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.

v • d • e Deleted material

Levels	Cortana • Covenant Ship • Earth City • Forerunner Tank • forerunnership • Guardian Forest • The Lost City • Arrowhead • ONI Bog • UNSC Infinity hub • Diamondback • Edge • Icebox • Reactor

Weapons	Bishop beam • Burst pistol • Disintegrator • EMP rifle • G4H-DuSH • Glass cutter • Gravity rifle • Gravity wrench • Halo 4 weapon skins • Harpoon nuclear missile • Hunter LMG • M179 projectile • Machete • Stasis rifle • Grenade Launcher CLUSTER

UNSC vehicles	Cougar • Kodiak • Falcon • Fox Cannon • Hummer • Leviathan Mobile Firebase • Modular exoskeleton • Kestrel • Strike fighter • UNSC Andraste • Motorboat • UNSC Providence • Corporate starship • Medic Warthog • Halo 2 Warthog variants

Covenant vehicles	Chimera • Air artillery • Bomber • Gorgon • Hydra

Forerunner vehicles	Boomerang • Cannon Pod • Socket Tank

Ambient life	Ambient small mammal • Arctic beast • Arctic ice hound • Blind wolf • Doberman gator • Forerunner wasp • Harvest whale • Eel-snake creature • Porcupine • Sky leviathan • Space jellyfish • Space owl • Squirrel • Threeleg • Thorax • Thorn beast • Requiem flying squid • Vulpard • Oxyaena

Covenant species	Alien trooper • Drinol • Keelbug • Special purpose sniper • Stalker • Tankbeast • Drone engineer • Drone sniper

Flood forms	Infector form • Juggernaut • Shielded carrier form • Stealth form • Transport form

Forerunner constructs	Cavalier • Master Intex • Packmaster • Pulse beam Sentinels

Medals	Armageddon • Killed Vehicle • Opportunist

Armor	Halo Online armor permutations • HESA-E helmet attachment • CONDEMNED-class Mjolnir • PRESERVE-class Mjolnir ("GRD" helmet)

Other	Ambient life • Armalite MG UNSC • Beta Centauri • Body bag • Dialogue placeholders • Drill grounds • Halo Wars 2 E-War units • Early Halo 2 script • Forerunner socket system • Halo 4 cutscene placeholders • Halo: Combat Evolved campaign medals • Makura Body • Monitor's garland • Pre-Xbox Halo • Prophet of Disdain • Prophet of Pity • Skulls • SolCore • The Mechanic • Titan • Troop deployment pod • VMX-22

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