccs also carries 55 insertion pods for rapid orbital deployment of troops to terrafirma 10 spirit or phantom drop ships 50 banshees 20 tick boarding craft 44 shadow troop transports 32 seraph or taurus strike craft 48 wraith mortar tanks and 150 ghost scouts all adding to the ship's ability to dispatch a powerful military presence quickly and effectively the bow of the ccs class battle cruiser features the plasma lance and a secondary pinch fusion reactor the bulbous shape is due to the presence of this secondary pinch fusion reactor as the reactor requires shielding and containment fields to be safe this secondary reactor powers the plasma lance and any other weapon systems in the bow of the ship including the point defense lasers and plasma torpedoes the fins on the front of the ship are possibly to help in maneuverability in atmosphere as well as perhaps containing some degree of steering systems perhaps making additional use of gravitics in order to change the direction of the ship it is assumed a lot of the communications arrays for the cover and battle net and slip space communication systems is also located in the bar of the ship [Music] the outer hull surface of the midship is punctuated by plasma torpedo pods and point defense pulse lasers the underbelly is dominated by the gravity lift and primary excavation beam and the overall shape of this part of the ship is mainly due to the ship's primary pinch fusion reactor contained at its core with ample room given around it for shielding and the massive plasma energy conduits which run into and out of the reactor though we have never seen the full extent of the interior of the ccs there are many areas within the ship we are familiar with this is due mainly to the mission logs of master chief during his time aboard the truth and reconciliation while the corridors appear labyrinthine many of the access ways to the areas beyond are sealed so we can only infer what is behind these doors that being said the fact the ship has a single gravity lift four cargo bays leading off of the gravity lift room and four hangar bays two on the port two on the starboard suggests a large degree of the ship's corridors at least in this area are symmetrical mirrors of each other it is worth noting however that the exact topography of the corridors and major rooms encountered on the truth reconciliation doesn't match up exactly with the exterior of the vessel in the picture provided here you can see a scaled representation of the deck layout from the two occasions chief was aboard the ship once during the truth and reconciliation and once during keys and from this it is suggested the ship has two separate gravity lifts when it is understood there is only one the hangar bays are the point of reference for scaling as we know that there are four and they are all identical in layout so the mirroring of these gives us a good perception of scale and location you can see by this picture that the locations of the gravity lifts don't actually align with the known positions of the gravity lift interestingly enough the scaling issue that we have encountered with the unsc ships is non-existent with covenant ships the scale differences between the ships in game do actually scale correctly with the spirit fitting inside of the hangar base in exactly the right proportions this is the polar opposite to unsc ships where the pelicans don't actually fit within the pelican bays so while the scaling for covenant ships doesn't appear to be an issue the geographical layout of the decks continues to be an ongoing issue but i will cover this in a future video and be sure to watch the ship scaling problem video the link is in the description like most covenant warships the ccs class battle cruiser is equipped with a single ventrally mounted gravity lift enabling quick and easy transportation of personnel vehicles equipment and supplies to a planet's surface a large circular platform can be detached and lowered to the ground to provide a stable surface for disembarking and embarking troops vehicles and material the platform has six interlocking hinges and is carried with the ship when the cruiser is in position over a planet's surface the six interlocks retract and the beam repels the platformer a controlled descent to the surface once on the ground the platform acts as an anchor for the ship the ship can make use of the gravity lift without the platform but it must remain in position when attached to the ship the central gravity platform doubles as a firing port for the energy projector like that of the cas class assault carrier and the cso class super carrier the gravity lift bay is similar in design to the cargo bays except that it is only one level high the gravity lifts door mechanism is situated in the center of the room with cargo and personnel hatches located around the rectangular bay walls several gravity lift bays are on board the cruisers not far from the cargo and shuttle bays each bay has four cargo hatches along opposite walls for vehicular transfer the ccs class battle cruiser has at least four cargo bays these bays are connected to cargo hatches and corridors that allow the transfer of material from the bays to either the gravity lift room or the hangar bays the storage bays are two level expanses that contain weapons food and military equipment crates in addition to storing both land and air vehicles the ccs class battle cruiser contains four bisected hangar bays two to starboard to the port they are each three tiered with a large amount of space between the floors and ceilings of each level each three tier bay has two retracting metal doors the bay features energy barriers over the hangar doors a type of visible energy field used to separate a pressurized environment from the vacuum of space energy barriers are useful because they allow solid matter through but not gases such as oxygen and neon however before matter passes through the pressure on both sides must be equalized to minimize the risk of explosive decompression the barriers can also be configured to block all vehicles or personnel or allow them to pass through when required each launch area in the bay is capable of housing drop ships and banshee attack craft retracting elevators in the decking of each bay are used to ship covenant ground and aircraft into the base for launching or for gravity connection to a waiting drop ship these elevators lower into holding areas adjacent to the cargo bays buried deep within the vessel's heart is the control center also known as the bridge and the combat information center from where the entire ship's operations are coordinated typically occupied by only the highest ranking officers the control center