Editing Codex - The Banished (section)

===Banished Star-ships===

'''Brief Summary:''' Though the Banished Armada is smaller then the Covenant, they still make enough of an impression to cause caution and second thoughts towards foes standing in the way of Atriox. The Banished Armada's flaghsip is the ''Enduring Conviction'' accompanied by at least five CCS-class battlecruisers, and at one point a captured SDV-class heavy corvette ''Elegy's Lament''. Similar to the Covenant, the Banished use Slipspace technology which is still considered a baffling, dangerous and revolutionary piece of technology of the Tech-Priests of Mars. 

However the greatest piece of technology the Banished has allegedly claimed is a super-megastructure dwarfing everything in sheer size and weight. Called the Ark, the Banished has laid claims of ownership on this marvel of technological engineering of the long lost Forerunners. Despite the claims however, it seems that the defense systems of the Ark has not yet identified the Banished as friendly occupiers and multiple reports of conflicts between the Ark's defenses and the Banished has created an awkward and complicated relationship.

[[File:Enduring_Conviction.png|600px|center|thumb|Enduring Conviction. The most famous flagship of the Banished Armada.]]

'''Banished Corvettes:''' Banished Corvettes are used to provide a much more supportive role to Banished ground forces, although equipped with a mediocre amount of medium Plasma Torpedoes and a few Pulse Lasers, they nonetheless do their job competently.

'''Banished Stealth Ships:''' The Covenant originally were in the process of designing a class of stealth ships in their holy war against their enemies. However, when the Banished raided the Forge World of Resplendent Desire, they also took both the blueprints and the several ships under construction with them. It represented the greatest technological and strategic loss of the Covenant in over 500 years. With the blueprints in hand, Atriox begin the construction of the Drekar and the Intrusion Corvette, ships with one of the most advanced active camouflage and stealth systems of any faction. These Stealth Ships although lightly armoured, were heavily armed with Plasma Mines and Lances; capable of both reconnaissance and surprise attacks on unsuspecting prey.

'''Banished Cruisers:''' Come in both light, medium and heavy types, the most numerous but also one of the weakest. Banished Cruisers are often hybrids of different classes and thus their weapon and structural blueprints are complicated at best. Banished Cruisers are used to offer support from their larger ships with Plasma Torpedoes and Energy Projectors as well as harassing enemy ships with swarms of combat fighters.
[[File:718x300x81af240d3ee69d400a4229c248dfaaec.jpg.pagespeed.ic.N-WeXvpiOD.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The Ark. Main base of operations for the Banished. All attempted invasions has resulted in the destruction of an entire fleet by the Ark's sentinels. Only the Banished have successfully avoided the Ark's full wrath and now controls a large section of it.]]

'''Banished Dreadnoughts:''' A new class of Banished naval design. After several run-ins with Covenant and Chaos long-range firepower, the Banished took some design cues from allied Ork Freebooterz mercenaries and made a ship that fits the crude but pragmatic doctrines of the Banished. The result was the Dreadnought, a class of short-ranged, giant battering rams that are meant to freeze enemy vessels and pummel them to oblivion with their reinforced hulls. Banished Dreadnoughts are armed with the usual Plasma Torpedoes, Lances and Laser Batteries, but they are also armed with a Ultraheavy Stasis Beam like those found on the Covenant Vampires as well as a Superheavy Grav-Impacter. What these weapons system do, is that they literally freeze an enemy vessel on the spot; shutting down their electronic systems and making the ship a sitting duck, before the Dreadnought rams it at full speed. This was the unfortunate fate of the Chaos Battleship ''The Sunken Heart'', which was taken by surprise as several Dreadnoughts lay hidden within the gas clouds of the Invictus nebula.  

'''Banished Assault Carrier:''' Banished Assault Carriers are no different from that of the Covenant Navy. Banished Assault Carriers have a flotilla of Plasma Torpedoes, Multiple Pulse Lasers and five Energy Projectors, with stronger shields as well. Usually at the length of 5km, weaker then their Imperium counterpart carriers but comes in somewhat better numbers to compensate.  Like the name suggests, Assault Carriers prefer not to engage directly, but instead prefer to hang back and let their fighters and bombers do the work.  

'''Banished Destroyers:''' Banished Destroyers are almost identical to that of the Covenant and as such, provides assisting support to their Cruisers and Carriers into battle. Like the Covenant Destroyer, Banished Destroyers are usually regulated to Glassing once a battle is over.

'''Installation 00:''' Whilst the Banished do not have complete control of the Ark, it still retains one of the most vital and strategic space installations in the Galaxy. As such, the ownership of the Ark is of the upmost importance to Atriox as its capability to create the devastating Halos may make a sufficient bargaining chip to any rival that stands in Atriox's way.