Zanar-pattern light cruiser: Difference between revisions

While classified as "light cruisers" by the UNSC, the Covenant intended them to fill a role more analogous to police cutters to patrol inhabited star systems, conducting routine inspections and enforcing travel laws.<ref name="Warfleet72"/> After the war, ''CRS''s became the backbones of fleets owned by Covenant remnant factions, serving in combat roles against humanity and the Swords of Sanghelios.<ref name="Warfleet72"/> Crews of ''CRS'' cruisers generally regarded serving aboard one as a stepping stone to more glorious service aboard the Covenant's Examiner ships, such as {{Class|ORS|heavy cruiser}}s, and would take risks during combat to prove their worth in hopes of reassignment.<ref name="Warfleet64">'''Halo: Warfleet''', ''Examiners'', ''pages 64-65''</ref> They regarded escorting Executor-type ships and their disgraced crews such as the {{Class|CPV|heavy destroyer}} as a more distasteful assignment, and could never be relied on to do more than their basic duties.<ref name="Warfleet61">'''Halo: Warfleet''', ''Executioners'', ''pages 60-61''</ref> When the Prophets took their Procurator-type ships and fled Covenant space in the wake of the Great Schism, they took many light cruisers whose crews remained loyal with them.<ref name="Warfleet68">'''Halo: Warfleet''', ''Procurators'', ''pages 68-69''</ref> As with other small attack ships employed by Covenant fleets, ''CRS'' cruisers didn't have permanent crew quarters, instead rotating fresh crew members on between missions.<ref name="Warfleet72"/>