PRO-49776

PRO-49776 was the hull classification symbol of a prowler in service with the Office of Naval Intelligence during the Human-Covenant War. It was captained by Lucius R. Jiron.

Operational history
Shortly following the Battle of Miridem in 2544, the ship was sent by the ONI to retrieve Doctor Catherine Halsey from a Covenant fleet trapped in a stellar magnetic field that prevented them from jumping into slipspace. Onboard, there were five Spartan-IIs who were eventually sent out to retrieve it using OF92-EVA Booster Frames stored onboard the stealth ship. After the Spartans successfully retrieved the package and the Covenant fleet jumped away, the stealth ship de-cloaked and destroyed the remaining Seraph fighters. After picking the Spartans up, the ship re-cloaked.

Production notes
In a Q&A for Halo Legends in 2009, Frank O'Connor stated that the ship is not a prowler when questioned about its sophisticated mode of stealth compared to typical UNSC prowlers. This claim has seemingly been ignored in later fiction; not only was the ship's hull classification symbol established to be "PRO-49776" in the Adjunct content of the 2010 release of Halo: The Fall of Reach, with "PRO" being suggestive of "Prowler", but the Sahara-class prowlers such as the in Spartan Ops were depicted as identical to the PRO-49776 in terms of design. Furthermore, Halo Mythos revealed the hull classification symbol of another heavy prowler,, as "PRO-46328", which uses the same format as "PRO-49776", leaving little doubt as to the nature of the vessel.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach
 * Adjunct
 * Halo Legends
 * The Package