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Many countless worlds would fall under the control of the Covenant and its various successor factions.

Pre-Great Purification
Prior to the Great Purification, an ancient San'Shyuum civilization participated in the Human-Forerunner wars. Following their defeat, the San'Shyuum were quarantined to the Qom Yaekesh system. Various Forerunner facilities were built on and around worlds in the system. During the Forerunner-Flood war, the San'Shyuum rose up in the system on their homeworld of Janjur Qom.

The Forerunners built numerous facilities on various other Covenant worlds including the Guardian Custode support areas on Sanghelios, a portal to Sarcophagus from Hesduros, and a facility in the Y'Deio system. They also maintained facilities on other worlds that they Covenant would subsume such as Zhoist.



The Former Age
Following the Great Purification, an unknown complication occurred and the Forerunner starship Anodyne Spirit crashed onto the surface of Janjur Qom. This would invariably lead to the War of Wills, where two factions would fight over control of the ship.

After achieving space flight, the Sangheili began travelling from Sanghelios to colonize other worlds. Qikost and Suban, the moons of Sanghelios, were among the first colonized, with the Sangheili setting up armories on Qikost and mines on Suban. Dozens of other worlds were colonized. By the time of the War of Beginnings, there were a total of seventy-six Sangheili colonies. It was on one such world, Ulgethon, that the Sangheili first encountered the San'Shyuum. Fighting would take place on several other Sangheili colonies and even Sanghelios itself.

Covenant era
Following the War of Beginnings, the remaining Sangheili colonies became some of the primary worlds for the Covenant. With each species added to the alliance, so too were their worlds.

The Covenant as an organization would go on to settle new worlds and subsume certain Forerunner installations. An example of this would be Strilun IV. In at least one case, the Covenant wiped out an unidentified civilisation on the planet Karava and settled it afterward.

Prior to their inclusion into the Covenant, the Jiralhanae on their homeworld suffered through the First Immolation, a nuclear war.



War of Annihilation
Early in the War of Annihilation, the UNSC counterattacked the invading Covenant and struck at Zhoist. UNSC Nuclear weapons destroyed two out of the Ten Cities of Edification.


 * Madrigal/The Rubble

The UNSC would make further attempts to strike Covenant controlled worlds. In 2537, SPARTAN-III Alpha Company was deployed to asteroid K7-49 in order to disrupt Covenant operations there. While they succeeded, 300 SPARTAN-IIIs were killed in the process. A similar action would be repeated at Pegasi Delta in 2545 with Operation: TORPEDO. While also a victory, it would cost the lives of 298 SPARTAN-IIIs of Beta Company.

At some point during the war, Linda-058 was deployed to the world of Odenli'sh to assassinate a San'Shyuum missonary.

Near the end of the war, and during the Great Schism, a NOVA bomb was detonated at Joyous Exultation on accident. A quarter of the world was vaporised and its moon was shattered.

Post-war
Just days after a tentative peace treaty was formed between the group that would become the Swords of Sanghelios and the UEG, the Sangheili colony of Glyke was mysteriously destroyed, killing billions. Rumors had it that the colony's destruction was either an internal conflict or a Jiralhanae retaliation, but in truth it was destroyed by SPARTAN-II Gray Team with a NOVA bomb as part of Operation: SUNSPEAR, an effort to strike a blow at a major enemy world to try to cause the Covenant to reconsider. Having last heard that Earth was under attack, Gray Team were unaware of the war's end due to damaged deep-space communications equipment and thus that their mission was no longer necessary.

After the dissolution of the Covenant and the exodus of the local San'Shyuum governors, many of the Covenant's colonies fell under the control of the hegemony's various splinter factions, while others were claimed by unaffiliated members of the Covenant client species, especially the Sangheili or Kig-Yar. Some worlds were contested between species and governments, while Joint Occupation Zones were established between the Unified Earth Government and the Swords of Sanghelios to allow colonies to be administrated by multiple species.

