Covenant worlds
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Many countless worlds would fall under the control of the Covenant[1] in a "Covenant sphere".[2][3][4] The Sangheili's colonies were considered the Covenant's primary worlds.[5] Many Sangheili colonies were reforged into strongholds and fortresses capable of amassing vast military power.[1]
With each species added to the alliance, so too were their worlds added; on top of new worlds being settled and the subsuming of certain Forerunner installations.[5] Various physical materials from each of the incorporated species' homeworlds were used in the Skin of the First Worlds, itself a component of High Charity.[6]
As the Created came to control many of these worlds, only echoes of the empire remain.[7]
History[edit]
Pre-Covenant history[edit]
Pre-Great Purification[edit]
The Forerunners built numerous facilities on various other Covenant worlds including the Guardian Custode support areas on Sanghelios,[8] a portal to Sarcophagus from Hesduros,[9] and a facility in the Y'Deio system.[10] They also maintained facilities on other worlds that the Covenant would subsume such as Zhoist.[11]
The Former Age[edit]
- Main articles: The Former Age, Age of Abandonment
Following the Great Purification, an unknown complication occurred and the Forerunner starship Anodyne Spirit crashed onto the surface of Janjur Qom.[12][13][14] This would invariably lead to the War of Wills, where two factions would fight over control of the ship.
Several hundred years before the Covenant,[15] the Sangheili colonized dozens of worlds which ranged from thriving population hubs to frontier worlds with only a handful of pioneer keeps.[16] Qikost and Suban, the moons of Sanghelios, were among the first colonized, with the Sangheili setting up armories on Qikost[17] and mines on Suban.[18] The Age of Seven Worlds appears to have started about the time of or after the colonization of the seventh world.[19] Interstellar Sangheili colonies included Glyke,[1] Hesduros,[20] Codisfold,[21] and Ulgethon.[22] The 76th explored world was Creck.[17] These collective worlds were bound by blood and belief over any centralized authority.[15]
It was on one such colony world, Ulgethon, that the Sangheili first encountered the San'Shyuum thus commencing the War of Beginnings.[23] Fighting in the war would take place on other Sangheili colonies[17] such as Codisfold.[24] The Dreadnought which was in possession of the San'Shyuum at the time, would cause untold destruction on several Sangheili worlds.[25] Battling in the war would even reached Sanghelios itself.
Covenant era[edit]
Early era[edit]
Following the War of Beginnings, Sanghelios would be the capital of the Covenant until High Charity was completed.[26] The remaining Sangheili colonies became some of the primary worlds for the Covenant.[5] A few of these worlds would be given an alternate name by the Prophets. Glyke would be 'blessed' with the name "Sphere of Praise"[1] while Hesduros would be referred to as "Silent Homage" by San'Shyuum scientists.[20] The signing of the Writ of Union would however lead to the Rending which would take place at several points in Covenant space including Sanghelios.[17] It would also lead to the settlement and destruction of The Refuge. At roughly the same, the Covenant would undertake a secret mission to Janjur Qom.<