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{{quote|The enemy has captured Captain Keyes, and are holding him aboard one of their cruisers, the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.|Cortana<ref name="T&R">'''Halo: Combat Evolved''', campaign level ''[[The Truth and Reconciliation]]''</ref>}}
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The '''''Truth and Reconciliation''''' was a [[Covenant]] {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} in the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]].{{Ref/Reuse|T&R}} Its [[Shipmaster]] was [[Lat 'Ravamee]].{{Ref/Reuse|EVG}}
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The '''''Truth and Reconciliation''''' was a [[Covenant]] [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CCS''-class Battlecruiser]].  


It was part of the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]].
==History==
==History==
[[Image:Orna elite.jpg|thumb|left|160px|[[Orna 'Fulsamee]], the [[Ship Master]] of ''Truth and Reconciliation''.]]
===Fall of Reach===
The ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was present at the [[Battle of Reach]], it being one of the ships in the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]].The ''Truth and Reconciliation'' pursued the [[Halycon-class Cruiser|''Halycon''-class Cruiser]] {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} to [[Installation 04]] (Alpha Halo). Once at Halo, the Ship Master, [[Orna 'Fulsamee]] was preparing to engage the UNSC craft. However the Ship Master was stopped by a [[Minor Prophet]] that was on board ''Truth and Reconciliation''. Instead, the Minor Prophet ordered Orna to send [[Boarding Craft]] to disable the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}. It was this order that some would say destroyed Halo, the fault lies with that Minor Prophet, not the future [[Arbiter (character)|Arbiter]]. The covenant knew that if they fired at the human ship, they might hit halo.
{{Main|Fall of Reach}}
The ''Truth and Reconciliation'' served within the Fleet of Particular Justice during the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552|summer 2552]]. When the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} fled [[Reach]] on August 30, [[Supreme Commander]] [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee ordered the ''Truth and Reconciliation'', along with several other Covenant vessels, to pursue the human warship. The Covenant's forces arrived at [[Halo Array|Halo]] [[Installation 04]] well in advance of the ''Pillar of Autumn'', which arrived on September 19.<ref>Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level ''[[The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn]]''</ref><ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page 4''</ref>


During the battle above [[Installation 04]], [[Cortana]] disabled ''Truth and Reconciliation'' as she tried in vain to defend the ''Autumn''. The vessel was forced to drop to the surface 300 metres above the Halo's surface to make repairs. When it landed on the [[Halo]], it became a sort of command post for the Covenant ground forces. A small group of the [[High Council]] of Masters convened there, namely [[Soha 'Rolamee]] and an unnamed [[Prophet]], were also on board the ship. [[Zuka 'Zamamee]] went to the ship to ask the [[High Council|Council]] permission to hunt the [[Master Chief]], but the [[High Council|Council]] turned him down. As [[Zuka 'Zamamee|'Zamamee]] was leaving, he confronted a recently captured [[Captain Keyes]].
===Battle of Installation 04===
{{Main|Battle of Installation 04}}
After the ''Pillar of Autumn'' arrived at Installation 04, it was able to evade detection by the Covenant vessels there, surreptitiously analyzing Installation 04. However, a [[Seraph|Seraph fighter]] stumbled upon the ''Pillar of Autumn'' by chance and relayed its coordinates to the Covenant fleet, which engaged the ''Pillar of Autumn''.  


==Levels==
In the ensuing naval battle, the [[artificial intelligence]] [[Cortana]] disabled the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' as she tried in vain to defend the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The [[Prophet of Stewardship]] ordered that plasma torpedoes not be used against the human vessel, as they could potentially damage the Halo; boarding parties were sent instead. After being disabled, the vessel was forced to drop to 300 meters above the surface of the ring for refit and repair.{{Ref/Reuse|T&R}}
===''[[Truth and Reconciliation (Level)|Truth and Reconciliation]]''===
[[Image:Keys_Elite.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A [[Zealot]] of the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' standing over a captured [[Captain]] [[Keyes]].]]
It was boarded the next day using it's gravity lift by the Master Chief and a handful of [[Marines]] and [[ODST]]s trying to rescue Captain Keyes. They were responsible for the death of the Ship Master, as well as nearly 300 soldiers. Due to the attack the surviving UNSC personnel were able to capture several Shades which were used to fortify [[Alpha Base]]. Also as a result of the attack Zuka 'Zammamee's request to hunt and kill the Master Chief was reviewed and approved.


