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As a [[Technological Achievement Tiers|Tier 2]] species, the '''[[Sangheili]] colonized''' and surveyed a range of [[planet]]s in the centuries before and after the formation of the [[Covenant]]. Developed worlds are governed by hundreds of [[clan]]s and their [[keep]]s, each competing for power and influence using both politics and military force. Smaller colonies are often governed by only a handful of keeps, which control the entirety of the world's resources.{{Ref/Site|Id=universe|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/sangheili|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Universe - Sangheili}}
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As a [[Technological Achievement Tiers|Tier 2]] species, the '''[[Sangheili]] colonized''' and surveyed a range of [[planet]]s in the centuries before and after the formation of the [[Covenant]]. Developed worlds are governed by hundreds of [[clan]]s and their [[keep]]s, each competing for power and influence using both politics and military force. Smaller colonies are often governed by only a handful of keeps, which control the entirety of the world's resources.{{Ref/Site|Id=universe|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/sangheili|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Sangheili}}


==History==
==History==
After achieving space flight, the Sangheili began traveling 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{{Ref/Novel|Id=HBC1|Novel=Halo: Broken Circle|Chapter=1}} and mines on Suban.<ref>''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]'', p. 128</ref> Other worlds were soon colonized. The Sangheili spread to the stars searching for both resources that could be used to build and power spaceships, and planets which contained [[Forerunner]] relics to worship. By the time of the [[San'Shyuum-Sangheili War]], there were a total of seventy-six Sangheili colonies.{{Ref/Reuse|HBC1}} It was on one such world, [[Ulgethon]], that the Sangheili first encountered the San'Shyuum.<ref>''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]'', [[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal 5]]</ref>
===The Former Age===
[[File:HM WarOfBeginnings.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Sangheili colony of Ulgethon was a major battlefield during the War of Beginnings.]]
After achieving space flight, the Sangheili began traveling 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{{Ref/Novel|Id=HBC1|HBC|Chapter=1}} and mines on Suban.{{Ref/Book|EVG|Page=128}} Other worlds were soon colonized. The Sangheili spread to the stars searching for both resources that could be used to build and power spaceships, and planets which contained [[Forerunner]] relics to worship.{{Ref/Reuse|HBC1}}The [[Age of Seven Worlds]] was a period of Sangheili history in this era, presumably at the time when they had [[seven]] planets colonised.{{Ref/Novel|Id=OC6|HOut|Chapter=6}}


Following the end of the war and the formation of the Covenant, Sangheili colonies became anchor points for Covenant. While ''[[High Charity]]'' was the political center of the alliance, Sanghelios and its colonies became the place where warriors would be recruited for the [[Covenant military]]. After Sanghelios, the important worlds were Sangheili fortress worlds, examples of which include [[Joyous Exultation|Saepon'kal]] and [[Malurok]].{{Ref/Site|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/factions/covenant|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Universe - Covenant}}
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.{{Ref/Game|H2A|Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal #5}}


Following the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Sangheili, lacking a centralized government, were thrown into political turmoil, ultimately resulting in [[Blooding Years|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]].{{Ref/Site|Id=Catalog|URL=https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969315_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969315|SiteName=Halo Waypoint|PageName=Catalog Interaction - Page 14}} 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.<ref>''[[Eleventh Hour reports]]'' - Report 2</ref>
===Covenant era===
Following the end of the war and the formation of the Covenant, Sangheili colonies became anchor points for the Covenant. While ''[[High Charity]]'' was the political center of the alliance, Sanghelios and its colonies became the place where warriors would be recruited for the [[Covenant military]]. After Sanghelios, the important worlds were Sangheili fortress worlds, examples of which include [[Joyous Exultation|Saepon'kal]] and [[Malurok]].{{Ref/Site|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/factions/covenant|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Covenant}}
 
