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Subject: The Flood

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We Know that the forerunner has destroy all intelligent life in the Galaxy with the Halos, right?
But in Halo CE the flood "awaked" how is it possible? I thought all Life was destroyt.

  • 01.18.2011 2:06 PM PDT

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The Forerunners kept storage chambers to experiment with The Flood. The 'weapons cache' on Installation-04 is actually one of these chambers.

  • 01.18.2011 2:29 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

"Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food - humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to kill the Flood is to starve them to death, and that's exactly what Halo was designed to do: Wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life."

Play Two Betrayals again. Because Halo fires a harmonic frequency that cancels out the nervous system of sentient races with sufficient biomass to host the Flood, the Flood themselves are unaffected because they don't have a nervous system.

  • 01.19.2011 2:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: ajw34307
"Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food - humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to kill the Flood is to starve them to death, and that's exactly what Halo was designed to do: Wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life."

Play Two Betrayals again. Because Halo fires a harmonic frequency that cancels out the nervous system of sentient races with sufficient biomass to host the Flood, the Flood themselves are unaffected because they don't have a nervous system.

What ? Twiggy's response makes sense. Am trying to think out your explanation...

  • 01.19.2011 7:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: TwiggyShip
The Forerunners kept storage chambers to experiment with The Flood. The 'weapons cache' on Installation-04 is actually one of these chambers.





Precisely.
The Forerunner writings spoke of extreme danger when talking about the "Weapons Cache". Previously this had meant there was a very dangerous weapon in that location, But this time it meant The Flood.

  • 01.19.2011 7:18 PM PDT

Posted by: p1Ll3p4lLe
We Know that the forerunner has destroy all intelligent life in the Galaxy with the Halos, right?
But in Halo CE the flood "awaked" how is it possible? I thought all Life was destroyt.
The problem with the flood is that they aren't actually sentient. In sufficient biomass, the flood create a "gravemind" which is sentient, and will control all of the individual flood. I'm not certain, but I believe the installations do destroy the graveminds.

  • 01.20.2011 8:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: p1Ll3p4lLe
We Know that the forerunner has destroy all intelligent life in the Galaxy with the Halos, right?
But in Halo CE the flood "awaked" how is it possible? I thought all Life was destroyt.
The problem with the flood is that they aren't actually sentient. In sufficient biomass, the flood create a "gravemind" which is sentient, and will control all of the individual flood. I'm not certain, but I believe the installations do destroy the graveminds.

Then where'd the gravemind on Installation 05 come from?

It seems to me that there are two theories:
1) Halo kills the flood's food (the Two betrayals explanation,) the flood started to starve and the rest went dormant, some in Forerunner research facilities.
2) Halo kills all life, including the flood. But the flood in the research facilities are protected. This contradicts what we know from the Two Betrayals, but it seems that the former theory has been overwritten by a collection of recent ambiguities.

  • 01.20.2011 7:09 PM PDT

That gravemind came from the covenant. Unlike the previous installation, that installation had been occupied by the Covie for some time before humans arived there. As far as the two theories you've listed go, the first one is more accurate.

  • 01.21.2011 4:16 AM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

It would have been nice to fight and kill Gravemind. Still I am surprised that the Forerunners didn't destroy the flood that were held for study on their installations. Or at least program their sentinels to wipe out all trace of the flood to prevent a future outbreak.

  • 01.21.2011 7:41 PM PDT

I think they planned to continue studying them.

  • 01.22.2011 12:34 PM PDT

Stupid ass washing machine...

Posted by: JB 199
It would have been nice to fight and kill Gravemind. Still I am surprised that the Forerunners didn't destroy the flood that were held for study on their installations. Or at least program their sentinels to wipe out all trace of the flood to prevent a future outbreak.


Well, that's the big question isn't it? Where did the Forerunners go to?

Presumably the new book series will answer all this, but as for now, we don't know why they just took off and left behind a huge series of death-machines and storage chambers full of life's worst enemy that could be opened, as we saw on Jenkins' helmet camera, by mere scrambler devices.

-Twiggy

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  • 01.22.2011 1:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: TwiggyShip
Posted by: JB 199
It would have been nice to fight and kill Gravemind. Still I am surprised that the Forerunners didn't destroy the flood that were held for study on their installations. Or at least program their sentinels to wipe out all trace of the flood to prevent a future outbreak.


Well, that's the big question isn't it? Where did the Forerunners go to?

Presumably the new book series will answer all this, but as for now, we don't know why they just took off and left behind a huge series of death-machines and storage chambers full of life's worst enemy that could be opened, as we saw on Jenkins' helmet camera, by mere scrambler devices.

-Twiggy
It would appear that they simply gave up their position, what is called the Mantle.

They basically abandoned the universe imo.

  • 03.09.2011 3:16 PM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

The rings destroy the Flood's food source, not the Flood directly. Keep in mind that the Flood's natural form are those little popcorn bastards. Without food they simply lay dormant. The Forerunners used their technology to seal away the dormant Flood on 04, until the the Covvies woke them up.

Who knows what went down on 05.

  • 03.09.2011 6:28 PM PDT