Covenant destroyer

The Covenant Destroyer is a warship classification within the Covenant Navy.

Background

A pair of Covenant Destroyers glass the planet Harvest.

This class of starship is extremely well-armed, boasting multiple pulse laser turrets, plasma torpedo launcher(s) and Seraph-class starfighters. Jacob Keyes noted its weapons systems, saying it turned UNSC ships into "Swiss cheese".

They seem to have a central hull or fuselage and two vertical "wings". It can glass planets with an [[energy projector] mounted on the front of the ship.

Probably the most well-known ship of this class was the Bloodied Spirit, captured by three SPARTAN-IIs, Fred, Will, and Linda, in a haphazard plan which recovered captured nuclear warheads, eliminated another Brute-controlled destroyer, and gave them a much faster ship to take them to Onyx.

Vessels of this Classification

• Absolution
• Bloodied Spirit
• Far Sight Lost
• Rapturous Arc
• Unnamed Covenant Destroyer

Trivia

• Jacob Keyes destroyed one with a maneuver later dubbed as the Keyes Loop at Sigma Octanus IV.
• Covenant Destroyers are seen on the back cover of Halo Wars: Genesis.
• The Destroyer is incorrectly referred to as a Carrier in some Halo Wars guides.