User:Mr Kid/Kid's Fiction:Covenant Crusaders

The Covenant Crusaders are a breakaway faction of the Covenant. They are the remaining sole believers of the Great Journey. The founding species of the group are Sangheili who were too loyal to the Covenant Religion to believe the current Arbiter, but left the loyalists as well. Unggoy, Kig-Yar, and Mgalekgolo eventually were integrated into the Crusaders once all three prophets were killed. The surviving brutes of the Human-Covenant War were not allowed to join.

Birth of the Crusaders
During the Human-Covenant War, the High Prophet of Truth ordered a massive genocide of the Sangheili. Many were killed. Eventually, Thel Vadam and many of his allies soon broke away from the Covenant after they found out the truth about the Great Journey. There were some Sangheili who were still believed though, but they left the Covenant after they found out about the mass murder.

The End of the War
The Crusaders simply waited as the Separatists and Loyalists fought. Their forces were too weak at the time, and needed to build upon their military. Over time, the UNSC defeated both the Covenant Loyalists and the Flood. There were survivors, mainly Unggoy, but there were some Kig-Yar and Mgalekgolo as well. They literally begged the Crusaders to let them in, and the two groups eventually joined forces for survival. They bred for many years to increase their numbers.

Attack on Lumina IV
Finally, in the year 2994, the Crusaders led an attack on a fairly new human colony, Lumina IV. On the planet contained many forerunner artifacts including weapons, constructs, and ships that can be used to the Crusaders' advantage as they are low on supplies. The artifacts were kept deep underground in a Forerunner Facility. UNSC ground forces were quickly overwhelmed and outnumbered. They fled into a cave and decided to call in reinforcements. Sooner than expected, four Spartan-VIs arrived to deal with the Crusaders: Jack-119, Megan-157, Daniel-205, and the team's leader, Steve-049. Some Sangheili and Unggoy scouts began searching to find the troopers that escaped, but they were interrupted by the Spartans. The "demons" were too much to handle and the majority of the scouts were killed, but some flew away to safety via phantoms. They partially succeeded their objective, managing to capture four out of six fire teams of marines.