User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Resource Wars

The Resource Wars, also known Rebuilding Era, is a period of time between 2553-2604; named so after the wars between the numerous Jiralhanae factions and also for the rebuilding of the UNSC and Sangheili territories. The Resource Wars was a series of numerous wars, both large and small between rival Remnant factions over planets, moons and systems with enough minerals, materials, gasses, liquids and fertile lands for be harvested, mined or collected. Although the Covenant had vast resources at hand to continue their empire and finance their war effort but after it fragmented into the thousands of Covenant Remnant factions, these resources heavily relied upon and were constantly fought over.

Background - Covenant Civil War
After the Great Schism, where the Sangheili left the Covenant Empire and the deaths of the High Prophet of Truth and Tartarus, the Alpha Chieftain of the Jiralhanae, the Covenant Loyalists were left with a huge power vacuum with no immediate successor. Instead the Covenant were left with thousands, if not tens of thousands of Jiralhanae Chieftains, who lay claim to the title of Alpha Chieftain. Obviously, not all could become the Alpha and soon individual duels broke out amongst Chieftains which quickly escalated into fully fledged wars between a Chieftain and his pack against a rival Chieftain and his pack. The once proud and mighty Covenant Empire fragmentated into thousands of rival states, all fighting for politcal and territorial power.

The San'Shyuum or Prophets as they are more regularly known as were for the most part kept out of the fighting, however the few that did were fought over like territory or fleets. Individual Jiralhanae packs believed that they alone were worthy enough to worship the Prophet under their guard. Predictably, other Jiralhanae factions took offence to this belief and invaded such factions just to 'own' a Prophet. However, some Prophets were not treated as pieces of a power-hungry Jiralhanae and instead formed a theocracies holding several Jiralhanae Chieftains and their packs in order by the simple belief of the Great Journey. These theocracies were some of the few factions that weathered the Covenant Civil War the best, such factions as the Neo-Covenant Empire were able to gather huge support from the surrounding Remnant factions by promising the Jiralhanae Chieftains power, territory and a entrance onto the Path of the Great Journey.