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.

The keelbug is mentioned in the description of the Bleached Bone armor coating for Halo Infinite.

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Halo: Combat Evolved	Development (Pre-Xbox Halo) • Credits (Original • PC • Anniversary) • Vehicles • Weapons • 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 • 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 • Headhunter • 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) • Ambient life (Porcupine • Squirrel)

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	Cut units • Ambient life (Arctic Beast • Thorn beast) • Buildings

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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