Covenant Splinters

The Covenant Splinters is a term used to describe the multiple small factions that broke away from the Covenant. Many remnants have different religious or political viewpoints, and often greet other species with hostility, as well as each other.
== History ==
With the end of the Creeperion War, the Covenant was given billions of spawn eggs, which would allow them to rebuild their colonies. While many members of the Covenant believed humanity had saved them, others were angry with the Covenant for doing nothing, and even blamed humanity for the conflict. As a result, millions of former Covenant soldiers and even entire colonies broke away from the Covenant Empire, many of which chose to attack the main Covenant and their allies as well, primarily humanity.
== Known Factions ==
=== Active ===
==== Sali 'Nyon's Covenant ====
Sali 'Nyon's Covenant is in fact a breakaway faction of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant, another breakaway faction. Sangheili Zealot Sali 'Nyon believed that he was the true hand of the Forerunners, not Jul 'Mdama. He and several other Sangheili broke away, though refused to side with humanity or the Covenant Empire. 
==== Servants of the Abiding Truth ====
Though extremely powerful and numerous in its forces, the Servants of the Abiding Truth is more of a terrorist faction than an actual Covenant. They follow many pre-Covenant beliefs, their practices and religion predating the Sangheili-San'Shyuum War itself. As a result, they consider many of the Covenant's weapons, which were reverse-engineered from Forerunner technology, to be blasphemous.
==== Keepers of the One Freedom ====
The Keepers of the One Freedom is a Jiralhanae-led faction that retains a majority of the Covenant's beliefs, including the Great Journey. The only reason they left the Covenant was because their welfare was threatened by the war. 
==== Lydus' Master Pack ====
After the war, multiple Jiralhanae packs were stranded on a former Covenant military colony. They came under the leadership of a Chieftain named Lydus, who convinced them that the Covenant had abandoned them to die at the hands of the soulless Creeperions. They managed to leave the planet after a Covenant ship arrived to re-colonize the environment.
==== The Banished ====
Probably one of the most powerful breakaway factions, the Banished broke away in the final years of the war, under the command of a former Jiralhanae Stalker named Atriox. At the end of the war, they began to unveil themselves and raided multiple Covenant, Terran, and Union military holdouts. It is unknown what the Banished intend on doing with their armies of mercenaries and modified technology, but the Union Vice President assumed that Atriox had plans for galactic domination. 
=== Dissolved ===
==== Jul 'Mdama's Covenant ====
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