- Vasheeth
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Idiot.
Posted by: Shade the 2nd
I was the one who posted that in HBO! My theory was that they either were irradiated from the Fuel Rod Gun or are irradiated by the Prophets to be their unwitting slaves!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHa!
I really did send it in to HBO. I did send in the bit about the Hunters sort of being irradiated to be more obediant, but that part was somehow lost.... (conspiracy theory, anyone?)
Creatures exposed to radiation develop borem's disease which makes it so anyone with the disease is immune to flood infection. Yes, they can have flood stick the dna inside them, but as soon as it hits the blood, it becomes dormant because the host has a more powerful infection that makes it so they are ineffective. I'm not sure why it works that way, we just know it does. Hunters don't have regenerative capabilities because they don't have flood dna in them. Flood can't infect the sarge completely, but it makes it so if anyone gets the flood dna from him, the dna will become active and infect the person. That's why there was the theory about Saregeant Johnson being a Trojan Horse.
It has nothing to do with Hunters being too obedient, because they aren't. They were given the option to join them or be eradicated. They follow the covenant, but if they ever had a chance, they would try to break free. It would have to be a chance where they were guarenteed saftey though. But, they aren't. That's why they don't join the humans. They don't think the humans will win the war, the covenant outnumber them about 100 to 1. If it was a matter of obedience, the elites would be the ones immune. They are one of the two founding species of the covenant. Why would they blow apart any covenant that marines/mc uses for cover against them? Because they don't care about them. They aren't loyal, they joined so they could survive. Haven't you ever been surrounded by a group of grunts only to have them blown away by a hunter? I have.