The Unggoy, known commonly as the grunt is, in my opinion a really adorable enemy in halo 2 but after that they got ugly and i enjoyed killing them in droves. The reason we see so many grunts in the games is because they can breed at a fairly fast rate. The covenant leader's use this to their advantage to beat their enemies by sending an overwhelming amount of these creature's to fight their enemies. People percieve these guy's to be little, i had thought they were maybe 3 or 4 feet tall upon encountering them but their average height is around 5ft. it's probably because john-117 is almost 7 ft tall. They also breath methane, that's why they're always wearing those spikey suits and masks. This is likely the reason their blood is blue. Well these guys had a history, before the forerunner's hit the reset button for everybody the grunts got to the industrial age, not really impressive but they let it get so filled with pollution it destroyed their planet, even less impressive. They could barley survive on their planet even after the forerunner's reseeding (that reset button) so joining the covenant, which wasn't optional, was probably the best thing to happen to the little guys. They got mistreated and were pretty much slaves until they rebelled. They lost to the covenant and got pretty much destroyed for it but they weren't about to kill them all, they gave them a slightly more important role and they became infantry instead of just meat shields. They are smarter than the covenant give them credit for, they can absorb knowledge and have an understanding of the human languages. I think that if the humans could have convinced them they were a better ally, even just a few of them, they could have bred an army that would have been invaluable to them. read more at http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Unggoy
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| the blue blood |
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