===''[[Keyes (Level)|Keyes]]''===
When ''Truth and Reconciliation'' arrived over the surface of Installation 04, it became a command post for the local Covenant ground forces. There, [[Zuka 'Zamamee]] sought approval from the [[Council of Masters]], represented by [[Soha 'Rolamee]] and the Prophet Stewardship, to hunt [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN]] [[John-117]], although he was denied permission. As 'Zamamee left, [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes]], the commanding officer of the ''Pillar of Autumn'', was brought onboard as a prisoner, having been captured earlier that day.<ref name="ReferenceA">'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page ???''</ref>
After the [[Flood]] was discovered, the Covenant ordered all ships to abandon the ring. Unfortunately, the vessel was overwhelmed and disabled by the Flood before it could leave. The Covenant sent in a strike team to repair the vessel in vain. A massive battle between Flood and Covenant crew and special op forces ensued. In the fight, the vessel's reactor was damaged. The reactor had probably already gone critical by the time the [[Master Chief|Chief]] arrived which is why he had to use the ''Pillar of Autumn'' to destroy Halo. The reason the [[Master Chief|Chief]] had returned to the ship was an attempt to rescue Captain Keyes, who he found in  the ship's control room, converted into a [[Brain Form|Flood organism]]. Before the [[Master Chief]] left the ship, he took the late captain's neural implants with him and a [[Banshee]] to the crashed ''[[Pillar of Autumn]]''.


==Destruction==
Shortly after ''Truth and Reconciliation''{{'}}s arrival at Halo, the installation's [[monitor]], [[343 Guilty Spark]], confronted the [[Truth and Reconciliation's AI|vessel's onboard AI]] about the Covenant's efforts to access [[Flood containment facility|quarantined areas]] and their hostility toward the [[Reclaimer]]s present. However, Guilty Spark only received confused and cryptic responses from the semi-sentient construct.<ref>'''Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary''', ''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminal 3]]''</ref>
After the Master Chief left, [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]] forces took over the ship. As seen in the novel ''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', [[Major Antonio Silva|Major Silva]] wanted to fly it back to [[Earth]], but it was destroyed by a Helljumper officer, [[First Lieutenant Melissa McKay]], who realized that they could not risk taking the ship to Earth for fear of spreading the Flood and destroying humanity; if even 1 [[Infection Form]] managed to avoid the sterilization procedure, the whole of [[Earth]] could fall. She realized that Major Silva's lust for glory was clouding his judgment as UNSC personnel were getting the cruiser ready for lift off. The [[Combat Form]] [[Wallace Jenkins|PFC Jenkins]] still had enough mental faculties left to try and stop the ship himself. When he was restrained by 2 ODSTs, however, Lieutenant McKay finally understood his intentions and in a snap-decision, severed the primary optical fibre cable that linked controls from the bridge to Engineering, thereby causing the cruiser to lose control and crash onto the surface of [[Halo]]. Her actions caused the death of all humans, [[Covenant]] and [[Flood]] on board whilst saving the rest of humanity from potential annihilation.


==References==
====Raid on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''====
*<div class="references-small">''[[Halo: The Flood]]''<references/></div>
{{Main|Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation}}
[[File:TRArrivalCEA.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Echo 419]] arrives at the ''Truth and Reconciliation's'' position.]]


{{CCS-class}}
The next day, John-117 led a squad of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]s on [[Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation|a mission]] to infiltrate the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' to rescue Captain Keyes.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''pages 99-100''</ref> Under the cover of night, the humans fought their way past the Covenant ground defenses and boarded the ship via its [[gravity lift]]. Upon entering the ship's gravity lift bay, the humans were ambushed by Covenant security forces.
[[Category:Covenant Starships]]
 
The SPARTAN and the ODSTs successfully routed the initial lines of resistance and proceeded into the labyrinthine corridors of the ship. The boarders fought their way to the ship's bridge, killing Shipmaster Lat 'Ravamee. After neutralizing the hostiles on the bridge, the Master Chief left the Marines to defend against intruders while he went in search of Captain Keyes in one of the ship's brigs. While making his way to the prison cells, he encountered another prison block that contained dead Marines who were either beaten or tortured to death. Needless to say, he did not find Captain Keyes in this cell block. The Master Chief proceeded to yet another cell block where he found Keyes and several other POWs.
 
