The New Council of City-States, often shortened to New Council or Helios Council and known as the allied Sangheili government to humanity, is the main governing body of Sanghelios and its colonies following the Great Schism. Comprised of the most influential Sangheili factions left after the Blooding Years, the New Council is the first widely accepted interstellar governing organization that the Elites have held since the dawn of the Covenant.