Halo 2 Forum
This topic has moved here: Subject: Grunts are a different species?
  • Subject: Grunts are a different species?
Subject: Grunts are a different species?
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

I don't know if this thread has been done before, or if this is already known, and I'm a moron who should get flamed for putting it up but I just started thinking about this today lol.

I've known since about day 1 or 2 grunts use methane tanks to breathe, so this means that grunts have a completely different set-up of organs than the Elites or jackals because both breathe freely on Halo, and Halo's atmosphere is of course similar to earths.
I figured this makes them non-covie other then the fact that they are in union with the Covenant forces. Remember that joke about the ''Home star'', and ''food nipple'' on the maw?
Maybe that's where the Grunts reside..homestar lol

  • 07.14.2004 2:37 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

it doen't say "homestar". I don't remember all of it, but it says "starship".
For the full quote, visit the HBO story page, and click on level transcriptions

  • 07.14.2004 2:40 PM PDT

The Covenant is a collection of various species.

  • 07.14.2004 2:40 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

The grunt's come from a methane rich planet. As for the other question, of course they all have different organs and physiology! The Covies are a collective of different alien races. Only their religion is the same.

  • 07.14.2004 2:41 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

OK heres the rundown:

The coveant is a collective group of species united under a common religion. This means yes they are different species. Yes they come from different home worlds also, yes this means that there is a palent full of grunts/jackals/elites/hunters/prophets/brutes etc.

  • 07.14.2004 2:42 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

All of the known Covenant classes are from different species, that as far as it's known come from different planets. According to "The Flood" which goes slightly into the story of the Covenant, the Grunts come from a planet with a lot of swamps, naturally occuring pillars of fire and, obviously, a methane-based atmosphere.

  • 07.14.2004 2:43 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

covenants are made of dif. species.. cant believe u didnt know that buddy

  • 07.14.2004 2:43 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Oh damn that's right, it's the star ship.
Yes, that would make sense, a collective of dif races, and methane rich planet.
I suppose this supports alot of those other theorys running around out there.
Ty

  • 07.14.2004 2:44 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

the covenant isnt a species, it is an alliance of species. They are all different, the grunts are as much the same and as much different as elites and jackals

  • 07.14.2004 2:44 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

yea just read "the story so far" in the halo manual

  • 07.14.2004 2:45 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Spartan_Zero
Oh damn that's right, it's the star ship.
Yes, that would make sense, a collective of dif races, and methane rich planet.
I suppose this supports alot of those other theorys running around out there.
Ty

It doesn't only make sense, it's true!

  • 07.14.2004 2:45 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Well, I already understood the covenant is made up of a group of aliens who believe in the same religion. I just wasn't sure if some of the Covenant were the same species because they have some similar characteristics. I already believe the brutes were a captured species, I just thought the main aliens were all related.

  • 07.14.2004 2:47 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Yes Dynasty99 I know what a covenant is. I know it is not a species lol, but thanks.

  • 07.14.2004 2:51 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

yeah dude there all skunks

  • 07.14.2004 2:53 PM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

yeah, all covies are form different planets, except maybe the elites and the prophets. the hunters were recently assimilated into the covenant forces after being defeated.

  • 07.14.2004 3:01 PM PDT