- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Severus
Remember its not like a destructive force in the way we would think a destructive force would act. This doesnt kill anything with a sufficient biomass, it would vaporize it! The flood can still survive on dead bodies for a short period of time (now all the nerds are gonna yell at me)
The Flood cannot bond to someone that has Boren's Synrome, a neurological disorder caused by plasma radiation that scrambles your neural signals. An energy pulse that causes this would make all the flood's potentional victims unable to be transformed and thus "inedible"(and kill all affected)
My question is, why not build the halo's to kill the flood instead of everything?
Simple answer. They weren't. The Halos, I'm convinced, were not designed to kill the Flood. In the game no one ever specifically confirmed that the Halos were designed to kill the flood. They do happen to accomplish that effect however.
There's no way the Forerunner, could build fortress worlds while battling the Covenant. The Floodexpand too fast, they're too powerful. They are a tidal wave. I think the Halos were already in contstruction when the Flood showed up.
See my Forerunner-Covenant post for my full conjecture.