Covenant Honor Guard

The Covenant Honor Guard are a division of the Covenant dedicated to defending leaders of the Covenant. They wear ornate armour to signify their important rank, and they can often be seen around High Charity in their processions, often with a high-ranking Elite or Prophet dancing around in the middle.

In the prelude to the Great Schism, the majority of the Elite Honor Guards were forced to surrender their armour to the Brutes, signifying the change in favour from the Elites to the Brutes in the eyes of the Prophets. The Honor Guard Ultras, or 'Lights of Sanghelios', attempted to rebel against this injustice, and fought to regain thier armour. When the rest of the Elites followed in their wake, the Prophets had the Lights of Sangheilios imprisoned, and they were almost certainly executed.

However, the rest of the Honor Guard fought back too. Leading their subordinate Elites into battle, the Honor Guard fought bravely to protect High Charity. Meanwhile, however, the Flood were attacking and Tartarus, the Chieftain of the Brutes, took the Brute Honor Guard to the surface of Installation 05 in an attempt to activate it. However, both he and his guard were taken down by the Arbiter and his Elites.

Despite the fact that the majority of the Elite Honor Guard either killed theselves out of shame or were killed by the Brutes or the Flood during the Covenant Civil War, what they stood for was not forgotten. Even those who were posted to defending Prophets were remembered for their diligance and courage, and their leadership during the chaos that was the opening days of the Covenant Civil War.