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| {{Status|Canon}}
| | =Ancestor ships= |
| {{Series/Species/Sangheili}}
| | The [[Ancestors]] produced several different ship classes of varying sizes |
| Many countless '''[[world]]s''' would fall under the control of the [[Covenant]] and [[Covenant remnants|its various successor factions]].{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22pg232|Enc22|Page=232}}
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| | | File:H4-Terminal-Human-ShipDesigns.jpg|Turnarounds of various Ancestor ships. |
| ==History==
| | File:H4-Terminal-Forthencho-Fleet.jpg|Ancestor ships in use. |
| ===Pre-Great Purification===
| | </gallery> |
| {{Main|Human-San'Shyuum alliance}}
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| Prior to the [[Great Purification]], an ancient [[San'Shyuum]] civilization participated in the [[Human-Forerunner wars]]. Following their defeat, the San'Shyuum were quarantined to the [[Qom Yaekesh system]]. Various Forerunner facilities were built on and around worlds in the system.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Cryptum|Page=144}}{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=190-191}} During the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], the San'Shyuum [[Battle of Janjur Qom|rose up]] in the system on their homeworld of [[Janjur Qom]].
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| The [[Forerunners]] built numerous facilities on various other Covenant worlds including the [[Guardian Custode]] support areas on Sanghelios,{{Ref/Level|H5G|[[Alliance]]}} a portal to [[Sarcophagus]] from Hesduros,{{Ref/Novel|Halo: The Thursday War|Page=398-399}} and a facility in the Y'Deio system.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc192|Enc22|Page=192}} They also maintained facilities on other worlds that they Covenant would subsume such as Zhoist.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Silent Storm|Chapter=26}} | |
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| [[File:HM-Ulgethon.png|thumb|left|200px|The Sangheili colony of Ulgethon was a major battlefield during the War of Beginnings.]]
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| ===The Former Age===
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| {{Main|The Former Age}}
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| Following the Great Purification, an unknown complication occurred and the [[Forerunner starship]] ''Anodyne Spirit'' crashed onto the surface of Janjur Qom.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/mendicant-bias '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Mendicant Bias'']</ref>{{Ref/Book|[[Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition)]]|Page=27}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P384&385|Enc22|Page=384-385}} This would invariably lead to the [[War of Wills]], where two factions would fight over control of the ship.
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| Several hundred years before the Covenant,{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg198}} the Sangheili colonized dozens of worlds,{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22pg234|Enc22|Page=234}} the 76th of which was [[Creck]].{{Ref/Reuse|HBC1}} [[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/Book|[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]|Page=128}} These collective worlds were bound by blood and belief over any centralized authority.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22pg198|Enc22|Page=198-199}}.
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| It was on one such colony world, [[Ulgethon]], that the Sangheili first encountered the San'Shyuum thus commencing the [[War of Beginnings]].<ref>''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]'', [[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|Terminal 5]]</ref> Fighting in the war would take place on other Sangheili colonies{{Ref/Reuse|HBC1}} [[Raid at Codisfold|such as]] [[Codisfold]]{{Ref/Book|Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Page=258}} and even [[Battle of Sanghelios|Sanghelios itself]].
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| ===Covenant era===
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| Following the War of Beginnings, Sanghelios would be the capital of the Covenant until ''High Charity'' was completed.{{Ref/Book|Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Page=229}} The remaining Sangheili colonies became some of the primary worlds for the Covenant and [[Ages of Conversion|with each species added to the alliance]], so too were their worlds.{{Ref/Reuse|coviewaypoint}} Various physical materials from each of the incorporated species' homeworlds were used in the [[Skin of the First Worlds]] on ''[[High Charity]]''.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=227}}
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| *the rending/refuge
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| The Covenant as an organization would go on to settle new worlds and subsume certain Forerunner installations.{{Ref/Site|Id=coviewaypoint|D=01|M=6|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/factions/covenant|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Universe - Covenant}} An example of both of these would be [[Strilun IV]].{{Ref/Site|Id=BWU|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13160|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Bungie Weekly Update 01/11/08|Quote=It’s on an alien world discovered and controlled by the Covenant. It’s location is secret, but it is in this spiral arm of the Galaxy. Close to human occupied space. If you look through the glass floors of the Covenant structures, you’ll see Forerunner artifacts buried beneath the ice.|D=30|M=01|Y=2021}} In at least one case, the Covenant wiped out an [[List of unidentified species#Karava|unidentified civilisation]] on the planet [[Karava]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22p289|Enc22|Page=289}} and settled it afterward.{{Ref/Comic|Id=HE5|HE|Issue=5}}
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| [[File:HM PROMETHEUS.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Operation: PROMETHEUS on K7-49.]]
