Editing Intrusion corvette

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{{Disambig header|the stealth corvette class introduced in ''Halo: Silent Storm''|stealth ship seen in ''Halo: The Fall of Reach''|Covenant stealth ship}}
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'''Intrusion corvettes''' are a classification of stealth [[Covenant corvette|corvette]] employed by the [[Covenant]] and the [[Banished]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS12|HSS|Chapter=12}}{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSoR17|HSoR|Chapter=17}}

==Specifications==
===Superstructure and hull===
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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS14|HSS|Chapter=14}} The corvette's hull is seemingly not very durable by Covenant standards, with the vessel being able to be taken down by a few lucky missile salvos from a ''Razor''-class prowler.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS17|HSS|Chapter=17}}

===Interior layout===
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.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} Intrusion corvettes are additionally equipped with a ''[[kelguid]]'' for navigation.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS22|HSS|Chapter=22}} The spine of the vessel contains a contemplation sphere where certain high-ranking [[Sangheili]] officers can meditate in peace.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}}

===Ship systems===
The corvette is equipped with a single anti-ship [[Plasma cannon (starship)|plasma cannon]], though the weapon's anti-ship status makes it unsuitable for anti-infantry work. The corvette is equipped with a [[gravity lift]] system which can be used to load or offload troops and equipment. The corvette's lift systems are large enough that, during the [[Battle of Seoba]], a corvette attempted to lift the remains of the downed {{UNSCShip|Starry Night}}, a {{Class|Razor|prowler}}.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}

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 [[Chancellor's Guards|space force]] during their approach to [[Seoba]] in [[2526]]. The craft's specialized [[repulsor engine]]s 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.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} [[Sangheili First Blade officer|First Blade]] [[Tel 'Szatulai]] begrudgingly considered these stealth systems inferior to those employed on [[UNSC]] [[prowler]]s, with the corvettes' own sensor systems unable to detect the launch of several ''Razor''-class prowlers from Seoba.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} 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.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HO5|Oblv|Chapter=5}}

===Crew and complement===
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 obedientaries.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} Additionally, the corvette is capable of deploying [[Type-32 Ghost]]s and a number of infantry.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}

==Operational history==
===Human-Covenant War===
In [[2526#March| March 2526]], the five intrusion corvettes of the [[Bloodstar Flotilla]] led [[Battle of Seoba|an assault]] on Seoba, under the direction of Tel 'Szatulai. The First Blade was distressed by the seemingly superior [[Stealth ablative coating|stealth systems]] employed by the UNSC prowlers,{{Ref/Reuse|HSS12}} so he had one shot down to be recovered for study.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS13|HSS|Chapter=13}} Called the UNSC ''Starry Night'', [[SPARTAN-II program|Spartan-II]] [[John-117]] led eleven other Spartans to search for any surviving crew. Two of 'Szatulai's intrusion corvettes reached the prowler shortly before the Spartans, and began firing on the supersoldiers and deploying troops.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} Due to the turncoat [[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]]'s efforts to get the Spartan-IIs killed, he purposefully held off on attacking the intrusion corvettes under guise of waiting to get into a perfect position. Eventually, two of the corvettes were destroyed by the UNSC prowlers while a third was caught in the blast of the ''Starry Night''{{'}}s [[self-destruct]] as it hovered above the downed vessel, trying to recover it.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}}

Later that year, nine intrusion corvettes made up the majority of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety along with a single [[Covenant frigate]]. Most of the flotilla was destroyed in the three-way [[Battle of Netherop]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Oblivion]]'''</ref>

===Post-Covenant War era===
In [[2559]], an intrusion corvette was dispatched from a [[Banished]] [[Covenant supercarrier|supercarrier]] to carry [[War Chief]] [[Escharum]] to [[Reach]]'s surface to personally oversee the search for the [[Menachite portal complex]]. After the arrival of [[Atriox]] from [[Installation 00|the Ark]], the corvette carried the Banished leader and his arriving forces away from the planet.<ref>'''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]'''</ref>

==Ships of the line==
*''[[Divine Whisper]]''
*''[[Quiet Faith]]''
*''[[Sacred Whisper]]''
*''[[Silent Truth]]''
*''[[Still Devotion]]''
*''[[Worthy Silence]]''

==Production notes==
The intrusion corvette's description is broadly similar to the [[Covenant stealth ship]] as described in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''. However, it is presently unknown if the two are one and the same.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Oblivion]]''
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
*''[[Halo: The Third Life]]''

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