is a large room with a centralized bridge platform overlooking the rest of the room holographic controls line the outer perimeter of this raised platform the view screens are also holographic projections visible at the forward end of the room near the ceiling the view screens can either display exterior views of the ship's surroundings or can display tactical data they can also be synchronized to the ship's security cameras and display ship schematics the ccs has at least two bricks for holding prisoners each is a rectangular room with four force field secured cells on either side for a total of eight per brick each cell can accommodate a large number of prisoners although normally only one is placed in each cell probably for security purposes against the possibility of an organized escaped attempt the cell barriers appear to use the same technology as the shield doors that are common to current installations and vessels though they obviously do not allow passage from one side to the other even plasma bolts and ballistic projectiles cannot pass through the fields the shield barriers can be lowered by a holographic control panel on a raised platform on the far side of the brig opposite the entrance the cells are arranged at the periphery of a spacious room with guards patrolling them the guards usually have active camouflage using their stealth to monitor the prisoners located along the center line of the ship dominating the central hub of the ccs's midship is the primary pinch fusion reactor the covenant use a technique which replicates the conditions inside the core of a star using deuterium and tritium as a fuel source which are isotopes of hydrogen with a nucleus that contains a proton neutron pair and a proton neutron neutron trio respectively where a normal more common hydrogen atom known as protium has no neutron at all because of this method it can be considered a purer more natural way of producing energy if a little uninspired the pinch fusion reactor generates energy by the use of artificial gravity generators these gravity generators create highly focused and powerful gravity fields which has a causative effect give a close approximation to the forces at work within the core of a main sequence star the physical shape of the reactor with its two cone-shaped gravity focusing generators positioned one above the other their tips in close proximity allow the gravity field to be focused down from larger macro area to an extraordinarily small micro area facilitating the continued fusion reaction by literally pinching matter inside a very tiny gravity reinforced area this means that when the reactor then injects a steady stream of deuterium and tritium the particles immediately encountered this environment and act as though they were actually within the core of a star they are suddenly pinched and powerfully forced together fusing them into a helium-4 nucleus and a free neutron almost instantly generating huge amounts of energy in the form of light and heat the energy that is released is then used as the primary source of energetic excitation to energize the plasma medium that all covenant technology seems to use as the basis of their energy source the plasma within the reaction area is kept compressed by high-strength magnetic fields ensuring the reaction can be sustained continuously the carapace that surrounds the base of each focus cone generate incredibly strong energy shields and magnetic fields that contain the reaction if this energy shield fails or is breached the fusion reaction becomes uncontained and immediately draws mass and energy towards it increasing its critical temperature resulting in a cataclysmic explosion the energized plasma medium is then vectored from the reactor across the ship via the plasma conduits to where it is needed these conduits thereby allow the flow of free electrons held within the plasma medium to power the various devices and functions of the ship whole section 3's primary purpose is to contain the ship's repulsor engines its ftl drive and its tertiary pinch fusion reactor not much is known about the engine room other than it contains the tertiary pinch fusion reactor is in very close proximity of the ftl drive and the repulsor engines and its connection to the bridge is achieved via fiber optic cables that run to and from the control room if these cables are severed the ship loses all flight control and crashes being more technologically advanced than humanity the covenant have numerous advantages in slip space propulsion systems while the human sure fujikawa engine is said to punch a hole between the realms using brute force covenant engines instead take a small rupture and delicately enlarge it with surgical precision this allows the latter to execute far more accurate slips the ccs uses the often pattern borer the engine creates lip space ruptures by utilizing high power energy projection streams that capture a rupture and gently expand it by feeding it cyclical oscillating energy beams that then expands in a flute-like shape rapidly increasing the diameter until it is large enough to move the ship through this can be seen in the moments before and during a slip space rupture the area ahead of the ship's nose ripples as a rupture is caught and fed immense levels of energy via the nearly microscopic energy tendril and once it hits a critical mass the energy expands the rotating fluted energy field as seen by the rapidly rotating trunk of radiation that is emitted at the rupture's border it is unknown if the engine physically creates this rupture itself or if it simply captures one that exists within the quantum foam while the sure fujikawa translate engine uses brute force to create a rupture using high powered particle accelerators and a quantum field that the engine then effectively forces through the rupture it is understood covenant translight engines are more elegant in their function it is because of this that i believe that it is likely that the engine in fact utilizes a property of the quantum foam in order to operate a virtual black hole is a black hole that exists temporarily as a result of quantum fluctuations of space-time they wink in and out of existence constantly within the quantum foam of the universe it seems likely that the engine simply captures one of these virtual black holes and feeds it enough energy to enlarge it into the macro scale and then proceeds to enlarge it to move the ship through when in slip space the ship still needs to be stabilized and protected from the exotic physics of the higher dimensions of slip space similar to unsc ships that generate a quantum field around the ship to maintain a bubble of normal space time around the ship covenant