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| ===War of Annihilation===
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| {{Main|Human-Covenant War}}
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| Early in the War of Annihilation, the [[UNSC]] [[Operation: SILENT STORM|counterattacked]] the invading Covenant and [[Attack on Zhoist|struck]] at [[Zhoist]]. UNSC [[Nuclear weapon]]s destroyed two out of the [[Ten Cities of Edification]].{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Silent Storm|Epilogue}}
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| *Madrigal/The Rubble
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| The UNSC would make further attempts to strike Covenant controlled worlds. In 2537, [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III]] [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] was [[Operation: PROMETHEUS|deployed]] to asteroid [[K7-49]] in order to disrupt Covenant operations there. While they succeeded, 300 SPARTAN-IIIs were killed in the process.{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Page=83-86}} A similar action would be repeated at [[Pegasi Delta]] in [[2545]] with [[Operation: TORPEDO]]. While also a victory, it would cost the lives of 298 SPARTAN-IIIs of [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Beta Company]].{{Ref/Novel|GoO|Page=16-27}}
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| At some point during the war, [[Linda-058]] was [[Operation: HORN AND HIDE|deployed]] to the world of Odenli'sh to assassinate a San'Shyuum missonary.{{Ref/Site|Id=Waypoint|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/linda-058|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Linda-058|D=30|M=10|Y=2021}}
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| Near the end of the war, and during the [[Great Schism]], a [[NOVA bomb]] was detonated at Joyous Exultation on accident. A quarter of the world was vaporised and its moon was shattered.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Ghosts of Onyx|Page=244-245}}
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| ===Post-war===
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| {{Main|Sangheili-Jiralhanae war|Blooding Years}}
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| [[File:Hroa4 raid.png|thumb|left|250px|The Banished [[Raid of Kostroda|raiding]] [[Kostroda]].{{Ref/Comic|Id=roaissue4|[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]|Issue=[[Halo: Rise of Atriox Issue 4|4]]}}]]
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| 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.{{Ref/Novel|Novel=Halo: Envoy}}
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| After the dissolution of the Covenant and the exodus of the local San'Shyuum governors,{{Ref/Reuse|warfleet 54}} many of the Covenant's colonies fell under the control of the hegemony's various [[Covenant remnants|splinter factions]], while others were claimed by unaffiliated members of the Covenant client species, especially the Sangheili or Kig-Yar. Some worlds were contested between species and governments,{{Ref/Reuse|HE5}} while [[Joint Occupation Zone]]s were established between the [[Unified Earth Government]] and the [[Swords of Sanghelios]] to allow colonies to be administrated by multiple species.<ref>'''[[Halo: Fractures]]''', ''"[[Oasis]]"''</ref>
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| The Sangheili colonies fell into internecine conflict while the Kig-Yar interplanetary colonies and Balaho remained stable.<ref>''[[Eleventh Hour reports]]'' - Report 2</ref> Sangheili colonies also had to contend with raids and other fighting with the [[Jiralhanae]].{{Ref/Site|Id=Catalog|D=11|M=9|Y=2020|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/catalog-interaction/4c3e1c6f-6519-4ee0-83a4-4bac13bf07a3/posts?page=14|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Catalog Interaction - Page 14}}
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| ====Created conflict====
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| {{Main|Created conflict}}
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| [[File:HINF Concept GuardianRising.jpg|250px|right|thumb|A Guardian Custode over Sanghelios.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=195}}]]
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| With the onset of [[The Reclamation]] in 2558, various Covenant worlds came to be affected by the Created. Sanghelios was directly hit by [[Guardian Custode]]s{{Ref/Novel|BadB|Chapter=1}} and despite proximity, Suban suffered minimal damage.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc22-230|Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Page=230}} The immediate loss of communications and disruption of logistics would inhibit previously ongoing independence movements on [[Qikost]].{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=231}}
