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The '''Unggoy'''<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', page 191 - ''"Unggoy: the Elite name for the Grunt race."''</ref> (Latin, ''Monachus frigus'', meaning "cold monk") are a species of small, squat and bipedal arthropods in the unified races of the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. They are the lowest rank in the hierarchy, and are frequently mistreated by almost every higher-ranking race ([[Sangheili]], [[Jiralhanae]], [[Kig-yar]]), to the point where killing Unggoy is not even considered a crime in the Covenant. Unggoy are primarily used as laborers or, in combat situations, cannon fodder. They are one of the later races to be introduced into the Covenant. They were the third Covenant species to be encountered by [[human]]s. They are referred to as '''Grunts''' by humans, mainly because they are considered weak compared to their superiors and also because they perform the majority of the labor required by the Covenant.

===Induction into the Covenant===

Grunts were the sixth client race to be integrated into the Covenant, not including [[San 'Shyuum]] and Sangheili, about 411 years before the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]], roughly coming to their indoctrination in [[2142]] on the [[Military Calendar|military calendar]]. [[Balaho]], the Unggoy homeworld, was devastated by the collapse of its biosphere due to massive global overindustrialization that occured even before the activation of the Halo Array, and indications are that while the Unggoy had once achieved a [[Technological Achievement Tiers|Tier 4]] society, by the time of their discovery by the Covenant they had yet to return to such a state.<ref name=Bestiarum>'''[[Bestiarum]]'''</ref>