UNSC starship

Several types of UNSC starships in orbit.

UNSC starships were Human starships operated by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and its various branches and forces.

Overview

Organization

In the UNSC, ships can also be operated by different departments and branches. Warships like the UNSC In Amber Clad were often operated by the UNSC Navy. UNSC Navy ships were deployed by UNSC Fleet Command. In the case of the UNSC Swift Justice, it was operated by the Incident Response and Investigation division of the UNSC. The UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping also operated a number of Freighters.

These orginizations as well have ways of identifying their ships. There was the Hull classification symbol, which gives each ship a letter classification and a number. There was also the ship emblem, which was a unique image that crew wore on their uniforms. Some warships also used the UNSC REG system, which was also a special serial number. There was also the UNc system.

The UNSC Department of Commercial Shipping operated its own identification codes for freighters that were primarily used in COM transmissions.

Paris-class frigates in "Shield" formation.

Tactical Groupings

Main article: UNSC Navy tactical formations

UNSC ships were organized into fleets; specifically numbered expeditionary fleets and named defensive fleets. Further down, ships were arranged into battle groups. As well, squadrons were a type of tactical grouping for support ships early in the Covenant War, but by the end of the war were relegated to a type of administrative grouping.

Often, naval groupings had a flagship from which commanding officers lead their groupings from.

Personnel and operations

It is expected of all navy ship personnel to participate in working parties. The working parties help with routine maintenance and replenishment.

Ensigns often did not pilot capital ships.

The commanding officer of a UNSC starship, like other human starships, is referred to as a Captain regardless of actual rank. The actual military rank of the leader is dependent on the size of the ship. Those of the rank Lieutenant often are in charge of small support vessels, Commanders are in charge of small warships, and Captains are in charge of line warships. The commanding officer in radio communications is referred to as the ships name followed by "Actual".

UNSC Starships were often given a Ship Director, an AI who could manage much of the ship's tasks with the Captain's authority. Generally, these AI were "Smart".

Children were sometimes born on board UNSC ships as well, with children being born on the UNSC Savannah and the UNSC Grafton.

Procedures, traditions and culture

Several procedures affected the operations of UNSC ships as well. Prior to crash landings, active cryo pods were to be ejected into space. The Cole Protocol also affected the possible destinations of ships.

Navy personnel UNSC ships often follow old naval tradition. Boarding a UNSC warship is considered a ceremony, not a formality. When boarding a ship, the boarder requests permission from the officer on deck. The officer on deck will reply with a curt "Very well".

"Dead fleets" or "paper fleets" are maintained as tradition and to honor those who died while serving. Inadvertently, some starships will be attached to these fleets by bureaucratic error. Many crewmen regarded this as a bad omen.

Design and specifications

The Infinity being repaired over Earth while an Autumn-class is completing a float out.

Construction, decommissioning and repairs

A number of corporations seemingly based in numerous places, helped construct UNSC ships including Sinoviet Heavy Machinery, Aerofabrique SA, TanSec AB, Reyes-McLees Shipyards, Kuushan Shipyards, and Martian Metals Shipyards.

The UNSC generally had construction facilities in orbit of planets. Tribute, and Mars had ship building yards. Reach also had its own ship breaking yards that decommissioned ships were sent to. Earth as well had orbital facilities for repairs and float outs. The UNSC Cradle on the other hand was a mobile Refit station that could travel to ships.

On ship facilities

A cleaved Forward Unto Dawn, exposing the deck layout.

Design guidelines for ships emphasize that the command crew should have visibility of the surrounding exterior area of the ship. This is usually achieved through windows on the bridge.

UNSC ships have an internal deck naming structure. On most ships, the Hangar deck is considered Zero Deck. Decks below that are "belowdeck" and are numbered in descending order starting at First Deck. Everything above the hangar deck is a "level", starting at Level One and going in an ascending order.

