Worldship

A worldship, also termed megaship, is the Covenant's name for large habitats that are designed for slipspace travel. Sometimes taking decades, if not centuries to fully build up, these craft are intended to house significant civilian populations, as well as act as mobile centers for spreading the Covenant's faith and gathering trade tithes. As a result, much of their interior is allocated to entertainment, housing, and businesses that occupy these stations, with long spires that are pockmarked with docks for merchants. While most are not built for war, they still possess extremely-powerful shields, and they can support military deployments by providing shore leave, consumables such as food and fuel, and repairing warships with their expansive dockyards. Those that are specifically built for combat or ministry use are classified as Guardians.

Worldships are generally no smaller than dozens of kilometers in length, with High Charity being over three hundred kilometers at its longest point.