Lekgolo Collective

The Lekgolo Collective is the government of the Lekgolo that rules over Te and it's many moons. The Lekgolo Collective is an ancient government that can track its roots back to even centuries before the Lekgolo's contact with the. Being a species of extremely social being, to say the least, made it very easy for the Lekgolo to unite under a single banner and the race have only seen very limited war with its own kind. Though as small as their empire is, it is still a very attractive ally for all the Covenant splinter factions as they are able to provide them with heavy infantry, unltra heavy siege platforms such as the, and breaking through computer systems.

Pre-Human-Covenant War
The Lekgolo evolved on the planet of Te, a massive blue gas giant with 25 natural satellites in orbit around it. The lekgolo lived in upper layers of the gas giants atmosphere where they could feast upon the large deposits of metals that Te's strong gravity pulled in from outer space. During the was a massive Forerunner installation built to collect and experiment on the Lekgolo in an attempt to turn them into a weapon against the, some specimens were even shipped off to  for further experimentation. The project eventually proved fruitless and was abandoned and the specimens on Installation 04 was locked away deep under its surface. The war with the Flood eventually came to an end and the Lekgolo were eventually reseeded back on Te in the years after firing of the and the defeat of the Flood. There they went about rebuilding their civilization from the ground.

Most Lekgolo settled on huge rocks that floated around in Te's upper atmosphere while others traveled from place to place with the help of the powerful storms that ravaged Te less than a dozen times a local year. This method of traveling were considered very risky as it essentially came down to throwing the entire colony out over a cliff and allow the strong winds to carry them away and them hope for the best. Over time newer and much more safer methods were developed. One such method was the development of extremely durable airships that allowed the Lekgolo to ride safely through the storms with little risk to their colonies as a whole. This allowed them to travels much further than before and became one of the reasons why Lekgolo society evolved into kingdoms, empires or other forms of nations. Very few wars were ever fought between the Lekgolo so their tools of war did evolve from internal conflict but instead came from the desire to reach the top of the food chain. The Lekgolo were far from the only life form to make their home in the upper atmosphere and as such were often seen as pray for much larger predators that feasted upon them.

It is speculated by many a when the lekgolo became an officially unified species but most sources indicate that it was around 1200-1100 BCE. The Lekgolo, as a unified race, began to focus on completely securing their homeworld from potential threat to their population. Predators that had hunted the Lekgolo for food had become the hunted and many species were driven to near extinction through the Lekgolo's purification of the planet. Near the end of this purification were the Lekgolo also looking for ways to escape the boundaries of their homeworld, seeking to expand out into space. The Lekgolo achieved a tier 3 status around 850 BCE, almost 150 years before their first contact with the Covenant Empire. The Lekgolo quickly colonized the 25 moons in orbit of their homeworld and also settled on the massive Forerunner installation. This quick colonization was achieved by the Lekgolo's natural reliance to high and low temperatures and that they did not need much air to survive for months in vacuum. The Forerunner installation were eventually eaten by the Lekgolo as a slime minority of the Lekgolo thought very highly of the metal's flavor and the nutrition that it provided while the majority of the Lekgolo population wasn't even able to digest the Forerunner alloy plating.

Taming of the Lekgolo
A Covenant entered the Svir system in and quickly discovered that the Lekgolo were feasting on the sorry remains of the Forerunner installation that had by this time turned into multiple rings of debrief around Te. Enraged by this blasphemy the Covenant declared war against the Lekgolo on the spot and sought to eradicate them from the face of the galaxy. The wars, however didn't quite go as the Sangheili Fleet Masters had originally though as the Lekgolo hid within the remains of the scared Forerunner relics. Extremely hard and very dangerous operations were carried out to cleanse the ruins of the Lekgolo at a high cost of lives on the Covenant's side. Most casualties on the Covenant side was actually not direct attacks from the Lekgolo but instead due to depressurization when they fought in air spaces where The Lekgolo colonies simply ate through their armor and into their flesh. All ground based operations resulted in complete and utter failure for the Covenant as the Lekgolo simply proved to much for the Sangheili troops to handle without the ability to use orbital bombardment. It only became much worse when the first and other larger forms appeared in  on the moon of. The Mgalekgolo were large, strong and durable and they were able to overwhelm entire lances of Sangheili With little effort while they fought on Te.