Command shuttle

"We have survivors to transport to the command shuttle."

— Cortana during the events of Installation 04.

The command shuttle was a type of vessel in use by the United Nations Space Command. It was likely designed for the purpose of transporting senior officers from ship to ground.

During the opening phases of the Battle of Installation 04 in 2552, the command shuttle was presumably the craft used by the command crew of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn to coordinate the UNSC forces on Installation 04.

Trivia

• The command shuttle may have been an SKT-13 Shuttlecraft, a larger version of the Bumblebee escape pod.
• The command shuttle is mentioned passingly in Halo: Combat Evolved, but is curiously absent from the game's novelization Halo: The Flood, where Alpha Base serves as the main command post for UNSC forces.

List of appearances

• Halo: Combat Evolved (First appearance)