By Mr_Beans2002
May 13, 2022
AVERAGE HEIGHT
190 centimetres (6 ft 3 in) - 203 centimetres (6 ft 8 in) [1]
AVERAGE WEIGHT
88 kilograms (190 lb) - 93 kilograms (210 lb) [1]
SKIN COLOR
Varying shades of brown/tan
DISTINCTIONS
Sinewy and slender; avian features, large pale eyes, elongated snout with sharp teeth, clawed hands and feet, light brown pigmentation.
MILITARY AND POLITICAL INFORMATION
EQUIPMENT
Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet, Holographic decoy
AFFILIATION
Covenant Empire, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant
The Kig-Yar are an avian/reptilian species which served the Covenant as mercenaries and privateers. There are two distinct subgroups of Kig-Yar, which Humans have termed Jackals and Skirmishers. In combat, Kig-Yar typically serve as snipers, shock troopers, defensive fighters, and scouts within the Covenant due to their excellent senses of sight, smell, and hearing.
History
The Ark and reseeding
The Kig-Yar were one of many species indexed by The Librarian and preserved on Installation 00 from the firing of the Halo Array. They were subsequently returned to their homeworld, where they began re-building their culture.
History Within The Covenant
The war between the Covenant and Kig-Yar forces culminated in sieges of redoubts on the asteroids surrounding their world. Eventually, in order to survive, they accepted Letters of Marque: commissions from the Ministry of Tranquility to engage in the services of the Covenant, though often this was merely used as an excuse to continue their plundering lifestyle. The Kig-Yar would spend much of their time preying on the ships of the Covenant's enemies, such as humanity.
Kig-Yar are around the same level as the Unggoy in the Covenant hierarchy, although the Kig-Yar despise the Unggoy and believe themselves to be superior. These tensions reached a boiling point in 2462, when some Kig-Yar in High Charity attempted to poison Infusions, recreational narcotics the Unggoy enjoyed, which would have left the Unggoy sterile, in retaliation for the Unggoy encroaching on their habitats and displacing Kig-Yar nests. Although a junior staffer in the Ministry of Concert found evidence of this, the High Council failed to properly investigate the incident, culminating in the Unggoy Rebellion.
Following the outbreak of the Human-Covenant war, a group of Kig-Yar under Reth made contact with the Rubble, a community of human survivors of the glassing of Madrigal. The Kig-Yar agreed to trade Covenant weaponry in exchange for slipspace drives. Although the humans believed the Kig-Yar were defying Covenant authority, they were in fact secretly proceeding with the blessing of the High Prophet of Truth to use the weapons to map UNSC space and learn the location of Earth. They also built up an army of hundreds of thousands of Unggoy. The plan fell apart due to the High Prophet of Regret sending Sangheili warriors to investigate the weapons, believing the Kig-Yar to be heretics. In the Battle of the Rubble and the Battle of Metisette, Reth and his forces were killed by Spartan-II Gray Team and the crew of UNSC Midsummer Night.
Description
Anatomy and physiologyA closeup on a Ruutian face. Notice the razor-sharp teeth and scaly skin.
Kig-Yar bear notable resemblances to extinct maniraptoran dinosaurs from Earth, and in spite of their extraterrestrial origin, they exhibit a multitude of both avialan and reptilian traits. Like birds and various species of dinosaur, Kig-Yar have warm-blooded metabolisms, feathers, quills, and beaks. Their more reptilian traits include teeth and scales, with scaly integument being distributed throughout most of the body in Ruutian and Ibie'shan individuals. Their legs are sinewy and muscular, and are digitigrade in a similar fashion to birds. They have sharp claws on both hands and feet. Kig-Yar are an omnivorous species, though they were initially thought to be carnivores due to their dentition and feeding habits. Their jaws are lined with rows of razor-sharp teeth; some have far more numerous teeth which bear a passing resemblance to baleen. Kig-Yar have been known to eat the flesh of fallen enemies, as well as live prisoners. Kig-Yar have extraordinary senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Male Kig-Yar possess plumages of spiny quills at the back of the head and on the elbows; the color of this plumage indicates the Kig-Yar's mood. Females of the Ruutian subspecies lack these quill plumages, instead having calloused plates at the forearms and the rear of the head. This thick skin flushes with blood and stiffens, this helps protect the female during courtship: when mating, the male will often bite, chew, and tear at the back of the female's head, neck, and arms. However, T'vaoan and Ibie'shan females retain their plumes, though the feathers of T'vaoan females are much shorter than those of males.
