Covenant Bomb

"Sir? Permission to leave the station."

- John 117

"For what purpose, Master Chief?"

- Lord Hood

"To give the Covenant back their bomb."

- John 117

Covenant Bomb
The Covenant Bomb was a type of large tactical ordnance. They were the counterpart to the UNSC's tactical Nuclear weapons.

History
These bombs were used during the Battle of Earth to assault the Orbital Defense Platforms. There were several boarding parties which consisted of many Elites, Grunts, and Drones. The Boarding parties delivered the ordnance and destroyed Athens Station and Malta Station. The bomb that was on Cairo Station was secured by John-117 and Cortana. The Spartan performed a micro-gravity maneuver to deliver the device to a Covenant Assault Carrier with shields down and a 'hole' created by a pair of Longswords. The chief entered the hole and detonated the bomb in the core resulting the destruction of the assault carrier.

Appearance
The Covenant bomb's appearance is of a long bulbous shape with many spikes protruding from it. It has a central control hub located at the top of the bomb.

Trivia

 * Jason Jones of Bungie referred to the bomb as the "Giant Covenant Space Pickle".
 * When the bomb is reactivated by John-117 it takes 7 seconds to explode.
 * It appears in Halo Zero, a fan-made 2D Halo game made for the PC.
 * The bomb only appears in Halo 2.
 * It is possible that it uses Antimatter and is the Antimatter Charge Cortana refers to.


 * The bomb's appearance looks like a present-day naval mine (sea mine).
 * The bomb was not originally going to be included in Halo 2, instead there would be a level were the Master Chief would board the Covenant Assault Carrier and destroy it from within, but due to deadlines, it was cut and Bungie decided to add the bomb.
 * The bomb may have been made easier to move by the boarding parties through anti-gravity fields presented by protrusions on the bottom of the bomb. Then, once the bomb had been sufficiently placed, these fields would have been permanently disabled, making the bomb all the more difficult to move.

External

 * Final Cut Scene of Cairo Station, featuring the infamous Covenant Bomb.