![]() ![]() The higher-ranking races of the Covenant have often been content to ignore this rivalry. Being the lowest-ranked species of the Covenant, they are bitter rivals with the Kig-Yar, the next lowest-ranking species. While they are essentially a slave race, the Unggoy have managed to largely retain their cultural identity and rebelled in the past several times. By the time of their discovery by the Covenant, the Unggoy homeworld was still recovering from its ecological collapse over a hundred millennia earlier, and the Unggoy civilization had yet to return to its former state. Not including San'Shyuum and Sangheili, Unggoy were the sixth client race to be integrated into the Covenant, coming to their indoctrination at around 2142 on the Military Calendar. Unggoy being taken from their homeworld, Balaho for incorporation into the Covenant. The highest they achieved was Tier 6, having just rediscovered electricity when the Covenant found them.ĭespite never being depicted as a target of the Flood in any of the games except Halo Wars, it's meant to be assumed by the fans that they were just as threatened by the parasite as every other species in the Milky Way. The Unggoy were one of many sentient species indexed by the Librarian for preservation on Installation 00 from the firing of the Halo Array, after which they were returned to their homeworld where they began rebuilding their culture, though they never regained their pre-Halo status. Entire clans were destroyed, cities razed and any semblance of government was nonexistent they had fallen into a state of self-preservation and no longer possessed the resources to lift themselves back up from the pit they had thrown themselves into.Īncient Unggoy being reseeded on Balaho by Forerunner machinery. Naturally, this led to a shortage of basic resources necessary for survival, which in turn began a brief but devastating resource war that left the Unggoy all but bereft of any means of self-sufficiency. It's speculated that the planet was home to thousands of fish and avian species prior to industrialization afterward, eight out of every ten species was driven to extinction. Their species' rapid breeding cycle led to a population crisis on their homeworld of Balaho, which was reflected in and compounded by the near complete collapse of the planet's biosphere due to global industrialization.īalaho's atmosphere and hydrosphere were severely damaged by industrial waste. However, they never became spacefaring due to a number of factors. Very little information about the Unggoy prior to the activation of the Halo array survives to the modern era, but it is known that theirs was a Tier 4 society.
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