- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I have the book right now, and it says that Sgt. Johnson captured a crate of Covenant plasma grenades and used them all, which gave him a 1200-rad comulative does of radiation. This gave him Boren's Syndrome, which disruptrs the electrical signals to the nervous system. the way the infection forms take over a host is by matching the frequency with the soon-to-be host's neural system and taking over. Sergant Johnson's nervous system was so boggled, they couldn't match the frequency, and he was no use to them.
About the regenerating ability, it is true. Dr. Halsey's very words are "Further blood tests show his sytem bearing traces of Flood DNA-very much dead and noninfectious, but some gene fragments are intact. I believe this is proof of a failed attempt to possess him. It also appears to have imparted him with some curious regenerative abilities, although i cannot yet fully confirm this side effect.
So in short, he can regenerate