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He's a scientist. And hes making lore videos on KZfaq he has his prioritys in order

A biology degree and a scientist dedicated to fiction now this is my kind of channel

The grunts are literally child soldiers. You're fighting people that are barely a few years old.

The true questiom remains, where do they get the 20 plasma grenades during the "catch" skull

Those poor grunts are basically going to explode if they don’t wear suits

*It not easy being a Grunt*

“BACK TO THE FOOD NIPPLE”

Don't forget about Stolt, the 6 ft tall unggoy that can best Sangheili in melee.

Halo Reach: Have nearly completed a difficult mission on heroic difficulty, only to turn a corner right into three grunts with sticky grenades strapped to their nostrils, who then proceeded to run into my arms at the speed of Husain Bolt.

In regards to strength, it's worth noting that in the novel "Contact: Harvest" one of the first encounters with Unggoy involves one ripping a man's ribcage out piece by piece before being shot. They are definitely strong enough to win an unarmed fight.

Yeah, ungoy are pretty good at learning languages. It sounds like they're speaking German in Halo Reach

Their eye sight might be better. Their planet has a thick aptmostohere so they would need eyes like a lobster to see through it

Grunt:runs away Elite:wort wort wort wort

“RUN TO THE NIPPLE!!!!” “YOU KILLED FLIP YAP, OR YAP FLIP, NO YAP FLIP WAS HIS BROTHER, DON’T TELL ME I DON’T KNOW FLIP YAP!”

In the fall of Reach a grunt uses it's claws to literally tear a marine to pieces and gives the witnesses some severe grunt-based PTSD.

Apparently unggoy children have multiple parents, it's covered in one of the books. I don't know if they only have two biological parents and their species are just polyamorous or if they actually have multiple biological parents. Also I've noticed that at least three species in the covenant lay eggs. Sanghieli, kigyar, and unggoy all lay eggs. I'm not sure about yanmae but as they are insects the chances are high that they do lay eggs. The sanshayum I have no idea.

The classic human defense: our brain. Lol. Nice vid man!

Dude, this channel is amazing. I especially love the Titanfall stuff you've put out. And your general knowledge of the lore of all the games you've covered is quite impressive.

Give an unggoy a plasma pistol, and you shall face the ultimate battle.

6:54 Actually Unggoy are Omnivorous, as in Halo Wars 2 you can hear one ponder about whether some of the plants on the Ark are edible.

A well organized Grunt unit is a force to be reckon with! Dont underestimate them

Finally, a video devoted to my favorite alien in all of sci-fy: the Unggoy! I would love to have a little grunty buddy of my own...

I like how you respond to tons of comments, it's very nice *cough*do xcom*cough*

It’s really cool how youwent from 500 subs winter of 2018 to having over 100K! Love your channel and love hearing the biology behind these sci-fi species

Congrats on 10k. Your channel grew crazy fast

Dude you are growing so fast! Great vid

just discovered your channel, you do seriously good videos, I like biology and love games so i find them very interesting, keep them rolling in, i got plenty of popcorn

As a gamer whose favourite games are Halo and Fallout I've found a new channel that I really enjoy. I especially love channels that really go in depth and analyse games and yours fills a niche. Keep up the good work mate

Just a quick astronomy correction. Star colors move from red - a.k.a. M-class (coolest) - to blue - a.k.a. B and O Class (Hottest). White stars are middle range, typically G and F class stars, such as our sun (Sol) or Procyon. Also not sure where you heard that about the sun, but its actually white and our atmosphere shifts it to appear yellowish to our eyes.

I just found this channel and I'm loving it! Looking forward to your next videos on the other species in the Halo universe.

Just recently subbed to your channel after watching your metro series of vids, your content's really interesting and entertaining to watch. Can't wait for your future uploads!

Makes me want to see some of the Grunts switch sides and see their interactions with humans.

Really like your videos, hope you keep growing quickly!

"would humanity defeat (insert random species)" "yes,but only through the use of their brains" .....isnt that how we did it for the past few millenia

This channel is my new obsession. Bless you

Man if grunts where actually trained well and given good armour and weapons they would actually be pretty strong huh. Would be interesting to see them and humans get along though.

Congrats on 10k glad to see you’re growing

Hey my man you just got yourself a new patron! I love you content.

I just found your content and this is amazing. Keep up the great work man. I love videos you create

Wow, not to long ago I remember you had 4 thousands subs, that's when I subscribed, now you got 10k, good work man, keep it up, I like watching your videos as soon as they come out👍

One of their moons is called "buwan" - a Filipino word meaning MOON Hmm coincidence smh

Your channel is growing fast. Keep up the good work.

Holy shit man, last vid I watched you were on 300 ish subs wtf well done man. Always knew you sounded to professional for your channel size, good things come to those who care about the quality of their content!

Cant wait to see what you continue to produce, Great content!

Ah yes, the video I was waiting for.. Grunts are severely underrated imo

Man you deserve every sub.👌

Great and interesting video! You ought to do some videos on the half life creatures as well!

