Epoch-class Heavy Carrier COMPLETE Breakdown (Halo UNSC Ships Explained)

The Epoch-class Heavy Carrier played a crucial role in UNSC fleets. See a complete breakdown of this Halo capital ship, including its armament, compliment, size comparison, history, and behind the scenes facts. See the role the Epoch played alongside UNSC ships like the Paris, Halcyon, Infinity, Marathon and others.
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[@daorkimedes7076]

I adore these halo breakdowns. they give me more respect for the universe. also some covenant ships would be neat to see!

[@m4x927]

I like the tech in the halo universe cause it's more grounded in reality.

[@inquisitorgarza312]

An Unknown UNSC ship that served in the Human-Covenant War, and no doubt played no small part in the eventual victory for humanity. There were probably few types of this ships before the start of the war, but no doubt there were no more after it considering materials use to make it.

[@centurymemes1208]

all depleted probably by cole 😁

[@Chsae314]

Honestly, I'd love to see your take on more Halo ships (Covenant and Human alike). Obviously not asking you to become another Space Dock, but I really appreciate the level of detail you get into (like exploring the company that made the ship, and other relevant lore details) .

[@TruePacifist201]

Yeah, and unlike some other KZbinrs (cough-cough EckhartsLadder cough-cough) Meta actually does his research and provides an objective commentary without throwing in his personal biases. Sorry if you're an EckhartsLadder fan and I've upset you, but the way I see it the guy really needs to drop the "Star Wars fuck-yeah" attitude in his versus videos.

[@gravytube4099]

@@TruePacifist201 ive been a halo fan long before i became a star wars fan but i agree with most of his opinions regarding vs battles, star wars is most certaintly more powerful than the majority of scify series because it isnt science fiction, its space fantasy so its not limited by physics in the same way these other ones are

[@papapalps2415]

@@TruePacifist201 Uh, what? Eck is certainly incredibly biased in many ways, yes, but leaning pro SW in versus videos isn't really one of them. Like, at all. As in, I would genuinely be fascinated to see you back that up, seeing how proving the opposite isn't exactly rocket science (lol Courscant fleet was 1k ships because big numbahs arz SCARWEEYY!!).

[@dozergames2395]

​@@gravytube4099id say his biggest mistake in the verus ( for halo vs starwars) is completely discounting and not really taking into account point defense systems He right in that unlike starwars halo is less invested into space fighters as a whole But the reason for that is the proliferation of automated and ai fire controlled point defense systems Similarly the empire tends to really under coock their own point defense systems and other star wars factions are generally not much better

[@Centurion0419]

Love to be early to a metanerdz vid, but a halo one as well? This is the best

[@dominicvucic8654]

I love this ship when fleet battles was still a thing the epoch was always my flagship I named it the divine providence

[@user-zw6mp2ko5v]

It still is a thing. Its fully community supported now. They even put out new updated rules and ships.

[@dominicvucic8654]

@@user-zw6mp2ko5v how show me

[@user-zw6mp2ko5v]

@@dominicvucic8654 they're most active on Facebook groups. Type in Halo Fleet battles and you should find it. Be sure to answer the security questions.

[@Blitzkrieg23]

Halo and Star Wars “what if”

[@reidhanson4755]

Halo is our world in the future. Star Wars is our world far away and in the far past. They could technically be linked and have it make sense in your head cannon. After all, the universe in SW is our universe. My head cannon is the flood made their way to the SW galaxies and wiped them out and by the time their 'dust' made it back to the milky way ancient humans were discovering it from strange (SW era) ships.

[@iacobibrasiliensium2139]

I am concerned about the pronunciation of Epoch and Sabot...

[@Duke_of_Petchington]

Im glad someone else noticed

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Silly thing to be concerned with. I always say epoch as e-pok, but I went with the way google pronunciation says it. Google it to see. And I imagine you're thinking say-bo, I think how I said it is the same thing just more casual or accent however you want to word that. If I'm not articulating or stressing the long a idk I don't do that with many words but it isn't wrong. I'm not hitting the T or saying sahbut or something like that. I'm seeing a tons of comments like this so I'll just pin this. It is great for comment generation though lol I should do it on purpose

[@KongoKaiNi]

Google pronounce it as e-pok for me oddly enough

[@Duke_of_Petchington]

@@MetaNerdzLore the pronunciation of sabot is Sah-Bow, coming the French word for Shoe. as that was the the Sabot is for, to shoe a sub calibre round in a much larger bore of gun.

[@princeofpokemon2934]

There's no need to be concerned about the pronunciation of the words.

[@Captain_Tumbleweed]

Here's an idea: ''The Doomgiver'' from Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. I have yet to encounter a video about this ship.

