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| {{Ship class infobox
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| |name=Stealth cruiser
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| |manufacturer=
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| |class=[[UNSC prowler|Prowler]] subclass
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| |role=Command and control
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| |length={{Convert|485|m|ft}}<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 252''</ref>
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| |engine=
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| |slipspace drive=[[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine]]
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| |hull=
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| |armament=
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| |complement-title=Counter-measures
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| |complement=*Ablative baffles
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| *Counterelectronics
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| *Matte black ablative stealth coating
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| *Texture buffers
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| *Insulating layers
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| |era=*[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| **[[Great Schism]]
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| |affiliation=*[[UNSC]]
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| }}
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| The '''stealth cruiser''' is a starship classification in the [[UNSC Navy]].
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| ==Design and development==
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| ===Design details===
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| The {{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}} was constructed in parts and then assembled in deep space. It was completely radar-invisible and when the baffled engines ran below 30%, the craft was dark as interstellar space. This ship was the wartime field command and control platform for the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[Office of Naval Intelligence|Naval Intelligence]] units, specifically [[Office of Naval Intelligence#Section Three|ONI Section-3]]. Very few people have ever seen the ship and even less have actually been aboard this vessel.{{Ref/Reuse|GoO}}
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| ===Structure===
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| The inside of the ship was just as mysterious, with stainless-steel walls brushed to a white reflective shield, as was most of the ship's insides. The floors oddly enough weren't the same white color as the walls, being described as metal grates. It also contained a conference room that acted as a [[Faraday Cage|Faraday cage]], completely sealed off from the rest of the ship, known as "The Cage" or "[[Odin's Eye]]<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''pages 42-49''</ref>; where meetings of an extremely classified nature could be conducted in absolute secrecy.
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| ===Development history===
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| Stealth cruisers are the largest ''[[UNSC prowler|Prowler]]''-class vessels built, the length of a [[UNSC Destroyer]]. There has been only one known ship of the class in active service, the UNSC ''Point of No Return'', due primarily to the sheer expense of manufacturing and maintaining the [[Stealth Ablative Coating|stealth ablative coating]] that rendered it invisible from [[radar]], other sensors, and limited visual camouflage.<ref name="GoO">'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page ??''</ref>
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| However, while the ''Point of No Return'' was in service, [[Kurt-051]] along with two of his fellow [[Spartan-II|Spartan-II's]] saw the construction cradle that was being used to construct a second stealth cruiser at [[Station Delphi]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 52''</ref>
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| ==Known stealth cruisers==
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| ==={{Class|Point Blank|stealth cruiser}}===
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| *{{UNSCShip|Vanishing Point}}
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| ===Unknown class===
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| *{{UNSCShip|Point of No Return}}
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| **''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Ref/Sources}}
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| {{Human Ships}}
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| [[Category:Cruiser classes| ]]
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| [[Category:UNSC ship classes| ]]
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