Covenant navy

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The Covenant Navy is the branch of the Covenant military responsible solely for space operations. Its roles include ship-to-ship combat, orbital bombardment, the deployment of fighters and bombers and the method of delivery for the Covenant's occupational ground forces. At its height, it fielded thousands of warships, most being able to carry fighters, dropships, ground troops and vehicles.

Great Schism

Throughout the majority of the Covenant civil conflict known as the Great Schism, the Covenant military was violently splintered between those who continued to believe in the Prophet's wisdom and the Covenant separatists, who followed the Arbiter and opposed the Prophets' rule. As the battle raged, the High Prophet of Truth formally transferred command of the Covenant Navy to the Jiralhanae, a position once exclusively held by the Sangheili. The Covenant separatists wiped out the primary loyalist fleet at the Battle of Installation 00.

A large portion of the capital warships larger than the standard CCS-class battlecruiser apparently sided with the Sangheili as they had a monopoly on command positions prior to the Great Schism. The separatists' numbers were reduced by the disasters at Onyx, where a battlegroup headed by the Reverence-class cruiser Incorruptible was destroyed, and at Joyous Exultation, where the massive Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose, headed by Imperial Admiral Xytan 'Jar Wattinree aboard the supercarrier Sublime Transcendence, was consumed by a NOVA bomb. This limited the organized Sangheili fleet to the Fleet of Retribution, which was led by the assault carrier Shadow of Intent. The Jiralhanae fleet was mostly limited to Truth's fleet, which outnumbered the Sangheili three to one by the time of the Battle of Installation 00; this fleet contained a number of CCS-class battlecruisers and CAS-class assault carriers.

Known fleets

Main article: Covenant fleet

Known vessels

Space stations

• High Charity - The Covenant holy city and site of government; absorbed by the Flood and destroyed by Master Chief on the Ark.
• Unyielding Hierophant - Destroyed by the Master Chief and the SPARTANs of Blue Team.

Carriers

DDS-class carrier

• Lawgiver - Unknown status, possibly destroyed

CAS-class assault carrier

• Resplendent Fervor - Destroyed
• Shadow of Intent - Survives to return back to Sangheili home world
• Solemn Penance - Destroyed or commandeered by the Loyalists.
• Clarity of Faith - Crash-landed on an unidentified moon

CSO-class supercarrier

• Sublime Transcendence - Destroyed
• Long Night of Solace - Destroyed

Cruisers

Reverence-class cruisers

• Incorruptible - Destroyed in the battle for Onyx.

CCS-class battlecruisers

• Triumphant Declaration - Unknown Status
• Harbinger of Piety - Unknown Status
• Pious Inquisitor - Unknown Status
• Purity of Spirit - Unknown Status
• Sacred Promise (hypothesized) - Unknown status, probably destroyed
• Truth and Reconciliation - Destroyed in the Battle of Installation 04 by Lieutenant McKay.
• CCS-U624 - Unknown Status
• CCS-U321 - Destroyed in the First Battle of Arcadia

CRS-class light cruiser

• Unrelenting - Destroyed in the Battle of Chi Ceti

Other types

• Infinite Sacrifice - Unknown Status
• Penance - Unknown Status
• Rapid Conversion - Unknown Status
• Unnamed Covenant Cruiser - Destroyed in the Fall of Reach.

Destroyers

CPV-class heavy destroyer

• Esteem - Unknown Status
• Reverence - Destroyed

Other types

• Absolution - Destroyed
• Bloodied Spirit - Destroyed
• Far Sight Lost - Destroyed
• Rapturous Arc - Destroyed
• Retribution's Thunder - Destroyed
• Unidentified CPV-class heavy destroyer - Status Unknown

Frigates

Covenant frigate

• Tenebrous - Destroyed
• Twilight Compunction - Unknown Status
• Revenant - Destroyed
• Unflinching Resolve - Retired, later reclaimed by Servants of Abiding Truth

CAR-class frigate

• Contrition - Unknown Status
• Penance - Unknown Status

Corvettes

• Ardent Prayer - Destroyed in Operation: UPPER CUT.

Support ships

• Infinite Succor - Destroyed, sent into a star to prevent the Flood from escaping.

Hudal-class auxiliary vessel

• Piety- Active, all crew killed in capture of a Huragok.

Unknown type

• A Psalm Every Day - Unknown Status
• Commitment and Patience - Unknown Status
• Devotion - Unknown Status
• Infinite Spoils - Unknown Status
• Minor Transgression - Destroyed
• Pitiless - Unknown Status
• Serene Certainty - Unknown Status
• Unrelenting - Unknown Status
• Valorous Salvation - Unknown Status

Important personnel

• Imperial Admiral Xytan 'Jar Wattinree
• Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee (Current Arbiter)
• Fleet Master Voro Nar 'Mantakree
• Fleet Master Rtas 'Vadum
• Ship Master Orna 'Fulsamee
• Ship Master Qunu