Facilities to create simulated War Games training sessions could be found on several ships. Though they were mostly on post-war vessels and most prominently on the UNSC Infinity.

From the Phoenix-class carrier UNSC Spirit of Fire to the Marathon-class heavy cruiser UNSC Say My Name, numerous ships featured holotables for battlefield situational displays.

Cryo chambers were an important feature that allowed the crews to travel large distances without aging as much. Cryo facilities were often large and individual chambers displayed crew member names.

UNSC starships also featured mess halls, hangar bays, and armories.

Crew quarters on UNSC navy ships vary by ship type. Halberd-class light destroyers crew quarters were cramped with members being allocated a single sleeping pod that would sometimes need to be shared when the ship has additional crew.

Propulsion, movement, and docking

Main articles: Fusion drive, Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine

UNSC ships were equipped with fusion drive engines to help them move and maneuver in real-space. Shaw-Fujikawa drives help ships reach supraluminal speeds.

UNSC ships had docking capabilities, though the exact details are dependent on what the ship is docking with. Stalwart-class light frigates were capable of docking with Moncton-class orbital weapon platforms. Class-L flash-docks routinely held frigates and corvettes, though the UNSC Pillar of Autumn was able to use one.

Armament

The MAC of a Stalwart-class frigate.

A number of UNSC vessels, particularly those under the control of the UNSC Navy are equipped with weaponry.

Powerful weaponry

Main articles: Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, Nuclear weapon

UNSC warships usually contain nuclear weapons of some sort. Shiva-class nuclear missile and M4093 Hyperion nuclear delivery system were known shipboard nuclear weapons used by the UNSC.

MACs are massive coil guns that are used to accelerate multi-ton projectiles at extremely high velocities. These projectiles were a super-dense ferric (iron) tungsten shell.

As an example, frigate based MACs are capable of firing their slugs at roughly 30,000 meters per second. UNSC Infinity has miniature MAC guns along its hull, to compliment its built in, larger MAC guns.

The UNSC Savannah firing its M910 Rampart guns.

Batteries

Main article: Point-defense gun

UNSC ships generally carry an array of missile batteries. Most UNSC ships carry Archer Missiles in one of many pods. These include the M58 Archer Missile Delivery System and the M42 Archer Missile Delivery System. These were complemented with Fusion rockets.

Point defense batteries were common on UNSC warships. Some of these batteries include the M910 Rampart, the M870 Rampart, the M710 Bulwark, and the Mark 57 Arena.

Complement

Main articles: Space fighter, Dropship

D77H-TCI, a model of the ever present Pelican Dropship.

Attached to various UNSC vessels are a number of small craft. Some were operated by other branches of the UNSC. The F-41 Exoatmospheric Multirole Strike Fighter, for example, was most often operated by the UNSC Air Force. The ubiquitous Pelican was operated by several branches including the UNSC Marine Corps.

Some starships, like the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, had lifeboats for the crew. The most known ones were the Bumblebee series.

History

Rise of humanity

The time of the Insurrection saw a number of class additions and developments to the UNSC's fleet. In 2493, the Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser entered service. Though serious cost problems over five years cast doubt in the class' future. At some point in the Insurrection, a new carrier, the Orion-class assault carrier, was built to help with ground operations. One of the last known class additions during the Insurrection was the Halcyon-class light cruiser. In 2510, the class first entered service.

Human-Covenant War

A few UNSC starship classes during the Human-Covenant War.

Main article: Human-Covenant War

Course of the war

"We returned to Harvest with enough firepower to assault the vaults of heaven."

— Preston Cole discussing Battle Group X-Ray at the Battle of Harvest.

Main article: Massacre of the Outer Colonies

In 2525, the UNSC would strip away the CMA's naval resources and give them to NAVCOM. As well, the UNSC would begin to take over the Colonial Administration Authority in the midst of the Human-Covenant War. With these additions, the UNSC received several different types of ships. This included the CAA's Springhill-class mining ship and the Diligence-class from the CMA. Both of which would be brought back to service or continued service such as with the UNSC Kronstadt and the CAA Heavy Burden.

