Talk:DAV-class light corvette

Not trying to be a nitpicker, but it is confirmed that this is the stealth corvette, right? SPARTAN-347 18:51, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

Yes it's confirmed, it states it plain and simple in the visual guide. Durandal-217 23:21, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

Sweet, it's awesome to finally have the actual names of all these ships SPARTAN-347 23:38, 12 July 2011 (EDT)

The visual guide is very simple and not in-dept type of book, but all the information in it is all new. Its not the stuff we already know for the most part, which is very nice considering the original intention was to make it the halo guide for stupid people. It is a great book, so much that I am taking my time and savoring ever morsel of it. Durandal-217 00:23, 13 July 2011 (EDT)

The Visual Guide mention was somewhat intended to flesh out the Covenant ship types, but this class in particular was not intended to be the ship at Sigma Octanus IV receiving the transmission. Jeremy and I talked about it during the book's production. The DAV-class is 485m in length, the same as the UNSC Iroquois. I'd attribute the first mistake to Marvel for depicting the ship as large as they did. Given the strength of Covenant battleplate, there's no way the Iroquois (the same length as the DAV-class) could just smash through it and not being seriously damaged by it. It'd be like two similarly cars smashing one another. One car isn't coming out of it unscathed. The Fall of Reach novel mention of the Iroquois encounter with the stealth data ship is: "The eight-thousand ton Iroquois slammed into the tiny Covenant ship. On the bridge, they barely felt the impact. The diminutive alien vessel, however, was crushed from the force." TFoR-DE:p226. Note the Definitive Edition keeps the references to "tiny", "diminutive", and "barely felt the impact". This could not have occurred from a ship the size of the Iroquois. I'll treat the Marvel art as canon unless it seriously conflicts with other canonical sources. Something to think about. ScaleMaster117 (talk) 23:10, 8 June 2013 (EDT)
 * Understood; if they were not meant to be the same type of ship, we'll separate the page. One question that remains is the issue of the page title for the ship at Sigma Octanus; we had formerly titled the page as "Covenant stealth corvette", but I'm not sure if even this is accurate - was the ship ever referred to as a corvette? --Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 03:32, 15 June 2013 (EDT)


 * The Definitive Edition of TFoR, pg224-226. The book indicates "...a small vessel appeared on-screen. It was smaller than the Covenant equivalent of a frigate but definitely larger than one of the aliens' dropships." Further, when the Iroquois rammed the Covenant ship, "the diminutive alien vessel, however, was crushed from the force." NO formal designation is given for this Covenant ship type other than "stealth ship". When the comic was published, I pointed out to them that the text had clearly meant the Covenant ship to be something very small, so whether the stealth mention in the Visual Guide was originally intended, it's now understood that it's not that ship. ScaleMaster117 (talk) 12:00, 15 June 2013 (EDT)