After the Covenant's discovery of Ketesh, there was a brief moment of panic among the Covenant hierarchy. The Sangheili military commanders worried that they would be forced to wage a brutal military campaign their "unenlightened" brethren. The Prophets feared that the new planet had already been stripped of artefacts, and that they inhabitants would reject the Covenant faith. Neither fear proved true, though not for lack of trying on the part of the Cult of Quenyathar.