The Covenant without Grunts? #halo #halolore lore

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[lukeisawesome]

If I remember correctly, Unggoy are also quick learners as during the Covenant War a few of them had jobs to learn and translate human language/communications. (I think they can learn and understand new languages faster than other species but don't often speak it well.)

[emperortethysusdacertified]

It's also important to remember that, thanks too their sturdy builds and tough exoskeletons, the unggoy were also incredibly useful for manual labor duties (which was their only real purpose within the Covenant prior to their induction into the military following the rebellion).

Given post-war Sangheili and Jiralhanae factions have largely forgotten how to be self-sufficient due to both races not needing knowledge on such while the hegemony was still in power, it goes to stand that most of the Covenant's resource production was likely built upon the backs of unggoy slaves whom toiled away within the mines and agricultural facilities.

[arizona-hunter]

I don't think the Covenant would've done as well as they did without the Unggoy to take the brunt of the losses. The Sangheili would've probably faced extintion like us if the Unggoy weren't on the front lines.

[alemirdikson]

They're my favorite alien in the Halo mythos.
The Unggoy are just the most adorable things ever. If I were a human in the late 2550s, I'd probably go out of my way to make friends with some of them. I'd love to share a drink with a Grunt.

[okokokokokhahaha]

The Grunts are cannon fodder
So if you spend your effortd to exterminate the forces that are just barely a threat but still big enough of a threat to an individual (like the suicide Grunts) then they've served their purpose as time wasters & bullet wasters

[gparc]

With the role played by morale, would UNSC's lower kill counts (no easier-to-kill grunts boosting marine confidence) have a greater consequence in such a scenario?

[Voltaic_Fire]

The grunts killed a lot of marines and vehicles, humanity would have fared a lot better if they could specialise in elites and brutes.

[augustofilosi]

I know the Human-Covenant war would end up happening either way, but it was technically started by a Grunt who shot a marine during a negotiation, sooo....

[arizona-hunter]

Also the games would not have been half as fun without the grunts and their dialogue.

A little slower? That little extra time would made the war much more bloodier near the end of the war the UNSc was making ships that were near the equal to the Covenant. Imagine a half dozen Pillar of autumns escorting the infinity and another on the way.
Still would been would've end the same save the NOVA BOMBS!

[CUJONFRIENDS]

The grunts also got tired of being used and almost completely destroyed the covenant their numbers in war
war with the grunts was too much for the covenant so they made a deal with the grunts they would have respect and be treated like warriors if they would stay in the covenant and serve

[thomaswalmsley]

This is sorta a weird analysis of the grunts, because it only focuses on one dimension of the total conv. Society, making war. But if you look at it's total history, it wasn't at war that much, most of it was peaceful. So the grunts would have to serve another purpose beyond cannon fodder to justify that resource dump. It seems labor, ability to actually take an interpret commands to execute them, and being somewhat mechanically gifted would all be a core function of them within that society and probably core to it's continued function at that level.

Furthermore on the war front, I would be hard pressed to say that without the grunts the covenant would be anywhere near as successful In its ground campaign without its main body of infantry. It would be like saying well the USA has the best commandos and mechanized units in the world so it can just do away with its main body of infantry, the spec ops should be sufficient for these massive campaigns. That's just never true in a military aspect. Its why the USA never sends commandos out without main body support, especially for extended periods anymore. And one the exact reasons why was the "black Hawk down" incident in Africa, which was gone into with that sorta mindset.