- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
They do get smarter, but they only do so to feed their hunger. I think they comunicate with each other, but only through word-of-mouth (or garble, whatever it is they sound like). They don't steal technology and adapt it to themselves like the Cov do, or they would have armor (elite, gurnt, marine). They are not very strategic either. They learn but they don't test things, or set up laboratories, build structures. They were locked inside a stucture for how many years??? 200,000?? You would think they would get bored or something and try to find a way to get out. Maybe try to build something out of scrape metal or find wiring to short cuircut the locking mechanism. I don't know what they could have done, but the books didn't say anything about Flood technology or of them making anything at all, just that they existed in the structure...waiting. There evolution doesn't seem to advanced either. Personally, I think, that the Flood are a failed experiment from the Forerunner days of old that they eventually couldn't control. The fact that 343 GS said "You should be wearing Mark XII armour for this mission" (I think it was something like that) when the MC is actually wearing Mark I (is that right?) means that the Forerunners weren't that different from us - if at all different. Maybe the Flood was a Spartan program that went terribly wrong?? Sorry this topic has been on my mind for a while, and I just don't think the Flood is an alien race bred to devour the universe.