Covenant Loyalist Branches of Service

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Covenant Navy

The Covenant Navy, similarly to its UNSC counterpart, is the branch of the military responsible solely for space-based naval operations. Its roles include ship-to-ship combat, a role in which it generally outperforms the UNSC navy, orbital bombardment, and the deployment of the Covenant Army.

At its best, the Covenant Navy was capable of fielding thousands of warships, most of them capable of deploying ground troops, transports, or fighter ships such as the Seraph. Its numbers were worn down somewhat by the Human-Covenant War, but has since commenced rebuilding to a fairly efficient extent.

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Covenant Army

The Covenant Army is the branch of the Covenant most responsible for ground-based military operations. The Army represents the Covenant's primary invasion force, though the Covenant's Special Operations units are also considered part of the Army. Led by the Brutes, the Army is comprised of every species in the Covenant which serves in the military: Grunts, Drones, Jackals, Brutes, and formerly Elites. Prophets do not accept rank in the military, though they do possess the capacity to order a Brute commander around. Engineers, being a non-combatant race, are also exempt from service in the Army.

Besides mainstream infantry and armored units, the Army also houses Covenant special operations. Commonly deployed in Lances of four--most commonly two Special Operations Brutes and two Spec Ops Grunts--these special operations units participate in such operations as assassination, sabotage, infiltration, retrieval of Forerunner artifacts, and even the guarding of top-secret and restricted areas, like Covenant shipyards. Only Grunts and Elites were considered eligible for Special Operations service, before the Elites were thrown out of the Covenant by the Brutes and the Prophet of Truth. Grunts are only restricted to one rank whereas the Brutes possess several.

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Covenant High Council

The High Council is the highest theocratic, decision-making agency in the Covenant. Roughly equivalent to UNSC HIGHCOM, the High Council is composed of more than two hundred Brutes and Prophets, and led by a triumvirate of Prophets referred to as the Hierarchs or High Prophets. The Council was once composed of Elites and Prophets, instead of Brutes, but that ended with the assassination of many Elite Councilors when the Prophet of Truth saw fit to replace Elites with Brutes in the Covenant's hierarchy.