[@Nidhoggrr]

Sheesh that just shows you how efficient AI makes ship ships. Epoch: 1300 crew + room for 800 troops Imperial SD: Almost 30,000 (taking out the 10,000 soldiers it would have)

[@TheNobleFive]

It has even less crew than current aircraft carriers despite being 300+ times heavier.

[@m4x927]

The ship was created almost 500 years in the future.

[@tristanbackup2536]

@@m4x927 Most UNSC military assets were created around 2200 to 2300s to maintain colonial peace. Wasn't til after the war they had to play catch up.

[@Nidhoggrr]

@@m4x927 Well that obviously doesn't mean much since SDs are even farther in the future and they have way more.

[@papapalps2415]

You...do realize this is an utterly brain dead comparison, right? ISDs, like all SW ships, are already very heavily automated. A large portion of that crew is non essentials and troops. By all means, if you want to get into a pissing contest in "who's better at automation?", than SW wins near effortlessly, seeing how the Death Stars exist, in all their couple million-odd crew glory.

[@davidhenneman3747]

great breakdown, always love the ship descriptions!!

[@TheNobleFive]

Man you put a lot of effort into the info and visuals. I appreciate it.

[@princeofpokemon2934]

You guys weren't kidding when you said this was next on the list! Great job dudes, you've done it again!

[@gabrielmoreira722]

Orion Assault Carrier

[@fakenuke7487]

Just when I was getting into halo, this video comes out, perfect timing

[@nicholassas4201]

I'm exited to see your breakdown of the covenant cruiser

[@beardedgent2178]

I've gotta say you a wonderful breakdown of this Carrier Details are spot on

[@13lackhood]

Great work as always

[@jonathanmays2412]

I love these ship breakdowns keep it up!

[@UNSCrearadmiral]

Epoch is pronounced Ee-pock Not epic... that is my only complaint other than that I loved your covering my ship!

[@MetaNerdzLore]

lol thanks but just check the pinned comment on the pronunciation

[@giantslayer9335]

It IS epic, though...

[@digitalninja5941]

@@giantslayer9335 That is true for the American pronunciation but UK is Ee-pok and from every other Halo media I've heard pronounced the UK version it just sounds weird to call a ship the Epic class for some reason.

[@26th_Primarch]

It's class name is E-poch like the time measurement.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

I always said it like you're saying but just Google pronunciation it, thats what I went with

[@26th_Primarch]

@@MetaNerdzLore fair enough.

[@silentnight9097]

Love the idea of you taking on more halo ships!

[@booboobumbum6602]

Any Spaceship breakdown is welcomed!

[@TheHeroRises]

Another great video!

[@flandrescarlet2655]

Ahh, i loved playing as the epoch in a small fangame.. great to see i can learn more about it!

[@ScoutsIX3]

Your content is always great!

[@Alexander9924]

The ship at 10:56 in the Fall of Reach comic isnt an Epoch, it's an Athens.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

check the halopedia

[@Alexander9924]

@@MetaNerdzLore its Details are more consistent to an Athens then they are an Epoch 1. Epoch doesnt have those Flat Shield looking protrusions on its bow. 2. The Engine Block isnt that big on the Epoch 3. The Slanted Plating on the Epoch is lower, while the Athens has a configuration similar of that to a Pheonix Class.

[@Thinggyblop]

​@@Alexander9924 Athens is the non canon ship name for a carrier that was seen but had no name but in a latter book it was revealed to be a Epoch, the sin of the prophets devs made the athens class cause at the time the was no references and no on knew about the Epoch

[@johndawson123]

Have you thought of doing a breakdown of the Stalwart, Charon, and Paris Class Frigates from the mainline games? there can never be enough in-depth videos as every video that comes out always adds a little the others didn't know or corrects what they got wrong.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Yeah I want to do more of these Halo ones too

[@agamdutt7806]

i went onto this thinking it was a star wars ship breakdown but was confused as I had never seen it before. XD

[@markmulder9845]

FYI, an in universe for the slight differences would be different year production models. Say, updated/refit versions of the epoch. I mean, if you look at an original Halcyon and a refit halcyon, there is a pretty big difference.

[@m4x927]

This ship is probably my favorite halo ship design.

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Likes help promote the video, comment anything still confused about or want to see in a future video. And subscribe if you like videos like this! Also this epoch and sabot pronunciation debate has hit levels of the video on droideka, lucrehulk, and kaminoans. The epoch debate comes from a UK pronunciation it seems, and sabot is how I said it. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sabot

[@manosbaroulakis9446]

More Halo content, PLEASE!

[@alexiel4406]

Nothing better then a Halo breakdown

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

The epoch is a carrier not cruiser, The MAC guns easily cut trough covenant armour, so could UNSC missiles the problem was the covenant shields, for that the MAC had to be used, but they could pierce the shields.

