![]() The Covenant are explicitly said to control most of the galaxy on their Waypoint article. Now back to sources, while there's only one that restricts the Covenant to the Orion Arm, there's significantly more that support them being galaxy spanning: This is also shown with the Covenant travelling to locations like Delta Halo or Etran harborage pretty easily within short timeframes. Another detail to account for is their FTL speed, in Ghosts of Onyx a Covenant Destroyer is capable of travelling ~2000+ light years per day which is fast enough to cross the galaxy in weeks, it would make no sense for them to not venture / colonize outside the Orion arm in their ~3500 year history. So just looking at the basic details of the setting, the Covenant (and UNSC) are obviously not restricted to just a small area of the galaxy.Ĭombine this with the fact that the sole reason the Covenant was formed was to search for Halos which are spread across the galaxy, which they would have been doing for most of their history. The issue with that quote though is that it's on the same page as a galaxy map that shows the various locations you travel to in the series, which are all on separate spiral arms thousands of light years away from the Orion Arm. The state of the wider galaxy is a mystery except for small islands of knowledge recovered from Forerunner vaults or through special pioneer missions. Limited resources and other distractions mean that only a few thousand star systems in the Orion Arm have been explored in detail by humanity and the Covenant. ![]() The Milky Way Galaxy is vast, with hundreds of billions of star separated by incomprehensible distances and tangles slipspace routes. Looking at the actual sources, there's only one that says the Covenant is restricted to the Orion arm, from Warfleet: While the Orion arm is mentioned a lot in the series, it's because Humanity is based out of it and therefore the Human-Covenant War / most of the setting takes place within it, however that doesn't mean the Covenant is restricted to it like Humanity was. The size of the Covenant is often debated with most people thinking the setting is mostly restricted to the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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