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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
{{ | {{Quote|no=two|1=[[Thel 'Vadamee]]|q1=We are strong, Kig-Yar. That is why we sit at the right hand of the Prophets.|2=[[Reth]]|q2=One day that shall pass.|3=Conversation between the Kig-yar Reth and Thel 'Vadamee in [[2535]].}} | ||
Even long before the start of the Great Schism, the [[Prophet of Truth|High Prophet of Truth]] had plans of replacing the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae, as he saw the latter as more willing and unquestioning pawns, while he distrusted the Sangheili, doubting their reliability and loyalty. However, he kept these schemes strictly to himself and waited until the time was right to implement them. After Truth learned the location of the [[Earth|human homeworld]], he secretly amassed [[Truth's fleet|a fleet]] of over five hundred warships, commanded entirely by Jiralhanae, at the command-and-control station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. In September, this station and the fleet [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE|were destroyed]] by a group of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-IIs]] who learned of its purpose shortly before the invasion could commence. This put a temporary halt to Truth's plans.<ref name="oct20">''[[Halo Waypoint]], "Ten Twenty" history article''</ref> | Even long before the start of the Great Schism, the [[Prophet of Truth|High Prophet of Truth]] had plans of replacing the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae, as he saw the latter as more willing and unquestioning pawns, while he distrusted the Sangheili, doubting their reliability and loyalty. However, he kept these schemes strictly to himself and waited until the time was right to implement them. After Truth learned the location of the [[Earth|human homeworld]], he secretly amassed [[Truth's fleet|a fleet]] of over five hundred warships, commanded entirely by Jiralhanae, at the command-and-control station ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]''. In September, this station and the fleet [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE|were destroyed]] by a group of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-IIs]] who learned of its purpose shortly before the invasion could commence. This put a temporary halt to Truth's plans.<ref name="oct20">''[[Halo Waypoint]], "Ten Twenty" history article''</ref> | ||
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===Conflict erupts=== | ===Conflict erupts=== | ||
{{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}} | |||
After the Prophet of Regret was killed by [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] on November 2, the two remaining [[Hierarchs]] reorganized Covenant society. Claiming that the Sangheili could no longer protect the Prophets due to Regret's death, they replaced the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae as the Prophets' [[Covenant Honor Guard|protectors]]. The Sangheili viewed this as a violation of the principle that the Covenant had been founded upon and threatened to resign from the [[High Council]]. | After the Prophet of Regret was killed by [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartan]] [[John-117]] on November 2, the two remaining [[Hierarchs]] reorganized Covenant society. Claiming that the Sangheili could no longer protect the Prophets due to Regret's death, they replaced the Sangheili with the Jiralhanae as the Prophets' [[Covenant Honor Guard|protectors]]. The Sangheili viewed this as a violation of the principle that the Covenant had been founded upon and threatened to resign from the [[High Council]]. | ||
