The CRS-class light cruiser[1] is a Covenant capital warship classification.
Overview
The CRS-class 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]
Operational history
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] After finding the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, one approached the ship with its shields down, not expecting a threat, in order to deploy boarding parties. However, the Master Chief destroyed it with one of the Forward Unto Dawn's Hyperion nuclear missiles. Several were also destroyed when the gravity well of Requiem pulled them in.[5]
Gallery
Covenant remnant CRS-class light cruisers swarm the wreckage of the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn
List of appearances
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (First appearance)
- Halo: First Strike
- Halo 4
Notes
- ^ 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.