Covenant

The planet Covenant was the homeworld of the Holy Mormon Armada, and home to over half a billion residents, before it was destroyed during the Mormon-Templar War by the HMSV Dreadnought using the novabomb -- a device that can destroy all life on a planet and any orbiting satellites. This act has been widely considered a war crime by The Mormon Armada and The Galactic Union, however, many Templar sympathisers simply say that it was necessary to end the war quickly and concisely; in the end, it may have saved more lives than it ended.

Some colonists have attempted to retake the scorched land of Covenant to little avail. The planet has proven inhospitable to all the but most resilient of people. Although commonly patrolled by Mormon cruisers to keep out raiders and other unmentionables, the inhabitants do not claim to be apart of The Armada. The Mormon government does not seem to mind miners settling their old homeworld, so long as they are respectful to it and allow Mormons to return on special pilgrimages.