UNSC corvette
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Template:Ship Class Infobox The UNSC corvette[1][2] is a warship classification in the UNSC Navy.[3][4] Known sub-classes of the corvette include the Mako-class corvette,[5] the fast-attack corvette[6] and the Prowler stealth corvette.
Background
The corvettes are the smallest class of warship in the UNSC Navy, and do not carry any fighters. Fast-attack corvettes are known to have a modest hangar bay with room for only one SKT-13 Shuttlecraft, basically a larger version of the Bumblebee escape pod used to ferry material and personnel to and from various locations or ships.[7] Corvettes are also known as being one of the fastest ships in the UNSC Navy.[8] Like most other Slipspace-capable UNSC ships, corvettes possess cryo-bays.[6]
Corvettes in use by the 2490s, such as the UNSC Callisto, were powered by a primary fusion reactor and a secondary fission reactor. They had at least fourteen decks and three cargo bays, as well as a hard docking collar for linking with stations or other vessels.[9]
Operational service
UNSC corvettes have been in use during both the Insurrection and the Human-Covenant War. Several Mako-class corvettes were used by the Eridanus cell of the Insurrectionists as part of their improvised fleet. The UNSC used corvettes in multiple engagements during the Human-Covenant War, including the Fall of Reach[4] and the Battle of Earth.[1]
Ships of the line
- UNSC Bum Rush
- UNSC Callisto
- UNSC Chalons
- UNSC Coral Sea
- UNSC Glamorgan
- UNSC Pony Express
- UNSC Port Stanley
- UNSC Two for Flinching
Production note
During the development of Halo 3, a corvette known as Template:UNSCship was designed. The ship was removed during the game's development and her hull altered in several aspects, resulting in the Charon-class light frigate. The Paris class from Halo: Reach adopts Andraste's design more or less exactly.
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: First Strike
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
- Halo: Contact Harvest
- Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
- Halo: Glasslands
- Halo: Mortal Dictata
Sources
- ^ a b Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 214
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, page 437
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 16
- ^ a b Halo: First Strike, page 207
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 85
- ^ a b Halo: Contact Harvest, page 60
- ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, pages 63-64
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 213
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, "The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole", pages 444-445
