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 flahship,' 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.

Covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser
Covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser is considered Canon because of this evidence:

"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 three capitol ships per group. And in about 90 seconds they'll be all over us". However, there is no mention of the term Battlecruiser.

and

HBO calls the Truth and Reconciliation a Covenant Battlecruiser in this image but no mention of CCS-class

Combine with

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". Thus, it can be concluded that not only is the supercarrier a Covenant warship, but it is also called the fleet carrier.
 * "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." and just to confirm that the reference aren't UNSC ships, "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." just in case you thought they were UNSC frigates.

Covenant light cruiser

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

Covenant CPV-class Destroyer

 * As shown in the Transmissions

Covenant Assault Carrier

 * "I'm reading fifteen vessels inside the kill zone: two assault carriers, thirteen cruisers. I'm going loud!"

- Cortana during the First Battle of Earth


 * 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."