===Post-war===
Following the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the Sangheili, lacking a centralized government, were thrown into political turmoil, ultimately resulting in [[Blooding Years|civil war]]. While some colonies, like [[Hesduros]],{{Ref/Site|Id=Catalog|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969315_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969315|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Catalog Interaction - Page 14}} would join the [[Covenant remnants]], most colonies like [[Duraan]] and [[Rahnelo]] allied with the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] under [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]], fighting off the other remnant groups and the [[Jiralhanae]].{{Ref/Reuse|Catalog}} 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.<ref>''[[Eleventh Hour reports]]'' - Report 2</ref>


Just days after [[Treaty of 2552|a tentative peace treaty]] was formed between the [[Fleet of Retribution|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. When Gray Team resurfaced in [[2558]], [[Thel 'Vadam]] agreed to pardon the three Spartans for the action instead of trying them as [[war criminal]]s for genocide as part of a deal [[ONI]] offered to have Gray Team join an interspecies strike force operating in the [[Joint Occupation Zone]]s.{{Ref/Novel|Novel=Halo: Envoy}}
Just days after [[Treaty of 2552|a tentative peace treaty]] was formed between the [[Fleet of Retribution|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. When Gray Team resurfaced in [[2558]], [[Thel 'Vadam]] agreed to pardon the three Spartans for the action instead of trying them as [[war criminal]]s for genocide as part of a deal [[ONI]] offered to have Gray Team join an interspecies strike force operating in the [[Joint Occupation Zone]]s.{{Ref/Novel|Novel=Halo: Envoy}}
==Scale==
Around the time of the War of Beginnings, there were 76 colonies.{{Ref/Reuse|HBC1}} By the time of the [[Post-Covenant War conflicts]], there was a primary "complex" of Sangheili worlds.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Hunters in the Dark|Page=87 (Google Play edition)}}


==List of known colonies==
==List of known colonies==
*[[Aspero system]]
**[[Hesduros]] - Remote world with dense atmosphere; war colony
*[[Baelion system]]
*[[Baelion system]]
**[[Creck]] - Unknown status
**[[Creck]] - Methane world
*[[Bosthra system]]
**[[Rahnelo]] - Pristine looking world; frontier colony
*[[Duraan's red dwarf star]]
*[[Duraan's red dwarf star]]
**[[Duraan]] - Under [[Swords of Sanghelios]] control
**[[Duraan]] - Arid world
*[[Aspero system]]
**[[Hesduros]] - Formerly under the control of [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant]]
*[[Greaw-Jomel system]]
*[[Greaw-Jomel system]]
**[[Malurok]] - Led by independent kaidons and Yanme'e queens
**[[Malurok]] - Harsh world with barren atolls and jointly settled with [[Yanme'e]]; fortress world and war colony
*[[Holdhorne system]]
**[[Carrow|Rak]] - Jointly settled world with Humans
*[[Salia system]]
**[[Saepon'kal]] - Destroyed by a [[NOVA bomb]]; fortress world
*[[Keskus system]]
**[[Glyke]] - [[Operation: SUNSPEAR|Destroyed]] in the wake of the [[Human-Covenant War]] by [[Gray Team]]; civilian world
*[[Urs system]]
*[[Urs system]]
**[[Qikost]]  - Under [[Swords of Sanghelios]] control
**[[Qikost]]  - Moon of [[Sanghelios]]
**[[Suban]] - Under [[Swords of Sanghelios]] control
**[[Suban]] - Moon of Sanghelios
*[[Salia system]]
**[[Joyous Exultation|Saepon'kal]] - Destroyed by a [[NOVA bomb]]
*[[Ussan system]]
*[[Ussan system]]
**[[The Refuge]] - Under [[Ussans|Ussan]] control
**[[The Refuge]] - Under [[Ussans|Ussan]] control
*[[Zeta Doradus system]]
*[[Zeta Doradus system]]
**[[Sarcophagus]] - Under joint UEG and Swords of Sanghelios control
**[[Sarcophagus]] - Under joint UEG and Swords of Sanghelios control
*[[Zethro'Kal system]]
**[[Feldokra]] - Ocean-[[moon]]; fortress world
*[[Emauzs system]]
**[[Om'a'Varo]]
*Unknown system
*Unknown system
**[[Anvarl]] - Attacked, unknown status
**[[Aru'spaw]]
**[[Bhedalon]] - A fortress world, devastated during the [[Great Schism]]
**[[Bhedalon]] - A fortress world, devastated during the [[Great Schism]]
**[[Glyke]] - [[Operation: SUNSPEAR|Destroyed]] in the wake of the [[Human-Covenant War]] by [[Gray Team]]
**[[Codisfold]] - Ringed world and battleground during War of Beginnings
**[[Eshin]]
**[[Eudolaan]]
**[[Karava]] - Independent colony
**[[Karava]] - Independent colony
**[[Khael'mothka]] - Under [[Swords of Sanghelios]] control
**[[Khael'mothka]] - Located outside the complex of primary Sangheili worlds
**[[Planet of Blue and Red]] - Attacked, unknown status
**[[Okal'supen]]
**[[Rahnelo]] - Under [[Swords of Sanghelios]] control
**[[Carrow|Rak]] - Independent colony
**[[Ulgethon]] - Destroyed during the [[War of Beginnings]]
**[[Ulgethon]] - Destroyed during the [[War of Beginnings]]
**[[Whispering Trees]] - Independent colony
**[[Whispering Trees]] - Independent colony

