Zanar-pattern light cruiser

The CRS-class light cruiser is a Covenant capital warship classification.

Overview
The CRS-class have been described as resembling "luminous manta rays", and are essentially a smaller, weaker version of the CCS-class battlecruiser. While the CRS-class light cruiser and the CCS-class battlecruiser are virtually identical in outward appearance, one can distinguish them by the spikes protruding from near CCS-class's bow.

Operational history
Several such vessels were used over Reach during the Covenant's invasion of the planet. Following the Human-Covenant War, the CRS-class forms the backbone of the fleet of the Covenant remnant, which deployed numerous CRS-class cruisers to Requiem during the Requiem campaign. After finding the, one approached the ship with its shields down, not expecting a threat, in order to deploy boarding parties. However, the Master Chief destroyed it with one of the Forward Unto Dawn's Hyperion nuclear missiles. Several were also destroyed when the gravity well of Requiem pulled them in. More CRS-class cruisers were sent by the remnant to deploy troops into Requiem's core. Numerous light cruisers were sent to attack the after it crashed into Requiem, but at least two were destroyed by the Infinity's defenses.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach
 * Halo: First Strike
 * Halo 4