User:RelentlessRecusant/Stoics

"From time immemorial, we have been oppressed! Brothers, it was not always this way."

- 'Rradee

The Stoics were a militarized Sangheili social progression movement. They were formally identified by the Sangheili Council and the general public as terrorists.

The Stoic movement was fueled by an extremist sense of injustice because of the sociological heirarchy of the Sangheili public — after the formation of the Covenant, the San'Shyuum enforced a caste system on the Sangheili race, with the San'Shyuum-controlled Lord and Warrior Castes predominating over the oppressed Servant Caste. This led to widespread public resentment, but social change was unable to be enacted because of the iron grip of the San'Shyuum over the political and social systems. In the middle of the Human-Covenant War, frustrations in the Servant Caste erupted, with a visionary, 'Rradee, organizing the Stoic movement, who would spread the "Faith" of social change through armed force.

The Stoics have become recognized as ruthless anti-government rebels, and have been responsible for the destruction of a whole city by the destruction of a tritium refinery, and also the bombing of a prestiguous upper-class residential complex and also the hijacking of a Sangheili Defense Force battlecruiser and sending it into a star. In 2553, a covert counterterrorism special operations force, the Special Activities Group, was made by the Sanghelios Defense Force to assassinate 'Rradee and end the terrorist threat, but they have been largely unsuccessful, with the Stoics continuing to launch sprees of atrocious attacks on military, government, and civilian targets at least once a month.