The Black Lance, also know by their longer title The Servants of Lost Virtue, were a lesser known covenant fighting unit created late in the Human-Covenant War. Ostensibly a penal unit the group was created by The Prophet of Regret to act as his black operations unit, he drew warriors from those who had committed crimes against the covenant empire and had their sentences commuted to servitude as opposed to imprisonment or execution. The first team was deployed late in the war and soon sent the stage for the suicidal missions that the Lance would become known for. Over the course of the war the Lance would be a useful if dislike tool of war and were a part of at least three major victories over the humans as well as numerous counter-insurgent operations. However, as the Human-Covenant War c