Rapid Conversion (Earth-5875)

The Rapid Conversion was a CRS-class light cruiser of the Covenant commanded by Chieftain of the Jiralhanae Tartarus and formerly his father, Maccabeus.

History
The Rapid Conversion was originally decommissioned by the sangheili but was later repurposed for war and given to the command of Maccabeus, one of the few jiralhanae leaders who was granted the honor of being the Shipmaster of a CRS-class light cruiser. However, much like most of these vessels, many of the the Conversion's weapon systems were deactivated with the exception of the energy projector. Maccabeus took upon himself to change numerous assets of the ship's interior, to reflect his homeworld Doisac. The ship was crewed by a pack of ten jiralhanae, sixty unggoy, and dozens of yanme'e responsible for upkeeping the ship.

The warship was the first Covenant vessel to discover a human world, sending troops to the surface of Shanxi in the First Battle of Shanxi. During the battle, the Conversion went into Shanxi's low orbit to dispatch more warriors and retrieve forerunner relics, only to fall into a trap laid by Captain Pablo Aboim that led to the vessel being struck by two rounds from the planet's mass driver. While the first round did little to no damage, the second passed through the ship and crippled the connection between the ship's pinch fusion reactor and anti-gravity generators, leading it to fall into the planet's surface.

The Conversion was promptly repaired in the following months, ultimately glassing Shanxi and reducing the planet to cinder. In April, the Rapid Conversion destroyed the CAA scout ship CAA Argo, leading the CAA to send Battle Group 4 six months later, consisting of the CAA Heracles, CAA Arabia, and CAA Vostok to investigate. Two of the ships were destroyed by a super-destroyer over Shanxi.

Even after Tartarus became Chieftain of the Jiralhanae, he still kept control of the Rapid Conversion. After his death on November 3rd, 2552, during the Great Schism, a Silent Shadow group led by Resa 'Azavayl boarded the ship and slaughtered the entire crew.