Editing Intrusion corvette

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{{Disambig header|the stealth corvette class introduced in ''Halo: Silent Storm''|stealth ship seen in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach''|Covenant stealth ship}}
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'''Intrusion corvettes''' are a classification of stealth [[Covenant corvette|corvette]] employed by the [[Covenant]] and the [[Banished]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSoR17|HSoR|Chapter=17}}

==Specifications==
===Superstructure and hull===
The intrusion corvette is shaped like a pair of teardrops connected by a thin middle fuselage, covered in (seemingly) randomly placed rows of blue lights.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS14|HSS|Chapter=14}} The corvette's hull is not very durable by Covenant standards, with the vessel being able to be taken down by a few lucky missile salvos from a [[UNSC]] {{Class|Razor|prowler}}.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS17|HSS|Chapter=17}}

===Interior layout===
The intrusion corvette's bridge contains an observation blister which allows a crewmember to see into space outside the ship directly. The back of the bridge contains a maze of control consoles and equipment stands, with a tactical hologram projector. The hologram projector is surrounded by ten data-collection lecterns, each manned by a reader. Typically, two [[obedientaries]] would each observe five of these readers, stood at opposite ends of the tactical hologram.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} Intrusion corvettes are additionally equipped with a ''[[kelguid]]'' for navigation.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS22|HSS|Chapter=22}} The spine of the vessel contains a contemplation sphere where certain high-ranking [[Sangheili]] officers can meditate in peace.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} On the underside of the vessel is hangar or cargo bay with a  hatch large enough to admit a ''Razor''-class prowler.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}}

===Ship systems===
The corvette is equipped with a single anti-ship [[Plasma cannon (starship)|plasma cannon]] that is unsuitable for anti-infantry work.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} It also features at least two manually-operated point-defense plasma turrets. With their high rate of fire, they are used for destroying incoming ordinance or small craft.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}} The corvette is equipped with a [[gravity lift]] system which can be used to load or offload troops and equipment.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} The corvette's lift systems are large enough that, during the [[Battle of Seoba]], a corvette attempted to lift the remains of the downed {{UNSCShip|Starry Night}}, a ''Razor''-class prowler.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}

Intrusion corvettes are equipped with an [[active camouflage]] system, allowing them to remain unseen by enemy forces. These systems were sufficient enough to mask the corvettes from detection by the entirety of [[Biko]]'s [[Chancellor's Guards|space force]] during their approach to [[Seoba]] in [[2526]]. The craft's specialized [[repulsor engine]]s let out only a small amount of thermal emissions, such that there would only be a red flare that lasts a moment before vanishing on thermal scopes.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] begrudgingly considered these stealth systems inferior to those employed on [[UNSC]] [[prowler]]s, with the corvettes' own sensor systems unable to detect the launch of several ''Razor''-class prowlers from Seoba.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} With optimal maintenance, the stealth systems on an intrusion corvette were considered by [[Nizat 'Kvarosee]] to be "eighty-five percent" effective, with this number dropping to between fifty and seventy percent for the vessels of the [[Flotilla of Unsung Piety]]—a rogue element without access to optimal maintenance.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HO5|Oblv|Chapter=5}}

===Crew and complement===
Intrusion corvettes require only a small crew. The ship's bridge crew consists of at least a [[shipmaster]] and a [[second]], alongside ten readers and two obedientaries.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} Additionally, the corvette is capable of deploying [[Type-32 Ghost]]s and a number of infantry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}

==Operational history==
===Human-Covenant War===
In [[2526#March| March 2526]], the five intrusion corvettes of the [[Bloodstar Flotilla]] led [[Battle of Seoba|an assault]] on Seoba, under the direction of Tel 'Szatulai. The First Blade was distressed by the seemingly superior [[Stealth ablative coating|stealth systems]] employed by the UNSC prowlers,{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} so he had one shot down to be recovered for study.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} Called the UNSC ''Starry Night'', [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[John-117]] led eleven other Spartans to search for any surviving crew. Two of 'Szatulai's intrusion corvettes reached the prowler shortly before the Spartans, and began firing on the supersoldiers and deploying [[Bloodstars|troops]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} Due to the turncoat [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]]'s efforts to get the Spartan-IIs killed, he purposefully held off on attacking the intrusion corvettes under guise of waiting to get into a perfect position. Eventually, two of the corvettes were destroyed by the UNSC prowlers while a third was caught in the blast of the ''Starry Night''{{'}}s [[self-destruct]] as it hovered above the downed vessel, trying to recover it.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}

Later that year, nine intrusion corvettes made up the majority of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety along with a single [[Covenant frigate]]. Most of the flotilla was destroyed in the three-way [[Battle of Netherop]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>

===Post-Covenant War era===
In [[2559]], an intrusion corvette was dispatched from a [[Banished]] [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]] to carry [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]] to [[Reach]]'s surface to personally oversee the search for the [[Menachite portal complex]]. After the arrival of [[Atriox]] from [[Installation 00|the Ark]], the corvette carried the Banished leader and his arriving forces away from the planet.<ref>'''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'''</ref>

==Ships of the line==
*''[[Divine Whisper]]''
*''[[Quiet Faith]]''
*''[[Sacred Whisper]]''
*''[[Silent Truth]]''
*''[[Still Devotion]]''
*''[[Worthy Silence]]''

==Production notes==
The intrusion corvette's description is broadly similar to the [[Covenant stealth ship]] as described in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''. However, it is presently unknown if the two are one and the same.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Oblivion]]''
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''

==Sources==
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{{Covenant Ships}}
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