Vessels

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Known Ships(Based on Human Intell.):
CCS Class cruiser: Your clasic coveneant war ship.
CHS Class Harvester: The Massive Transports of the Armada.
Flag Ships(Capitals): Ships like these were on the fall of reach, they have a weapon that can slice through any metal the UNSC has, but usualy shoot for the reacter core.
Frigates: The Ships that make up the heart of the covenant ships navy.


* Unyielding Hierophant: Space station used as a rendezvous point for Covenant invasion forces headed towards Earth. Destroyed by the Master Chief and his group of surviving Spartan forces.
* Truth and Reconciliation: one of the CCS-class battle cruisers of the Fleet of Particular Justice and Captain Jacob Keyes's prison. Infested by the Flood and destroyed by UNSC forces to prevent the Flood from escaping Installation 04
* The Celesta: Hybrid of Chs and CCs Class cruisers.
* Purity of Spirit: CCS-class battle cruiser.
* Penance: CPV-class destroyer
* Esteem: CPV-class destroyer
* Sacred Promise: CCS-class battle cruiser
* Pious Inquisitor: CCS-class battle cruiser used to torture and interrogate enemies. This is also the fastest ship in the Covenant fleet. (also a multiplayer map)
* Devotion
* Seeker of Truth: CCS Class Capital Ship (Unconfirmed as being a Capital Ship at this time) Flagship of the Fleet of Particular Justice
* Commitment and Patience
* Ascendant Justice: Flagship, captured by UNSC forces and destroyed.
* Unnamed Forerunner Ship: This ships engines have been adapted by the Covenant and are used to power High Charity. The Prophet of Truth used this ship to escape from High Charity when the Flood invaded it during the Covenant Civil War. The Prophet then traveled to Earth with the Master Chief aboard.
* Unnamed flagship involved in the Fall of Reach
* High Charity: Mobile Planetoid, High Charity is the Covenant Holy City. The city is mobile, can jump through slipspace, and was powered by the unnamed Forerunner ship. It apears to be half of a moon, with only the outercrust left. It was taken over by the Flood at the end of Halo 2. High Charity is the "Home Planet" of the Covenant, in the sense that it is the planet where the High Council, Mausoleum of the Arbiter, residence of the ruling Prophet Hierarchs, and other fixtures of Covenant government are located. It is believed that all battle (or otherwise purpose oriented) Covenant members reside within. However, every race in the Covenant has its own homeworld, and it is to be emphasized that High Charity is only an administrative homeworld. High Charity is at all times protected by a fleet of hundreds of Covenant capital ships (each carrying an unknown amount of fighter craft, not to mention the ships that may be docked within High Charity itself). Any vessel entering High Charity's "zones" must broadcast a security code (changed every so often, specifically at an unknown time between one hour and one week) without hesitation when prompted or the vessel will be immediately destroyed. This fleet surrounding the city is noted to be larger than even the fleet surrounding the Unyielding Hierophant, well over five hundred ships.

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Human Vessels.

The UNSC fleet has been decimated by nearly 3 decades of war with the Covenant, but the remaining shipyards continue to produce warships to defend the remnants of human space. UNSC production facilities have begun to be moved away from Earth and Mars following the destruction of Reach, in an effort to decentralize war production with the apparent Covenant discovery of Earth's location.

UNSC ship types that have been encountered thus far:

* Corvette: The smallest designation for UNSC ships, primarily used for patrol and interdiction and not major engagements.
* Frigate: Smallest class of capital ship with one MAC cannon, three Shiva nuclear warheads, and a small arsenal of Archer missile pods. Can carry Longsword and Pelican spacecraft and deploy significant Marine detachments. Speculation indicates that frigates may have different loadouts for different missions; the Commonwealth carried an entire Longsword squadron and no apparent large Marine detachment, while In Amber Clad featured a significant amount of armor and troop support capability, including at least four Scorpion tanks and numerous Warthogs, with room for Pelicans and a large number of Marines. It also seemed to use Archer missles as its primary weapon.
* Destroyer: A heavier warship that masses nearly twice as much as a frigate but is only seven meters longer, due to the two meters of armor covering it from bow to aft. Destroyers are armed with two MAC systems and a larger complement of Archers than a frigate, though this additional ordnance does not allow the space for Longsword fighters.
* Carrier: Used for launching airstrikes and carrying Marines. Do not appear to be as effective as modern carriers, perhaps due to Covenant superiority in space combat. How Supercarriers such as the Trafalgar differ is unexplained, though it is presumed that they carry more fighters for space combat.
* Cruiser: Most powerful class of ship, is usually undescribed. Two known variants have been encountered thus far: Halcyon-class (such as the Pillar of Autumn) and Marathon-class.
* Prowler: A lightweight ship, among the smallest UNSC ships equipped with a slipspace drive. Used exclusively by ONI for stealth and recon purposes.
* Repair stations: Kilometer-long and wide repair and refit stations that can service up to six UNSC ships at a time. A novel tactic was developed during the battle at Sigma Octanus in which a repair station would be used as a sacrificial shield to catch and stop Covenant plasma bombardments, allowing UNSC ships the time they needed to fire an additional unanswered salvo of MAC rounds.

Below is a list of known UNSC ships, intact and destroyed.

* Trafalgar, a supercarrier, was destroyed during the Battle of Reach.
* Pillar of Autumn, a Halcyon-class cruiser. See the main article on Pillar of Autumn. Was refitted with extra-armor and plating for its' 'special mission' for the Spartans, destroyed at Halo Installation 04.
* Dawn Under Heaven, another Halcyon-class cruiser, sister ship to the Pillar of Autumn.
* Leviathan, a Marathon-class cruiser, the most powerful ship "built by human hands," damaged at Sigma Octanus IV.
* Iroquois, a destroyer. After the battle of Sigma Octanus IV, an unseen Covenant tracking device was planted on the Iroquois, leading to the subsequent fall of Reach.
* In Amber Clad (FFG-142), a frigate commanded by Miranda Keyes and involved in the Battle of New Mombasa. Abandoned at Delta Halo and subsequently captured by The Flood and crashed into High Charity.
* Circumference, an ONI stealth-ship; prowler. Destroyed during the Battle of Reach.
* Apocalypso, another ONI stealth-ship. Recovered a mysterious Forerunner artifact which a crewmember later activated, leading to the events detailed in the ilovebees storyline.
* Commonwealth, a frigate. Status unknown, damaged at Chi Ceti, while the SPARTAN-II project was retrieving the MJOLNIR armor.
* Gettysburg, a frigate. Abandoned during the Battle of Reach. Later recovered by Cortana aboard a captured Covenant flagship Ascendant Justice
* Cairo, Athens, Malta, and Nassau, Super MAC Orbital Platform; 300 orbital platforms defended Earth during the Covenant attack, some were destroyed, including the Athens and Malta. Nassau "has only been seen in Dead or Alive 4, a non-Bungie game."[2] It has been speculated that the Nassau is another station orbiting Earth, on the other side of the planet that the Covenant attacked at the beginning of Halo 2
* Atlas, a carrier, carried the SPARTAN-II super soldiers to their first official mission, in the Eridanus system.
* Resolute, a destroyer
* Lancelot, a destroyer
* Meriwether Lewis, a frigate; Lieutenant Jacob Keyes served on this ship shortly before he was transferred to the Magellan.
* Midsummer Night, a frigate (a possible reference to the William Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
* Alliance, a frigate
* Allegiance, a frigate
* Minotaur, a destroyer, destroyed during the Battle of Reach
* Musashi, a carrier, destroyed during the Battle of Reach
* Fair Weather, a frigate
* Tharsis, a destroyer, destroyed during the Battle of Reach.
* Republic, a destroyer, damaged and abandoned during the Battle of Reach
* Heracles, involved in the Battle of Harvest and First Contact with the Covenant. Commanded by Captain Veredi and sustained heavy damage in battle. Returned to Reach several weeks later to report on the Covenant attack.
* Vostok, a frigate, destroyed in the Battle of Harvest
* Arabia, a frigate, destroyed in the Battle of Harvest
* Cradle, a repair station used as a shield in the Battle of Sigma Octanus, destroyed in that battle.
* Spirit of Fire, a Phoenix class vessel (type unknown) that engaged the Covenant in the first years of the war, some time after 2525. Has a compliment of several Marine teams and Spartans, and many vehicles, Longsword fighters, etc. Features in the game, Halo Wars.