- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Each covie race hates one of the other for whatever reason...
But their religion is what keeps them bonded, they must stay together for their religion...
The prophets found the first remains of forerunner tehnology, they weren't powerfull enought to exploit it though so they formed an alliance with the elites they promised the elites power and showed them how their power (really forerunner technology) would help them, shields, technology etc...
They then started spreading throught the galaxy, finding remains of forerunner technology and recruiting other species into the covenant...
But then suddenly they came across the humans, a race with a mysterious history, the prophets suddenly realized that the humans were infact the decendents of the forerunner the remains of a lost civilisation that was nearly made extinct in a ancient war with a parasitic life form named the flood, the forerunners had fought bravely against the flood but had nothing left than to use their final weapons the halo's...