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Subject: The Flood

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So yes I know before the main Halo Canon took place, the Forerunners fought the Flood and ignited the Halo rings. But does anyone know how the flood came to existence?

  • 01.15.2011 8:41 AM PDT

I think in Halo: Cryptum it is suggested that the flood was created by the Precursors to someday kill the Forerunners or that they came from a planet outside the galaxy. I just know that the Forerunner found powder on a strange ship and injected it into animals that humans and prophets kept as pets and that is what became the Flood.

  • 01.15.2011 8:51 AM PDT

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I was thinking that the Flood were made accidentally by the Forerunners, and they tried to contain it but failed.
Posted by: Recovery 25
I think in Halo: Cryptum it is suggested that the flood was created by the Precursors to someday kill the Forerunners or that they came from a planet outside the galaxy. I just know that the Forerunner found powder on a strange ship and injected it into animals that humans and prophets kept as pets and that is what became the Flood.

  • 01.15.2011 9:05 AM PDT

Yes it is spelt like that on purpose.

Posted by: Halo biggest fan
I was thinking that the Flood were made accidentally by the Forerunners, and they tried to contain it but failed.
Posted by: Recovery 25
I think in Halo: Cryptum it is suggested that the flood was created by the Precursors to someday kill the Forerunners or that they came from a planet outside the galaxy. I just know that the Forerunner found powder on a strange ship and injected it into animals that humans and prophets kept as pets and that is what became the Flood.


That was my general understanding as well, however I have not read any of the books so I may just be misinformed.

[Edited on 01.15.2011 9:43 AM PST]

  • 01.15.2011 9:43 AM PDT

Here you go it was actually humans that found them first not the forerunner although it could be wrong because from what I've read people say it was the forerunners not the humans that added the spores to the animals.

http://www.halopedian.com/Flood

  • 01.15.2011 12:33 PM PDT

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They really need to make another flood book, that pertains to their creation.
Posted by: Recovery 25
Here you go it was actually humans that found them first not the forerunner although it could be wrong because from what I've read people say it was the forerunners not the humans that added the spores to the animals.

http://www.halopedian.com/Flood

  • 01.15.2011 6:23 PM PDT

Either the Flood were created by the Precursors to punish the Forerunners, or the Flood are a sort of galactic disease that only the Precursors knew how to avoid.

Of course, Gravemind claims that the Flood are simply the next step in the evolution of the universe, that their appearance is inevitable.

  • 01.15.2011 7:36 PM PDT