Unggoy combat harness

An Unggoy in its combat harness.

The Unggoy Combat Harness is a type of body armor issued to the Covenant's Grunt warriors. It provides basic protection from hostile fire and the elements and is also equipped with a breathing apparatus for the Unggoy.

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Defense

In addition to its life support role, it is equipped with armor. This armor can withstand limited amounts of fire, especially from energy weapons. The M6D is capable of easily cracking through the armor and is considered by some to be the standard weapon for such actions. The armor piercing rounds of the Assault Rifle are also potent weapons against the harness. As well as defending against projectiles and plasma, it prevents a limited amount of fall damage to its user, like its Sangheili counterpart. Despite this, most variants are vastly inferior to the other types of armor adorned and used by the Covenant, no doubt due to the costs required to produce the suits for the extremely large population of Unggoy soldiers. Some variants are also equipped with helmets, Active Camouflage and a methane-filled breathing apparatus.

Trivia

• The visual appearance of the Unggoy Combat Harness has changed considerably every time it has appeared in fiction; this has led to confusion as to whether or not these are separate variants or if the differences are simply aesthetic in nature. In Halo: Combat Evolved, there was a variant with a partially curled-back methane tank, along with a bigger face mask. This variant is commonly referred to by fans as "Curl-backs". This variant is absent in newer titles. In Halo Wars, the Grunts used a cylindrical-back methane tank, along with a goggle-equipped mask.
• It has been shown that in Halo: Contact Harvest the breathing mask of the Unggoy makes speech difficult for them, as it muffles their words.
• The upcoming game Halo: Reach will introduce new Unggoy Combat Harness, each featuring different methane tank and mask designs.

Gallery

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  A Heretic Unggoy's suit.

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  The standard methane breathing face mask.

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  'Curl-back' Unggoy at the ready.

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  Concept art of the Unggoy Combat Harness. Note that each concept has been reused in the Halo franchise, but no canon reason currently exists to differentiate their purposes.