The Unggoy Seperatists was started by a group of about 1000000 Grunts that hijacked a Covenant Spacecraft Support installation, the Divine Trancendence (a space station similar to the Unyielding Hierophant) during the Grunt Rebellion. The Grunt hijackers spent many years locating a suitable planet to colonize. After many years, they discovered a planet with a methane rich atmosphere and no indiginous intelligent life, which they nomed New Balaho and colonized. By 2550, the Unggoy Seperatists had grown in population to several billion, due the Grunt's rapid breeding. In 2552, a fleet of Covenant Loyalist ships made a blind slipspace jump in an attempt to escape a combined UNSC-Covenant Loyalist fleet. The Brute ships exited slipspace near New Balaho, quickly followed by their pursuers. The