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checking the full context, I'm not even sure it can be definitively stated that "the admiral" referred to in the text is Xytan - it could be any fleetmaster.
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(checking the full context, I'm not even sure it can be definitively stated that "the admiral" referred to in the text is Xytan - it could be any fleetmaster.)
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{{Quote|The [[Great Schism]] is upon us. The unbreakable Covenant [[Writ of Union]] has been split asunder. This is the end of the Ninth, and final, [[Ages of Reclamation|Age]].|Xytan 'Jar Wattinree, making his declaration to the assembled shipmasters over Saepon'kal.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}}}}
{{Quote|The [[Great Schism]] is upon us. The unbreakable Covenant [[Writ of Union]] has been split asunder. This is the end of the Ninth, and final, [[Ages of Reclamation|Age]].|Xytan 'Jar Wattinree, making his declaration to the assembled shipmasters over Saepon'kal.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}}}}


'''Xytan 'Jar Wattinree''' was a [[Sangheili]] naval officer in the forces of the [[Covenant]] empire. As one of the empire's most capable and prestigious officers, Wattinree rose to the rank of [[Imperial Admiral]] - and was ultimately relegated by the [[Hierarchs]] to command the [[Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose]] in exile at the borders of [[Covenant]] space. He led the [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|Sangheili forces]] during the early stages of the [[Great Schism]] against the Covenant.{{Ref/Novel|Id=GOO27|GoO|Chapter=27}}{{Ref/Anthology|Id=Evo|Evo|The Return}}
'''Xytan 'Jar Wattinree''' was a [[Sangheili]] naval officer in the forces of the [[Covenant]] empire. As one of the empire's most capable and prestigious officers, Wattinree rose to the rank of [[Imperial Admiral]] - and was ultimately relegated by the [[Hierarchs]] to command the [[Combined Fleet of Righteous Purpose]] in exile at the borders of [[Covenant]] space. He led the [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|Sangheili]] forces during the early stages of the [[Great Schism]].{{Ref/Novel|Id=GOO27|GoO|Chapter=27}}


==Biography==
==Biography==
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===Great Schism and death===
===Great Schism and death===
At the outbreak of the [[Great Schism]], Wattinree was among the first Sangheili leaders to [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|rally his people]] against the [[Jiralhanae]], who had [[Changing of the Guard|supplanted]] the Sangheili as the primary caste of the empire.{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Chapter=22}} Wattinree summoned over two hundred Sangheili [[shipmaster]]s to the [[Sangheili colonies|colony world]] of [[Saepon'kal]], personally requesting the presence of thirty such individuals to the oration chamber of his personal [[supercarrier]], ''[[Sublime Transcendence]]''. Here, Xytan detailed his intent to win the civil war by requesting the presence of the Jiralhanae leadership at Saepon'kal under a banner of truce - in reality a ruse to gather the Jiralhanae commanders in one place to be ambushed and killed - putting an early end to the schism and allowing the Sangheili to form a new Covenant in which they would be the sole leaders of the empire. However, while Xytan and his followers no longer followed the leadership of the San'Shyuum, they did differ from the [[Covenant separatists|separatist group]] led by [[Thel 'Vadam]] in that they retained their [[Covenant religion|religious beliefs]] - and thus intended to continue waging the ongoing war against [[human]]ity once the Jiralhanae threat was dealt with.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}} Wattinree's call also involved the reveal of the lies of the [[Hierarch]]s, and the unveiling of the [[Covenant religion]] as built upon a lie.{{Ref/Reuse|Evo}}
At the outbreak of the [[Great Schism]], Wattinree was among the first Sangheili leaders to [[Joyous Exultation Covenant|rally his people]] against the [[Jiralhanae]], who had [[Changing of the Guard|supplanted]] the Sangheili as the primary caste of the empire.{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Chapter=22}} Wattinree summoned over two hundred Sangheili [[shipmaster]]s to the [[Sangheili colonies|colony world]] of [[Saepon'kal]], personally requesting the presence of thirty such individuals to the oration chamber of his personal [[supercarrier]], ''[[Sublime Transcendence]]''. Here, Xytan detailed his intent to win the civil war by requesting the presence of the Jiralhanae leadership at Saepon'kal under a banner of truce - in reality a ruse to gather the Jiralhanae commanders in one place to be ambushed and killed - putting an early end to the schism and allowing the Sangheili to form a new Covenant in which they would be the sole leaders of the empire. However, while Xytan and his followers no longer followed the leadership of the San'Shyuum, they did differ from the [[Covenant separatists|separatist group]] led by [[Thel 'Vadam]] in that they retained their [[Covenant religion|religious beliefs]] - and thus intended to continue waging the ongoing war against [[human]]ity once the Jiralhanae threat was dealt with.{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}}


At the urging of the shipmaster [[Voro 'Mantakree]], Xytan did come to realise the threat posed by the [[Flood outbreak|outbreak]] of the [[Flood]] on [[Installation 05]]. Recognising Voro as a potential rival, he did not have him executed but instead promoted him to [[Fleetmaster]] of the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]], and renamed him "Voro ''Nar'' 'Mantakree" - ordering him to take charge of leading an [[Onyx Conflict|attack on]] the [[shield world]] of [[Onyx]]. This served Wattinree on both political and strategic levels, allowing his forces control of the strategically valuable [[Forerunner]] world while also ridding him of one of his primary potential rivals.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc09}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc11}}{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}}
At the urging of the shipmaster [[Voro 'Mantakree]], Xytan did come to realise the threat posed by the [[Flood outbreak|outbreak]] of the [[Flood]] on [[Installation 05]]. Recognising Voro as a potential rival, he did not have him executed but instead promoted him to [[Fleetmaster]] of the [[Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity]], and renamed him "Voro ''Nar'' 'Mantakree" - ordering him to take charge of leading an [[Onyx Conflict|attack on]] the [[shield world]] of [[Onyx]]. This served Wattinree on both political and strategic levels, allowing his forces control of the strategically valuable [[Forerunner]] world while also ridding him of one of his primary potential rivals.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc09}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc11}}{{Ref/Reuse|GOO27}}