Awesome work on these videos bro! I love the biological breakdown and explanation. Not a biologist, but I can definitely appreciate the science of Halo! Keep them coming!

6:03 "If an Ungooy were to fall from great heights, it'll pretty much survive" Me: Shoves grunt off a bridge in New Mombasa Results: Grunt goes splat and brains everywhere

You are gradually making subs bro Congrats at being at 10K

I love this stuff, keep it coming

Great vid loved it!!👏🏾👏🏾

Awesome video!!! Have you done one on the elites??

I do agree that Humanity and Unggoy would get along well. In hand to hand well... my first option would be to find a blunt object to bash it's skull. There's a brain in there so rattling it should do enough damage.

I love your content keep it up🤙🏽👍🏽

If you have no weapons, just punt the grunt. #puntthegrunt

I also loved the vid and I am hyped for the next one

I have lots of sympathy for the ungoy . I wish I could free them from their masters, give them a planet to love in and live with them

With Halo 5 grunts be able to punch you, if your low on shields and those grunts coming up to you is something scary to face atm

Hello Roanoke Gaming! I've enjoyed watching your videos, they are a great mixture of lore, game play, and different topics. I've been subscribed for a while now, and i can't wait for your future videos, and I've got a question... Are you going to do a Lore video on the Giant Worm in Gears Of War 2? That's all, thanks.

Dig it! Thank you for the video. If I remember right our blood is blue until it hits the atmosphere then the iron in it turns red.

Thank you for your work

Your videos make me wonder if game developers actually put a lot of thought into their games when it comes to biology and science

Hey Roanoke! Here's another interesting you did not mention about the unggoy, they like human soap operas! I was amused when i heard this. As you said it yourself, the unggoy would actually have a good relationship with humans. I wonder if the covenant splinter war with humanity ends, the grunts would think of showbiz. Inter species media stardom potential maybe?

In the Halo canon its actually addressed that Unggoy win in CQC against humans. The one example I can think of is from the book Contact Harvest and, while they did get the upper hand by ambushing a soldier in a gang, they ripped apart one of the militias under Johnson's leadership.

I want to had several supplemental observation/reflexions on your match-up: I think humans have a way bigger advantage than you think. Equipement: UNSC combat gear is composed of Titanum plates, whic cover the torso, head, forearms and front legs. It's basically an Exoskeleton, that is lighter and more durable than the natural one the Grunt displays. Range: yes, their arms are proportionally longer, but not longer than human legs, that are as stated above for this scenario, covered in armor. Plus the footwear of militaries in general is always durable and somewhat protective (basic combat boots are leather/gum). Kicks are an option, and must I say, "the" Option for this fight. Bonus: what would be a low kick into, say an human lovely bits, would be a high kick in the Grunt's chin, breathing apparatus, or even forehead. Armored or not, I don't see their brain handling concussion better than ours (admitting that the head is as in ourselves, where the thinky bits are) Mobility: there are several issues for the Grunt. They can't kick you, but they can't really outrun you either (way shorter stride). And if they do try to gain mobility with their arms, they lose offensive capabilities; and I don't think they'd really be able to outrun a human even with the added mobility given by their arms, because of my following points. Second: their base equipment is heavier than yours, and they're weaker. Balahao is 0.7 earth gravity: they're basically carrying a 10yo on their backs, while also fighting a gravity that nearly add 50% of their weight. Even if their biology was akin to humans, they'd be at a disadvantage stamina-wise: but actually, their molecular biology is also an hindrance to this battle. They're Methane breather. Ok: it's energy rich, but a pain to make react. I don't know their metabolic rate, nor the chemical reaction that power their cells, but it's clearly not something as "explosive" as oxygene. Besides, the higher cost of reaction also mean their bodies will make less with more; also caping their total activity time. It's the most speculative bit, but it still means they're overall short stacked staminawise. Environmental Conditions: Balaho is a Freezer. It's basically Antarctica. Home Turf for Human Beings (basically anyplace they fight in) will be, in comparison, like say, a Lobster trying to fight you while boiling alive. I do think the breathing apparatuses are also refrigerating equipment; their shape make them look the part to act as heat dissipation tool. Still; they're Arthropod. They don't sweat. They probably only cool while breathing. Which also mean this will impact their stamina. Given all of theses disadvantages, I actually think the Unngoys are incredibly brave and enduring, but very very unlucky: and unlikely to win a one on one with a human, anywhere except on Balaho

I saw a video like this but you said it in great detail 👍

Excellent videos dude. I love halo and these vids rock!

