Unnamed Covenant Cruiser

The Unnamed Covenant Cruiser was a warship in the Covenant Navy and attached to the Fleet of Particular Justice, which took part in the Battle of Reach.
== Operational History ==
After entering the system, and after the initial attack against the UNSC forces in orbit, the cruiser was one of many that entered the planet's atmosphere, landing tens of thousands of troops on Reach's surface. Hovering thirty meters above the ground forces, it was protected by massive numbers of legions of Unggoy, dozens of Wraiths, anti-air emplacements, and three squadrons of Banshees conducting air patrols.Halo: First Strike, page 21
A team of three Spartan-II's, designated Alpha Team, used captured Covenant Banshee fighters to fly past the patrols and anti-air emplacements.Halo: First Strike, page 24-25 At least one Unggoy, Zawaz, detected the Banshees on a scanner, but did not bother to report them, fearing punishment from his Sangheili superior officers.Halo: First Strike, page 26-27 As the Covenant grew suspicious of these new Banshees, they demanded proper codeword clearance - the Spartans, unable to translate the messages and not knowing the codewords, ignored them.Halo: First Strike, page 28 One Spartan, Joshua-029, was shot down while the other two, Frederic-104 and Kelly-087, reached the cruiser's gravity lift, throwing a Fury Tactical Nuclear Weapon into the ship and retreating.Halo: First Strike, page 29
The ship was destroyed, its own shields absorbing the electromagnetic pulse from the weapon, preventing it from damaging the nearby Orbital Defense Generators. It also leveled the nearby forest and mountain, vaporizing the ground forces. However, its loss did little to save the reactors - another three cruisers descended from orbit to replace it.Halo: First Strike, page 31
==Trivia==
It is unknown what classification of cruiser the ship is: it is too small to be a , and too large to be a .
==References==
Category:Covenant Cruiser