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| Created forces would end up occupying [[Malurok]], halting the civil conflict that was ongoing there. This prompted a detente among the previous warring parties.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=233}}
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| [[Balaho]] sided with the Created, meaning no Guardian was sent to the world.{{Ref/Novel|Id=badbchapt3-4|Halo: Bad Blood|Chapter=3-4}} Old factories were reactivated and supplies from the Created were shipped to the planet.{{Ref/Site|Id=CFDF|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-driving-force|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Canon Fodder - Driving Force}} A [[Battle of Balaho|skirmish]] would breakout on the planet between various forces of the UEG and Unggoy on the planet.{{Ref/Reuse|badbchapt3-4}}
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| Doisac was hit quite hard, [[Razing of Oth Sonin|being completely destroyed]] by a fleet of Guardians on the direct orders of Cortana.{{Ref/Quest|Id=rep|HI|Reckoning|[[Repository (Halo Infinite level)|Repository]]}} The exploding debris of the planet would obliterate the moon of [[Soirapt]], and heavily damaged the moons of [[Teash]] and [[Warial]]. A large amount of survivors from Teash managed to resettle on the colonies of [[Gathved]], [[Ordun Dal]], and [[Savadok]].{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=446-447}}
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| ====Distant future====
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| With the end of the Created conflict and the rise of the [[Banished]], many Sangheili worlds waited to get direction from Sanghelios.{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg198}} However, the debilitated security situation in Urs saw several factions make claims on the moon of Suban.{{Ref/Reuse|enc22-230}}
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| ==Government and politics==
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| ===Covenant as a whole===
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| Collectively, the non-cradle worlds of the Covenant were referred to as "tithe worlds".{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg232}}{{Ref/Reuse|enc22pg234}} Worlds employed with military planning and production were known as "fortress worlds."{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=189}}
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| The [[High Council]] was responsible for the administration of these interstellar territories, assigning tithes and levies, and allocating resources across the numerous member worlds.<ref>''Halo: Warfleet'', p. 52</ref> San'Shyuum governors handled administrative duties on a local scale; most of them joined the rest of the species on their mass exodus during the Great Schism.<ref name="warfleet 54">''Halo: Warfleet'', p. 54</ref>
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| ===Sangheili===
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| Base worlds established by the [[Sangheili]] were considered the Covenant's primary worlds.<ref name="wp cov">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/factions/covenant '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Covenant'']</ref> Smaller Sangheili 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=Universe - Sangheili}}
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| *keeps/city state roles
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| ===Jiralhanae===
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| Since the incorporation of the Jiralhanae, the [[San'Shyuum]] settled them on resource-rich worlds to guard them from anyone seeking to claim them for themselves, although the Jiralhanae lacked the ability to mine the resources themselves.<ref name="esc1">'''[[Halo: Escalation]]''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 1|Issue #1]]''</ref>
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| ===Other species===
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| Some species, such as the [[Kig-Yar]] and [[Lekgolo]], had created colonies of their own before their incorporation into the Covenant. These worlds would be absorbed into the empire after the species joined the Covenant. Covenant space would grow to include new worlds as the hegemony expanded throughout the spiral arm, and even [[Forerunner]] installations were settled by the Covenant. Despite the massive size of the empire, the Covenant would generally leave a newly discovered world untouched, unless the world held religious or practical significance.