Impressive fleet actions characterized the early war. 40 ships of Battle Group X-Ray fought a single Covenant vessel over Harvest, over 100 ships saw action in the Battle of Alpha Aurigae and another 70 clashed with the Covenant at the XI Boötis A system. However these actions were tempered by large losses in each; 13 ships destroyed at Harvest, 37 lost at Alpha Aurigae, and 30 destroyed at XI Boötis A.

The war saw combat losses far outstripped shipyards' abilities to build replacements for both military and commercial ships. Trade restrictions were also put in place to limit the risk that slipspace travel represented to remaining colonies. Over the course of the war, the Fleet of Particular Justice destroyed 120 ships and 185 UNSC capital ships were destroyed by Writh Kul's Dagger of Mercy.

End of the war

Main article: Siege of the Inner Colonies

The UNSC Iroquois and a frigate staring down the Second Fleet of Solemn Accord over Sigma Octanus IV.

By the final year of the war, a majority of the UNSC's ground forces had been consolidated at Reach and at Earth. For many colonies, it was only the ships of the navy that were reminders of the UNSC and gave aid to those cut-off. Though in many instances, the Navy couldn't afford the loss of ships and personnel, often leaving these colonies to their own devices including destruction by the Covenant. No appreciable differences could be seen in expeditionary and defensive fleets as the UNSC lost the ability to conduct offensive naval operations. Navy AIs by this point were still assigning ships to squadrons, though at that point they were administrative groupings that had lost meaning over the course of the war. As well, numerous fleets only existed on paper, having been destroyed in lost sectors years prior.

With over 152 ships present at the Battle of Reach, a large number of these ships were destroyed. This included many capital ships such as the UNSC Trafalgar, the flagship of the Epsilon Eridani Fleet and pride of the Navy.

Starting September 5, 2552 all remaining UNSC starships and their fleets were consolidated under a single command grouping under the UNSC Home Fleet. Numerous ships arrived at Earth on October 20, 2552. The ships above Earth would then go onto engage Covenant forces when they arrived the same day with a very large contingent of UNSC vessels and fleets that was later destroyed by overwhelming Covenant reinforcements on November 17, 2552. By the end of the war, the plethora of UNSC starships had been reduced to only a few hundred.

The UNSC Infinity-class supercarrier, the largest UNSC vessel, and the Autumn-class heavy cruiser.

Postwar

Main article: Post-Covenant War conflicts

"And if we do that, we lose a massive deposit of resources that our fleets need to rebuild. We’ve barely managed to get the Home Fleet back up to a few dozen ships while the Brass is demanding whole battle groups be assembled..."

— Captain Pedro Alvarez to Lycaon during the Outbreak at Site 22.

Following the Human-Covenant War, the surviving UNSC starships were brought back to Sol to be repaired, refitted, and counted.

In the wake of this, the UNSC sought to rebuild the ships they had lost. As such, postwar shipbuilding mainly focused on rebuilding UNSC naval vessels, which combined with limited shipbuilding capacity to begin with, affected the production of merchant ships. To help facilitate all of this, the UNSC placed great importance on partnerships between corporations such as those between BXR Mining Corporation and Imbrium Machine Complex.

A variety of starship classes and several ship improvements that were created during the war finally became commonplace. The Autumn-class heavy cruiser, the Strident-class heavy frigate and the Infinity-class supercarrier were all added to the fleet. All three have shielding, an unprecedented addition to UNSC ships.

As part of ongoing offences, UNSC Strident-class frigates and Anlace-class light frigates were being deployed to the Outer Colonies to route out Covenant remnant occupiers.

Created uprising

Main article: Created uprising

During the Created's Reclamation, many UNSC starships were disabled by Guardian Custodes. Some ships, were ripped out of Slipstream Space with the activation of the Guardians, like the UNSC Nereid. Shipboard AIs from numerous starships also defected to the Created.

