UNSC Prowler Corps
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The Prowler Corps is a division of the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence.[1] All permanent crew aboard ONI prowlers serve in this sub-branch. The Prowler Corps apparently has an earlier mandatory retirement age than the rest of the Navy branches.[2] The human colony of Falaknuma served as a base for a section of the Prowler Corps, alongside several Navy frigates.[3]
History
Prior to 2526, Hector Nyeto gained control of Ghost Flight of at least four Razor-class prowlers. Because flight commanders approve all crew replacements, he was able to slowly fill his unit with Insurrectionist crewmen. Such an effort was estimated to have taken years or decades.[4]
At some point, Akio Watanabe was captured by Insurrectionists and was physically tortured. The Prowler Corps rescued him from the insurgents, and thus he became very loyal to them.[5] While recovering from the injuries he obtained, Watanabe began working with the Prowler Corps. He soon discovered that modified Covenant weaponry was appearing in the hands of civilians and insurgents through the human colonies. To end the distribution of the weapons, the Prowler Corps worked with another section of ONI to find the origins of the weapons.[6]
Several months before the Cole Protocol was put into effect, the Prowler Corps put together several missions to sneak behind enemy lines and remove any existing human navigation data that could lead to Earth or other human colonies.[7] The Prowler Corps would deploy units to locations where they thought the navigation data could still exist. In 2535, Spartan-II Gray Team was sent to the Rubble in the 23 Librae system to ensure no data was still existing.[8]
Known Prowler Corps personnel
UNSC Red Horse
UNSC Apocalypso
UNSC Ghost Song
- Lieutenant Commander Hector Nyeto - CO, commander of Ghost Flight. Defected with the remnants of his unit to the Gao Republic.
UNSC Starry Night
- Captain Halima Ascot - CO, original commander of Task Force Yama.
List of appearances
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (First appearance)
- Halo: The Cole Protocol
- Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
- Halo: Silent Storm
Sources
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 35
- ^ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 326 ("Cho was technically past the mandatory retirement age in the UNSC Prowler Corps.")
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 343
- ^ Halo: Silent Storm, Chapter 25, page 333
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 96
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 99
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 81
- ^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 71
