UNSC Southern Cross

"Magnitudo animi constantiam spirat."

- Ship motto

The UNSC Endeavour (hull code: DD-347) is a venerable Beagle-class assault destroyer which survived the Human-Covenant War and proceeded to lead a length career following the conflict. The latest in a lineage that hailed back to the seventeenth century, the Endeavour is one of thirty-five destroyers built to trial the installation of state-of-the-art hangar facilities on light-tonnage warships. While still possessing two full-sized fusion reactors, a relatively-high acceleration and as thick a hull as the baseline class, its armaments were lacking thanks to the removal of several Archer missile pods and the downscaling of its Magnetic Accelerator Cannons. Despite these significant drawbacks, it remained a solid vessel which outlived the sisters it was built alongside.