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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|caption         = An intrusion corvette taken and modified by the [[Banished]].
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|maneuver drive  = [[Repulsor engine]]{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}}
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*14+ crewmembers{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}}
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*Several {{Pattern|Karo'etba|Ghost}}s{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}
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*Dozens of warriors{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
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*1 anti-ship [[Plasma cannon (starship)|plasma cannon]]{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}
*2 or more light [[Point-defense gun|point-defense]] plasma turrets{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}
|aircraft        = Multiple [[Covenant drop pod|breaching carapaces]]{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=11}}
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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}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=460}}

==Overview==
===Superstructure and hull===
Intrusion corvettes were originally designed by the Covenant to serve in supporting anti-ship roles, alongside aiding the insertion of light infantry and vehicles to the ground.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} 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 particularly durable by Covenant standards, with the vessel being able to be taken down by a few lucky missile salvos from a [[United Nations Space Command]] {{Class|Razor|prowler}}.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS17|HSS|Chapter=17}}

The intrusion corvettes modified by the [[Banished]] bear considerable design deviances from their Covenant counterparts. These include ramming spikes, additional sensor arrays, and [[boarding craft]] as well as customised paint jobs; in the case of War Chief [[Escharum]], his personal intrusion corvette boasts a stripe and the emblem of the Banished painted in blood-red on its bow.{{Ref/Novel|Id=T3L|Halo: The Third Life}}

===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 a 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 ordnance 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 [[Obedientiary|obedientiaries]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} Additionally, the corvette is capable of deploying {{Pattern|Karo'etba|Ghost}}s and a number of infantry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} The modified intrusion corvette of the Banished War Chief Escharum is capable of deploying a [[Phantom]] dropship, and is stocked with [[boarding craft]] on its ventral surface.{{Ref/Reuse|T3L}}

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

==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 [[Worthy Silence|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}} Shortly afterward, the Spartans removed the ''kelguid'' from the corvette's bridge and delivered it to [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]] for inspection.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS16|HSS|Chapter=16}}

Later that year, a now-disgraced Nizat stole a number of intrusion corvettes to form the [[Flotilla of Unsung Piety]], with the goal of destroying the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] and redeeming his honour.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=252}} During the ensuing [[Battle of Netherop (2526)|Battle of Netherop]], most of the corvettes - with the exception of ''[[Silent Truth]]'' and ''[[Quiet Faith]]'' - were destroyed by the combined fleet actions of the UNSC's [[Task Force Pantea]] and the Covenant's own [[Fleet of Swift Justice]] - the latter of which deployed to hunt down the traitor Sangheili.{{Ref/Novel|Oblv|Chapter=21}}

===Post-Covenant War era===
In [[2559]], War Chief of the Banished [[Escharum]] made heavy use of an intrusion corvette in a number of operations. On [[2559#May|May 8, 2559]], Escharum used his intrusion corvette to travel to the [[Edolas system]] to meet with [[Ilsa Zane]] aboard the [[New Colonial Alliance]]'s flagship [[NCA D'artagnan|NCA ''D'artagnan'']]. While there, the corvette deployed a single Phantom to dock with the ''D'artagnan''. Here, he observed Zane's execution of the alliance's former-leader [[Admiral]] [[Mattius Drake]], and the NCA's pledge of allegiance to the Banished cause.{{Ref/Reuse|T3L}}

In October of that year, Escharum used his intrusion corvette to deploy from a [[Banished]] [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]] to  [[Reach]]'s surface to personally oversee [[Operation: WOLFE|the search for]] the [[Menachite portal complex]]. After the arrival of [[Atriox]] from [[Installation 00|the Ark]], the corvette extracted the Banished leader and his arriving forces with its [[gravity lift]] and carried them away from the planet just before a [[Guardian Custode]] could arrive in response to the portal's activation.{{Ref/Novel|Id=SoR|SoR}}

==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. The artwork for the intrusion corvette used in the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)]]'' is a discarded concept design for the [[Banished dreadnought]] produced for ''[[Halo Infinite]]''.{{Ref/Book|AoHI|Page=110}}

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

==Sources==
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