User:Chance.purvis/Phoenix class Battlecruiser

The Phoenix class Battlecruiser is a Refit of the Phoenix-class Colony Ship. This modification allows the UNSC to attack Covenant battlecruisers. Although smaller, they are however very useful. Many ships of this class have become a huge threat to Covenant fleets.

History
After the Battle of Reach the UNSC had them Phoenix-class Colony Ship refitted, to attack Covenant Battle Fleets, and to protect the Artificial Intelligence code name "Black Bird". Best known for the Military Operation: Blackbird, where they were taking the prototype AI a.k.a Orpheus, to Reach to operate the also prototype UNSC Super Weapon code name "Black Bird", but unfortunately the Fleet of 15 Phoenix class Battlecruisers never made it to the planet. They were found 15 years later they been jumping into slipspace after an unknown Flood Infection, and they had a Grave Mind on board, to prevent infection of Earth they damned themselves to forever keep this advanced flood infection from ever reaching earth, they finally rammed themselves into the flood planet "Bakira" to destroy the flood infection. All men on board who were not infected made the decision to destroy the mutated Pure flood string of DNA. This was an sacrifice that the men made, and were all posthumously given the Medal Of Honor. All 17000 men. After the failed operation "Black Bird" the Phoenix class wasn't going to be used. It was found in an investigation that Orpheus created the mutated string to create a weapon against the covenant and the flood, but the experiment broke out of the containment.