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Posted by: annoyinginge
Can somebody adress a plot hole I've just realised? In Halo 3, at the end, you activate the new Halo to kill off the local Flood. How would this work if the Halos don't directly kill Flood?
There's still alot of guesswork about what the Halos do to the flood.
We know from the campaign that the Halo Array kills all sentient life, or as 343 Guilty Spark explained at the beginning of Two Betrayals, it kills all sentient life with sufficient biomass. Perhaps the "sufficient biomass" detail has been ignored by Halo's storytellers over the years.
We also know from the books and Halo 3, that the Ark, as well as shield worlds like the ones in Halo: The Ghosts of Onyx and Halo Wars, were meant to store humans and other species (i.e. jackals, elites) and keep them safe from the Halo Array. As depicted in Origins, these species would be returned to their respective home planets by the Forerunners after sufficient time has passed, or presumably after the flood have "starved to death."
The two things that confuse me are:
One- The plot detail that you brought up, how Installation 04b was supposed to kill the flood.
Two- The depiction of the Array firing in Origins, which shows the Halos killing flood directly.
This is what I think as solutions to these issues. As for the first detail, I think that because Installation 04b was unfinished, firing it prematurely cause the ring to explode rather than fire, causing enough physical damage to kill all life (including the flood) on the ring and the Ark. After all, Cortana says at the end of the credits that the ring "...shook itself apart, and did a number on the ark."
I think the second detail is simply not canonical. There were many canon discrepancies in Halo: Legends which Frank O'Connor readily admitted, so it wouldn't surprise me if the makers of Origins simply were wrong to depict the Halo Array Firing in such a way.