Several ships survived The Reclamation. At least five Strident-class heavy frigates and two Anlace-class light frigates were able to see combat in Operation: WOLFE. At least six Mulsanne-class light frigates were able to see combat during the Battle for Installation 07. However during that battle over Installation 07, the UNSC Infinity and those frigates were destroyed.

Classes

A few UNSC warships and their sizes compared to one another.

Colony ships

Main article: Colony ship

Support starships

Main article: Support starship

Several types of support ships that were used include the stealthy Prowler and its subtypes. Other stealth ship classes existed including the Chiroptera-class subprowler. There was also the incredibly small sloop. Another type of ship that was used by the UNSC was the Calypso-class exfiltration craft. Following the UNSC's take over of the CAA, the Springhill-class mining ship helped build materiel for UNSC forces.

Warships

Main article: Warship

The UNSC employs a number of warships including frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and corvettes. The Vindication-class was unique as it was a Battleship, an uncommon warship in UNSC ship design and classification.

UNSC carriers were among the largest, most heavily armed ships the UNSC possesed. Two carrier classes were so large that frigates could dock with them; the Punic-class supercarrier and the Infinity-class supercarrier.

Other

ONI's Reverse Engineering and Prototyping–Xenotechnology department have recovered, refit and begun testing on multiple Covenant starships.

Known vessels

Carriers

Class	Fleet or last known tactical grouping	Ship Name	Hull classification symbol	Last known captain	Notes
Epoch-class heavy carrier	Unknown	UNSC Epoch			Lead ship
		UNSC Atlas
Infinity-class supercarrier	Expeditionary Strike Group 1	UNSC Infinity	INF-101	Thomas Lasky	Lead ship. Missing over Installation 07.
	Unknown	UNSC Eternity			Not Completed
Orion-class assault carrier	Unknown	UNSC Fifth Winter
		UNSC Orion			Lead ship
Phoenix-class carrier	Third Fleet	UNSC Spirit of Fire	CFV-88	James Cutter	Active but officially listed as lost with all hands.
Poseidon-class light carrier	Unknown	UNSC Milwaukee
		UNSC Poseidon			Lead ship
Punic-class supercarrier	Unknown	UNSC Punic			Lead ship
	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Trafalgar			Flagship of Epsilon Eridani Fleet. Destroyed over Reach
Unknown	UNSC Home Fleet	UNSC Stalingrad		Carl Patterson
		UNSC Witness
	Third Fleet	UNSC Totem Lake	CVA-92
	Unknown	UNSC All Under Heaven
		UNSC Magellan
		UNSC Musashi

