Sanctity of Purification

Sanctity of Purification
Production information
Class:	CCS-class battlecruiser
Specifications
Length:	1.7822 kilometres (5,847 ft)
Width:	861.7 metres (2,827 ft)
Height:	230.8 metres (757 ft)
Mass:	90.7 million metric tons
Engine:	2× Gablien-pattern Repulsor engines
Slipspace drive:	Ophon-pattern borer
Hull:	Nanolaminate hull plating
Shielding:	energy shielding
Armament:	1× Energy projector; 1× Plasma lance; 16× Plasma torpedo; 42× Plasma cannon (starship); 50× Pulse laser turret;
Service information
Destroyed:	Battle of Fumirole
Affiliation:	Covenant;

Sanctity of Purification was a CCS-class battlecruiser in service of the Covenant fleet during the Human-Covenant War.^[2]

History[edit]

In April 2552, the Sanctity of Purification was part of a Covenant invasion force sent to attack the colony of Fumirole. During the resulting Battle of Fumirole, the Sanctity would hold position over a city on the planet during a pitched battle between UNSC Army forces and the Sanctity's troop complement, using its gravity lift to move troops and supplies onto the planetary surface.^[3]

To assist in defending the planet, NOBLE Team were deployed to the ground under a plan devised by Kat-B320 to deliver a Fury tactical nuclear weapon into the heart of the cruiser. The team would be succesful in pushing on the cruiser, though a well-placed fuel rod air strike by a Type-26 Banshee would ultimately hit Kat, rendering her unable to complete the mission. Due to this, Spartan Thom-A293 would take the nuke with only a small amount of time left until detonation, and proceed to use his Series 8 jetpack to fly into the gravity lift and enter the hangar bay of the battlecruiser and throw the nuke into the middle of the Covenant deployment.^[3]

Ultimately, the Sanctity of Purification would be consumed in the detonation of the nuke, destroying the battlecruiser and Thom in the process. The explosion would be visible from orbit.^[3]