[@soph1823]

Good to see my favourite ship getting some much needed love

[@thealpaca18]

I have been waiting for a long time

[@beardedgent2178]

Nice upload keep it going

[@axelyoung1551]

If there is one Video game that i love the lore of, It is probably Halo. There is so much lore from these games. Can't wait till you do the Phoenix class ships ( á la Spirit of Fire) and the Scarab!

[@lsporter88]

Halo Lore is extremely detailed. Makes you wonder what's really going on. But I truly appreciate it and this video. Salute.

[@Jpwoody03]

Love the halo keep it up

[@declanedwardes4869]

Favourite chanel on the internet

[@Obiwan7100]

Make a video of koros strohna(Yuuzhan Vong Worldship)

[@pyeitme508]

Or other SWTOR vehicles.

[@lolsxd2011]

Hello there

[@myjdogz]

Love the halo vids

[@andrewd5894]

Not the biggest halo fan but I’m just happy for more ship brakedown as it always a good vid

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

Welcome back to MetaNerd's in-scale depth without using the metre system

[@autumngottlieb3071]

I know I'm late, but I just want to explicitly say that this is probably my favorite UNSC ship design.

[@caddmus]

Love your ship and weapon break downs, both starwars and halo, hope you do more halo ones as well, or if there are more starwars ships and vehicles you havn't done yet :D but i also love halo,

[@RayvenTheNight]

When John was fighting those ODSTs he pretty kicked one in the nuts so hard it shattered his pelvis , killing him... dude literally got nut shotted to death...

[@darkreflection9087]

Would love to see you do more Halo breakdowns but I would like to know more about the Covenant

[@henrysmith893]

This was a great videos

[@archer2367]

fun fact i noticed just now, in the fall of reach comic it depicts what to me looks to be more of an Athens carrier then Epoch

[@inuboy867]

I love this, please do more Halo ships, this is awesome.

[@kaldordraigo6420]

I would love to see a video about the Punic class carrier

[@realizewave1513]

Keep up the halo and star wars ship content!

[@mistermadmachine6311]

3:39 VIC is that you

[@torifin755]

when you show APFSDS which, also a SABOT, but is an upgraded version of APDS which was just what was explained, smaller caliber, cased in a SABOT, APFSDS added fin stabilizers to help with longer ranged shots and improved flight ballistics

[@jeova0sanctus0unus]

As someone that has played sins of the Prophets, let me quite the Capitan of such a Carrier: "Its pronounced: Epoch."

[@LMG1792]

Hope for my of these as Halo is one of my favorite things.

[@HakoVadim6855]

That is an awesome and accurate breakdown. But, I am wondering about a single mention in this particular case, about its fighters. And I am talking about YSS-1000 “Sabre”. I pretty much sure, that those were highly classified ones, and only been used exclusively for orbital defense. Because of loss of Reach and therefore most of the facilities that repaired and constructed these fighters, they were very, very rarely used in combat, especially navy, because they were designed for planetary defense. Most of them were housed in Sol system, and program was, basically, discontinued. Of course, there was a program of SS-1000 Sabre program, but those ones gone in limited production as well. In conclusion, it is not possible for use of them as normal fighters for navy branch of UNSC and even for carriers, such as Epoch. Therefore, there were none used as normal fighters for carriers, or other ships.

[@ADude1034]

Can you do a video on the lesser known halo ships, both UNSC and Covenant? I would say the Covenant’s Brigantine ship but I know there’s not a lot about it.

[@stewlew8449]

I like that comparison between the size of the epoch class and imperial sd

[@DarthTurtle64]

When the tags for the video are casually wrong, but its chill ig

[@MetaNerdzLore]

Lol oh yeah lemme get those thanks

[@republic9299]

Bröther, I've gotten back into Halo ships and lore and I would L O V E if you covered the Charon class Frigate. It's not well armed but is a specialized ground assault ship and I always found that a interesting function. Not as lumbering as an Orion and can still carry a ton of equipment (Forward Unto Dawn and Aegis Fate show this). I could see it carrying a variety of ground assault and space based fighters depending on mission need. Its no small part in the battle of Voi show its importance. Separately, I'm starting to look into the controversy of 343's handling of the Halo IP but I will say that their design of the the new frigates are honestly amazing.

[@lawindacera7219]

Love it

[@nath12the34great]

Keep doing halo love your stuff man, jump in on a human time line or first contact

[@jamescopley3251]

Great work but pls do a vid on the razorcrest

[@zironthegamer]

It be nice if you can use back round footage for space engineers while using builds from the community as long you credit them using space engineers for your channel would spice it

[@Ajc-ni3xn]

I gotta say, I respect the halo series for making different parts of the world relevant, like Africa having mega cities and Asia being a producer of military equipment rather than just western everything

[@KillerOrca]

United Nations Space Command. Nuff said.