Cruisers

Class	Fleet or last known tactical grouping	Ship Name	Hull classification symbol	Last known commander	Notes
Marathon-class heavy cruiser	Fifth Fleet	UNSC Canberra	CA-70	Joseph Harper	Flagship of the fleet.
		UNSC Feeling Lucky			Gutted by the Solemn Penance during the Battle for Earth.
		UNSC Say My Name	CA-942	"Say My Name Actual"	Deployed ODSTs to board the Solemn Penance during the Battle of Mombasa.
	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Hannibal			Destroyed during the Fall of Reach.
	Battle Group India	UNSC Io			Suspected that it was used as a decoy to cover the escape of Preston Cole.
	Battle Group Leviathan	UNSC Leviathan		Michael Stanforth	Flagship, destroyed during the Fall of Reach.
	Unknown	UNSC Dresden		Aoife Septem	Destroyed during the Battle of Biko.
		UNSC Marathon			Lead ship.
		UNSC Prophecy			Scuttled during the Harvest Campaign.
Halcyon-class light cruiser	Battle Group X-Ray	UNSC Constantinople			Destroyed by the Rasus-pattern interdictor during the Battle of Harvest
	Unknown	UNSC Dawn Under Heaven			Twice-renamed sister ship of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn.
		UNSC Halcyon			Lead ship.
		UNSC Persian Gate		Yao	Deployed Blue Team during the Battle of Alpha Corvi II.
		UNSC Pillar of Autumn	C-709	Jacob Keyes	Extensively upgraded for Operation: RED FLAG, scuttled by John-117 at the end of Battle of Installation 04.
		UNSC Roman Blue		Terrence Hood	Crashed on Eiro.
		UNSC Toulouse			Engaged Ket-pattern battlecruisers over an unidentified Forerunner megastructure.
Autumn-class cruiser	Unknown	UNSC Euclid's Anvil			Active as of February 2558.
		UNSC Pillar of Autumn II			Lead ship.
		UNSC Song of the East			Active as of February 2558.
		UNSC Unto the Breach		Gabriella Dvørak	Active as of late-2558.
Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser	Battle Group India	UNSC Everest		Preston Cole	Flagship, presumed lost during the Battle of Psi Serpentis.
	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Valiant			Lead ship, participated in the Fall of Reach.
	Unknown	UNSC Terminus
Heavy cruiser	Bliss Defense Fleet	UNSC Matador			Fought at the Battle of Bliss.
		UNSC Weeping Willows			Fought at the Battle of Bliss.
	Unknown	UNSC Swiftsure		Berlin M. Tursk
Unknown	UNSC Home Fleet	UNSC Endeavor			Outfitted to conduct Operation: FAR STORM, damaged by a Retriever Sentinel which prevented it from participating in the mission.
	Unknown	UNSC Chares			Survived the Battle of Skopje.
		UNSC Sparrow			Participated in the Battle of Meridian.

Destroyers

Class	Fleet or last known tactical grouping	Ship Name	Hull classification symbol	Last known commander	Notes
Able-class heavy destroyer	Battle Group X-Ray	UNSC Gorgon		Preston Cole	The first heavy destroyer armed with a MAC.
	Unknown	UNSC Able			Lead ship.
Diligence-class light destroyer	Unknown	UNSC Diligence			Lead ship.
		UNSC Kronstadt	DD-993		Served as the deployment platform for Operation: GREY VEIL at Heian.
		UNSC Winged Hussar	DD-439
Halberd-class light destroyer	Task Force Pantea	UNSC Chaco			Possibly destroyed during the Battle of Netherop (2526).
		UNSC Cibola			Possibly destroyed during the Battle of Netherop (2526).
		UNSC Kayenta			Survived the Battle of Netherop.
		UNSC Mesa Verde			Possibly destroyed during the Battle of Netherop (2526).
		UNSC Rio Grande			Possibly destroyed during the Battle of Netherop (2526).
	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Herodotus			Bisected by the Kewu-pattern battleship during the Fall of Reach.
	Unknown	UNSC Halberd			Lead ship.
		UNSC The Heart of Midlothian	DD-366		Scuttled during the Battle of Algolis.
		UNSC Iroquois	DD-906	Jacob Keyes	Pioneered the Keyes Loop during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV, and responsible for leading the Covenant to Reach.
		UNSC Pioneer			Deployed the SPARTAN-IIs during Operation: TALON.
Light destroyer	Unknown	UNSC Buenos Aires			Destroyed during the Callisto Incident.
		UNSC Jericho			Destroyed during the Callisto Incident.
		UNSC Las Vegas		Harold Lewis	Captured the hijacked UNSC Callisto during the Callisto Incident.
Unknown	Battle Group India	UNSC Agincourt (destroyer)			Destroyed during the Battle of Psi Serpentis.
	Battle Group X-Ray	UNSC Austerlitz			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Campo Grande			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Lance Held High			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Midway			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Sacramento			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Virginia Capes			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
		UNSC Tharsis (2526)			Destroyed during the Battle of Harvest.
	Battle Group Omicron	UNSC Brasidas			Destroyed by Covenant reinforcements during the Onyx Conflict.
		UNSC Glasgow Kiss			Sacrificed itself for the UNSC Stalingrad during the Onyx Conflict.
		UNSC Iwo Jima			Self-destructed during the Onyx Conflict.
	Battle Group Leviathan	UNSC Lancelot			Likely destroyed after charging the Covenant fleet during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV.
	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Minotaur			Bisected by a Kewu-pattern battleship during the Fall of Reach.
		UNSC Tharsis (2552)			Destroyed during the Fall of Reach.
	Battle Group Sierra-3	UNSC Seattle			Saved from destruction by Insurrectionist forces during the Battle of 18 Scorpii.
		UNSC Thermopylae			Saved from destruction by Insurrectionist forces during the Battle of 18 Scorpii.
	Unknown	UNSC Armageddon's Edge		Edgar Sykes	Delivered Jacob Keyes to the Ectanus 45 system following its refit.
		UNSC Calcutta			Scuttled, later donated its salvaged engines to the UNSC Spirit of Fire.
		UNSC Clearidas			Last sighted during the Battle of Skopje.
		UNSC Do You Feel Lucky?			Boarded and destroyed during the Battle of Charybdis IX.
		UNSC Majestic			Destroyed three Covenant cruisers during the Fall of Reach, potentially killing the SPARTAN-IIs of Beta-Red team in the process.
		UNSC Persephone			Scuttled to avoid capture by Insurrectionists in 2521.
		UNSC Resolute		De Blanc	Participated in the Battle of Jericho VII.

