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==Specifications== | ==Specifications== | ||
===Role=== | ===Role=== | ||
The prowler's primary role is to stay hidden while safely gathering battlefield intelligence, avoiding direct combat due to its light weapons and armor. Because of their tactical value and potential to change the outcome of any given combat situation, every UNSC [[battle group]] has at least one prowler assigned to its ranks.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 329''</ref> The prowler's only combat role, besides active combat monitoring and recording, is discreetly laying cloaked fields of [[HORNET mine|HORNET nuclear mines]] in orbital regions. Prowlers must have the capability to hide even within their own fleet to avoid being tracked in the event a UNSC ship fell into enemy hands.<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page 318''</ref> | |||
A typical prowler has a crew of 90,<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 186''</ref> although the craft can operate with a far smaller crew or entirely autonomously with an onboard [[smart AI]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands'''</ref> | A typical prowler has a crew of 90,<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 186''</ref> although the craft can operate with a far smaller crew or entirely autonomously with an onboard [[smart AI]].<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands'''</ref> | ||