Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Why twenty captured CSO supercarriers overwhelm their new owner

Captured Covenant supercarriers would offer enormous technology, but their extreme scale makes crewing and operating twenty of them less useful than studying and dismantling them.

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Question

What if the UNSC captured twenty Covenant CSO supercarriers during the Human-Covenant War?

Short answer

The ships would be powerful if operable, but the UNSC probably could not crew twenty and would gain more dependable value by reverse engineering their technology.

Notes

A CSO supercarrier is described as about twenty-nine kilometres long and eleven or twelve kilometres wide. Crewing twenty captured examples is doubtful, even if the UNSC could operate one. Usable ships would offer considerable combat power, but Infinity-class vessels are preferred as a practical choice. Captured equipment could instead be removed for study and reverse engineering. The opportunity to acquire technology survives even when operating the entire captured fleet is considered unrealistic.