Elsewhere following the end of the war, the Sangheili who lacked a centralized government, were thrown into political turmoil, ultimately resulting in civil war. While some colonies, like Hesduros, would join the Covenant remnants, most colonies like Duraan, Khael'mothka and Rahnelo joined with Sanghelios under Arbiter Thel 'Vadam's new Swords of Sanghelios, fighting off the other remnant groups and the Jiralhanae. The Office of Naval Intelligence found it difficult to track the true extent of the Sangheili colonial sphere and the military growth present in the dozens of active Sangheili colonial polities, particularly due to their differing political structures.

Created conflict
With the onset of The Reclamation in 2558, various Covenant worlds came to be affected by the Created. Sanghelios was directly hit by Guardian Custodes and despite proximity, Suban suffered minimal damage. The immediate loss of communications and disruption of logistics would inhibit previously ongoing independence movements on Qikost.

Created forces would end up occupying Malurok, halting the civil conflict that was ongoing there. This prompted a detente among the previous warring parties.

Balaho sided with the Created, meaning no Guardian was sent to the world. Old factories were reactivated and supplies from the Created were shipped to the planet. A skirmish would breakout on the planet between various forces of the UEG and Unggoy on the planet.

Doisac was hit quite hard, being completely destroyed by a fleet of Guardians on the direct orders of Cortana. The exploding debris of the planet would obliterate the moon of Soirapt, and heavily damaged the moons of Teash and Warial. A large amount of survivors from Teash managed to resettle on the colonies of Gathved, Ordun Dal, and Savadok.

Covenant as a whole
Collectively, the non-cradle worlds of the Covenant were referred to as "tithe worlds".

The High Council was responsible for the administration of these interstellar territories, assigning tithes and levies, and allocating resources across the numerous member worlds. San'Shyuum governors handled administrative duties on a local scale; most of them joined the rest of the species on their mass exodus during the Great Schism.

Sangheili
Base worlds established by the Sangheili were considered the Covenant's primary worlds. Smaller Sangheili colonies are often governed by only a handful of keeps, which control the entirety of the world's resources.

Jiralhanae
Since the incorporation of the Jiralhanae, the San'Shyuum settled them on resource-rich worlds to guard them from anyone seeking to claim them for themselves, although the Jiralhanae lacked the ability to mine the resources themselves.

Other species
Some species, such as the Kig-Yar and Lekgolo, had created colonies of their own before their incorporation into the Covenant. These worlds would be absorbed into the empire after the species joined the Covenant. Covenant space would grow to include new worlds as the hegemony expanded throughout the spiral arm, and even Forerunner installations were settled by the Covenant. Despite the massive size of the empire, the Covenant would generally leave a newly discovered world untouched, unless the world held religious or practical significance.

Sangheili
Around the time of the War of Beginnings, there were Sangheili 76 colonies. By the time of the Post-Covenant War conflicts, there was a primary "complex" of Sangheili worlds.

character locations

 * Jersey Morelli and Janissary James - New Jersey
 * Chapter 9 mentions Kamal needing to head to New Jersey. This is in reference to having to go meet Jersey Morelli. This is reiterated in Chapter 10 with Kamal being told that a driver at Jerry's Diner (possibly in Pittsburgh) will take him to New Jersey. When Kamal and Jersey meet, Jersey makes a sarcastic remark about heading to Atlantic City. When Jersey meets Rani in Boston in Chapter 10, he has NYC on his bags, something that Rani notices immediately. Also, he has an NYC accent something that Jersey himself mentions. As for Janissary, Jersey and Janissary live in the same building as mentioned in Chapter 1. Also when Durga brings up the emergency call it is for Bergen County, New Jersey which is on the western banks of the Hudson in the NYC area.
 * Rani Sobeck - Boston, Kentucky, and Washington DC
 * Sarah and Rani talk about leaving Boston in Chapter 10.

other info

 * Chapter 9, public health law requires people to be tested for intestinal TB if they are exposed to it. Testing costs money
 * Chapter 10, people not from Earth referred to as colonial. Jersey turned 18 in June of that year.