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| |image=[[File:Enc22 Yanme'eQueen.jpg|300px]] | | |name=Queen |
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| |species=[[Yanme'e]] | | |species=[[Yanme'e]] |
| |affiliation=[[Covenant]] {{c|formerly}} | | |affiliation=[[Covenant]] |
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| {{Quote|The Queens are scary smart if ONI records are accurate, but they don't think much like humans. Or much like any other Covenant species, for that matter.|Spartan Tedra Grant<ref name="osfm170">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', p. 170</ref>}}
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| A '''Hive Queen''',<ref name="bc216">''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'', p. 216</ref> commonly referred to simply as a '''queen''', is the matriarchal ruling caste of a [[Yanme'e]] hive. Yanme'e queens are extremely large, with elongated, distended abdomens and thick legs, requiring the support of subservient males carrying them on cushioned litter for transport.<ref name="ch381">''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'', p. 381</ref><ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/yanme-e-drones '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Yanme'e'']</ref> The morphology of various queens can vary greatly by individual or hive lineage.{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=204}}
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| ==History==
| | A '''Queen''' is the leader of a [[Yanme'e]] hive. Little is known about them, besides the fact that they are extremely large, with elongated abdomens, requiring the support of subservient males carrying them on cushioned litter for transport.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', page 381</ref> It could be assumed that Yanme'e Queens lead their hive, giving birth to new Yanme'e and soldiers for its maintenance and defense. They presumably either reside on the Yanme'e home world, [[Palamok]] or on [[High Charity]]. Due to the huge numbers of Yanme'e in the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] it would seem that there would need to be more than one queen filling the reproductive role. Only one has been seen in the series during the [[Ascension]] ceremony of the [[Hierarchs|High Prophets]] of [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]], [[Prophet of Regret|Regret]], and [[Prophet of Mercy|Mercy]]. |
| When the Yanme'e first contacted the [[Covenant]] in [[1112]], a bloody war began. However, after an assembly was formed among the Hive Queens on [[Palamok]], they decided to allow lower-caste Yanme'e to be employed by the Covenant.{{Ref/Reuse|bc216}}
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| While rarely seen among the other Covenant species otherwise, Yanme'e queens were known to participate in some particularly significant occasions, such as the [[Ascension (ceremony)|ascension]] ceremony of the [[Hierarchs|High Prophets]] of [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]], [[Prophet of Regret|Regret]], and [[Prophet of Mercy|Mercy]] on [[High Charity]].{{Ref/Reuse|ch381}} During the [[Human-Covenant War]], the scientist [[Sig Raan]] created a device that mimicked the sonic and pheromonal signals of a Hive Queen, although the device was destroyed by [[Atriox]] when Raan turned the Yanme'e under her control against the [[Banished]].<ref name="roa">''[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]'', "[[Halo: Rise of Atriox Issue 3|Issue 3]]"</ref>
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| During the species' long tenure in the Covenant, the Yanme'e came to refer to the ruling [[San'Shyuum]] as "queens", a result of their linear hive structure.<ref>''[[Bestiarum]]''</ref>
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| ==Function and role==
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| While [[Yanme'e]] are individually cunning and moderately intelligent, they can exhibit extremely complicated behaviors when organized by a queen.{{Ref/Reuse|osfm170}} The Hive Queen controls her hive through the use of sonic and pheromonal signals.{{Ref/Reuse|roa}} The queens are at the top of the species' linear power structure and lead over all other Yanme'e,<ref>''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', p. 159 (2011)</ref> and all other Yanme'e were subjected to the will of the Hive Queen.{{Ref/Reuse|bc216}}
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| Yanme'e society is organized around their queens.{{Ref/Reuse|osfm170}} The Yanme'e lead an aggressively matriarchal society, with all other castes supporting their hives' preservation through the orders of a queen. Yanme'e queens are responsible for the species' reproduction and way of life, leading to the well-being of a queen being the uppermost importance of a hive. Most of the Yanme'e's major scientific and technological advances have emphasized protection on the queen and augmentation of the hives.{{Ref/Reuse|universe}} | |
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| Queens are eerily smart, according to records of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. Their cognitive process is unlike that of any other species in the Covenant.<ref>''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]''</ref>
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| ==Gallery==
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| File:Enc22 Concept Yanme'eQueen.jpg|Concept sketches of a Yanme'e queen for the ''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition)|Halo Encyclopedia]]'', showing various inspirations for its design.
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| </gallery>
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' {{1st}} |
| *''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]'' {{Mo}}
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| *''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'' {{Mo}}
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| ==Sources== | | ==Sources== |
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| {{Drone Ranks}} | | {{Drone Ranks}} |
| | [[Category:Yanme'e]] |
