Sharquoi: Difference between revisions

|height={{Convert|16.4|ft|cm|disp=flip|sp=us}}<ref name="Envoy186">'''[[Halo: Envoy]]''', ''page 186''</ref>

|weight={{Convert|14000|lb|kg|disp=flip|sp=us|sigfig=4}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=214}}

|homeworld=Unknown{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

|othernames=Behemoths{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

The '''Sharquoi''', colloquially known as '''Behemoths''',{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} are a race of [[Sentience|sapient]] humanoids, imposing in stature and extremely social in nature. Individual Sharquoi are unintelligent on their own - and may be considered little more than animals in that circumstance{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy}} - but are able to pool collective consciousness to function as a single horde entity.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}}

 

The Sharquoi were biomechanically altered by the [[Forerunner]]s to fight the [[Flood]], implanting them with devices enabling them to be mentally controlled ''en masse'' by a single individual via the ''[[vertex]]'', a central neural interface. Left in [[Slipspace field pod|stasis]] following the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], a number of Sharquoi were later found by the [[Covenant]] and inducted into the [[Covenant fringe]], but were rarely used in combat as the Covenant lacked effective means of controlling them.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}} After recovering the ''vertex'' from [[Installation 00]], the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Hekabe]] intended to use hundreds of thousands of the creatures in his own plot to gain power. Though he nearly succeeded, Hekabe's plan was foiled by [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]], the [[Surakan Militia Volunteers]] and [[Rojka 'Kasaan]] who [[Battle of the Sharquoi Hive|destroyed the hive]] and all of the creatures within using a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]].<ref name="Envoy">'''Halo: Envoy'''</ref>

Sometime after the [[Writ of Union]] the Covenant discovered the Sharquoi and inducted a limited number of them for combat, but largely kept their existence a mystery to the average Covenant citizen.<ref name="Envoy183/184">'''Halo: Envoy''', ''pages 183-184''</ref> They served the empire as a part of the [[Covenant fringe]] and were rarely seen by even the highest echelons of the [[Covenant military]] - rarely deployed in battle due to a tendency to destroy allied Covenant forces as much as the enemy.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22}} Near the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]], a [[Sangheili]] expressed to his commander that [[human]]ity's corralling following the [[Fall of Reach]] might allow the Sharquoi to be deployed soon.{{Ref/Reuse|conversations}} The [[San'Shyuum]] had intended to use the Sharqoui during the [[Battle for Earth]], but never got the chance to deploy them.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}}

Sharquoi are a large cyclopsian species. At five meters tall they are even larger than [[Jiralhanae]] and [[Mgalekgolo]], and are considered more dangerous than either of the two.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}} Sharquoi have small heads for their body size, and are not very intelligent when they are not connected to their technologically-enabled hive mind.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy187/189}} They have trunk-like legs and hands bigger than a Jiralhanae's head. Above each of the hands are large bone spikes at least a meter in length. Sharquoi are covered in grey, leathery skin over heavily bunched and corded muscles. In place of an eye the Sharquoi have light-grey bony tissue used for echolocation. They have razor-like teeth that jut over their jaws.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy183/184}} Sharquoi  [[blood]] is purple.<ref name="Envoy244">'''Halo: Envoy''', ''page 244''</ref> Sharquoi are strong enough to rip [[Sangheili]] and Jiralhanae limb from limb,<ref name="Envoy354">'''Halo: Envoy''', ''page 354''</ref> incapacitate a [[Spartan-II]] in [[MJOLNIR Mark V]], flip [[M12 Warthog]]s into the air,<ref name="Envoy240/241">'''Halo: Envoy''', ''pages 240-241''</ref> and destroy [[M400 Kodiak]]s with their bare hands.<ref name="Envoy242/243">'''Halo: Envoy''', ''pages 242-243''</ref> Sharquoi are also incredibly durable, capable of taking a [[14.5×114mm]] round to the head, or a [[M19 missile]] to the chest, without dying.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy240/241}} However, they are susceptible to continuous fire from heavy weapons, multiple headshots from a [[SRS99-S5 AM sniper rifle]], and decapitation from a [[Type-1 energy sword]].{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}}