The Yanme'e have hard exoskeletons made from a glossy chitinous substance, as well as two pairs of veined wings. The Yanme'e are not true insects, as they do not share a common ancestry with Terran life, but they share many similarities with earthly beetles and colonial insects. Some ideas are conveyed through the use of pheromones. They are also known to communicate with loud shrieks and screeches. The Yanme'e's language is a cacophony of high-pitched clicking or whining from the rubbing of their waxy, leaf like wings. The Queens of the Yanme'e have been described as "enormous" and had to be supported by multiple wingless Yanme'e males. They view the Prophets as "Queens," a remnant of their former hive lifestyle. They strictly follow the Covenant religion and obey any command without question, yet do not partake in social norms due to communication difficulties with other species. Despite this, unlike the two former species, they remained with the Covenant Loyalists during the Great Schism. Much like the Unggoy and the Mgalekgolo, they are a conquered race that was forced into service by the Covenant. The Yanme'e joined the Covenant in the year 1112. The Yanme'e fought for the Covenant Loyalists during the Covenant Civil War in 2552. The Yanme'e were one of the newest races to join the Covenant, and are respected by the other Covenant species for their natural intelligence, obedience, and technological skill the latter skills set has brought them into an often violent rivalry with the Huragok, as seen in Halo: Contact Harvest. Because of this, the Yanme'e can be extremely dogmatic and hive minded something that may have made for an easy conversion into the Covenant hierarchy. The Yanme'e are an eusocial species, meaning their society usually consists of a single reproductive queen, reproductive males and non-reproductive female workers and/or soldiers. After the Great Schism began, almost all of the Yanme'e took the side of the Covenant Loyalists. In jealousy, Yanme'e have even killed an Engineer named Lighter Than Some which was assigned all the drones' tasks aboard the Covenant vessel Rapid Conversion. Yanme'e are often used as mechanic crews on ships when Huragok are not available, though they aren't as effective as the Engineers. The Yanme'e's exact position in the Covenant Hierarchy is relatively unknown, although it is reasonable to speculate that they are higher in rank than Unggoy and Kig-Yar, but lower in rank than Sangheili and Jiralhanae. The Yanme'e do not interact with the other species except to trade and serve in a military capacity. It seems, like the other Covenant species, that Yanme'e share a ranking system from the colored plating of their exoskeletal armor. Yanme'e typically mount small antigravity devices on their exoskeleton to assist them in flight. The Yanme'e are human sized, insectoid creatures that are covered in a natural chitinous exoskeleton that affords them limited armor protection against modern weaponry.
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