| rdfs:comment | - The Covenant Empire is both a guild, and a religious pact between many cursed, undead, ghost, mutant, and just plain old feared pirates along the seven seas. It is small, but soon it will grow.
- The Covenant Empire, also referred to as The Covenant, was a theocratic hegemony made up of multiple alien species that maintained control over a large portion of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way galaxy. The Covenant was a political, military, and religious affiliation, originally a mutual alliance between the San'Shyuum and Sangheili following a brutal conflict between the two warring races. Its expansion to include at least six other races united in the worship of the Forerunners and the Halo Array soon began after the original formation.
- The Covenant, also known as the Covenant Empire, are a religious alien empire who are the main antagonists of the Halo series. This theocratic military alliance of multiple alien races is obsessed with activating the titular "Halo" space stations, believing that they will send them on a "Great Journey" into godhood, when in reality they were intended to be a last-resort defense against The Flood and would destroy all life in the galaxy if successfully used. They worship the ancient "Forerunner" race, which created the Halos, but are oblivious to the true purposes of their creations even when Forerunner robots such as 343 Guilty Spark are still around who would gladly inform them. They are at war with humanity because humans are actually the descendants of the Forerunners, and since the Cov
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| abstract | - The Covenant Empire is both a guild, and a religious pact between many cursed, undead, ghost, mutant, and just plain old feared pirates along the seven seas. It is small, but soon it will grow.
- The Covenant Empire, also referred to as The Covenant, was a theocratic hegemony made up of multiple alien species that maintained control over a large portion of the Orion Arm in the Milky Way galaxy. The Covenant was a political, military, and religious affiliation, originally a mutual alliance between the San'Shyuum and Sangheili following a brutal conflict between the two warring races. Its expansion to include at least six other races united in the worship of the Forerunners and the Halo Array soon began after the original formation. The Covenant waged a genocidal campaign against humanity, until they were formally defeated due to many factors - the most crucial of which was an internal conflict that broke the Covenant in two, ejecting the entire Sangheili species. Whilst the Covenant ended either during the Flood infestation of High Charity or during the Battle of Installation 00, splinter groups of the former Covenant continue its efforts even after the conclusion of the war. Some of the ejected Sangheili sought to recreate the Covenant entirely under Sangheili rule, free of the Hierarch's influence. A splinter faction of Sangheili known as Jul 'Mdama's Covenant was created by Jul 'Mdama; this terrorist group is deemed hostile to Humanity, breaking the truce formed at the end of the initial war with the Sangheili. Other hostile factions that utilize assets from the former Covenant include; Vata 'Gajat's faction, Merg Vol's faction and The Banished, which existed prior to the Great Schism.
- The Covenant, also known as the Covenant Empire, are a religious alien empire who are the main antagonists of the Halo series. This theocratic military alliance of multiple alien races is obsessed with activating the titular "Halo" space stations, believing that they will send them on a "Great Journey" into godhood, when in reality they were intended to be a last-resort defense against The Flood and would destroy all life in the galaxy if successfully used. They worship the ancient "Forerunner" race, which created the Halos, but are oblivious to the true purposes of their creations even when Forerunner robots such as 343 Guilty Spark are still around who would gladly inform them. They are at war with humanity because humans are actually the descendants of the Forerunners, and since the Covenant religion states that all the Forerunners went on the Great Journey and ascended to a higher plane of existence, this means that their prophecy is wrong and the leaders of the Covenant want to exterminate humanity so the other Covenant will never find out about this and cause the organization to fall apart. One major practice of the Covenant is the orbital bombardment of enemy planets by their larger spaceships, known as "Glassing", which has an effect similar to a nuclear holocaust. This most notably happened to the planet Reach, which fell shortly before the first Halo game and was shown in the prequel game Halo: Reach.
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