Ardent Prayer

Ardent Prayer
Production information
Manufacturer:	Covenant Empire
Class:	SDV-class heavy corvette
Specifications
Engine:	Repulsor Engines
Slipspace drive:	Yes
Hull:	Unknown Covenant material
Armament:	8 Plasma torpedo turrets; Plasma auto-turrets;
Complement:	Sangheili; Kig-yar; Unggoy; Huragok; Orbital Insertion Pods; Seraphs; Banshees;
Crew:	4 Special Operations Sangheili; Several Unggoy Ultra;
Service information
Destroyed:	August 14, 2552
Participated battles:	Fall of Reach
Fleet:	Fleet of Valiant Prudence
Known commanders:	Ardo 'Moretumee
Affiliation:	Covenant Navy

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The Ardent Prayer was a Covenant SDV-class heavy corvette vessel in service during the Human-Covenant War, and was deployed during the Fall of Reach.^[1] It was attached to the Fleet of Valiant Prudence.

Overview

The ship was one of the main targets of Operation: UPPER CUT, and was boarded by multiple Sabre craft in an effort to plant a Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine on board, which would be used to destroy a nearby Covenant supercarrier. During the mission, the ship was engaged by the UNSC frigate Savannah. The Savannah jammed the Ardent Prayer's communications, while the Sabres damaged her engines and destroyed her Seraph escort so she couldn't call for help. The Ardent Prayer destroyed the Savannah, but not before a boarding party had landed. The UNSC team eliminated the bridge crew and set the ship on a refueling track with the supercarrier Long Night of Solace. The operation succeeded, and Ardent Prayer, along with the supercarrier, was destroyed by the rigged Slipspace drive.

Trivia

Ardent Prayer is the setting of the Halo: Reach multiplayer map Zealot, and the Firefight map Corvette.

Gallery

An overview of the Covenant corvette.
A comparison between the corvette and the Sabre.
A view of the Covenant Corvette the Ardent Prayer from behind.
A comparison between the corvette and a UNSC frigate.
A Corvette's gravity lift and Type-27 XMF ventral launch-bay.
Close up of Type-27 XMF launch-bay.
Close-up of the Banshee storage area in the corvette's hangar bay.
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Another view of a Corvette.
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Close-up of the Corvette's Orbital Insertion Pod launchers.
Three plasma cannons affixed to the Corvette.
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An interior view of the control room for the corvette's plasma cannons.
View of the corvette's dorsal landing pad.
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An external view of the Corvette's hangar bay with the shutter closed.
View inside a corvette's hangar bay, with Seraph-class starfighters hanging from the ceiling.
A corvette over Reach with an escort of Seraphs.
The bridge of a Covenant Corvette, staffed by SpecOps Sangheili, Unggoy Ultras and a Sangheili General.
The communications center of the Ardent Prayer.
Corvette in battle.