Unggoy "Grunts"



The Unggoy are squat bipedal arthropods from the planet Balaho. They are the lowest-ranking species in the Covenant and are frequently mistreated by almost every higher-ranking race. Because of being often used as laborers or, in combat situations, cannon fodder,humans to them as "Grunts." In the Halo games, these units are usually the easier ones to kill.

They are not a very brave race and often flee when the situations worsens just a bit.

Appearance
The Unggoy are short, stocky, round-headed, wrinkly-skinned with an exoskeleton have a high-pitched voice, and stubby limbs. Their average height and weight are 168 centimetres (5 ft 6 in) and 118 kilograms (260 lb) respectively. Their skin can come in colors of mottled gray/brown.(1)

Culture
Most of the Unggoy culture was wiped out by constant abuse of the covenant. But of what is known, the Unggoy generally lived in small, tribal societies which were defined as being matriarchal.(2) ==='''

Homeworld '''===

Balaho, the Unggoy homeworld, is a temperate, swampy planet with a methane atmosphere and naturally occurring pillars of fire. The planet suffered from a global ecological collapse due to over-industrialization and is still in process of recovery.(2)

And because of their natural methane atmosphere, the Unggoy need to carry methane tanks and breathing apparatus with them at all time when traveling into places where the atmospheric conditions are not the same. (3)