[@pillowtalk34i6]

Do more halo videos I love the game and all the info you give in the videos. The halo universe is already so big it would be nice to hear all the other stuff I don't know. Nobel team and more about master chief would be great ideas to make a video of.

[@Fen_Wolf]

Nice a halo video

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

Its EPOCH An EPOCH is a measure of TIME EPIC is a story usually fictional.

[@StarBornMichael]

I'd love to see the Punic Super Carrier in all her glory.

[@pyeitme508]

Noice bro! Wish for SWTOR Eternal Empire vehicle videos soon!

[@yardhunter4209]

This is epic can't wait for more videos like this.

[@colefinck2906]

You should do a complete history of the yuuzhon vong

[@anno-fw7xn]

i would love a video about the expanse ships!

[@Voltaic_Fire]

It's pronounced as "e-pok", that distraction aside it was another great video.

[@darkblu117zcrookedneck8]

Can you do more Halo UNSC & Covenant spaceships And More?

[@jakobcarlson7613]

Which halo was the content from? I know little but have all of them

[@mocman7020]

EPIC. EPOCH

[@paulwhite1908]

Can u do a video on the ccs plz

[@scarface406]

More please

[@nikoc8968]

800 seems like a really small Marine detachment for a ship this size. a US Navy LHD-1 can carry a maximum of over 1800 Marines and its almost exactly 1/10th the length and like 1/500th the displacement. always wondered why that was.

[@43Saturne]

Do you think you can post the writing list of what you say in these videos so if we want to write it down.

[@oryx4595]

I always wanted to know what the UNSC did for armor and I'm amazed they have all that in a ship, like a Paris Class Heavy Frigate would have 60 cm's of titanium A battle plates, thermal super conducting radiators, layer or layers of elastic polymers and intermetallic laminate, with in between the armor plate exterior and interior would be filled with the shock hardening fluid gel thing. Then you get to the bigger ships with a meter and up to 5 meters of titanium A battle plates I think? with a lot more elastic polymers and intermetallic laminate and the gel shit. Overall that sounds strong but then you cut to a Marathon Class Heavy Cruiser being gutted like nothing, WHICH BY THE WAY had nearly 2, 2!! meters of titanium A battle plating and all the other layers of thermal super conducting radiators, layers of elastic polymers and intermetallic laminate with shock hardening fluid, All that armor and preparations being gutted in like 2 or 4 seconds. Yeah this is why I love Halo and it's ships, (MOSTLY THE UNSC) They're built for war and to dash out damage hey I mean look at the Halcyon Light Cruiser with it's honey comb structure.

[@feralprocessor9853]

RIP to the Spartan II casualties that didn't survive the experimental rejection

[@darthgamer2014]

Hey Metanerdz, we all (Basically every SW fan) know what Hyperspace is, and some might even know how it works. But I'd like to know more about what makes Hyperspace possible, aka The Hyperdrive. Keep up the amazing work

[@admiralmallard7500]

Reach comic is the Athens class now i think, and the Animated sorta looks like the thermopylae. Though Halo ship class names are always getting swapped around, at least the more obscure ones.

[@Slender_Man_186]

It really bothers me how the Forward Unto Dawn seemingly goes from being one of the Frigate classes in Halo 3, to suddenly being an Epoch in Halo 4.

[@gravytube4099]

It was a strident in halo 4, the epoch is much much larger, but that also bothered me to as there was literally no need to change it

[@JcBravo8]

Canonically it’s the same ship as in H3. Just the wrong game model in H4

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@gravytube4099 that’s my point, even in 2012 when I was only 11, I noticed that it wasn’t the same ship from the end of CE, not in design or size anyway. It was mainly the slanted section on the side that I noticed being very off.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@JcBravo8 I know they’re the same in the lore, but yeah they used the wrong ship entirely. The one in Halo 4 is much larger.

[@ethanjohnson9016]

What about a video about the unsc orbital installations like the super mac cannons and anchor stations?

[@100dfrost]

Comment: More HALO please, good video, thanks.

[@starkillerab1582]

Hey Dude you should breakdown The New Republic Corona-Class Frigate

[@curious5887]

Please do Infinity class after this

[@stijnVDA1994]

Maybe a collab would be cool with and installation 00 for halo things and places.

[@darkdragon1943]

Did you do a video on the spirit of fire?

[@bdj_tvk]

I was just playing Sins of The Prophets lol using the carrier a bunch

[@sullivanclarke1993]

Could you look at The star viper class attack platform & usan bong ships?

[@MrKarnator]

Think you guys can do the Covenant Phantom at some point? Maybe the Brute Chopper and or Ghost?

[@Theglobalhistoryproductions]

Do high Republic stuff man

[@nickwhite2582]

Where did you get that map of the pre-War Milky Way?