The Silent Shadow undertook numerous missions during the Covenant War, including assassinations and extractions. In the event that they might one day be ordered to kill them, members of the Silent Shadow are forbidden to show their faces to any of their superiors. They were often dispatched by the Hierarchs when they wanted to remove a high-ranking commander from their post. It was made up of several individual squads. The Silent Shadow was a unit of special operations Sangheili within the Covenant's Special Operations branch.
Now we have but one aim… the slaughter of beasts.' - Resa 'Azavayl Our goals, strategic-pointed and precise. Once our charge was varied-assassination, extraction-direct and thorough acts of violence. Please update it as soon as any relevant and accurate material is available.Ĭovenant Special Operations (formerly) Additionally, the information may be subject to change if it is based on pre-release material. 'WE'VE GOT A NEW CONTACT, UNKNOWN CLASSIFICATION!'This article may contain information based upon upcoming, unreleased, or recently-released content from Halo: Silent Storm and the Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), and may not be fully complete.