Hekar Taa-pattern Blockade Runner (Earth-5875)

The Hekar Taa-pattern Blockade Runner is a vestigial class of corvette developed by the sangheili before the formation of the Covenant, being later utilized through the hegemony's history.

Hull and supestructure
The Hekar Taa-pattern Blockade Runner is a swift class of corvette, abstaining from protection for speed and firepower. As with most older sangheili designs, these warships were designed for the sole purpose of breaking through enemy formations, as well as flanking around enemy lines to hunt down and destroy damaged vessels. Like most sangheili warships, the aesthetics of the Blockade Runners of the Hekar Taa-pattern have strong biomimetic elements, bearing a resemblance to the arkon taa, a type of carnivorous fish found in the northern waters of Sanghelios and other sangheili colonies. The Blockade Runner is comparable to the more modern CCS-class battlecruiser, albeit smaller and with less armor.

Sleek and nimble, yet a powerful medium-sized warship, Blockade Runners are designed to allow even the boldest Shipmasters to complete their missions. Configured with only minor modifications, the ancient cloak generators that these corvettes are outfitted with conceal the vessel's location through brute-force jamming and expenditure of small drones, as opposed to the sensor distortion grids utilized by modern cloaking systems installed on Covenant designs. Blockade Runners also host a large complement of crew, for countering boarding efforts and launching attacks of their own.

Armament
The Blockade Runner's armaments are antiquated, but not ineffective. The unrefined energy projectors offended san'shyuum bureaucrats of the Covenant, but they are more than capable of disabling the energy shielding and shattering the hulls of modern warships. The plasma torpedoes equipped to the Blockade Runner primarily shoot backwards, further aiding the corvette in its breakthrough strategies. These corvettes are also outfitted with plasma cannons. Often supported by more modern designs, such as the ADP-class escort, a Blockade Runner is still capable of generating enough firepower to threaten even the most powerful warships of the Swords of Sanghelios, Banished, or UNSC Navy.

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