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Hello all:
I have a question regarding the flood that I figure someone here can answer!
My experience with the Halo Universe has been limited to an enormous amount of gameplay (campaign) and forays into the Bad Cyborg & HIH. I have not read any of the books, nor have I spent much time on Halopedia. I do not know if this has been asked or delved into before, so let me pose a ?
Is the true form of the flood the infection form?
If you think about it, all of the flood forms except the infection form actually arise AFTER the flood has infected something. The Carrier Forms are Grunts, the Combat Forms are either Humans or Elites. If you ask me, there are an awful lot of post infected flood forms for the amount of humans and covies that were able to be infected (and in such a short time!). You have 1 ship, T & R from the covie side, and the PofA from the human side, and yet there are flood everywhere?? Just how many humans survived the PofA crash??
Is the Infection form the only true original (non-taken over) flood?? In the Library there are the glass covered pits in the floor that house some, and of course the fact that they just seem to pour out of any and all nooks and crannies in the walls. You never see any other flood forms other than those listed, nor mention of any virus or such. As an aside, it does seem to be an odd place to house the spores, right in the middle of the area where the critical firing device resides!! In GS 343 there are the containment areas that seem small enough to have been built for infection form sized beasties (although a dozen combat forms could fit nicely as well!).
I do not know why it took me 5 years to decide there was some sort of hole in my Halo world that has just now become a deep itch in my brain, but the ? finally had to be asked by me.
Any answers??