ships utilize their energy shield systems to a similar effect the energy shielding is augmented with a quantum field generator whereby an oscillating opposing harmonic frequency is generated to match and oppose the quantum fluctuations of slipspace thereby stabilizing the ship's transition covenant slipspace drives are often referred to as jump drives in addition to their more powerful thruster engines it has been theorized by the unsc that the covenant drives generate several micro jumps within a single slip space transition to measure the dilation involved in a jump allowing them to reach their destination faster covenant drives are generally more flexible and powerful than those of humans and they have thrice been seen to execute in atmosphere slip space transitions although the first time in question was controlled by a human ai in addition covenant drives can also execute successful slips even if underpowered the cts's main engines are galbian pattern repulsor engines these do not work like conventional thrust engines repulsor engines use stacked tidal gravity generators which create asymmetrical gravity fields that push and pull a ship through space in a desired vector all without the need for reaction mass or conventional exhaust i believe this means that the engines actually generate extremely powerful artificial gravity fields or gravitic tidal force that the ship is effectively pulled towards falls into or is pushed along by in the same way that a comet would fall towards the sun the ship generates an artificial gravity field that is focused ahead of the center of mass relative to the direction of travel the gravity field then attracts the mass of the ship causing the ship to begin moving towards the center of gravity but since the field is being produced by the now moving ship the field moves as well causing the ship to continue to fall towards it in order to steer the ship for example moving to port the graphatic field is moved to the left of the ship's center of mass causing the ship to begin turning in order to slow down the field is moved to behind the center of mass causing the ship to begin slowing to a standstill the ray of acceleration is varied and controlled by how strong the gravitic field is the stronger the gravity the higher the acceleration this engine function may also explain the physical shape form and topography of many covenant ships in the case of the ccs the vast majority of its mass is located towards the rear of the ship with the mass tapering off towards the nose of the ship all of the major crew areas and functional areas of the ship are within the main body with the nose being much smaller and streamlined this may be to allow the gravitic fields to be projected with little interference to an area ahead of the center of mass the internal artificial gravity systems appear to be unaffected by this very powerful thrust method likely through some exotic means of gravity shielding or simply through attenuation the exhaust of the ship then is not the reaction mass and thus not the source of thrust instead it would appear that these are simply thermal exhausts a way to bleed off the incredible levels of energy and heat the result from the process of gravitic thrust generation although the ship isn't a ccs-class battle cruiser it would explain then why in this scene in the long night of solace the sabers are tasked with shooting the engine nozzles of the ship in the hopes of slowing her down this doesn't stop the ship it just slows it down and later on once the crew have actually boarded the ship the ship's normal thrusters are turned back on and it moves towards the long night of solace with no issue if these apparent thruster nozzles are in fact just heat exhausts then that would explain why the ship slows down but then achieves its normal speed later on because shooting into the engine muzzles simply caused the heat exchanger to overheat and not function correctly thus meaning that the engine could not operate at its nominal level and once the ship had been given time to cool down again the thrusters could then be used at its normal power an extremely sophisticated application of gravitix these engines are powered by a ship's pinch fusion reactors and modern repulsor engines are finely tuned and expected to operate for years without maintenance refreshes a repulsor engine also produces quantum fluctuations in its wake that are extremely hazardous to personnel and nearby vessels within its range particularly when operating at high thrust this method of thrust that covenant ships use is extremely interesting i'd be really interested in finding out more information should it appear in the law in the near or distant future the ccs-class battle cruiser is a covenant tool for destruction whether it's engaging in ship-to-ship combat acting as a scout for a larger invasion fleet glassing a planet from orbit unearthing hidden forerunner superstructures or settling down planetside to disembark an immense invasion force the ccs succeeds in everything that it does its arsenal of weapons troops vehicles and defenses are as intimidating as its predatory organic beast-like appearance and it has kept many human survivors awake at night as they remember the images of massive purple pearlescent shark-like ships eclipsing the sun and raining fire down on the cities of fallen colonies their aggressive form outlined by unsettled skies raging fires plasma bombardment and accented by the screams of its victims is a thing of nightmares this powerful capital ship has served the covenant well but now we understand it we have confronted our enemy with impervious resolve and we are not afraid but they should be thanks for watching stick comments down below i look forward you have to say massive shout out to the guys over at sins of the profits mod for supplying the high quality renders of the ccs class battle cruiser for this video link to their mod db and discord are below and also you'll find the links to the other videos that i've mentioned during this one in the description down below as well the sims of the prophets is an awesome game mod and they're an epic group of guys i want to give a great shout out to my patrons nick the silent cartographer brian sebastian red sea darian stalk of the realms falcon x003 alvin mr fell flaming halo the revolt starlight viking legions lost the tg-7 and tyrell the holders of the mantle my glorious reclaimers my most loyal of met arcs and all the other patrons that have jumped aboard to support the channel you guys are awesome and all this would 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Length: 33min 30sec (2010 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020