Marathon-class Cruiser

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These are the largest and most expensive ships built by Human hands during the war with the covenant. They are very well armored and can survive multiple plasma hits.

These class of ships were designed to replace the aging and expensive Halcyon class cruisers and to that extent were designed with cost in mind. They are the largest class of warships built by

An UNSC- Marathon class ship

human hands that served in the Human-Covenant conflict. They were very heavily armored and were one of the few class of ships in the UNSC navy that could survive a direct hit from a Plasma torpedo. it is worth noting that the UNSC listed Cruisers as their heaviest tonnage of ships, whereas the Covenant used Carriers as their largest ships.

Specifications

Length - 1192 meters
Mass - 100,000 tons
Hull - Titanium- A battle plate

Armament

1 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon

Multiple Archer missile pods
50mm guns for Point defense

Engine

Engine unit(s) - Deutirum Core Reactor
Slipspace Drive - One Shaw-fujikawa Translight Engine
Velocity in slipspace - 2.1 lightyear/day

Complement

Longsword- class interceptor fighters
Pelican Dropships
Marines and ODST's
HEVs

Number of ships in active duty- Fewer than 20 during Pre-Halo

It is worth nothing that at although these were the largest ships in the human fleet it was significant smaller than the biggest ships in the covenant navy; the Supercarrier and the more numerous Assault Carrier. In fact, the marathon class cruisers at a length of about .7 miles were 5 times smaller than the Super carriers of the Covenant navy. Due to their importance and meager numbers these ships were almost exclusively used to defend the Inner colonies. However, due to the Covenant's superiority over the UNSC both in terms of technology and numbers, engagements involving these ships did not go too well. At the onset of Halo 1, only a few of these ships remained as most of them had been lost in the defense of reach and other inner colonies. In fact it is mentioned in the book Fall of Reach that only twenty cruisers remained in the UNSC fleet

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