After John rescued Captain Keyes, the former first reprimanded and then thanked the SPARTAN for the rescue. He then informed John and Cortana that he had learned that the ringworld, Halo, was some kind of powerful weapon and that the Covenant were trying to gain control of it. Seconds after their release, the humans were ambushed by Spec-ops Elites. The SPARTAN, the captain, and the other freed prisoners fought their way back to the bridge, where they found the remaining ODSTs dead. The group made their way to one of ''Truth and Reconciliation''{{'}}s hangar bays, where Keyes commandeered a [[Taaku Xur-pattern Spirit|Spirit dropship]], allowing the surviving humans to escape.{{Ref/Reuse|T&R}}{{Ref/Reuse|ReferenceA}}
 
====Second raid on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''====
[[File:Protograve.png|thumb|300px|Captain Keyes, now part of a Proto-Gravemind, in the control room of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.]]
 
On [[2552#September|September 21]], following the inadvertent release of the [[Flood]], the Covenant leadership ordered all vessels to withdraw from the Halo. However, ''Truth and Reconciliation'' had been overwhelmed and disabled by the Flood before it could leave. The Covenant forces were fearful that the Flood would repair the ship, escape the installation, and infect the galaxy. The Covenant sent warriors, including a [[Covenant Special Operations|special operations contingent]], to retake the cruiser from the Flood. Amid this battle, John-117 was sent in to find Captain Keyes and extract him, or, failing that, to retrieve the Captain's [[command neural interface]] so the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s engines could be overloaded by utilizing the access codes found in the captain's implants, thus destroying the ring.
 
Upon reaching Keyes on the ship's bridge, John discovered that Keyes had been infected by the Flood and had been used as the basis for a [[Proto-Gravemind]]. Cortana informed the SPARTAN that no human life signs remained.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page 305-306''</ref> The Master Chief then punched through Keyes' skull and forcefully removed the neural implants. Shortly thereafter, a Covenant special operations team ambushed the SPARTAN. John then made his way to one of the vessel's hangar bays, where he escaped aboard a [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshee]]; he then flew to the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s crash site.
 
Around this time, the ''Truth and Reconciliation''{{'}}s reactor was damaged so severely that Cortana believed that it should have gone critical. However, the ship was repaired by Covenant forces, who managed to repel or destroy the majority of the Flood forms that remained onboard after the Master Chief's departure.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''pages 305-306''</ref>
 
====Capture and destruction====
{{Main|Battle for the Truth and Reconciliation}}
After the SPARTAN's second mission to rescue Keyes, the surviving [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] and [[UNSC Navy|Naval personnel]], spearheaded by the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers under the command of [[Major]] [[Antonio Silva]], staged an assault on the ''Truth and Reconciliation''; they quickly captured the ship with minimal casualties through simultaneous surprise attacks on the vessel's primary hangar bay and gravity lift. Major Silva intended to fly the ship back to [[Earth]] with the Prophet of Stewardship as a prisoner. The partially infected [[Private]] [[Wallace A. Jenkins]] had enough remaining mental faculties to attempt to sever the fiber-optic cable that connected the bridge controls with the engineering deck, though he was immediately restrained. A couple of Flood [[infection form]]s burst out of the vents, but were quickly put down by the Marines using their [[MA5B assault rifle]]s. [[First Lieutenant]] [[Melissa McKay]] realized Jenkins' intentions; she understood that many Flood forms were still present on the ship and would quickly take over Earth if Silva's delusions of grandeur were fulfilled. She then severed the primary optical fiber cable with a [[M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenade|fragmentation grenade]], thereby causing the cruiser to lose control and crash onto the surface of the Halo. Her actions caused the death of all the humans, Covenant, and Flood on board, whilst likely saving the rest of humanity from infection and annihilation.<ref>'''Halo: The Flood''', ''page 332''</ref>
 
