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Posted by: Shinigami117
Well I don't know if the flood is in reach but I do know that reach is before Halo3, Halo2, Halo C.E., and Halo Wars
It's 21 years AFTER Halo Wars and about a week - two weeks before Halo: CE.
There are ways to get flood in there and not ruin canon, definitely. remember that forerunner ruin that despite being right on top of, ONI somehow never found? Perhaps that place is much bigger than what we've been told in the books. Perhaps that place contained flood, which would explain why it needed human DNA to be unsealed (the door). Perhaps our spartans take refuge in a different part of the structure as the planet gets glassed. Whilst here, they are forced to move deeper into the structure when covenant ground forces begin either digging or scouting around.
Think about it - why would the forerunner build a structure that was deep underground, needed human/forerunner DNA to unseal, and only have a crystal which may or may not have a shard of Mendicant Bias contained within? And why the tiers around the edges? My personal hypothesis is that it was some kind of operation theatre where they studied flood, part of a bigger containment structure.
It's possible. not necessarily likely, but possible.