With a proud tradition as warriors, the Sangheili held great respect for a worthy adversary, and after their surrender, the San'Shyuum sought a burgeoning Covenant of the two races. Faced with this bitter reality, the Sangheili surrendered. This incorporation of Forerunner technology eventually caused a stalemate in the war against the San'Shyuum, however their Dreadnought remained unstoppable. The long and brutal war caused the Sangheili to violate their religious beliefs, studying and incorporating Forerunner technology in order to avoid defeat. The Sangheili feared it through the San'Shyuum's use of their unstoppable Dreadnought and the San'Shyuum came to admit that if the Sangheili were this dangerous, there might be other forms of sentient life far more threatening to their race. Įventually both species came to fear a very real threat: annihilation. This proved to be the most common type of combat witnessed during the war. However the San'Shyuum's technology, gleaned from years of travel and study of their Forerunner Dreadnought, gave them the advantage in ship-to-ship combat. Their strength and military tactics were without peer. Īt the start of the war, the Sangheili had a numerical advantage in terms of ships and soldiers. The highly militarized Sangheili attacked the San'Shyuum almost as soon as their differences became apparent, and a war between the two species raged for eighty six years. The Sangheili believed that Forerunner relics were sacred and should not be touched, while the San'Shyuum Reformists believed that they should be studied and use them to make practical objects of their own design. The San'Shyuum, who came to Sanghelios in order to claim and study the rich abundance of Forerunner artifacts left behind, soon found themselves sharing different ideologies of how such relics should be treated, which quickly devolved into conflict between the San'Shyuum and the Sangheili. In 938 BCE, the San'Shyuum Reformists, aboard the Forerunner Dreadnought and the planetoid that would come to be known as High Charity, entered a Sangheili-occupied system that led to first contact between the two alien species. Foundation Main article: War of BeginningsĪt some point before the San'Shyuum encountered the Sangheili, the Huragok were found by the San'Shyuum in various M-series facilities. The Seventh Age: Journey and Salvation.''" - Maccabeus and the Jiralhanae of the Rapid Conversion. The Fourth Age: Wonder and Understanding. History Main article: History of the Covenant 9 Non-canon and dubious canon appearances.Other hostile factions that utilize assets from the former Covenant Empire include Merg Vol's faction, Sali 'Nyon's faction, Vata 'Gajat's faction and the Banished. One notable splinter faction of Sangheili self-proclaimed to be a new "Covenant" was created by Jul 'Mdama, being one of several factions which maintain some tenets of the fallen Covenant's religion. Some of the separatists sought to recreate the Covenant entirely under Sangheili rule, free from San'Shyuum influence. įollowing the Covenant Empire's end at the Battle of the Citadel, a small remnant of surviving loyalists would reemerge years later, and a number of new factions were created by the fallen empire's former subject species after the conclusion of the war. This internal conflict broke the Covenant in two, forcing out the Sangheili species. Despite being one of the most powerful military forces in the known Milky Way galaxy at the time, internal conflict combined with stubborn human resistance were formidable enough to shatter the bonds that held the empire together. Ruled by the High Prophet of Truth along with High Prophets Mercy and Regret in 2525, the Covenant waged a genocidal campaign against humanity until they were defeated in December 2552. Originally a mutual alliance between the San'Shyuum and the Sangheili, the Covenant expanded to include six other species ( Huragok, Mgalekgolo, Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Yanme'e, and Jiralhanae) united in the worship of the mythified Forerunners and the Halo Array. The Covenant, also referred to as the Covenant Empire or Covenant Hegemony, was a massive religious hegemony of multiple alien species that completely controlled a large portion of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way Galaxy for thousands of years. " Creatures of the Covenant: the path is broad, and we shall walk it side by side!" - The High Prophet of Truth
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