Galileo's Worst Enemy

Galileo's Worst Enemy
Production information
Manufacturer:	Human
Class:	Tug
Service information
Known commanders:	Oliver Birch
Affiliation:	Privately owned

Galileo's Worst Enemy was a small tug owned by Oliver Birch. He used the ship in conjunction with CAA Butterworth to prospect and retrieve derelict Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engines on fetching runs.

Trivia

The ship was named after Father Orazio Grassi, a Jesuit priest, astronomer and a mathematician who opposed Galileo Galilei's theory on the nature of comets. Remarkably, Grassi criticized Galileo's theory for scientific, rather than religious, reasons.

List of appearances

• Halo: First Strike (First appearance)