This page will discuss a proper outline to split off Covenant rank articles from their gameplay equivalents, as to better organise and facilitate discussion of both gameplay and lore.

Why?

Because Halopedia's information on enemy units as they pertain to gameplay is crap, and unsuited to the way we do things right now.

How?

This project will aim to split lore and gameplay information into separate pages; this is for a number of reasons, perhaps the biggest of which being the lore vs. gameplay split. Oftentimes, enemy ranks in-lore do not correspond to their gameplay/filenames, and oftentimes valid information has been historically excluded from Halopedia due to not having a valid lore basis. An example of how this process will be managed is given below using the example of the Minor ranks;

Minor page (lore)

Currently, Halopedia hosts "Minor" pages for the Sangheili Minor, Jiralhanae Minor, Unggoy Minor, Kig-Yar Minor and Yanme'e Minor. Despite this, almost none of these ranks are sufficiently covered in the Halo lore to particularly need dedicated pages; the information on their roles and responsibilities is lacking, and across all of these examples almost all are the same. The most prominent differences come from armour designs and colouration, and even these examples have very little in particular to say about them.

As such, given the extreme similarity of information to say about these ranks, it is more befitting to combine all of them into one page, with specific sub-sections to discuss the specifics per-species. An example of this can be found here, with information covering the Jiralhanae and Sangheili in a rough form, though a fully-realised page would also include the other species'. This implementation is based on a similar implementation of the Private rank on Wikipedia, where only specific sub-sections are needed for the discussions of difference by Country in all but the largest examples. Likewise, this would let us properly implement Covenant-native terminology, where appropriate.

Likewise, this implementation would also allow for discussion of the Minor rank as it may be employed by other non-Covenant or Covenant-derived groups, such as Sesa 'Refumee's heretic faction, Merg Vol's Covenant or even internal Covenant groups such as the Special Warfare Group.

The following ranks would be suitable for such a page;

Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Minor (Covenant) Sangheili Minor
Jiralhanae Minor
Unggoy Minor
Kig-Yar Minor
Yanme'e Minor
Heretic Sangheili Minor
Obedientiary (Major) Sangheili Major/Officer
Jiralhanae Major
Unggoy Major
Kig-Yar Major
Yanme'e Major
Heretic Sangheili Major
General discussion of the Covenant's officer corps
Evocati (Ultra) Sangheili Ultra
Jiralhanae Ultra
Unggoy Ultra
Yanme'e Ultra
General discussion of the Evocati and their role within the Covenant
Captain (Covenant) or Captain (Jiralhanae) Jiralhanae Captain
Jiralhanae Captain Major
Jiralhanae Captain Ultra
General discussion of the Jiralhanae's Captain classes; the three sub-ranks within hold almost no notable (lore-based) differences that particularly warrant a whole article dedicated to them.
General Sangheili General The mention of the Generals in the Halo Encyclopedia, page 240, indicates General is not an exclusively-Sangheili rank (albeit likely one predominantly-dominated by Sangheili)


Gameplay unit pages

With the above (page)s handling the majority of lore information, this leaves the specific gameplay pages free to entirely focus on their subject's gameplay effects. Appropriately, these pages would be titled Elite, Brute, Grunt (etc) to help make them easier to find in a context not surrounding lore-based discussion. These pages would likely take on a form resembling the way the Fallout Wiki structures its NPC articles, albeit adapted for Halo.

For example, an Elite Minor page may include;

  • An overview of the Elite Minor's role in each game
  • Game-specific sub-sections with the Elite Minor's stat tables, and descriptions of the Elite Minor's behaviours
  • Game-specific overviews of where and when the enemy in particular spawns (IE variations on difficulty or specific encounters for rarer enemies)
  • Lists of file directories for where the Minor's model/textures/scripts (etc) are located in the game files (for use with the Halo modding toolsets)

For enemies with minor unit variations (such as the Jiralhanae's Captain Major and Captain Ultra or Chieftain and Weapons Chieftain sub-ranks) these can likely be included as subsections on the main Captain/Chieftain (respectively) pages.

Human NPCs

Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Civilian (human) Female, Worker, Worker Wounded (H3)
NMPD Officer and Sergeant (ODST)
Settler/Militia/Pioneer (HR), Scientist and Female Scientist (H4)
Crewman Crewman/ Naval Officers (HCE)
Marine Armored/Assault
Unarmored/Wounded/Survivor
Female
Pilot
Breacher
Scout
Heavy Assault
Sniper
Demolition
Sergeant/Dress
ODST
ODST Female
ODST Jetpack
ODST Sergeant
Trooper
Trooper Female
Trooper Pilot
Trooper Sergeant
ONI Security
Spartan-IV Spartan IVs (H4)

Covenant enemies

Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Grunt Minor Grunt Minor (CE-R)
Grunt Storm (H4-5)
Grunt Conscript and Conscript Needler(HINF)
Grunt Major Grunt Major (CE-R)
Grunt Imperial (H4-5)
Grunt Assault + Disruptor )HINF)
Grunt Ultra Grunt Ultra (HR and HINF)
Grunt Bodyguard Grunt Bodyguard and Grunt Bouncer (HINF)
Grunt Spec Ops Grunt Spec Ops
Grunt Heavy Grunt Heavy (HR and HW2)
Grunt Heretic Grunt Heretics (H2)
Grunt Ranger Grunt Ranger (H4-5)
Grunt Mule Grunt Mule (HINF)
Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Jackal Minor Jackal Minor (CE-R)
Jackal Storm (H4-5)
Jackal Freebooter (HINF)
Jackal Major Jackal Major (CE-R)
Jackal Heavy (H4-5)
Jackal Raider (HINF)
Jackal Sniper Jackal Snipers (H2-HINF)
Jackal Ranger Jackal Ranger and Jackal Ranger Shielded (H4-5)
Skirmisher Minor Skirmisher Minor (HR)
Skirmisher Murmillo Skirmisher Murmillo (HR) and Jackal Skirmisher (HINF)
Skirmisher Commando Skirmisher Commando (HR)
Skirmisher Champion Skirmisher Champion (HR)

Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Drone Minor Drone Minor (ODST and HR)
Drone Major Drone Major (ODST and HR)
Drone Ultra Drone Ultra (ODST and HR)
Drone Captain Drone Captain (ODST)
Drone Captain Major Drone Captain Major (ODST)
Drone Pupa Drone Pupa (ODST)
Page to be created Topics covered Other notes
Skimmer Minor
Skimmer Major
Skimmer Ultra
Skimmer Alpha