It’s so weird when I find new channels. Like when I found you you had 8.2K now you’re at 11K in less than a week. I’m glad to see this channel grow, you put a shit ton of work into your videos, I’m jut worried you might run out of video game lore 😂😂. And just a possible suggestion for the future, maybe do some playthroughs of games, I think you’d be pretty entertaining to watch especially with Dead Space 😂

Fun fact with the "rip the mask off" thing: Chief actually did that in the book Halo: The Flood (essentially the novel of the game). When he goes back to the PoA to blow it up, theres a Grunt hidden in a locker that shoots him in the back. This annoys him, so he rips off the mask, shoves it back into the locker and closes the door. "There was a loud click followed by wild hammering"

ayyay 10000 subs niiiice, anyway ive been editing a video on hitfilm for like the past three days and im like barely five minutes into the damn thing, how long does it usually take you to edit a video?

Holy shit man you went from a few hundred subscribers to 11k. Congrats man! Also did you see my previous comment? My twitter isnt working any other way to dm you the info

Yooo, I work in the musculoskeletal transplant field and it's pretty cool that you have a biology background. I tend to work with larger bone grafts, i.e. primarily larger bone transplants for cancer patients and such. I'm curious now, what was your course of study and focus if that isn't too intrusive?

God I love the grunts. Thanks for the video.

Holy fuck you're gonna do Warhammer videos??? YES! PLEASE! I love the massive amounts of lore in that universe and to learn more about the Adeptus Astartes, the Eldar, the Tau (all species) and ESPECAILLY the Orks would be immensely fascinating.

For unarmored combat you forgot one thing - their weight. In martial arts it's almost impossible to beat somebody roughly on your skill level if you're lighter and with the ungoy 120kg it wouldn't be a fight.

Unggoy is a Philipine word which means Monkey. Great videos! Keep it up! Subscribed!

I wouldn’t fight it if it was me vs one grunt, I would try telling it how we could get along and if they surrender and come with me they could have all the food nipples it wants. If they continue attacking I’d just run.

Great video dude! Question, where is the clip with the Grunt fighting over a toy with the Jackal? It comes out again in 13:03 and I haven't played a Halo game since Halo 4

I did not get notifications for this video also are u pumped up for halo infinite how did u get so many subs so quick I remember subbing one u had 700

Hey Roanoke. think you’ll make a video like this for the prophets?( if there’s enough knowledge available)

I'd like to see these revisited, as well as some of the others like engineers

That would be a sweet halo story arc,freeing the grunts from the covenant and teaching them.

Nice video! I would NEVER like to meet a grunt in real life after seeing this lol. Maybe a good suggestion is to analyse the lore behind the typhon. That would be pretty cool.

If there's one thing I'd like to see from the grunts in Halo Infinite, much like the Elites in Halo 2-3 is them teamed up with humanity, since the Swords of Sanghelios is a thing and we interact with them in Halo 5.

Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m already laughing in Yapyap

I know the vids old and someone may have mentioned it . But If I'm remembering right, the covenant also poisons their breathing air because the grunts are super smart or something along that lines. But if I'm remembering right they poison or drug them so they are easier to control.

I'm sure someone's mentioned it but I'll be the refresher. An Unggoy once ripped a Marine apart with its bare claws on Harvest - at the start of the war.

a correction: maybe it’s a bit late to mention this now, but a blue star is hotter, more massive and produces more energy over a given period of time than a white star. white stars occupy the middle point of the spectral classes, while red stars are less massive and cooler, and blue stars more massive and hotter. the spectral classes range like so: O B A F G K M with spectral class O being the hottest and blue-est, and M being the coolest and red-est. for reference, our sun (which is white to our eyes) is a spectral glass G (and closer to an F than a K). so if their star is blue, it produces more energy also, the sun really doesn’t have a blue tint, it is pure white to our eyes. this is because our eyes are adjusted to see in the wavelengths of light the sun gives out most. those are basically all the colors of a rainbow (mostly green actually!). when you combine all of these colors you get pure white.

Great vid and I thought that it was impossible for life out of chemosynththetic bacteria to not breath o2

Glad you mentioned to stay out of grappling range. These bastards can heft a Fuel Rod Cannon with one arm. And their melee (H5) is actually pretty damaging. As for asphyxiation....not a bad idea, but it's been mentioned they can actually hold their breath for a decent amount of time. Might kill thm after the battle, but I'd want more immediate results so I don't die.

Can you cover the morphology and adaptability of Brute Wyverns in the Monster Hunter series? I always found them really interesting since they evolve into their surroundings.

I honestly think grappling would work, they're clumsy, which would definitely allow a soldier to get it and just trip it and snap its neck or hold it down

Very interesting topic, is there anything you can do on the other species of covenant or forerunner or even the flood

Hey you should do some lore on the doom guy from the game Doom, but are you a southerner because you sound like it. Keep up the good work my dude!

Yessss moooorre

Taking their breathing tube wouldn't work. Well it would work but it will take a couple hours before they start to FEEL methane deprivation. In the book Legacy of Onyx, there is an Ungoy who loves the smell of fresh air, so she always left her mask at home. Long story short she passed out after class right before lunch. Great book must read. Anyway, gonna have to come up with a different plan😢

All of this science makes me wonder if the designers really think all of this through when creating their aliens

Those those ungoys are so adorable