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| ==Scale==
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| ===Sangheili===
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| Around the time of the War of Beginnings, there were Sangheili 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)}}
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| ==List of known worlds==
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| ===Post-Great Purification===
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| {| class="wikitable sortable"
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| ! Name !! System !! Role !! Status !! Source
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Sangheili]]'''
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| |[[Hesduros]] || [[Aspero system]] || War colony || ||
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| |[[Creck]] || [[Baelion system]] || || ||
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| |[[Rahnelo]] || [[Bosthra system]] || Frontier world || ||
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| |[[Duraan]] || [[Duraan's red dwarf star]] || || ||
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| |[[Saepon'kal]] || [[Salia system]] || Fortress world || Destroyed by a [[NOVA bomb]]; ||
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| |[[Glyke]] || [[Keskus system]] || Civilian world || [[Operation: SUNSPEAR|Destroyed]] in the wake of the [[Human-Covenant War]] by [[Gray Team]]; ||
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| |[[Sanghelios]] || [[Urs system]] || Sangheili cradle world || ||
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| |[[Qikost]] || [[Urs system]] || || ||
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| |[[Suban]] || [[Urs system]] || || ||
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| |[[The Refuge]] || [[Ussan system]] || ||Under [[Ussans|Ussan]] control ||
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| |[[Feldokra]] || [[Zethro'Kal system]] ||Fortress world || ||
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| |[[Aru'spaw]] || || || ||
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| |[[Bhedalon]] || ||Fortress World || devastated during the [[Great Schism]] ||{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Legacy of Onyx|Chapter=8}}
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| |[[Codisfold]] || || || Ringed world and battleground during War of Beginnings ||
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| |[[Eshin]] || || || ||
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| |[[Eudolaan]] || || || ||
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| |[[Karava]] || || ||Independent colony ||
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| |[[Khael'mothka]] || || || ||
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| |[[Anvarl]] || || ||Attacked, unknown status ||
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| |[[Ulgethon]] || || ||Destroyed during the [[War of Beginnings]] ||
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| |[[Whispering Trees]] || || ||Independent colony ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Kig-Yar]]'''
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| |[[Eayn]]
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| |[[Y'Deio system]]
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| |Kig-Yar homeworld
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| |[[Dal'koth]]
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| |[[Y'Deio system]]
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| |[[T'vao]] || [[Y'Deio system]] || [[T'vaoan]] asteroid homeworld || ||
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| |[[Valyanop]] || || || ||
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| |[[Muloqt]] || || || ||
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| |[[Kaelarot]] || || || ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Jiralhanae]]'''
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| |[[Doisac]] || [[Oth Sonin system]] || Jiralhanae homeworld || [[Razing of Oth Sonin|Destroyed]] by the [[Created]] ||
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| |[[Teash]] || [[Oth Sonin system]] || || ||
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| |[[Warial]] || [[Oth Sonin system]] || || ||
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| |[[Gathved]] || || || ||
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| |[[Ordun Dal]] || || || ||
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| |[[Savadok]] || || || ||
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| |[[Odenli'sh]] || || || ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Yanme'e]]'''
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| |[[Palamok]] || [[Napret system]] || Yanme'e homeworld || ||
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| |[[Ka'amoti]] || [[Napret system]] || || ||
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| |[[Oquiu]] || [[Napret system]] || || ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Lekgolo]]'''
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| |[[Rantu]] || [[Svir system]] || || ||
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| |[[Rentus]] || [[Svir system]] || || ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[Unggoy]]'''
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| |[[Balaho]] || [[Tala system]] || || ||
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| |[[Buwan]] || [[Tala system]] || || ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''[[San'Shyuum]]'''
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| |[[Janjur Qom]] || [[Qom Yaekesh system]] || [[San'Shyuum]] cradle world || Purportedly destroyed by stellar collapse ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''Jointly settled'''
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| |[[Carrow|Rak]] || [[Holdhorne system]] || Jointly settled world with Humans || ||
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| |[[Sarcophagus]] || [[Zeta Doradus system]] || ||Under joint UEG and Swords of Sanghelios control ||
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| |[[Malurok]] || [[Greaw-Jomel system]] || War colony; jointly settled with [[Yanme'e]] || Uneasy peace ||
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| |colspan="5"; align="center"|'''Other'''
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| |[[Pegasi Delta]] || [[51 Pegasi system]] || Home to a starship fuel refinery and staging area || ||
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| |[[Zhoist]] || [[Buta system]] || Relic World || ||
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| |[[Ealen IV]] || [[Ealen system]] || || ||
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| |[[Kostroda]] || [[Mis'Fah system]] || [[Assembly Forges|Assembly Forge]] || ||
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| |[[Sephune III]] || [[Sephune System]] || || ||
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| |[[Unidentified moon (Headhunters)|Unidentified moon]] || || || ||
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| |[[K7-49]] || || || ||
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| |[[Ansket IV]] || [[Ansket system]] || || ||
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| |[[Okal'supen]] || || Fortress world || ||
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| |[[Otraak]] || || || ||
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| |[[Song of Victory]] || || || ||
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| |[[Strilun IV]] || [[Strilun system]] || || ||
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| |[[Tuluk'katho]] || || || ||
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| |[[Ulumari]] || || || ||
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Ref/Sources}}
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| [[Category:Covenant worlds]]
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| [[Category:Sangheili culture]]
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| -------------- | | -------------- |
| I love bees | | =I love bees= |
| ==character locations== | | ==character locations== |
| *[[Jersey Morelli]] and [[Janissary James]] - New Jersey | | *[[Jersey Morelli]] and [[Janissary James]] - New Jersey |
