The Biotic Covenant originated from the catastrophic malfunction of Project Verdure's terraforming nanites on the planet Viridia. The nanites transformed the once-promising colony world into a toxic, rampant jungle, forcing the desperate inhabitants of Site 7 Gamma into extreme survival measures.
Lead geneticist Dr. Linda Alarun, who would become the revered Brood Mother, implemented rapid evolutionary cycles upon the colony. This drastic intervention was essential for their survival in the suddenly hostile environment, marking the true birth of the Covenant's adaptive and biological focus.
Over the span of a millennium, this raw necessity for survival transformed into a deeply ingrained religious dogma. The Biotic Covenant came to view flesh as supreme, despising cybernetic modifications as an affront to life's dynamic code and a stagnation of natural evolution.
This ideological schism fueled a thousand-year war across the Allgerd system against their rivals, the cybernetically enhanced Iron Ascendancy. The Covenant developed a fearsome arsenal, deploying genetically grown starships, acid-spitting bio-cannons, and soldiers augmented with insectoid chitin and formidable regenerative capabilities.
They successfully seized and maintained control of their homeworld, Viridia, establishing it as their primary stronghold. However, their aggressive expansion has recently been brought to a grinding halt by the formidable blockade imposed by the Red Sun Dominion.
Unbeknownst to the majority of its rank and file, the Covenant's current surge of aggression and volatility stems from an internal crisis. The Brood Mother is slowly succumbing to the influence of the Root of Ages, the corrupted core of the terraforming project, losing her individual consciousness to its ancient power.
This internal degradation is further compounded by the subtle, unrecognized manipulations of The Arbiter, an ancient AI whose agenda remains hidden. The Biotic Covenant currently finds itself besieged and volatile, entrenched on Viridia under the Red Sun Dominion's unyielding blockade. Simultaneously, they continue to maintain a violent, costly stalemate with the Iron Ascendancy within the treacherous Allgerd asteroid belts.
