Unggoy Heavy: Difference between revisions

Heavy
	Combat harness Cylinder tank harness Storm-based harness
Function:	Combat support, defense, heavy weapons experts
Species:	Unggoy
Affiliation:	Covenant ; Jul 'Mdama's Covenant; Vata 'Gajat's mercenary group; Banished

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"Ready for a scrap!"

— An Unggoy Heavy on Installation 00.^[1]

Heavy is a specialist combat role for Unggoy within the Covenant and its remnants.^[2]

Description

Covenant

Heavies are designated for the use of heavy weapons, turrets, and some vehicles.^[3]

Jul 'Mdama's Covenant

These Unggoy are used to engage high-tier enemies through the use of augmented armor, explosives such as the Pez'tk-pattern fuel rod gun and Gespu-pattern fuel rod gun.^[4]^[5] This class is composed of experienced and formidable Unggoy warriors, who are often fully capable of engaging light armed vehicles effectively. Unggoy of this role are rarely encountered on the battlefield, though.^[6]

Banished

Banished Unggoy Heavies were heavily augmented by machinery on Installation 00. Like their Covenant counterparts, they focus on heavy weapon use such as Pez'tk-pattern fuel rod guns and Methane Wagons' plasma cannons. The Banished Unggoy Heavies are led by the Shadow Master of Buwan.^[7]

Equipment

Covenant harnesses

The original Unggoy Heavies wore distinctive sage-green armor, typically with a full-face methane breather and a cylindrical methane tank on their back, similar to the Unggoy Ultra. Their armor provided significantly more protection than that of an Unggoy Minor or Major, but it wasn't nearly as strong as an Ultra's or a Special Operations Unggoys in terms of durability.^[8]

An Unggoy Heavy wearing the harness.

Slim-stock tank harness

The Heavies of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant wear a helmet with full-face protective rebreathers, enhanced optical sensors with optics articulators, and ultra-dense battle harnesses that has a slim-stock tank with analog eye sockets of Unggoy predators. The harness is issued in orange, blue, silver, green, and magenta.^[6] The combat harness also allows for the Heavies to use the methane tank as a makeshift thruster pack, allowing for easy access in various terrains.^[4]^[5]

An Unggoy Heavy wearing the Slim-stock tank harness.

Trivia

The only time a non-Heavy Unggoy is seen deploying a plasma turret is in Halo 2 at the beginning of the level The Arbiter where a Special Operations Unggoy is carrying one. This is because the only Unggoy allies encountered in the level are Special Operations units.
In Halo 3, if a Heavy panics while carrying an undeployed plasma turret, it will wave the turret around in the air with only one hand. This is because Unggoy usually use small single-handed weapons, and no separate animation was created for Unggoy Heavies using turrets.
Unggoy Heavies are classified as Special Operations Unggoy in Firefight, whereas Unggoy Ultras are simply classed as regular Unggoy. Actual Special Operations Unggoy are only seen manning the side-mounted plasma turrets on the Phantoms. Something similar happens in Halo 4, where Unggoy Heavies are classified as Ultras by the Commendations along with some other enemies who have also been mislabeled.
In Halo: Reach campaign level ONI: Sword Base, Unggoy Heavies are seen with Okarda'phaa-pattern plasma rifles on higher difficulties.

Gallery

An Unggoy Heavy with a Shepsu-pattern plasma cannon in Halo 2.
Detailed view of an Unggoy Heavy from Halo 2.
An Unggoy Heavy firing a Paegaas Workshop Spiker on the mission The Ark in Halo 3.
An Unggoy Heavy in Halo 3.
An Unggoy Heavy on a Type-52 Phantom in Halo 3.
Concept art of the heavy for Halo: Reach.
An Unggoy Heavy operating the Pek-pattern plasma cannon on a Type-26 Wraith in Halo: Reach.
An Unggoy Heavy attacking a M12 Chaingun Warthog in New Alexandria.
Two variants of the Unggoy Heavy in Halo 4.
A blue-armored Unggoy Heavy aboard the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn.
An Unggoy Heavy, with a Sangheili Warrior and Sangheili Ranger on Requiem.
An Unggoy Heavy in Halo 5: Guardians.
An Unggoy Heavy and Unggoy Storm aboard a Mikpramu-pattern Phantom.
A green-armored Unggoy Heavy.
The many colored-armors for Unggoy Heavies in Halo 5: Guardians.
Concept art of an Unggoy Heavy for Halo Wars 2.
Blitz card of Unggoy Heavies in Halo Wars 2.
A squad of Unggoy Heavies on Installation 00.
An army of Unggoy Heavies attack a T-26 Wraith and Klavrig Workshop Skitterers.
An Unggoy Heavy manning a Methane Wagon's plasma cannon.

List of appearances

Sources

^ Halo Wars 2
^ Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 87
^ Halo Encyclopedia, pages 142-143
^ ^a ^b Halo 4
^ ^a ^b Halo 5: Guardians
^ ^a ^b Halo 4 Interactive Guide - Enemies: Covenant - Grunt Heavy
^ Halo Waypoint - Haze of Glory
^ Halo: Reach

[HW2-1] Halo Wars 2

[2] Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, page 87

[3] Halo Encyclopedia, pages 142-143

[H4-4] Halo 4

[H5G-5] Halo 5: Guardians

[h4guide-6] Halo 4 Interactive Guide - Enemies: Covenant - Grunt Heavy

[HoG-7] Halo Waypoint - Haze of Glory

[HR-8] Halo: Reach

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