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Subject: Why Destroy Halo 04?
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I would say that it wasn't intended for the Flood to be loose on The Halos. The Halos were meant as an ark to save the species before their planets were nuked forerunner s7yle. Now, the forerunners might've had a laboratory to hold some flood, and they certainly had some precautions and ways of containing them (sentinels as one).

Then you ask why did the Flood so easily escape and multiply on Halo? I'd say b/c Halo was basically in a state of hibernation. Few foreunner systems were running (even the sentinels were slow to get up and r unning to help us on Library), and there certainly weren't any forerunner I saw running operations to make sure an outbreak was contained.

IMO, The idea of the Halos were a last ditch, desperate way of keeping the Flood from destroying the galaxy (while the forerunners and other races sat comfortably on haloes). we could say it was a forerunner tool (like saying they could tax species to use their ARKS, or use it to kill of enemies in a deranged sort of way). Either way, it wasn't in their plans to have a nifty anti-flood self destruct on the Ark itself. I don' entirely understand what GS 343's pronouns were referring to when he says stuff like "their survival of a race was dependent on it." I seriously don' think he was grateful taht the flood was alive and well.

(and who knows how the laboratories keep the Flood "fresh" and alive for so long. possibly the spores can be frozen, like frogs, but just not the larger forms which require some way of gathering energy).

  • 08.06.2004 9:10 PM PDT
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Even more reasons the flood could not reach Earth via space:

1: Flood tissue would freeze in space, and when it thawed it would be mush.

2: If radiation kills Humans and Covenant, then it would kill the host bodies the Flood were using.

3: Micrometeorites would turn them all into swiss cheese.

4: The chances of hitting any planet is almost nonexistent.

5: By the time any Flood reached Earth, the sun would have died by then, and nothing would be alive on Earth.

6: If they reached a nearby planet, the atmosphere would burn them up.

I think that pretty much eliminates the theory of flood reaching earth through space.

P.S. I'm not saying the flood could not get to Earth at all, they might get here through Seargent Johnson(He has dormant flood DNA), or a Covenant ship that was infected with flood at ANOTHER Halo installation.

  • 08.06.2004 9:11 PM PDT
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I hope the flood are not in Halo 2, cuz THEY"RE EVIL AND WANT MY SOUL!!!!!

[Edited on 8/6/2004 9:13:22 PM]

  • 08.06.2004 9:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: robwitt69
You're retarded.

  • 08.06.2004 9:15 PM PDT
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have you people ever thought that the flood might get to earth through slipstream space. and the covenant sytems can teleport right into the atmosphere of a planet, thier pretty D@MN accurate!

  • 08.06.2004 9:21 PM PDT
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It's simple really. Cortana and MC share a phobia of giant rings floating in space, mainly because of neck and hip injuries that often occured when they played with Hula Hoops. And yes Cortana can play with virtual Hula Hoops.


Fwahahahahahahahahahahaha, that was fun. I'm a firm believer in the "Wait 'til it comes out" philosiphy, and therefore don't really have anything good to say.

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  • 08.06.2004 9:21 PM PDT
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Well, considering that is WHY Halo 04 got destroyed...no, the Flood will never get to Earth (except maybe through Johnson).

  • 08.06.2004 9:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: NaughtyCalibur
Yeah, but if Nukes grew legs in Europe and were trying to cross seas into the U.S., then we would destroy Europe and only Europe, not the entire planets population.


That's a great analogy. Except for the Halo universe, The rest of the world = the Haloes. The idea I could gather was that if an outbreak occured, the Forerunenrs woudl scour the universe for the systems they knew already held lifeforms of "sufficient biomass" and put them on the arks. Then, they'd fire the Halos off. The idea, is to not shot yourself in the foot. (fyi: The Killer bees escaped from a lab in brazil, for a realworld labortory escape).


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I get the impression from Gs 343 and his recollections with the last Reclaimer things didn't go according to plans.

"Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done? Last time, you asked me, if it was my choice, would I do it? Having considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. . . There is no choice. We must activate the ring."

If the reclaimer was forerunner, and if everyone was safely on the arks, why would he hestitate and ask GS 343 if he'd do it if he were the reclaimer? I think the last outbreak happened to quickly to save the forerunner planet(s). I think the Reclaimer was alone when he made the fateful decesion to fire the Halos. The end of the forerunner? Sacrificing themselves so that others already on the haloes could live?

  • 08.06.2004 9:33 PM PDT
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Whatever happened to simple videogame plot lines where all you had to do was save the princess from a barrel throwing gorilla.

  • 08.06.2004 9:46 PM PDT
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I'd rather be reading shakespeare. . . . . oh wait. I do that anyways. doh!

  • 08.06.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Trasker
Whatever happened to simple videogame plot lines where all you had to do was save the princess from a barrel throwing gorilla.


Thankfully Halo has great gameplay too, so if you don't give a damn about the story you can just skip everything.

  • 08.06.2004 10:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: NaughtyCalibur
Posted by: The Trasker
Whatever happened to simple videogame plot lines where all you had to do was save the princess from a barrel throwing gorilla.


Thankfully Halo has great gameplay too, so if you don't give a damn about the story you can just skip everything.


Lol, only too true. The first time I flew through halo and when it ended i was caught off guard, and somewhat dissapointed by its "apparent lack of story." Not until I sat down and started thinking through it, and going through the Halo Story pages at [url]halo.bungie.org[/url] did i begin to appreciate it. Still, I prefer terminals (ala marathon) anyday over cinematics, which are all but too easy to gloss over (though Gs 343's random comments were great, and the level Gs 343 Flood intro cinematic was absolutely superb).

  • 08.06.2004 10:13 PM PDT

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