Kismet Spheres of Sammath

The Kismet Spheres of Sammath, also known as simply the Sammath Spheres, was a prominent Covenant secession-state active during the Feudal Period, headquartered on the Seraphim Ramparts. Though apparently ruled by a Sangheili Arch-Kaidon, he had very little actual power and instead served as a figurehead for the Yanme'e Schivvhm-zazz Hive and the Kig-Yar Silver Fang Khanate. Their worlds were populous, wealthy, and in a state of rapid development, thanks to the Covenant's recent burst of expansion along the sliplane to Zhoist. They also controlled a military that had a blending of Yanme'e swarm-and-hammer doctrine and Kig-Yar mobility warfare, which resulted in their ships becoming known for being terrifyingly fast and overgunned for their tonnage.

Ceding in 1382 CE, at a time when the Covenant were concentrating on warlords closer to the Sunlit Worlds, the Sammath Spheres quickly expanded to engulf most of what is today the Seventh Epiphany and Sea of Solace Domains. Despite their aggressive surprise attacks on anchorages in the region, only a handful of Covenant warships were captured at first, with most scuttling themselves or fighting in glorious last lands. It was also because they failed to encircle and destroy Fleetmaster 'Voontomee's Fleet of Truthful Respite, who commanded one of only two modern fleets in the entire region at the time. His story of circumventing Sammathari fleets, waging a guerrilla war, and almost making it back to the Holy Ecumene became the stuff of legends.

The Sammath Spheres lasted until 1,604, and the campaign to retake their worlds was a bloody affair. Covenant forces were usually locally isolated and outnumbered, and the strong fortifications around their worlds forced protracted campaigns to take them. Still, one by one their holdings fell, and it took a traitorous faction in the Silver Fangs to finally bring them back under the heel. Their legacy remains in Ordained Edict, the only one of their fortress worlds to have never fallen in battle with the Covenant, and still retains much of the original infrastructure built by the Sammathari.