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*[[Requires Adjustment]]<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 252''</ref> | *[[Requires Adjustment]]<ref>'''Halo: Glasslands''', ''page 252''</ref> | ||
*[[Sometimes Sinks]]<ref name="md113">'''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]''', ''page 113''</ref> | *[[Sometimes Sinks]]<ref name="md113">'''[[Halo: Mortal Dictata]]''', ''page 113''</ref> | ||
*[[Roams Alone]]<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 3, ''page 36'' (Google Play edition)</ref> | |||
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{{Quote|I don't exactly understand how the Huragok work—no surprise there—but they can fix just about anything you can break. They can also hook up to just about any kind of computer hardware in the galaxy. Forerunner, Covenant, and even human.|[[Edward Buck]]}} | {{Quote|I don't exactly understand how the Huragok work—no surprise there—but they can fix just about anything you can break. They can also hook up to just about any kind of computer hardware in the galaxy. Forerunner, Covenant, and even human.|[[Edward Buck]]}} | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
The Huragok were created by the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Builder]]s prior to the first activation of the [[Halo Array]] with nanocellular technology to serve as maintenance, repair, and enhance engineers.<ref name="Bestiarum"/><ref name="bc78">'''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]''', ''pages 78-79'' (Google Play edition)</ref> They served as "servant-tools" to the Builders, the highest [[rate]] in Forerunner society. The [[Lifeworker]]s also employed a type of Huragok specializing in living things and medicine rather than machinery.<ref>'''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]'''</ref> | The Huragok were created by the [[Forerunner]]s' [[Builder]]s prior to the first activation of the [[Halo Array]] with nanocellular technology to serve as maintenance, repair, and enhance engineers.<ref name="Bestiarum"/><ref name="bc78">'''[[Halo: Broken Circle]]''', ''pages 78-79'' (Google Play edition)</ref> They served as "servant-tools" to the Builders, the highest [[rate]] in Forerunner society. The [[Lifeworker]]s also employed a type of Huragok specializing in living things and medicine rather than machinery.<ref>'''[[Halo: Hunters in the Dark]]'''</ref> Huragok often served aboard semi-automated maintenance stations, including a number of facilities within the [[San'Shyuum]] [[San'Shyuum home system|home system]]. They were rarely accorded personhood in Forerunner society, and some found their anaerobic metabolism and gas bladders disgusting. For this reason, they were never allowed in public.<ref name=c144>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 144''</ref> The Huragok were formally classified as a rate like the [[ecumene]]'s Forerunner citizens; in modern human [[Translation software|translations]], this rate is referred to as "Engineers", echoing the creatures' human name. Unlike Forerunners, however, the Huragok were excluded from decision-making and were not represented in bodies such as the [[Ecumene Council]] or the [[Capital Court]].<ref>'''Halo: Cryptum''', ''page 298'' (''"Thus were all the rates represented, except for the Engineers, of course."'')</ref><ref group="note">In ''Halo: Cryptum'', [[IsoDidact|Bornstellar]] states that all rates, "except for the Engineers", were represented in the Capital Court. While the Huragok are previously referred to by their Covenant name in the novel, the supposed rate of "Engineers" does actually refer to the Huragok as opposed to a hitherto unmentioned class of Forerunners. This is clearly indicated by the context in the novel as well as [http://www.gregbear.com/blog/display.cfm?id=7626 a later clarification] by ''Forerunner Saga'' author [[Greg Bear]]. The ''Halo: Cryptum'' [[Halo: Cryptum/Glossary|pre-release glossary]] on Halo Waypoint refers to the [[plasma jockey]]s as "Engineers", seemingly suggesting they are part of the Engineer rate; however, the term "engineer" is not capitalized in the novel in reference to the plasma jockeys, who are instead implied to be part of the [[Miner]] rate. Thus, the reference in the glossary can be understood as a typographical error or a misinterpretation.</ref> | ||
Being mechanical structures rather than organic life forms, they survived the activation and some remained aboard various [[M-series facility|M-series facilities]].<ref name="Bestiarum"/> Several were left within one of the Forerunners' [[shield world]]s, [[Trevelyan|Shield World 006]], and would remain there for the next 100,000 years.<ref name="gl191"/> | Being mechanical structures rather than organic life forms, they survived the activation and some remained aboard various [[M-series facility|M-series facilities]].<ref name="Bestiarum"/> Several were left within one of the Forerunners' [[shield world]]s, [[Trevelyan|Shield World 006]], and would remain there for the next 100,000 years.<ref name="gl191"/> | ||
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Though the inner workings of an Huragok's internal macroscopic biology remain a mystery, it is known that they are capable of using the gas sacks that keep them afloat for [[Wikipedia:Anaerobic respiration|anaerobic respiration]]. This method is painful, dangerous, and apparently only used as a last resort.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page ??''</ref> Despite their buoyant nature and graceful, fragile appearance, Huragok are quite strong. When nearby individuals tamper with or endanger Forerunner technology, they are capable of using moderate to extreme force to deter them; [[Prone to Drift|one Huragok]] threw [[Jul 'Mdama]] across a room when the latter was in danger of activating a malfunctioning slipspace portal.<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page ??''</ref> | Though the inner workings of an Huragok's internal macroscopic biology remain a mystery, it is known that they are capable of using the gas sacks that keep them afloat for [[Wikipedia:Anaerobic respiration|anaerobic respiration]]. This method is painful, dangerous, and apparently only used as a last resort.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page ??''</ref> Despite their buoyant nature and graceful, fragile appearance, Huragok are quite strong. When nearby individuals tamper with or endanger Forerunner technology, they are capable of using moderate to extreme force to deter them; [[Prone to Drift|one Huragok]] threw [[Jul 'Mdama]] across a room when the latter was in danger of activating a malfunctioning slipspace portal.<ref>'''Halo: The Thursday War''', ''page ??''</ref> | ||
[[Lifeworker]] Huragok are a specialized type of Huragok specializing in medicine. They are outwardly distinct from the normal Builder Huragok by their green color and lack of bioluminescence.<ref>'''Halo: Last Light''', Chapter 28, ''pages 118, 120'' (Google Play edition)</ref> | |||
===Reproduction and life cycle=== | ===Reproduction and life cycle=== | ||