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As a Tier 2 species, the Sangheili colonized and surveyed a range of planets in the centuries before and after the formation of the Covenant. Developed worlds are governed by hundreds of clans and their keeps, each competing for power and influence using both politics and military force. Smaller colonies are often governed by only a handful of keeps, which control the entirety of the world's resources.[1]

History[edit]

The Former Age[edit]

Artwork of the War of Beginnings
The Sangheili colony of Ulgethon was a major battlefield during the War of Beginnings.

After achieving space flight, the Sangheili began traveling 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[2] and mines on Suban.[3] Other worlds were soon colonized. The Sangheili spread to the stars searching for both resources that could be used to build and power spaceships, and planets which contained Forerunner relics to worship.[2]The Age of Seven Worlds was a period of Sangheili history in this era, presumably at the time when they had seven planets colonised.[4]

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.[5]

Covenant era[edit]

Following the end of the war and the formation of the Covenant, Sangheili colonies became anchor points for the Covenant. While High Charity was the political center of the alliance, Sanghelios and its colonies became the place where warriors would be recruited for the Covenant military. After Sanghelios, the important worlds were Sangheili fortress worlds, examples of which include Saepon'kal and Malurok.[6]

Post-war[edit]

Following the end of the Human-Covenant War, the Sangheili, lacking a centralized government, were thrown into political turmoil, ultimately resulting in civil war. While some colonies, like Hesduros,[7] would join the Covenant remnants, most colonies like Duraan and Rahnelo allied with the Swords of Sanghelios under Arbiter Thel 'Vadam, fighting off the other remnant groups and the Jiralhanae.[7] 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.[8]

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. When Gray Team resurfaced in 2558, Thel 'Vadam agreed to pardon the three Spartans for the action instead of trying them as war criminals for genocide as part of a deal ONI offered to have Gray Team join an interspecies strike force operating in the Joint Occupation Zones.[9]

Scale[edit]

Around the time of the War of Beginnings, there were 76 colonies.[2] By the time of the Post-Covenant War conflicts, there was a primary "complex" of Sangheili worlds.[10]

List of known colonies[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Halo Waypoint, Sangheili (Retrieved on Jun 1, 2020) [archive]
  2. ^ a b c Halo: Broken Circle, chapter 1
  3. ^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 128
  4. ^ Halo: Outcasts, chapter 6
  5. ^ Halo 2: Anniversary, Terminal #5
  6. ^ Halo Waypoint, Covenant (Retrieved on Jun 1, 2020) [archive]
  7. ^ a b Halo Waypoint, Catalog Interaction - Page 14 (Retrieved on Jun 1, 2020) [archive]
  8. ^ Eleventh Hour reports - Report 2
  9. ^ Halo: Envoy
  10. ^ Halo: Hunters in the Dark, page 87 (Google Play edition)
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