==Trivia==
{{Linkbox|gallery=yes}}
*The ''Truth and Reconciliation'' shares its name with the [[wikipedia:Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission]], which was established in [[wikipedia:South Africa|South Africa]] after the fall of Apartheid rule as a means of reparation for oppressed non-whites. Following South Africa's example, numerous [[wikipedia:Truth and reconciliation commission|Truth and reconciliation commissions]] have since been established throughout the world.
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:HWF T&R.jpg|A cross-sectioned view of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:HCE_CovenantShip_Concept_1.png|Early concept art for the Covenant ship.
File:HCE_CovenantShip_Concept_2.png|Concept art of the cruiser's front.
File:HCE_CovenantShip_Concept_3.png|Concept art of the cruiser's bottom.
File:HCE_CovenantShip_Concept_4.jpg|Concept art of the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''.
File:HCEA TruthAndReconciliation GravityLift Concept.jpg|Concept art of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s gravity lift in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''.
File:HCE MC Gravity Lift.jpg|The Master chief next to the gravity lift of the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' in a promotional screenshot of ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''.
File:TruthRecon.jpg|The ''Truth and Reconciliation'' hanging above a desert plateau on [[Installation 04]] in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''.
File:HCE Truth and Reconciliation underbelly view.png|Alternate view of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:HCEA-TNR-ExteriorView.jpg|An exterior view of the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' in ''Halo Anniversary''.
File:CCS-class Battlecruiser Holographic Rendering.jpg|A holographic rendering of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:Truth and Reconciliation Internal Layout1.jpg|The myriad corridors from the midsection of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:Lat 'Ravamee (Master Chief Collection).png|Lat 'Ravamee, the Shipmaster of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:COV-ShipHatch-logo1.png|Detail of the emblem seen on the ship's hatches.
File:TruthAndReconciliation replica.jpg|A replica of the ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:Truth-2.png|Bottom-front view of the battlecruiser's replica.
</gallery>
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Flood]]''
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
**''[[Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)|Terminals]]''
*''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'' {{Im}}
 
 
==Sources==
{{Ref/Sources}}
 
[[Category:CCS-class battlecruisers]]
[[Category:Covenant ships]]
[[Category:Warships]]

Latest revision as of 23:13, December 2, 2024

This article is about the Covenant battlecruiser. For other uses of "Truth and Reconciliation", see Truth and Reconciliation (disambiguation).
Truth and Reconciliation
The Truth and Reconciliation from the level The Truth and Reconciliation.
Production information

Naval architects:

Manufacturer:

Muse of Yevon, Aanrar Shipyard[1]

Class:

Ket-pattern battlecruiser

Specifications

Length:

1.7822 kilometres (5,847 ft)

Width:

861.7 metres (2,827 ft)

Height:

230.8 metres (757 ft)

Mass:

90.7 million metric tons[1]

Powerplant:

3× Pinch fusion reactors

Engine:

2× Gablien-pattern Repulsor engines

Slipspace drive:

Ophon-pattern borer

Hull:

Nanolaminate hull plating

Shielding:

Corvex-pattern dispersal field generators

Armament:

Complement:

Crew:

Service information

Commissioned:

c. 2531[1]

Destroyed:

Battle of Installation 04

Participated battles:

Fleet:

Fleet of Particular Justice

Known commanders:

Affiliation:

 

"The enemy has captured Captain Keyes, and are holding him aboard one of their cruisers, the Truth and Reconciliation."
— Cortana[3]

The Truth and Reconciliation was a Covenant Ket-pattern battlecruiser in the Fleet of Particular Justice.[3] Its Shipmaster was Lat 'Ravamee.[2]

History[edit]

Fall of Reach[edit]

Main article: Fall of Reach

The Truth and Reconciliation served within the Fleet of Particular Justice during the Fall of Reach in summer 2552. When the UNSC Pillar of Autumn fled Reach on August 30, Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee ordered the Truth and Reconciliation, along with several other Covenant vessels, to pursue the human warship. The Covenant's forces arrived at Halo Installation 04 well in advance of the Pillar of Autumn, which arrived on September 19.[4][5]

Battle of Installation 04[edit]

Main article: Battle of Installation 04

After the Pillar of Autumn arrived at Installation 04, it was able to evade detection by the Covenant vessels there, surreptitiously analyzing Installation 04. However, a Seraph fighter stumbled upon the Pillar of Autumn by chance and relayed its coordinates to the Covenant fleet, which engaged the Pillar of Autumn.