All sources are from , I had to cut quite a bit out to fit the 5000 character limit, I'll have more of these soon
190 centimetres (6 ft 3 in) - 203 centimetres (6 ft 8 in) [1]
AVERAGE WEIGHT
88 kilograms (190 lb) - 93 kilograms (210 lb) [1]
SKIN COLOR
Varying shades of brown/tan
DISTINCTIONS
Sinewy and slender; avian features, large pale eyes, elongated snout with sharp teeth, clawed hands and feet, light brown pigmentation.
MILITARY AND POLITICAL INFORMATION
EQUIPMENT
Kig-Yar point defense gauntlet, Holographic decoy
AFFILIATION
Covenant Empire, Jul 'Mdama's Covenant
The Kig-Yar are an avian/reptilian species which served the Covenant as mercenaries and privateers. There are two distinct subgroups of Kig-Yar, which Humans have termed Jackals and Skirmishers. In combat, Kig-Yar typically serve as snipers, shock troopers, defensive fighters, and scouts within the Covenant due to their excellent senses of sight, smell, and hearing.
History
The Ark and reseeding
The Kig-Yar were one of many species indexed by The Librarian and preserved on Installation 00 from the firing of the Halo Array. They were subsequently returned to their homeworld, where they began re-building their culture.
History Within The Covenant
The war between the Covenant and Kig-Yar forces culminated in sieges of redoubts on the asteroids surrounding their world. Eventually, in order to survive, they accepted Letters of Marque: commissions from the Ministry of Tranquility to engage in the services of the Covenant, though often this was merely used as an excuse to continue their plundering lifestyle. The Kig-Yar would spend much of their time preying on the ships of the Covenant's enemies, such as humanity.
Kig-Yar are around the same level as the Unggoy in the Covenant hierarchy, although the Kig-Yar despise the Unggoy and believe themselves to be superior. These tensions reached a boiling point in 2462, when some Kig-Yar in High Charity attempted to poison Infusions, recreational narcotics the Unggoy enjoyed, which would have left the Unggoy sterile, in retaliation for the Unggoy encroaching on their habitats and displacing Kig-Yar nests. Although a junior staffer in the Ministry of Concert found evidence of this, the High Council failed to properly investigate the incident, culminating in the Unggoy Rebellion.
Following the outbreak of the Human-Covenant war, a group of Kig-Yar under Reth made contact with the Rubble, a community of human survivors of the glassing of Madrigal. The Kig-Yar agreed to trade Covenant weaponry in exchange for slipspace drives. Although the humans believed the Kig-Yar were defying Covenant authority, they were in fact secretly proceeding with the blessing of the High Prophet of Truth to use the weapons to map UNSC space and learn the location of Earth. They also built up an army of hundreds of thousands of Unggoy. The plan fell apart due to the High Prophet of Regret sending Sangheili warriors to investigate the weapons, believing the Kig-Yar to be heretics. In the Battle of the Rubble and the Battle of Metisette, Reth and his forces were killed by Spartan-II Gray Team and the crew of UNSC Midsummer Night.
Description
Anatomy and physiologyA closeup on a Ruutian face. Notice the razor-sharp teeth and scaly skin.
Kig-Yar bear notable resemblances to extinct maniraptoran dinosaurs from Earth, and in spite of their extraterrestrial origin, they exhibit a multitude of both avialan and reptilian traits. Like birds and various species of dinosaur, Kig-Yar have warm-blooded metabolisms, feathers, quills, and beaks. Their more reptilian traits include teeth and scales, with scaly integument being distributed throughout most of the body in Ruutian and Ibie'shan individuals. Their legs are sinewy and muscular, and are digitigrade in a similar fashion to birds. They have sharp claws on both hands and feet. Kig-Yar are an omnivorous species, though they were initially thought to be carnivores due to their dentition and feeding habits. Their jaws are lined with rows of razor-sharp teeth; some have far more numerous teeth which bear a passing resemblance to baleen. Kig-Yar have been known to eat the flesh of fallen enemies, as well as live prisoners. Kig-Yar have extraordinary senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Male Kig-Yar possess plumages of spiny quills at the back of the head and on the elbows; the color of this plumage indicates the Kig-Yar's mood. Females of the Ruutian subspecies lack these quill plumages, instead having calloused plates at the forearms and the rear of the head. This thick skin flushes with blood and stiffens, this helps protect the female during courtship: when mating, the male will often bite, chew, and tear at the back of the female's head, neck, and arms. However, T'vaoan and Ibie'shan females retain their plumes, though the feathers of T'vaoan females are much shorter than those of males.
All sources are from , I had to cut quite a bit out to fit the 5000 character limit, I'll have more of these soon