Covenant Fun?

Lore Wise, what did the Covenant do for fun? I know there is many beings within just curious if anyone could tell me?

Having a nice Sunday BBQ with human flesh.

In lore Sangheili spend time training, making sure their keep is in order (meetings with local councils etc) and sparring, or visiting their spouse.

Kig Yar spend time with their horde of trophies from their conquests, and trading with other races.

Ungoy trade breathable gases for recreation and mate (although they also seem to spend time with human stuffed toys as well from cut scenes).

Huragok take stuff apart and try to remake it more efficiently.

Jiralhanae don’t have much recorded, but with their culture I would assume they use their downtime to plot on how to become the chieftain of their group.

Mgalekgolo I don’t think ever relax, though a single worm from the colony might wonder off to tunnel.

Yanme’e either don’t relax (workers) or relax all the time (Queens).

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NinjaLegendDoom wrote:

In lore Sangheili spend time training, making sure their keep is in order (meetings with local councils etc) and sparring, or visiting their spouse.

Kig Yar spend time with their horde of trophies from their conquests, and trading with other races.

Ungoy trade breathable gases for recreation and mate (although they also seem to spend time with human stuffed toys as well from cut scenes).

Huragok take stuff apart and try to remake it more efficiently.

Jiralhanae don’t have much recorded, but with their culture I would assume they use their downtime to plot on how to become the chieftain of their group.

Mgalekgolo I don’t think ever relax, though a single worm from the colony might wonder off to tunnel.

Yanme’e either don’t relax (workers) or relax all the time (Queens).

The San'Shyumm probably debate politics or plot how to best become a politician/deity.

NinjaLegendDoom wrote:

In lore Sangheili spend time training, making sure their keep is in order (meetings with local councils etc) and sparring, or visiting their spouse.

Kig Yar spend time with their horde of trophies from their conquests, and trading with other races.

Ungoy trade breathable gases for recreation and mate (although they also seem to spend time with human stuffed toys as well from cut scenes).

Huragok take stuff apart and try to remake it more efficiently.

Jiralhanae don’t have much recorded, but with their culture I would assume they use their downtime to plot on how to become the chieftain of their group.

Mgalekgolo I don’t think ever relax, though a single worm from the colony might wonder off to tunnel.

Yanme’e either don’t relax (workers) or relax all the time (Queens).

I'm glad at least someone took the time to put together a serious post for this. Everyone else is just spamming nonsense for the sake of being 'funny' or trying to add to their post count.

Elites probably have competitive games beyond training. They are a warrior culture but so long as something is geared towards improving oneself it wouldn't be seen as a waste of time. Hunting and other physical activities would also be one the table.

Jackals, outside of pirating and being sneaky and trying to commit genocide against the Grunts...They'd probably spend the time as you said, luxuriating in their hordes and competing for mates.

Grunts, outside of what you said, also listen to human music and watch human entertainment. It is why they're often used to translate human languages and serve as communication analysts, because they're so well versed.

Huragok, as you said, love to experiment with new engineering tasks and exploring new technology. Not to mention the personal satisfaction they get from repairing broken stuff.

Brutes, well, Brutes are easy. They fight each other for positions of dominance in the pack, as do dogs and wolves. Really only the upper pack members are largely safe so long as they continue to project dominance over the others. I'm sure that Brutes also partake in sports, and most definitely blood sports (gladiator combat), both with each other and using lesser members of the Covenant, captured humans and random animals. They also love to eat.

Hunters: Hunters are, as you said, the most alien of the various Covenant species, but we do know that they write and recite war poems and debate philosophy, at least among themselves.

Drones: Drones are very single minded, as you said but not entirely devoid of individual personalities. For example, Hop-A-Long in one of the comics exhibiting enough individual traits that he was able to somehow trick a group of Spartans. But yes, they largely share emotions throughout their hives (getting jealous of the Huragok, for example) so they'd probably be content with whatever they were ordered to do. Queens, being the leaders, would no doubt have individual desires, but they'd probably fall in line with the needs of the hive.

It’s mentioned in some novels that the Covenant would occasionally take human prisoners to kill for sport. There’s also Sangheili “Rubix Cubes”, and Unggoy played Hunting Rock. But outside of their military and religion not a lot has been explored about Covenant lives.