In the ensuing naval battle, the artificial intelligence Cortana disabled the Truth and Reconciliation as she tried in vain to defend the Pillar of Autumn. The Prophet of Stewardship ordered that plasma torpedoes not be used against the human vessel, as they could potentially damage the Halo; boarding parties were sent instead. After being disabled, the vessel was forced to drop to 300 meters above the surface of the ring for refit and repair.[3]

When Truth and Reconciliation arrived over the surface of Installation 04, it became a command post for the local Covenant ground forces. There, Zuka 'Zamamee sought approval from the Council of Masters, represented by Soha 'Rolamee and the Prophet Stewardship, to hunt SPARTAN John-117, although he was denied permission. As 'Zamamee left, Captain Jacob Keyes, the commanding officer of the Pillar of Autumn, was brought onboard as a prisoner, having been captured earlier that day.[6]

Shortly after Truth and Reconciliation's arrival at Halo, the installation's monitor, 343 Guilty Spark, confronted the vessel's onboard AI about the Covenant's efforts to access quarantined areas and their hostility toward the Reclaimers present. However, Guilty Spark only received confused and cryptic responses from the semi-sentient construct.[7]

Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation[edit]

Main article: Raid on the Truth and Reconciliation
Echo 419 and the Truth and Reconciliation from the level The Truth and Reconciliation.
Echo 419 arrives at the Truth and Reconciliation's position.

The next day, John-117 led a squad of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers on a mission to infiltrate the Truth and Reconciliation to rescue Captain Keyes.[8] Under the cover of night, the humans fought their way past the Covenant ground defenses and boarded the ship via its gravity lift. Upon entering the ship's gravity lift bay, the humans were ambushed by Covenant security forces.

The SPARTAN and the ODSTs successfully routed the initial lines of resistance and proceeded into the labyrinthine corridors of the ship. The boarders fought their way to the ship's bridge, killing Shipmaster Lat 'Ravamee. After neutralizing the hostiles on the bridge, the Master Chief left the Marines to defend against intruders while he went in search of Captain Keyes in one of the ship's brigs. While making his way to the prison cells, he encountered another prison block that contained dead Marines who were either beaten or tortured to death. Needless to say, he did not find Captain Keyes in this cell block. The Master Chief proceeded to yet another cell block where he found Keyes and several other POWs.

After John rescued Captain Keyes, the former first reprimanded and then thanked the SPARTAN for the rescue. He then informed John and Cortana that he had learned that the ringworld, Halo, was some kind of powerful weapon and that the Covenant were trying to gain control of it. Seconds after their release, the humans were ambushed by Spec-ops Elites. The SPARTAN, the captain, and the other freed prisoners fought their way back to the bridge, where they found the remaining ODSTs dead. The group made their way to one of Truth and Reconciliation's hangar bays, where Keyes commandeered a Spirit dropship, allowing the surviving humans to escape.[3][6]

Second raid on the Truth and Reconciliation[edit]

Captain Keyes, now part of a Proto-Gravemind, in the control room of the Truth and Reconciliation.

On September 21, following the inadvertent release of the Flood, the Covenant leadership ordered all vessels to withdraw from the Halo. However, Truth and Reconciliation had been overwhelmed and disabled by the Flood before it could leave. The Covenant forces were fearful that the Flood would repair the ship, escape the installation, and infect the galaxy. The Covenant sent warriors, including a special operations contingent, to retake the cruiser from the Flood. Amid this battle, John-117 was sent in to find Captain Keyes and extract him, or, failing that, to retrieve the Captain's command neural interface so the Pillar of Autumn's engines could be overloaded by utilizing the access codes found in the captain's implants, thus destroying the ring.