Frigates

Class	Fleet or last known tactical grouping	Ship Name	Hull classification symbol	Last known captain	Notes
Anlace-class light frigate	Unknown	UNSC Anlace			Lead ship
Charon-class light frigate	Seventh Fleet	UNSC Aegis Fate	FFG-307
		UNSC Chioglossa	FFG-127
		UNSC Forward Unto Dawn	FFG-201	Miranda Keyes
	Unknown	UNSC Charon			Lead ship
Mulsanne-class light frigate	Unknown	UNSC Mortal Reverie	FFG-525
		UNSC Mulsanne			Lead ship
		UNSC Panama
		FFG-201	FFG-201		Hull code shared with Charon-class UNSC Forward Unto Dawn.
Paris-class heavy frigate	Epsilon Eridani Fleet	UNSC Grafton	FFG-318	Francis Mallarde
		UNSC Saratoga
		UNSC Savannah	FFG-371	Kristòf Jen
	Unknown	UNSC Cascadia		French
		UNSC Commonwealth		Wallace
		UNSC Gettysburg		John-117
		UNSC Paris			Lead ship
		UNSC Promise of Dawn
Stalwart-class light frigate	UNSC Home Fleet	UNSC In Amber Clad	FFG-142	Miranda Keyes	Infected High Charity with Flood.
	Unknown	UNSC Meriwether Lewis
		UNSC Midsummer Night	FFG-209	Jacob Keyes
		UNSC Stalwart Dawn			Lead ship
Strident-class heavy frigate	Unknown	UNSC Strident			Lead ship
		FFG-427	FFG-427
		FFG-502	FFG-502
Unknown	Battle Group Leviathan	UNSC Allegiance
		UNSC Fair Weather
	Bliss Defense Fleet	UNSC Purpose
	Unknown	UNSC Agincourt		Unidentified Commander
		UNSC Burlington
		UNSC Journeyman
		UNSC Ready or Not		Arthur Resnick
		UNSC Redoubtable
		UNSC Swift Justice
		UNSC Tannenberg
		UNSC Tripping Light
		UNSC Welcome to the Snipehunt
		AC-54	AC-54
		FFG-045	FFG-045

