The Problem of Two Triumvirates

was a religious, political, and ideological conflict that dominated the Covenant for several Ages of Conflict. It had its origins following the 18th Age of Conflict, whereby a several decades long civil war had fractured the united Covenant into several competing factions throughout the former Empire. Political and religious dogma at the time still maintained that the Covenant Empire was indivisible and undivided, with the Hierarchs on High Charity still the undisputed suzerains of the Covenant galaxy; however in actuality they held little to no sway outside their own temporal realm. Eventually, on the more far-flung corners of the Empire, rebellions and continued breakdown of Covenant society turned several prominent Sangheili dominated states away from High Charity and instead crowned their own Hierarchs during the final days of the 7th Age of Doubt. Once word of this coronation of a second triumvirate of Hierarchs reached High Charity it caused a public outrage among all citizens, and in particular the Hierarchs. Such a proclamation of new Hierarchs actively challenged the prevailing worldview. The Hierarchs on High Charity sent several letters to the Heretical Anti-Hierarchs demanding they submit themselves for trial, the request was however, ignored. High Charity embarked on a serious re-armament campaign of its Navy and quickly subdued smaller fiefdoms back into the fold in preparation of conflict with the usurper Covenant faction. After almost five decades of conflict, High Charity, and Covenant orthodoxy, would prevail - the incoming hierarchs named the succeeding age the 8th of Reconciliation.
==History==
===Origins===
===Fracturing of the Covenant===
===Declaration of the Anti-Hierarchs===
===The Conflict===
===Peace===
==The Aftermath==
===Legacy===