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These ships are intended to act as carriers, so their resource and supply constraints are extremely high for a cruiser. Their large size deters most privateers and unequipped UNSC battlegroups which overestimate their bite, but luckily they are still rare enough to not be considered an immediate threat in most cases. While it was out-classed, it did have a better reinforced hull and larger hangar bays to allow it to operate as a carrier without interrupting its duties as a ship of the line.įollowing the war's end, many of the Covenant's considerable number of RCS-class cruisers were stolen away by independent mercenaries, pirates and Covenant Remnant factions, making them function very much in the same way as the CCS-class did as a fleet flagship or flagship escort cruiser.

The mainstay of the fleet before the war's conception, the RCS competed with the newer and more effective CCS-class battlecruiser as the main combat ship of the Covenant's fleets.

The RCS-class was a reinforced cruiser design used heavily in the Human-Covenant war. While largely obsolete, the RCS-class has been kept in service as an effective launchpad for Space Banshees and Seraph bombers. Because of its age, its less effective in combat than its smaller cousin, the CCS-class battlecruiser. An aging design, the RCS-class Armored Cruiser is a heavy cruiser in the Covenant's considerable line of heavy warships.