Constructed near the end of the Human-Covenant War as a supplement to the Trafalgar-Class Supercarrier, the Ark Royal-class was proposed by Thomas Grumman, one of the engineering project leaders at Bellum Aerospace Industries, and adopted under the larger umbrella of Project EXCALIBUR. Only one ship was constructed, the UNSC Ark Royal, and though others were planned, the destruction of the Reach Naval Shipyards put that to a halt. The only