The Royal Allegiance



The Royal Allegiance was a conglomeration of over 1,400 worlds. Their technological superiority outmatched even the covenant but was far inferior to the Forerunners.

Discovery
Since about 2150, Earth had detected several stray radio signals which seemed suspiciously like communications. However they were largely ignored as humanity had more pressing concerns closer to home, the brutal conflicts that spanned from 2160 to 2200. When the Human-Covenant War began in 2525, it seemed that the source of the transmissions had been found- The Covenant.

In 2251, a year before the Fall of Reach, a three-man squad of Spartan-IIs called Gray Team was sent on a secret mission, far from UNSC and Covenant known territories. Their mission was to