Covenant navy

The Covenant navy is the branch of the Covenant military responsible solely for space operations. Its roles include ship-to-ship combat, orbital bombardment, the deployment of fighters and bombers and the method of delivery for the Covenant's occupational ground forces. At its height, it fielded thousands of warships, most being able to carry fighters, dropships, ground troops and vehicles.

Great Schism
Throughout the majority of the Covenant civil conflict known as the Great Schism, the Covenant military was violently splintered between those who continued to believe in the Prophets’ wisdom and the Covenant separatists, who followed Arbiter Thel 'Vadam and opposed the Prophets' rule. As the battle raged, the High Prophet of Truth formally transferred command of the navy to the Jiralhanae, a position once exclusively held by the Sangheili. The Covenant separatists wiped out the primary loyalist fleet at the Battle of Installation 00.

Soon after the outbreak of the Schism, the separatists' numbers were reduced by a pair of disasters. At Joyous Exultation, the massive Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose, headed by Imperial Admiral Xytan 'Jar Wattinree aboard the supercarrier Sublime Transcendence, was consumed by a NOVA bomb. At Onyx, a battle group headed by the cruiser Incorruptible was destroyed by the Forerunner Sentinels that comprised the artificial planet.

Due to this disarray, the only Sangheili fleet to fight in the last battles of the war was the Fleet of Retribution, which was led by the assault carrier Shadow of Intent. During the battles of Voi and the Ark the Jiralhanae-led loyalist fleet was mostly limited to Truth's fleet, which outnumbered the Sangheili three to one by the time of the Battle of Installation 00. This fleet contained a number of battlecruisers assault carriers, led by Truth's Forerunner Dreadnought.

Space stations

 * High Charity - The Covenant holy city and site of government; absorbed by the Flood and destroyed by Spartan John-117 at Installation 00.
 * Unyielding Hierophant - Destroyed by Spartan Blue Team, led by John-117.


 * Lawgiver - Unknown status, possibly destroyed


 * Resplendent Fervor - Destroyed
 * Shadow of Intent - Returned to Sanghelios after ceasefire in March 2552
 * Solemn Penance - Unknown status
 * Clarity of Faith - Crash-landed on an unidentified moon in August 2552


 * Long Night of Solace - Destroyed
 * Ascendant Justice - Destroyed
 * Sublime Transcendence - Destroyed


 * Incorruptible - Destroyed in the Battle of Onyx


 * Triumphant Declaration - Unknown status
 * Harbinger of Piety - Unknown status
 * Pious Inquisitor - Unknown status
 * Purity of Spirit - Unknown status
 * Sacred Promise (hypothesized) - Unknown status, probably destroyed
 * Truth and Reconciliation - Destroyed in the Battle of Installation 04
 * CCS-U624 - Unknown status
 * CCS-U321 - Destroyed in the Battle of Arcadia


 * Unrelenting - Destroyed in the Battle of Chi Ceti
 * Rapid Conversion - Unknown status

Unknown classes

 * Infinite Sacrifice - Unknown status
 * Penance - Unknown status
 * Unidentified cruiser (Particular Justice) - Destroyed in the Fall of Reach


 * Unidentified heavy destroyer - Status unknown
 * Esteem - Unknown status
 * Reverence - Destroyed

Other types

 * Absolution - Destroyed
 * ''Bloodied Spirit - Destroyed
 * Far Sight Lost - Destroyed
 * Rapturous Arc - Destroyed
 * Retribution's Thunder - Destroyed

Frigates

 * Tenebrous - Destroyed
 * Twilight Compunction - Unknown status
 * Revenant - Destroyed
 * Unflinching Resolve - Retired, later reclaimed by Servants of the Abiding Truth


 * Contrition - Unknown Status
 * Penance - Unknown Status


 * Ardent Prayer - Destroyed in Operation: UPPER CUT.

Support ships

 * Infinite Succor - Destroyed, sent into a star to prevent the Flood from escaping.


 * Piety- Active, all crew killed in capture of a Huragok.

Unknown class

 * A Psalm Every Day - Unknown status
 * Commitment and Patience - Unknown status
 * Devotion - Unknown status
 * Infinite Spoils - Unknown status
 * Minor Transgression - Destroyed
 * Paragon - Unknown status
 * Pitiless - Unknown status
 * Serene Certainty - Unknown status
 * Unrelenting - Unknown status
 * Valorous Salvation - Unknown status

Important personnel

 * Imperial Admiral Xytan 'Jar Wattinree
 * Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee (current Arbiter)
 * Fleet Master Voro Nar 'Mantakree
 * Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum
 * Ship Master Orna 'Fulsamee
 * Unidentified Shipmaster (Righteous Vigilance)

List of appearances

 * Halo: Fall of Reach
 * Halo: Combat Evolved
 * Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
 * Halo: The Flood
 * Halo: First Strike
 * Halo 2
 * Halo Graphic Novel
 * The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor
 * Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
 * Halo: Uprising
 * Halo 3
 * Halo: Contact Harvest
 * Halo: The Cole Protocol
 * Halo Wars: Genesis
 * Halo Wars
 * Halo 3: ODST
 * Sadie's Story
 * Halo Legends
 * Origins
 * The Duel
 * The Package


 * Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
 * Dirt
 * ''Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian
 * Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss
 * The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole
 * The Mona Lisa
 * The Return
 * Halo: Blood Line
 * Remember Reach
 * Deliver Hope
 * Halo: Reach
 * Halo: Fall of Reach
 * Boot Camp
 * Covenant
 * Invasion
 * Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
 * Halo 4 (Prologue Only)
 * Halo: Initiation