- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Ogun
Posted by: Bring the Noise
Posted by: Zk315
We don't need a reason. Right now, all the evidence in the Endiku terminal shouts flood. Even the meta tags are saying it. And so, right now, I'm putting all my money on flood. It could change, when more evidence becomes available, but it looks like the story is coming to a wrap, and I'm almost certain they're not going to go through all 25 greek letters. We don't need a reason. We didn't need a reason why Halo wipes the galaxy clear of sentient life to eliminate the flood (that doesn't make sense either, but it is like that), or why the Covenant worship the forerunners. This is no different. Just because we don't know how object A got to point B from Point A, doesn't mean that it didn't get there.
Yes you do need a reason, mostly because there are too many reasons they wouldn't be there. We do have a reason for halo wiping the universe clean. The flood is a weapon, a weapon somebody wants to keep. It's also, as far as I can recall, never been stated that Covenant worship the Forerunners. They could have killed, or locked up the Forerunners for all we know. Anyway back on topic
1)Why would anybody have placed the Flood here? It doesn't add up. Halo was a specially designed weapon. Frigid is a planet therefore cannot be a weapon like halo. Nobody in their right mind would just put flood on a planet where they can easily escape. Remember the other Halos only fire after an intinal firing alerts them the flood are out. One major reason I believe it's not flood on this planet.
2)If not put on Frigid, then how could the flood have made it here on their own? It makes no sense for Flood to hijack a ship and just fly to this frozen planet with no food, and just hang out. Especially since it's close to Reach, with plenty of food for the flood.
There's more but I'm tired. There are quite a few holes in the flood theory.
Let's not forget that the Flood, when they were found, were only carrier forms - the little blobbies that passed on the virus. As 343 GS said, specimens were kept for further study and analysis, a decision which may have been in error.
Why the hell, if the Forerunners designed Halo and the other (minimum) three installations, to cleanse the galaxy of all life, would they keep such viral agents in TWO places? So they can worry all the time, instead of half? More reason to excise the universe of all sentient life?
No, the Forerunner (note - one, as Cortana states when she is in the Control Room the first time) built Halo as a Fortress world, as much to keep other races off, but more importantly, to keep the Flood on it. Locked up, in the prison cells/petri dishes, with no way to get off by themselves. Obviously, since the Flood had most likely infected something else horribly, the Forerunner created Halo as an artificial homeworld for the Flood should they get out, because after their initial food supply was exhausted (i.e. the liberators of them, in this case the Covenant), there would be no indigenous life for them to consume, and then they would slowly startve to death. The only kink in this theory was that the Covenant and Humans had spaceships.
If they made Halo JUST to contain the Flood, then why the hell would the Forerunners store such a pain in the ass lifeform, one that requires the creation of an entire artificial world and weapon system to neutralize them, in two places? It just doesn't make sense.
But then again, maybe the Forerunners lacked that... who knows.
Exactly, and there is no logical explaination as to how, or why the flood would go to Frigid, had they escaped.