Staff of Charon

The Staff of Charon is an Insurrectionist destroyer commanded by the Insurrectionist Elite. It first appears in the fourth episode of Season 10, where it ambushes the members of Project Freelancer from surrounding floating debris at the UNSC Space Recycling Station. It engages itself in a dogfight against the Freelancer frigate Mother of Invention with rounds being fired from the turrets that emerge from the middle section of the ship and other two main turrets in the front section of the ship. The two spacecrafts battle intensely, but the Staff of Charon ultimately gets the upper hand. Being the head of the ship, the Insurrectionist Elite orders one of his soldiers to release a nuclear bomb out into space. After the bomb is released, the Staff of Charon makes its escape through Slipspace, while the Mother of Invention is forced to flee. Four Seven Niner rescues Freelancers Carolina, York, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington, in the process, barely escaping the bomb's explosion.

Trivia

 * The ship appears to have a partially damaged outer structure, looking bent and scorched.
 * The service number of Staff of Charon is 619-B, a reference to Washington's prison number in Recreation.
 * The Staff of Charon is a UNSC destroyer of the same class as seen in the short story Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian, in the anthology Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe.
 * Charon is the ferryman to Hades in greek mythology.
 * The lights illuminating the ship's name is a reference to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.