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During their early history, Kig-yar society was divided into clans that sailed across [[Eayn]]'s seas as pirates, raiding the encampments and settlements of rival clans. Eventually, the clans united, and the Kig-yar species worked together in developing space-travel technology. Shortly afterward, they established colonies on many small asteroids around [[Chu'ot]]. Some Kig-yar continued their ancient ways of life and became [[Space Piracy|pirates]] once more, preying upon merchant starships. These groups of pirates were the Kig-yar's only effective response to the overwhelming [[Covenant Military|Covenant military]] juggernaut when they arrived in their home-system in [[1342]].  

The war between the Covenant and Kig-yar forces culminated in sieges of redoubts on the asteroids surrounding their world. Eventually, in order to survive, they accepted Letters of Marque: commissions from the [[Ministry of Tranquility]] to engage in the services of the Covenant, though often this was merely used as an excuse to continue their plundering lifestyle. The Kig-yar would spend much of their time preying on the ships of the Covenant's enemies, such as [[Humanity]].

Kig-yar are around the same level as the [[Unggoy]] in the Covenant hierarchy, although the Kig-yar despise the Unggoy and believe themselves to be superior. This reached a boiling point in [[2462]], when some Kig-yar in High Charity attempted to poison recreational narcotics the Unggoy enjoyed, which would have left the Unggoy sterile, in retaliation for the Unggoy encroaching on their habitats and displacing Kig-yar nests. Although a [[Prophet of Truth|junior staffer]] in the [[Ministry of Concert]] found evidence of this, the [[High Council]] failed to properly investigate the incident, culminating in the [[Unggoy Rebellion]].

A Kig-yar [[Missionary Ship]], the [[''Minor Transgression'']], was the first Covenant vessel to make contact with Humanity. The ship raided a commercial freighter leaving the planet [[Harvest]], and the events that followed would later lead to full-scale military action on the part of [[Humanity]] and the [[Covenant]].

 

Following the outbreak of the [[Human-Covenant War]], a group of Kig-yar under [[Reth]] made contact with [[the Rubble]], a community of human survivors of the [[glassing]] of [[Madrigal]]. The Kig-yar agreed to trade Covenant weaponry in exchange for [[Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine|slipspace drives]]. Although the humans believed the Kig-yar were defying Covenant authority, they were in fact secretly proceeding with the blessing of the [[Prophet of Truth|High Prophet of Truth]] to use the weapons to map [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] space and learn the location of [[Earth]]. The plan fell apart during due to the [[Prophet of Regret|High Prophet of Regret]] sending [[Sangheili]] warriors to investigate the weapons, believing the Kig-yar to be heretics.

 

During the [[Great Schism]], the Kig-yar sided with the Loyalists against the [[Covenant Separatist]]s.