Taming of the Lekgolo

"While some were shortsighted and chose to reject the promise of our union, all were eventually swayed by the knowledge that those who joined the Covenant would be welcome on our Great Journey."

— Prophet of Truth

The Taming of the Mgalekgolo was an event in the history of the Covenant.

The Taming occured during a Covenant Age of Conversion, during their galaxy-wide search for remnants of Forerunner technology. Such technology was discovered on the planet Te, where the Covenant first encountered the native Lekgolo, or Hunters.

History

Hives of Lekgolo were found in orbital rings surrounding their planet. The rings were in fact the remains of an ancient destroyed Forerunner installation. The relics had been the Lekgolo's food for millennia, and the orbital rings around the giant were actually composed of digested-and-destroyed Forerunner relics that some of the Lekgolo had been consuming. Strangely, the Lekgolo colonies had very differing diets, as some would eat only Forerunner alloys, while other would eat everything except Forerunner materials.

Initially, Covenant Fleet commanders, especially the Sangheili, wanted to destroy the Lekgolo for desecrating the holy Forerunner relics. They tried to eradicate the Lekgolo, but found that indiscriminate destruction would have unacceptable consequences: since the Lekgolo lived in the sacred relics that the Elites were trying to preserve, simply annihilating the Lekgolo would have resulted in the destruction of some or all of those relics. It was found that they could be tamed and put to better uses as part of the Covenant Hierarchy.

Thus, those Lekgolo colonies which preserved Forerunner relics were incorporated into the Covenant

Trivia

• The Taming of the Hunters is pictured on one of the 7 Covenant Murals in the Mausoleum of the Arbiter.

Related Links

• Arbiter
• Sangheili
• Lekgolo
• Mgalekgolo