…seriously?

: As others have said, Truth and Regret were in something of a power struggle
: for leadership of The Covenant. In The Cole Protocol for instance their
: two plans, that they each kept hidden from the other, ended up colliding
: and causing both plans to fail. Truth was seeding Humanity with small
: amounts of Covenant weapons that contained built in tracking devices. He
: was slowly mapping all of Human space. Regret had found a Human colony (of
: sorts, it was built out of connected asteroids) in what was left of an
: already glassed system. He had directed a group of Jackals to be friendly
: to the Humans in the hope of eventually obtaining a working nav database
: from them. In the end, after the two plans had basically cancelled each
: other out Truth and Regret pretended to trust the other again, but both
: were secretly looking for an advantage to gain complete control of The
: Covenant.

Makes sense, but if it's brought up in game it should be explained in game.

: Contact Harvest explains a lot of this, I recommend picking it up if you want
: a more detailed explanation.

Tried, but couldn't get through it. Thanks for the short version.