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Covenant Remnants
The Covenant Remnants is the collective term for the numerous splinter factions that appeared from the chaos of the Covenant Civil War, occuping an area of space named the Remnant Expanse. During the Great Schism, where the Sangheili abandoned the Covenant and with the death of the last Prophet, Truth, the competing Jiralhanae Chieftains and the surviving San 'Shyuum clawed at what they could from the power vacuum.

The Covenant Empire, fragmented, pulled apart from so many greedy self-proclaimed leaders. With fleets, worlds and resources being fought over, the chances of any of the splinter factions mounting an attack on the battered UNSC and the fledgling RSM became smaller and smaller. The mulitple internal wars that had dominated the Remnant factions were the key to the survival of the two other species.

The Covenant Civil War offically lasted for nine years and sixty three days, ending on Janurary 6th 2562. Although, this 'ending' was when the borders of the splinter factions had settled and become in their own right, an individual nation. However, these individual nations still constantly fought against each other with many joining the Neo-Covenant Empire.

History
Since the noses of the Sangheili and Terrans were kept firmly out of the Remnant Expanse, details about the actual history of what occured in the Remnant Expanse is sketchy and tainted with bias information. However, what could be gleaned from the data banks of boarded Remant vessels allows for a view into the maelstrom of the Covenant Civil War and the 'balkanization' of the Covenant Empire.

The Covenant Empire first divided among the Sangheili-held fleets and fleets the Jiralhanae had successfully taken from them. The Jiralhanae managed to control a much larger portion than the Sangheili, who had retreated back to Sanghelios and had evacuated any Sangheili colonies too deep in Covenant territory. Instead of uniting against their common enemies, the Jiralhanae argued and fought over whom would lead them. Each ship and fleet had their own chosen leader who either was already in control or had wrested control from a predecessor.

With loyalities and opinions divided, the Jiralhanae competitive nature led them to vicious battles over singular ships and short, harsh battles over the control of the remaining fleets. Nearly every ideological difference contributed to the anarchy. The Office of Naval Intelligence estimated that over 300 million Jiralhanae and 7 billion Unggoy, Kig-Yar and Yanme'e had perished within the first five years of the nine years of mayhem.

By the time the Covenant Civil War had ended, the Covenant Remnants was unoffically born, hundreds of thousands of small states that once occupied the original territory of the Covenant Empire fighting each other in attempt to regain what they could. It was not only the Jiralhanae Chieftains and Prophets Hierarchs who had claimed territory; the Kig-Yar Alliance, for example, was born in the fires of the Covenant Civil War taking whatever ships they could and fleeing back to Y'Deio System. Despite being considered a lesser race, the Kig-Yar managed to amass a large fortune from selling their privateering service to the highest bidder or from pirating merchant ships.