UNSC Brasidas

The UNSC Brasidas was a destroyer in service within Battlegroup Stalingrad in the UNSC Navy during 2552. The battle group had five other destroyers but they were all destroyed by the Covenant's superior fleet.

Background
The Brasidas was part of Admiral Carl "Buster" Patterson's battle group sent to Onyx to retrieve Dr. Catherine Halsey as well as the Spartan-IIs and IIIs. During the first attack on Covenant ships in orbit in the Battle of Onyx, it was damaged extensively, suffering damage to its reactor. It then transferred its load of HORNET mines to the prowler. It was destroyed along with the when Covenant reinforcements swarmed into the system.

Trivia

 * The ship is named after Brasidas, a Spartan General during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War who was killed at the Battle of Amphipolis.

List of appearances

 * Halo: Ghosts of Onyx