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{{Quote|I suspect we are forcing the [[Human]]s into a tighter arena than they care to fight in—soon we may be able to use the Sharquoi.|A cryptic mention of the Sharquoi shortly before the [[Battle for Earth]] | {{Quote|I suspect we are forcing the [[Human]]s into a tighter arena than they care to fight in—soon we may be able to use the Sharquoi.|A cryptic mention of the Sharquoi shortly before the [[Battle for Earth]]{{Ref/Game|Id=conversations|H2|[[Conversations From the Universe]]}}}} | ||
The '''Sharquoi''' are a race of powerful creatures that were biomechanically altered by the [[Forerunner]]s to fight the [[Flood]]. While the Sharquoi are little more than animals on their own, the Forerunners implanted them with devices enabling them to be mentally controlled ''en masse'' by a single individual via the ''[[vertex]]'', a central neural interface. Left in [[Slipspace field pod|stasis]] following the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], a number of Sharquoi were later found by the [[Covenant]], but were rarely used in combat as the Covenant lacked effective means of controlling them.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}} After recovering the ''vertex'' from [[Installation 00]], the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Hekabe]] intended to use hundreds of thousands of the creatures in his own plot to gain power. Though he nearly succeeded, Hekabe's plan was foiled by [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]], the [[Surakan Militia Volunteers]] and [[Rojka 'Kasaan]] who [[Battle of the Sharquoi Hive|destroyed the hive]] and all of the creatures within using a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]].{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HEnv}} | The '''Sharquoi''' are a race of powerful creatures that were biomechanically altered by the [[Forerunner]]s to fight the [[Flood]]. While the Sharquoi are little more than animals on their own, the Forerunners implanted them with devices enabling them to be mentally controlled ''en masse'' by a single individual via the ''[[vertex]]'', a central neural interface. Left in [[Slipspace field pod|stasis]] following the [[Forerunner-Flood war]], a number of Sharquoi were later found by the [[Covenant]], but were rarely used in combat as the Covenant lacked effective means of controlling them.{{Ref/Reuse|Envoy186}} After recovering the ''vertex'' from [[Installation 00]], the [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] [[Hekabe]] intended to use hundreds of thousands of the creatures in his own plot to gain power. Though he nearly succeeded, Hekabe's plan was foiled by [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]], the [[Surakan Militia Volunteers]] and [[Rojka 'Kasaan]] who [[Battle of the Sharquoi Hive|destroyed the hive]] and all of the creatures within using a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]].{{Ref/Reuse|Id=HEnv}} | ||