Intrusion corvette

Intrusion corvettes are a classification of stealth corvette employed by the Covenant.

Human-Covenant War
In 2526, five intrusion corvettes took part in the Battle of Seoba. Due to Hector Nyeto's efforts to get the Spartan-IIs killed, he purposefully held off on attacking the ships under guise of waiting to get into a perfect position. Eventually, two of the corvettes were destroyed by the UNSC Prowlers while a third was caught in the blast of the 's self-destruct.

Later that year, nine intrusion corvettes made up the majority of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety along with a single Covenant frigate. Most of the flotilla was destroyed in the three-way Battle of Netherop.

Post-Covenant War era
In 2559, an intrusion corvette was dispatched from a Banished supercarrier to carry War Chief Escharum to Reach's surface to personally oversee the search for the Menachite portal complex. After the arrival of Atriox from the Ark, the corvette carried the Banished leader and his arriving forces away from the planet.

Design
The intrusion corvette is shaped like a pair of teardrops connected by a thin middle fuselage, covered in (seemingly) randomly placed rows of blue lights. The corvette is equipped with a single anti-ship plasma cannon, though the weapon's anti-ship status makes it unsuitable for anti-infantry work. The corvette is equipped with a gravity lift system which it can use to load/unload troops and equipment. The corvette's lift systems are large enough that during the Battle of Seoba, a corvette attempted to lift the remains of the downed.

The intrusion corvette's bridge contains an observation blister which allows a crewmember to see into space outside the ship directly. The back of the bridge contains a maze of control consoles and equipment stands, with a tactical hologram projector. The hologram projector is surrounded by ten data-collection lecterns, each manned by a reader. Typically, two Obedientaries would each observe five of these readers, stood at opposite ends of the tactical hologram. Intrusion corvettes are additionally equipped with a Kelguid for navigation.

Intrusion corvettes are equipped with an active camouflage system, allowing them to remain unseen by enemy forces. These systems were sufficient enough to mask the corvettes from detection by the entire Bikon space force during their approach to Seoba in 2526. The craft's specialised repulsor engines let out only a small amount of thermal emissions, such that there would only be a red flare that lasts a moment before vanishing on thermal scopes. Tel 'Szatulai begrudgingly considered these stealth systems inferior to those employed on UNSC Prowlers, with the corvettes' own sensor systems unable to detect the launch of several s. With optimal maintenance, the stealth systems on an intrusion corvette were considered by Nizat 'Kvarosee to be "eighty-five percent" effective, with this number dropping to between fifty and seventy percent for the vessels of the Flotilla of Unsung Piety - a rogue element without access to optimal maintenance.

In combat, the corvettes are easily downed by Covenant standards, being able to be taken down by a few lucky missile salvos from a.

Crew and complement
The intrusion corvette maintains a small crew. The ship's bridge crew consists of at least a shipmaster and a second, alongside ten Readers and two Obedientaries. Additionally, the corvette is capable of deploying Type-32 Ghosts and a number of infantry.

Ships of the line

 * Divine Whisper
 * Quiet Faith
 * Sacred Whisper
 * Silent Truth
 * Still Devotion
 * Worthy Silence

Production notes
The intrusion corvette's description is broadly similar to the Covenant stealth ship as described in Halo: The Fall of Reach. However, it is presently unknown if the two are one and the same.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Silent Storm
 * Halo: Oblivion
 * Halo: Shadows of Reach