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CRS-class light cruiser

Revision as of 04:41, December 18, 2012 by 262VigilantGuardian (talk | contribs) (Undo revision 1022984 by Jugus (talk) Jugus, give us some definitive proof before you make this edit. We don't know if that's a CRS, it seems to be just another CCS.)

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The CRS-class light cruiser[1] is a Covenant capital warship classification. They have been described as resembling "luminous manta rays",[2] and are essentially a smaller, weaker version of the CCS-class battlecruiser.[1] While the CRS-class light cruiser and the CCS-class battlecruiser are virtually identical in outward appearance, one can distinguish them by the spikes protruding from near CCS-class's bow.[note 1]

Several such vessels were used over Reach during the Covenant's invasion of the planet.[3] Following the Human-Covenant War, the CRS-class forms the backbone of the fleet of the Covenant remnant, which deployed numerous CRS-class cruisers to Requiem during the Requiem campaign.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ While the majority of the Covenant cruisers seen in Halo 4 closely resemble the CCS-class in design, they are much smaller; this is clearly evident from their appearance in the level Dawn, where even the 490-meter long Charon-class light frigate UNSC Forward Unto Dawn is noticeably larger. The size difference is also conspicuous in the first episode of Spartan Ops, in which the UNSC Infinity rams a large Covenant cruiser (evidently of the CCS-class) while many of the smaller cruisers are seen nearby. Since the Essential Visual Guide describes the CRS-class as being essentially a smaller version of the CCS-class, and its given size coincides with the smaller cruisers in Halo 4, one can surmise that the cruisers seen in Halo 4 belong to the CRS-class.

Sources

  1. ^ a b Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 41
  2. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 205
  3. ^ Halo: First Strike, page 167 -- "Two exceptions to this patrol pattern were a pair of light cruisers hovering over Menachite Mountain"
  4. ^ Halo 4

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