Editing War of Wills

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|prev=[[Forerunner-Flood war]]
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|next= [[War of Beginnings]]
|image=[[File:HM WarOfWills.jpg|300px]]
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|date=[[2200 BCE]]<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', ''page 114''</ref>–[[2100 BCE]]<ref name="enc30">'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 30'' (2011)</ref>
|place=[[Janjur Qom]], [[San'Shyuum home system]]
|result='''Reformist victory'''
*Reformists leave Janjur Qom aboard the [[Forerunner Dreadnought|Dreadnought]]
|side1=*[[Reformists|San'Shyuum Reformists]]
|side2=*[[Stoics|San'Shyuum Stoics]]
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The '''War of Wills''',<ref name="Mythos">'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 38''</ref> also referred to as the '''Stoic-Reformist conflict''',<ref>'''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]''', ''page 4''</ref> was an internal conflict that arose when some of the [[San'Shyuum]] began to believe that they should enter the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]], a relic which crashed on their homeworld [[Janjur Qom]] long ago.<ref>'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 310'' (2011)</ref>

==History==
The conflict began in [[2200 BCE]], when a group of San'Shyuum known as the [[Reformists]] demanded they be given access to the [[Forerunner Dreadnought]] present on their planet and learn from its technology, even though much of the population believed that the ship was a sacred artifact and should not be interfered with. The two sides fighting in this war were the [[Stoics]], or the San'Shyuum who refused to enter and desecrate the Dreadnought, and the [[Reformists]], who wanted to develop new technologies by entering and studying the Dreadnought.  The Reformists had a technological advantage over the Stoics as they utilized Forerunner weapons and Technology whereas the Stoics' belief had them only using their native arsenal.  <ref name="cp262">'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 262''</ref>

In 2100 BCE, at the climax of the war, about a thousand Reformists broke into and commandeered the Dreadnought. The outraged Stoics were unable to take action, since even their fury toward the Reformists could not bring them to destroy the object of their reverence. After forty days,{{Ref/Reuse|Mythos}} the Reformists took flight from the planet, breaking off a massive chunk of rock in doing so. This piece of rock would later become the foundation of ''[[High Charity]]'', the Holy City of the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|cp262}}

==Aftermath==
Although the Reformists had achieved victory and left the Stoics (who sent out communication messages threatening that they would be damned for their impudence toward [[Forerunner|the gods]]) behind, they realized that they were doomed due to the small number that had joined their cause to control the Dreadnought.{{Ref/Reuse|cp262}} With an extremely small gene pool, they enacted strict controls around mating to prevent potentially disastrous inbreeding.
 
Reformists [[Mission to Janjur Qom|returned]] to their homeworld in [[850 BCE]]. Janjur Qom was destroyed when its star allegedly [[Supernova|collapsed upon itself]] in [[648 BCE]]. After this, ''[[High Charity]]'', a mobile planetoid made out of the chunk of rock and powered by the Dreadnought, became the new homeworld of the San'Shyuum.<ref name= "ENC119">'''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe''', ''page 119''</ref>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo Mythos]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
**''[[Sacrifice]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
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