Cabal Warship

Cabal Warship
Production information
Manufacturer:	Cabal
Model:	Frigate
Technical specifications
Armament:	Ripper Pod Launchers Missiles Anti-Air Turrets
Crew:	Cabal Soldiers
Usage
Role(s):	Attack Ship Troop Carrier
Affiliation:	Red Legion Skyburners

The Cabal warship are classes of Cabal spacecraft, used for exploration and war.

Overview

Cabal warships are of very sturdy design as the ship Dantalion Exodus VI was able to puncture the hull of the Hive Dreadnaught. This was after the Battle of Saturn where the Awoken armada—which included hundreds of Ceres Galliots, a dozen Ketches, and the Harbingers—attacked and failed to even dent the Dreadnaught despite forcing the stalling of the Hive fleet. They have four main engines.

An armada of Cabal warships would be used during the Red Legion's massive invasion of the Last City, with a unique six-engine variant serving as Dominus Ghaul's command ship, The Immortal.

Warships are capable of deploying Mining Landers and Injection Rigs.

History

Cabal Frigates

Centuries before the events of the Red War, the Cabal Empire exchanged their elegant Cabal cruisers for the close-quarter combat Cabal frigates to combat various threats with great maneuverability, operating in swarms, in tandem with larger Cabal carriers, refueling from them and serve as logistical support.

These small independent cruisers were mass produced during Dominus Ghaul's regime, replacing the solitary, powerful cruisers that Emperor Calus favored. They were designed to help combat against the the Hive, whose use of portals negated tactical maneuvering and forced all battles to be fought at extremely close range. New Cabal ships are meant to be individually expendable.

Capital Ships

It should be noted, however, that either a few of Calus' cruisers presumably survived conversion and had been utterly retrofitted into grand Capital ships, or the Red Legion made some exceptions and constructed much larger battlecruisers that served as juggernauts for orbital bombardment and stuck out like sore thumbs amongst the new Cabal Fleets. These ships were far larger than their counterparts, bolstering a much greater armament and could carry multiple Imperial Land Tanks, Threshers, Harvesters, and Goliath Tanks. An example of a Cabal capital ship would be the Retribution.

Sol System

A fleet of at least nine Warships can be seen stationed above the ruins of Freehold from The Cortex during the Dust Palace Strike. Several are visible from the abandoned Cabal warbase that makes up the Crucible map Black Shield on Phobos, as well as in the map Vertigo on Mercury, where a Cabal expedition has mysteriously disappeared. There is also a six-engine variant used in the invasion of the Last City.

During the Story mission Outbound Signal at least two warships can be seen orbiting above and below Saturn's rings in a hologram on the bridge. These may be support ships for the Dantalion Exodus VI. Dozens of warships destroyed the Tower during the Red War with swarms of rockets.

Named Cabal warships

• Dantalion Exodus VI
• Retribution (Capital ship)
• The Immortal (Flagship)

Gallery

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  Starboard render of the Cabal warship.

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  Angled, port render of the Cabal warship.

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  Another starboard render.

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  Bottom render of the Cabal warship. Note the landing gear.

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  Another bottom render.

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  Another bottom-view render, this time from the aft. Note the rear hatch.

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  Cabal warships above Mars.

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  The Immortal, Dominus Ghaul's warship above the Last City.

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  Hologram of a Cabal warship.

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Trivia

• The Crucible map of Retribution takes place in the hangar of a Cabal Capital Ship.

List of appearances

• Destiny (First appearance)
  • House of Wolves
  • The Taken King
• Destiny 2