- Shai Hulud
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Halo's defense mechanism was NOT activated. If it had been, then everything with sufficient biomass to sustain the flood would be dead. Also, if it had been, the galaxy wouldn't be destroyed: only things with sufficient biomass to sustain the flood. "Lesser" animals and trees still would be alive.
And the Flood can be killed directly. What happens when you shoot an infecion form? It dies.
Since the Flood are so numerous, Halos were designed to kill their food, so all of them would be killed indirectly at once.
The only way they survived Halo's destruction is if they got off the ring before had, or if they can survive without atmosphere. When the blast itself destroyed relatively little of Halo. It only weakened it enough so that it would tear itself apart (due to the spinning motion), and set off secondary explosions. When it was destroyed, the atmosphere that was held within most likely leaked out into space, which would kill anything living that requires it.
They might be alive (the ones that were on Halo), and they might not be. I personally don't think they are. If they're re-introduced into Halo 2 (which, I think, has been said), it'll probably be because of Johnson's Flood DNA thats still in him (Halsey said it won't be any harm, but what the hell does she really know about the Flood? She never studied an actual Flood specimen), or another batch of Flood on another Halo.
Just what I think.