Sons of Heaven

The Sons of Heaven (Qers'nok: Shabui h'ringunna) are a network of hardline religious post-Covenant factions based largely in the Holy Ecumene's galactic spinward side. Their origins are in the Greater Spinward Frond, where their power is most entrenched.

Effectively a religious military junta, the Sons of Heaven's main activities include running what is effectively a protection racket across a number of worlds, including several systems within the Ikket'hai Cascade of the Siakar Expanse. Their increasing organization and expansion has also led to disagreements, one of which culminated in the warlord clique known as the Storm of Faith splitting off from the group; even now, the Storm remains one of the Sons' sworn enemies. While most of the Sons' hostile activity is centered on the Covenant sphere and the secular and/or religiously unorthodox ex-Covenant polities there, the Sons have positioned themselves against both the United Earth Government and the Concord of Reconciliation. Although the group is technically open to human converts, few humans are known to have joined, mostly due to the physical distance between most of the Sons' holdings and the Human Sphere.