The Spirit of Fire emblem can be found here, officially, in it's original 800x600 size.
The actual meaning of exitus acta probat is "The result justifies the deed," the word "result" being more fitting.
For those not in the know, this vessel has a new classification previously unheard of. It's not a frigate, a Marathon-class cruiser, or a Halcyon-class cruiser. Since destroyers have not been classified so far, could the Phoenix class be one of the categories?
Since a few members of Bungie started the Phoenix project (Jason maybe?) after Halo 1 but before Halo 2, and it hasn't seen the light of day, could this be the story tellers officially/unofficially saying "We scrapped the Phoenix/RTS idea because we couldn't get it to work with a new IP, so here - you guys can make it work with our existing IP?"