Keelbug

This article contains information about a non-canonical subject that, while official, is not part of the established Halo universe.

A sketch of the Keelbug

The Keelbug is a deleted Covenant species seen in the Halo 2 Collector's Edition Video. It was supposed to come into the battlefield, cut up dead bodies into sections, and then fly off with them, as a way of cleaning up the bodies. They were originally going to be used in Halo: Combat Evolved as a clever method of removing NPC corpses to free up memory. This race would have been a gruesome addition to the Covenant.

The concept of an insect-like creature as an enemy may have led to the design of the Yanme'e that later first appears in Halo 2.

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Halo: Combat Evolved	Development (Pre-Xbox Halo) • Credits (Original • PC • Anniversary) • Vehicles (Forerunner Tank • Bomber • Hummer) • Weapons (Gravity rifle • Gravity wrench • Pattern-2 Composite Sword) • Ambient life (Blind wolf • Doberman gator • Threeleg • Thorax • Thorn beast • Vulpard) • Enemies (Sharquoi • Keelbug • Tankbeast) • Props (Skulls) Misc (Campaign medals • Troop deployment pod)

Halo 2	Development (Early script • E3 demo • Monitor's garland) • Levels (Anchor Point • alphamoon • forerunnership) • Vehicles (Kestrel • Strike fighter • Cut Warthog variants) • Ambient life (Space jellyfish) • Enemies (Alien trooper • Sharquoi • Special purpose sniper • Drone engineer • Juggernaut • Shielded Flood carrier form • Pulse beam Sentinels) • Misc (Dialogue placeholders • Halo 2 Cut Dialogue • Prophet of Disdain • Prophet of Pity)

Halo 3	Levels (Cortana • Guardian Forest • The Lost City) • Weapons (G4H-DuSH • Harpoon nuclear missile) • Vehicles (UNSC Andraste • UNSC Providence • Medic Warthog) • Medals (Killed Vehicle) • Enemies (Flood infector form • Flood stealth form • Flood transport form) • Props (Body bag) Items (Skulls)

Halo 3: ODST	Items (Skulls)

Halo Reach	Vehicles (Kodiak • UNSC motorboat • Corporate starship) • Armor (HESA-E helmet attachment • CONDEMNED-class Mjolnir • PRESERVE-class Mjolnir ("GRD" helmet)) • Medals (Opportunist) • Ambient life (Porcupine • Squirrel) • Story (Armalite MG UNSC • VMX-22)

Halo 4	Maps (Rejected map pitches) • Weapons (Bishop beam • Burst pistol • Disintegrator • Cut weapon skins • Hunter LMG • Stasis rifle) Vehicles (Modular exoskeleton) • Ambient life (Sky leviathan • Requiem flying squid) • Enemies (Yanme'e Sniper) • Misc (Halo 4 cutscene placeholders)

Halo 5: Guardians	Levels (UNSC Infinity hub) • Weapons (Glass cutter • Grenade Launcher CLUSTER) • Vehicles (Forerunner Boomerang • Forerunner Cannon Pod • Forerunner Socket Tank) • Ambient life (Ambient small mammal • Forerunner wasp) • Medals (Armageddon) • Enemies (Forerunner Cavalier • Master Intex • Forerunner Packmaster) • Misc (Forerunner socket system • The Mechanic)

Halo Wars	Weapons (EMP rifle • M179 projectile) • Vehicles (Cougar • Falcon • Fox Cannon • Tiger Tank • Leviathan Mobile Firebase • Brute Tank • Chimera • Air artillery • Gargoyle • Gorgon • Hydra) • Ambient life (Arctic Beast • Arctic ice hound • Harvest whale • Eel-snake creature • Space owl • Thorn beast • Oxyaena) • Buildings (Drill grounds)

Halo Wars 2	Units (E-War units • Unggoy Hero) • Cut dialogue to add

Spartan Series	Development

MCC	Nameplates

Halo: Online	Maps (Diamondback • Edge • Icebox • Reactor • Sky bridge • Cut maps) • Armor

Other	Unknown game(Stalker) • Books (3rd Battalion 67th Marines • Barry Bizzell • Beta Centauri) • Story (SolCore) • Games (Titan) • Odd link (Ambient life)

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