Intrusion corvette
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 An intrusion corvette taken and modified by the Banished.
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Intrusion corvettes are a classification of stealth corvette employed by the Covenant and the Banished.[1][6][7]
Overview[edit]
Superstructure and hull[edit]
Intrusion corvettes were originally designed by the Covenant to serve in supporting anti-ship roles, alongside aiding the insertion of light infantry and vehicles to the ground.[7] The intrusion corvette is shaped like a pair of teardrops connected by a thin middle fuselage, covered in (seemingly) randomly placed rows of blue lights.[2] The corvette's hull is not particularly durable by Covenant standards, with the vessel being able to be taken down by a few lucky missile salvos from a United Nations Space Command Razor-class prowler.[8]
The intrusion corvettes modified by the Banished bear considerable design deviances from their Covenant counterparts. These include ramming spikes, additional sensor arrays, and boarding craft as well as customised paint jobs; in the case of War Chief Escharum, his personal intrusion corvette boasts a stripe and the emblem of the Banished painted in blood-red on its bow.[9]
Interior layout[edit]
The intrusion corvette's bridge contains an observation blister which allows a crewmember to see into space outside the ship directly. The back of the bridge contains a maze of control consoles and equipment stands, with a tactical hologram projector. The hologram projector is surrounded by ten data-collection lecterns, each manned by a reader. Typically, two obedientaries would each observe five of these readers, stood at opposite ends of the tactical hologram.[1] Intrusion corvettes are additionally equipped with a kelguid for navigation.[4] The spine of the vessel contains a contemplation sphere where certain high-ranking Sangheili officers can meditate in peace.[1] On the underside of the vessel is a hangar or cargo bay with a hatch large enough to admit a Razor-class prowler.[3]
Ship systems[edit]
The corvette is equipped with a single anti-ship plasma cannon that is unsuitable for anti-infantry work.[2] It also features at least two manually-operated point-defense plasma turrets. With their high rate of fire, they are used for destroying incoming ordnance or small craft.[3] The corvette is equipped with a gravity lift system which can be used to load or offload troops and equipment.[2] The corvette's lift systems are large enough that, during the Battle of Seoba, a corvette attempted to lift the remains of the downed UNSC Starry Night, a Razor-class prowler.[3]
Intrusion corvettes are equipped with an active camouflage system, allowing them to remain unseen by enemy forces. These systems were sufficient enough to mask the corvettes from detection by the entirety of Biko's space force during their approach to Seoba in 2526. The craft's specialized repulsor engines let out only a small amount of thermal emissions, such that there would only be a red flare that lasts a moment before vanishing on thermal scopes.[1] First Blade Tel 'Szatulai begrudgingly considered these stealth systems inferior to those employed on UNSC prowlers, with the corvettes' own sensor systems unable to detect the launch of several Razor-class prowlers from Seoba.[1] With optimal maintenance, the stealth systems on an intrusion corvette were considered by Nizat 'Kvarosee to be "eighty-five percent" effective, with this number dropping to between fifty and seventy percent for the vessels of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety—a rogue element without access to optimal maintenance.[10]
Crew and complement[edit]
Intrusion corvettes require only a small crew. The ship's bridge crew consists of at least a shipmaster and a second, alongside ten readers and two obedientiaries.[1] Additionally, the corvette is capable of deploying Karo'etba-pattern Ghosts and a number of infantry.[2] The modified int