By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Posted by: SkyGuy182
I'll go ahead and give the answer from the book, despite all the awesomley funny comments.
Johnson had a disease that comes about from too much exposure to plasma radiation. This happened because he and several marines gained control of a crate of Covenant Plasma Grenades years before, used them all, and got a whole heck of a lot radiation poisoning. As a side effect, Johnson's nervous system became messed up, and the Flood rendered it useless (the Flood infect people by and thrive on the nervous system of sentient creatures). As a result, the Flood got rid of Johnson, and he got away on a Pelican before Halo blew.
How do I know all this? Because I'm a fan who read the books and had too much time on his hands. So call me a nerd....you're probably right!It's actually because he was a Spartan 1. That was just a cover story for the side effects.
Indeed. Boren's Syndrome was made up by ONI to cover up the identities of the ORION Project's (Spartan-I) members. It was really Johnson's augmentations that made the Flood incapable of infecting him.