Corvettes

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Gladius-class corvette	UNSC Gladius
	UNSC Sagan Blue
Lancer-class fast-attack corvette	UNSC Lancer
Mako-class corvette	UNSC Pony Express
Scholte-class missile corvette	UNSC Scholte
Fast-attack corvette	UNSC Two for Flinching
Unknown	UNSC Bum Rush
	UNSC Callisto
	UNSC Chalons
	UNSC Coral Sea
	UNSC Glamorgan

Prowler

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Eclipse-class prowler	UNSC Bad Moon Rising
	UNSC Bucephalus
	UNSC Eclipse
Razor-class prowler	UNSC Black Widow
	UNSC Ghost Flag
	UNSC Ghost Song
	UNSC Ghost Star
	UNSC Ghost Wind
	UNSC Night Watch
	UNSC Razor's Edge
	UNSC Starry Night
Sahara-class heavy prowler	UNSC Aladdin
	UNSC Dusk
	UNSC Port Stanley
	UNSC Sahara
	UNSC Silent Joe
	ONI PRO-49776
Winter-class prowler	ONI Acrisius	Abandoned on Meridian. Likely destroyed or inoperable.
	UNSC Fast Gus
	UNSC From the Ashes
	UNSC Perilous Contest
	UNSC Winter
Point Blank-class prowler	UNSC Point Blank
	UNSC Vanishing Point
	UNSC Point of No Return
Chiroptera-class subprowler	Beatrice
	UNSC Chiroptera
Unidentified prowler class	UNSC Circumference
	UNSC Red Horse
Unknown heavy prowler class	UNSC Taurokado
Unknown	UNSC Apocalypso
	UNSC Applebee
	UNSC Athens
	UNSC Down Out and Go
	UNSC Edge of Umbra
	UNSC Hush Now
	UNSC Lark
	UNSC Last Gleaming
	UNSC Quiet Death
	UNSC Quiet Man
	UNSC Rubicon	Comondeered by 343 Guilty Spark, crashed on Geranos-a
	UNSC Tokyo Rules
	UNSC Wink of an Eye

Colony ships

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Banta-class transport	UNSC Dartmouth
Phoenix-class colony ship	UNSC Phoenix
	UNSC Skidbladnir	Scrapped in colonization of Harvest
	UNSC Spirit of Fire	Modified into Warship prior to Human-Covenant War

Cargo/Transportation

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Springhill-class mining ship	CAA Heavy Burden	Repurposed by the UNSC as an ordnance transport during the Human-Covenant War
Vancouver-class courier	Han
Ammunition Ship	UNSC Diadochi	Crashed on what became Partition
	UNSC Taulanti
Cargo Freighter	UNSC Onan
	Mona Lisa	Converted to a prison transport, Destroyed
UNSC schooner	UNSC Donoma
	UNSC Santori
Colony freighter	UNSC Glasgow
Military cargo tender	UNSC Dark Was the Night	Crashed on Losing Hand, some crew recovered
Unknown	UNSC Jamaica
	UNSC Nereid

Other

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Vindication-class light battleship	UNSC Vindication
Minotaur-class patrol vessel	UNSC Ariadne
Auxiliary vessel	UNSC Belleisle
	UNSC Dunedin
Exploration	UNSC Gannick	Crew of ship memorialized in name of planet; Gannick 22
ONI prospecting vessel	Long Time Coming
ONI Sloop	UNSC Walk of Shame
Surveying shuttle	UNSC Iceni
Science vessel	UNSC Hilbert
Stealth ship	UNSC Silberg
Shuttle pod	Coda
ONI salvage ship	UNSC Phyllis Wheatley
Unknown	UNSC Abstract Endurance	Shipboard AI defected to Created.
	UNSC Accra
	UNSC Armstrong
	UNSC Basra
	UNSC Battle of Minden
	UNSC Belfast
	UNSC Brilliant Shores
	UNSC Bunker Hill
	UNSC Burden of Proof
	UNSC Buteo's Talon
	UNSC Chevalier
	UNSC Compton-Hall
	UNSC Eminent Domain
	UNSC Excellence
	UNSC Final Summit
	UNSC Herald
	UNSC Hermes II
	UNSC Longitude
	UNSC Lowrentz
	UNSC Maelstrom
	UNSC Melbourne's Pride	Shipboard AI defected to Created.
	UNSC Of Uncommon Courage
	UNSC Pompadour
	UNSC Resolute Harmony	Shipboard AI defected to Created.
	UNSC Rochester
	UNSC Saturn	Enacted CORRUPTER and Emergency Contact Protocol Upsilon protocols in a Flood outbreak.
	UNSC Sentry of El Morro
	UNSC Sevenfold Gates
	UNSC Texas
	UNSC Tharsis
	UNSC Troy
	UNSC Verdant Sumerian	Shipboard AI defected to Created.
	UNSC Vociferous
	UNSC Waterloo
	UNSC Witch Bucket

