The Dawnstar Pact, also known as the Covenant of the Five, was an ancient intergalactic alliance between the most advanced and powerful races of the galaxy, established in the centuries following 2,000,000 BBY. Built upon the foundation of cooperation and assurance of maintaining relative peace and order through the ever growing galaxy, the Dawnstar Pact was comprised of five species; the Celestials, the Kathol, the Xaxax, the Icarites and the Vhas'Ni. According to the Soulkeeper Epizon, the Celestials instigated the alliance as, not only a form of restraint against the conquering and warlike Vhas'Ni, who were nearing war against the Kathol due to their unchecked expansion, but also as an unspoken threat of retaliation by them.