Upon reaching Keyes on the ship's bridge, John discovered that Keyes had been infected by the Flood and had been used as the basis for a Proto-Gravemind. Cortana informed the SPARTAN that no human life signs remained.[9] The Master Chief then punched through Keyes' skull and forcefully removed the neural implants. Shortly thereafter, a Covenant special operations team ambushed the SPARTAN. John then made his way to one of the vessel's hangar bays, where he escaped aboard a Banshee; he then flew to the Pillar of Autumn's crash site.

Around this time, the Truth and Reconciliation's reactor was damaged so severely that Cortana believed that it should have gone critical. However, the ship was repaired by Covenant forces, who managed to repel or destroy the majority of the Flood forms that remained onboard after the Master Chief's departure.[10]

Capture and destruction[edit]

Main article: Battle for the Truth and Reconciliation

After the SPARTAN's second mission to rescue Keyes, the surviving Marine and Naval personnel, spearheaded by the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers under the command of Major Antonio Silva, staged an assault on the Truth and Reconciliation; they quickly captured the ship with minimal casualties through simultaneous surprise attacks on the vessel's primary hangar bay and gravity lift. Major Silva intended to fly the ship back to Earth with the Prophet of Stewardship as a prisoner. The partially infected Private Wallace A. Jenkins had enough remaining mental faculties to attempt to sever the fiber-optic cable that connected the bridge controls with the engineering deck, though he was immediately restrained. A couple of Flood infection forms burst out of the vents, but were quickly put down by the Marines using their MA5B assault rifles. First Lieutenant Melissa McKay realized Jenkins' intentions; she understood that many Flood forms were still present on the ship and would quickly take over Earth if Silva's delusions of grandeur were fulfilled. She then severed the primary optical fiber cable with a fragmentation grenade, thereby causing the cruiser to lose control and crash onto the surface of the Halo. Her actions caused the death of all the humans, Covenant, and Flood on board, whilst likely saving the rest of humanity from infection and annihilation.[11]

Trivia[edit]

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Gallery[edit]

  • A cross-sectioned view of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    A cross-sectioned view of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • Early concept art for the Covenant ship.

    Early concept art for the Covenant ship.

  • Concept art of the cruiser's front.

    Concept art of the cruiser's front.

  • Concept art of the cruiser's bottom.

    Concept art of the cruiser's bottom.

  • Concept art of the Truth and Reconciliation in Halo: Combat Evolved.

    Concept art of the Truth and Reconciliation in Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • Concept art of the Truth and Reconciliation's gravity lift in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

    Concept art of the Truth and Reconciliation's gravity lift in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.

  • The Master chief next to the gravity lift of the Truth and Reconciliation in a promotional screenshot of Halo: Combat Evolved.

    The Master chief next to the gravity lift of the Truth and Reconciliation in a promotional screenshot of Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • The Truth and Reconciliation hanging above a desert plateau on Installation 04 in Halo: Combat Evolved.

    The Truth and Reconciliation hanging above a desert plateau on Installation 04 in Halo: Combat Evolved.

  • Alternate view of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    Alternate view of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • An exterior view of the Truth and Reconciliation in Halo Anniversary.

    An exterior view of the Truth and Reconciliation in Halo Anniversary.

  • A holographic rendering of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    A holographic rendering of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • The myriad corridors from the midsection of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    The myriad corridors from the midsection of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • Lat 'Ravamee, the Shipmaster of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    Lat 'Ravamee, the Shipmaster of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • Detail of the emblem seen on the ship's hatches.

    Detail of the emblem seen on the ship's hatches.

  • A replica of the Truth and Reconciliation.

    A replica of the Truth and Reconciliation.

  • Bottom-front view of the battlecruiser's replica.

    Bottom-front view of the battlecruiser's replica.

List of appearances[edit]


Sources[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Halo: Warfleet, pgs. 63
  2. ^ a b Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 197
  3. ^ a b c d Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Truth and Reconciliation
  4. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Pillar of Autumn
  5. ^ Halo: The Flood, page 4
  6. ^ a b Halo: The Flood, page ???
  7. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Terminal 3
  8. ^ Halo: The Flood, pages 99-100
  9. ^ Halo: The Flood, page 305-306
  10. ^ Halo: The Flood, pages 305-306
  11. ^ Halo: The Flood, page 332
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