The UNSC Prowler was a starship classification within the United Nations Space Command's Office of Naval Intelligence.
Role
As per its namesake, it is used to gather electronic intelligence, and its primary role is to stay hidden while safely gathering such ELINT, not to charge into battle, as that would invariably be an irreversibly fatal tactic. Its only combat role, beside active combat monitoring and recording, is discreetly laying minefields of stealthed plutonium HORNET mines. When enemy warships enter these deadly minefields, they will most often be destroyed. This strategem allowed Battle Group Stalingrad to survive longer at the Battle of Onyx.
Stealth Systems
- Ablative baffles
- Counterelectronic systems
- Jet-black stealth coating
- Texture bufferers