![]() Like all Covenant vessels, these corvettes are armored with a lightweight, yet incredibly resilient, diamondoid and metal-matrix composite frame, covered by thin pieces of streamlined nanolaminate hull plating. Ī cutaway illustration of the Ardent PrayerĬeudar-pattern heavy corvettes are relatively small warships once manufactured by the Covenant, with a length of 956 meters (3,135 ft) and a mass of 8 million metric tons. With the collapse of the Covenant empire, these corvettes are now serviced by the Covenant's successors. ![]() During the Human-Covenant War, the Ceudar saw heavy use against humanity, most prominently during the Fall of Reach. Mass-assembled during the Twentieth Age of Discovery, Ceudar-pattern heavy corvettes were originally commissioned for charting distant stars and dangerous slipspace routes, or aiding the Covenant navy in war. Although they typically serve as heavy escorts within a fleet, the Ceudar can operate independently of support for extended periods of time. Manufactured by both the Forgemasters of Tanus and the Gorgon Assembly Vault, these corvettes rarely engage in ship-to-ship combat (though if pressed, they are capable of taking on human frigates on more-or-less even terms) instead, they typically escort capital ships, deploy space fighters in fleet engagements, and screen support ships from enemy fast-attack craft. The Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette (UNSC three-letter classification: SDV-class heavy corvette) is a class of corvette, formerly in service with the Covenant fleet and one of multiple design patterns of ship under the SDV banner. " What the hell are those things?" - Cadet Thomas Lasky, upon seeing SDV-class heavy corvettes for the first time
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