Be warned, this is an unhinged vent as a long-standing stickler for the franchise. No nit-pick or pedanticism will be spared. I love the Kig-Yar, and their continued neglect in Halo’s media continues to enrage me. I had hopes the new TV series would explore them as a species, seeing the Rubble in the second episode and knowing it’s rich history in lore.
Ah yes, The Rubble, a unique human settlement based in an Asteroid belt in the canon universe which gained notoriety for humans willingly engaging in commerce with Kig-Yar merchants. So why is it that we don’t see a single Kig-Yar in the show’s depiction of the setting? Instead, we’re given a character who has a Kig-Yar name, (as Kig-Yar naming conventions often are single syllabled, like Zhar, Yeg, or Krith.) Yet this character still ends up being human. I’ve already been mourning the absence of T’vaoans for over 10 years outside of the one or two appearances they have in expanded media like the novels. Now it seems like we can’t get any Kig-Yar at all, regardless of sub-species.
Am I alone in this thought? Most likely, nobody ever talks about the Kig-Yar and they’re always swept under the rug in favor of the Sangheili who are still the most popular alien species with the most media behind them and a rather large fanbase.
I think in halo universe that none human that trades with covenant would be bad story.
A they would be hunted down by usnc for their knowledge and their ability to talk to them. You have make reason why they won’t help but willing to trade human race.
I feel if able to talk to one so easily it would ruin story because all question can be answered.
Original lore that covenant planned on getting humans to join but fight broke out and they felt be easier treat us as enemies instead.
If the prophets are openly using humans and letting them onto high charity and talking about their ability to engage with forerunner artifacts, openly.
Then what is the purpose of declaring war on humanity in this series?
If they are not going to conceal the fact that some humans are reclaimers, why did they not offer humanity a place within the covenant?
In the games and established cannon- the reason the covenant declare holy war on Humanity is directly due to this fact, it’s why they relentlessly kill our worlds- to stop the truth of what we are contradicting their great journey.
“And yet you let the humans land on the ring and desecrate it with their filthy footprints” - Prophet of Mercy, Halo 2.
And here in this series they are allowing a human to interact with forerunner artifacts?
If you had even read the novels, let alone WATCH THE ACTUAL SHOW, you’d realize this nonsensical argument falls apart. The Rubble was run by INSURRECTIONISTS, not the UNSC. In fact, the UNSC in the Cole Protocol didn’t even know the Rubble existed until Grey team found it in the first place.
Yeah but the show made it clear people do know about the rubble as Soren mentions it when he was escaping from the base on Reach. So some random brainwashed kid who apparently doesn’t even remember his life before knows what the Rubbel is. Its part of the problem with this series rushing through ideas and concepts.
As for the OP, i dont think Kig-Yar would have made sense in the show’s timeline, as Miranda says they’re still trying to figure out the Elite language the same episode. Now, it could be possible be possible to make the Innies interesting in that they have relations with the covenant, but the very previous episode we also have the innies saying they didn’t believe the covenant existed.
It is really odd using a Kig-Yar’s name for the guy though, like what the heck? Why even bother?
Very disappointed by the lack of kig-yar… generally speaking I feel like the whole tv show didn’t just create a separate timeline to have creative freedom, they did it to avoid respecting basic and simple things about the canon… it wouldn’t be hard to get a lot of these things right, it would just require actually reading the books or at least playing the games.
If they’re going to flat out change the species of a character, I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up making the Arbiter human as well. Hell I’m going to bet that’s what “The Blessed One” is intended to replace. We can’t even have Sangheili as characters, let alone species like the Kig-Yar which get little to no attention.