Archives of Suban

The Archives of Suban, more commonly known simply as the Archives, are a vast data repository located in the Annals Facility on, ' outer natural satellite. The Archives contain the recorded history of Sangheili civilization prior to their incorporation into the Covenant and following the outbreak of the Great Schism. Upon its "rediscovery" by the Swords of Sanghelios following the end of the, the information stored in the Archives played a pivotal role in the recovery of the Sangheili as a self-sufficient civilization.

In the centuries following the abandonment of the Annals Facility by the Sangheili at the dawn of the Covenant, the Archives attained a near-mythical reputation, and were branded "unholy" under the Covenant religion. During the Great Schism and the Blooding Years, several fundamentalist splinter factions of the Covenant Empire took great offense to the use of the information stored in the Archives by more moderate factions.