Archive:Covenant Ship Classification Canon Debate

Without any kind of clear spelled out Covenant Ship Classification structure the Halo community has been forced to debate the names and dimensions of Covenant Ships. Below are Ships Classes that have been proven because of said reasons. Read the Discussion page to discover the full debate and how each conclusion was reached.

Covenant Flagship

 * Flagships are not a class of ship. Flagships are just whatever ship the Fleet Commander has picked to use as a command ship.   One piece of evidence is this quote " 'Picking up encrypted transmissions from new contact,' Cortana whispered. 'Descrambling...lots of chatter...orders being given to the cruisers. It appears to be directing the Covenant fleet operations in the system.' 'A flagship,' the Chief murmured." John-117 associates commanding fleet operations with flagship, he does not seem to associate the ship with flagship until Cortana says it is directing fleet operations.
 * The fact that any ship can be a flagship is backed up by the Sublime Transcendence being a flagship and a Covenant Supercarrier of the Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose.

Covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser

 * Cortana: "Our fighters are mopping up the last of their recon picket now, nothing serious. But, I've isolated approach signatures from multiple CCS battle groups, make it 3 capitol ships per group. And in about 90 seconds they'll be all over us.".
 * HBO calls the Truth and Reconciliation a Covenant Battlecruiser in this image but no mention of CCS-class
 * The two above quotes are linked by the Transmissions where it stated that the, SCS Pillar of Autumn received a transmission from the "CCS Truth and Reconciliation (DE H c-1)"

Covenant supercarrier

 * "The Unggoy Kwassass knew his pace aboard the Covenant supercarrier Sublime Transcendence." Above this, in the chapter data log, it says "ABOARD FLEET CARRIER SUBLIME TRANSCENDENCE, IN ORBIT ABOVE JOYOUS EXULTATION, SYSTEM SALIA".
 * "Where they are recovered by hundreds of supercarriers and cruisers"

Covenant Frigate

 * Keyes refers to some of the Covenant ships attacking Sigma Octanus IV as the equivalent of a UNSC frigate. After that, the ships are just refered to as Covenant frigates.
 * "A holographic frigate pair appeared on the deck and sped towards them: the Tenebrous and the Twilight Compunction, commanded by the alpha Jiralhanae, Gargantum."
 * "The frigate pair split to miss the carrier in their flight path. The enemy ships, and their plasma torpedoes, became obscured by the bulb of the sleek carrier."

Covenant light cruiser

 * "Two exceptions to this patrol pattern were a pair of light cruisers hovering over Menachite Mountain"
 * "There were a total of thirteen heavy cruisers and three carriers moving three hundred kilometers above the surface of the planet." to distinguish light from heavy.

Covenant CPV-class Destroyer

 * As shown in the Transmissions

Covenant Assault Carrier

 * Cortana (Radio): Registering all hostile vessels inside the kill zone. Thirteen cruisers, two Assault Carriers. I'm going loud!
 * HBO calls it an assault carrier in this image

Reverence-class Medium Cruiser
"Voro resumed breathing. They were his now to command and send into battle. As was the Reverence-class cruiser Incorruptible."