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[[File:H2A Terminals - Stewards.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Steward]]s assisted [[minister (title)|ministers]] in their ministerial bodies{{Ref/Book|Halo: Broken Circle|Page=79}}]] | |||
{{Quote|Ministries seem to proliferate. Certainly faster than San'Shyuum. Soon there will be more Ministries than there are members of our species.|The [[Prophet of Inner Conviction]] on the rapid rise of ministries in the early days of the Covenant.<ref>''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'', p. 61</ref>}} | {{Quote|Ministries seem to proliferate. Certainly faster than San'Shyuum. Soon there will be more Ministries than there are members of our species.|The [[Prophet of Inner Conviction]] on the rapid rise of ministries in the early days of the Covenant.<ref>''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'', p. 61</ref>}} | ||
'''Ministries''' were a political and military subdivision of the [[Covenant]] empire. | '''Ministries''' were a political and military subdivision of the [[Covenant]] empire. Based in the [[Tower Districts]] of [[High Charity]], these various bodies were lead by [[minister (title)|minister]]s and [[vice minister]]s.{{Ref/Book|Halo: Contact Harvest|Page=304}} Following the [[Fall of High Charity]], the Covenant ministries were overrun by the [[Flood]] invasion.{{Ref/Anthology|Evo|Wages of Sin}}{{Ref/Novel|HSoI}} | ||
==Function== | ==Function== | ||
In Covenant governance, the [[High Council]] tasked [[lesser council]]s with bureaucratic oversight and day-to-day governance of the empire, with lesser councils thus issuing edicts to the various subordinate ministries to enact their decrees and laws. In practice however, each ministry was effectively an independent body and acted with impunity. Multiple ministries were sometimes formed into work groups called [[Assembly (Covenant)|assemblies]], used to tackle specific problems identified by the High Council.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=236-237}} | In Covenant governance, the [[High Council]] tasked [[lesser council]]s with bureaucratic oversight and day-to-day governance of the empire, with lesser councils thus issuing edicts to the various subordinate ministries to enact their decrees and laws. In practice however, each ministry was effectively an independent body and acted with impunity. Multiple ministries were sometimes formed into work groups called [[Assembly (Covenant)|assemblies]], used to tackle specific problems identified by the High Council.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=236-237}} | ||