Capital ship (Earth-5875)



"Our fighters are mopping up the last of their recon picket now, nothing serious. But I've isolated approach signatures from multiple CCS-class battle groups, make it three capital ships per group. And in about 90 seconds they'll be all over us."

- - Cortana

Capital ships are ship classifications, which encompass a large range of massive and important warships that feature heavy weaponry and plating. The classification has no ulterior formal criteria aside from the two aforementioned traits. Commonly, capital ships are the leading ships in their own respective fleets and battle groups. Both the UNSC, the Covenant had their own capital ships, which encompassed battleships, carriers, and cruisers.

UNSC

 * Infinity-class warship
 * Phoenix-class colony ship
 * Punic-class supercarrier
 * Epoch-class heavy carrier
 * Orion-class assault carrier
 * Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser
 * Marathon-class heavy cruiser
 * Autumn-class heavy cruiser
 * Vindication-class light battleship

Covenant

 * CSO-class supercarrier
 * CAS-class assault carrier
 * DDS-class carrier
 * ORS-class heavy cruiser
 * RCS-class armored cruiser
 * CCS-class battlecruiser
 * CRS-class light cruiser

Sangheili

 * Brigantine

Trivia

 * Capital ship at Wikipedia.