Commitment and Patience

Commitment and Patience was a Covenant Ship that served alongside the Solemn Penance during the Prophet of Regret's failed attack on Earth during the Human-Covenant War. It appeared alongside Regret's Fleet and was promptly assaulted by the Human defence fleet. Co-ordinated fire by Cairo Station alongside Athens and Malta Stations meant that the majority of the Fleet was destroyed before they even reached Earth, and the Commitment and Patience was one of the ships that was seriously damaged before reaching the defensive line. Cortana was able to direct the SuperMAC of Cairo Station to fire straight through the Commitment and Patience, bisecting the ship from the front and blasting out of the rear engines.

Severely crippled, the ship drifted through the battle with most of the crew dead, and main power was only restored when the Engineers managed to re-route power from the severed power links back into the life support. With most of the commanding officers dead, Commitment and Patience lived up to its name by waiting outside the atmosphere of Earth undetected for several days, until Truth's fleet arrived at Earth. The Elite crew of the ship were ignored by Truth's Fleet, despite sending out a distress call, but Truth's ships did not stop to destroy the ship and the Elites survived. The Shadow of Intent was then able to pick up the Elites, Grunts and Engineers aboard the Commitment and Patience and inform them of the truce with the Humans, before scavenging all retrievable technology from the ship and scuttling it with orbital mines.