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The Pilgrimage was a Human cargo vessel tasked with delivering supplies to colonies after the Human-Covenant War. Officially, the Pilgrimage was not a UNSC vessel but rather, it was owned by Lion Shield, a major humanitarian organization established in the 2480s. Unofficially, the Pilgrimage was also employed by ONI to recover abandoned Covenant tech and Forerunner artifacts.

Despite being occupied with such an important task, the Pilgrimage was lightly armed and the UNSC Navy only occasionally had two cruisers to spare as an escort at a time. Sometime during the reconstruction period, the Pilgrimage was raided by Kig-yar pirates after making a dangerous but desperately needed delivery to a surviving outer colony. The ship disappeared but was located three months later on the surface of a former Covenant world being stripped by Kig-yar.