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{{Quote|The Queens are scary smart if ONI records are accurate, but they don't think much like humans. Or much like any other Covenant species, for that matter.|Spartan Tedra Grant<ref name="osfm170">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', p. 170</ref>}}

A '''Hive Queen''',<ref name="bc216">''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]'', p. 216</ref> commonly referred to simply as a '''queen''', is the matriarchal ruling caste of a [[Yanme'e]] hive. Yanme'e queens are extremely large, with elongated, distended abdomens and thick legs, requiring the support of subservient males carrying them on cushioned litter for transport.<ref name="ch381">''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'', p. 381</ref><ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/species/yanme-e-drones '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Yanme'e'']</ref>

==History==

When the Yanme'e first contacted the [[Covenant]] in [[1112]], a bloody war began. However, after an assembly was formed among the Hive Queens on [[Palamok]], they decided to allow lower-caste Yanme'e to be employed by the Covenant.<ref name="bc216"/>

While rarely seen among the other Covenant species otherwise, Yanme'e queens were known to participate in some particularly significant occasions, such as the [[ascension]] ceremony of the [[Hierarchs|High Prophets]] of [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]], [[Prophet of Regret|Regret]], and [[Prophet of Mercy|Mercy]] on [[High Charity]].<ref name="ch381"/> During the [[Human-Covenant War]], the scientist [[Sig Raan]] created a device that mimicked the sonic and pheromonal signals of a Hive Queen, although the device was destroyed by [[Atriox]] when Raan turned the Yanme'e under her control against the [[Banished]].<ref name="roa"/>

During the species' long tenure in the Covenant, the Yanme'e came to refer to the ruling [[San'Shyuum]] as "queens", a result of their linear hive structure.<ref>''[[Bestiarum]]''</ref>

While [[Yanme'e]] are individually cunning and moderately intelligent, they can exhibit extremely complicated behaviors when organized by a queen.<ref name="osfm170"/> The Hive Queen controls her hive through the use of sonic and pheromonal signals.<ref name="roa">''[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]'', "[[Halo: Rise of Atriox Issue 3|Issue 3]]"</ref> The queens are at the top of the species' linear power structure and lead over all other Yanme'e,<ref>''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]'', p. 159 (2011)</ref> and all other Yanme'e were subjected to the will of the Hive Queen.<ref name="bc216"/>

 

Yanme'e society is organized around their queens.<ref name="osfm170"/> The Yanme'e lead an aggressively matriarchal society, with all other castes supporting their hives' preservation through the orders of a queen. Yanme'e queens are responsible for the species' [[Reproduction#Yanme'e|reproduction]] and way of life, leading to the well-being of a queen being the uppermost importance of a hive. Most of the Yanme'e's major scientific and technological advances have emphasized protection on the queen and augmentation of the hives.<ref name="universe"/>