Non-canon and dubious canon appearances

This article contains information about the Silver Timeline, and is not a part of the established Halo canon.

Silver Timeline

Main article: Silver Timeline

Numerous UNSC ships battling the Covenant at Halo.

Numerous ships exist in the Silver Timeline, battling the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War.

Class	Ship Name	Notes
Logistics ship	UNSC Bukovac
Halcyon-class light cruiser	UNSC Himalaya	Destroyed
Gladius-class heavy corvette	UNSC Gladius	Attacked by Makee
Stalwart-class light frigate	UNSC Stalwart Dawn
Halberd-class light destroyer	UNSC Pioneer	Destroyed in the Battle of Eridanus II
Destroyer	UNSC Iroquois
Sahara-class heavy prowler	UNSC Glamorgan
	UNSC Mirthless Smile
	UNSC Port Stanley
	UNSC Silent Joe
Hospital ship	UNSC Solace
Unknown	UNSC Ice Storm

Depictions in canon

In the introductory level Prepare To Drop in Halo 3: ODST, the UNSC In Amber Clad was represented with a model of a Charon-class light frigate. In all other media, including Halo 2: Anniversary, the In Amber Clad is a Stalwart-class light frigate.

In Halo 4, the Charon-class UNSC Forward Unto Dawn is depicted as a modified Strident-class. This depiction is non-canon. The Strident-class itself is also depicted differently across multiple media.

Production notes

Concept work for the "UNSC Frontend".

A few UNSC craft have been concepted for various titles. The UNSC Andraste was a ship that appeared in a piece of concept art for Halo 3. The UNSC Frontend, an M-class carrier was the center piece of a cancelled idea for Halo Wars 3. The UNSC Olympus and the UNSC Sword of Ascalaphus was concepted for Halo Infinite.

Gallery

Concept art

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  Concept art of a space combat mode for a Halo Wars 3, featuring several UNSC starships.

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  Concept art of various destroyed UNSC ships for Halo: Fleet Battles.

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  Concept art of UNSC frigates underneath a Sh'wada-pattern supercarrier.

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  Unused Halo Infinite concept art for a UNSC spacecraft, UNSC Olympus. The ship measures roughly 106m long.

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  Unused Halo Infinite concept art for the Sword of Ascalaphus.

Overview

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  A number of UNSC starships in orbit of Reach.

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  The UNSC Pillar of Autumn fleeing through a debris field of UNSC starships over Reach.

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  The UNSC starship line-up for Halo: Fleet Battles.

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  A Halcyon-class light cruiser, Epoch-class heavy carrier, and several Paris-class heavy frigates.

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  Several UNSC starships in orbit over Camber.

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  Numerous UNSC ships fighting Covenant over Sigma Octanus IV.

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  Several Charon-class light frigates at the Battle of Voi.

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  Numerous UNSC ships used on a poster.

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  Battle Group X-Ray fighting Heaven's Brilliant Bier over Harvest.

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  UNSC ships in orbit of Luna.