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Subject: So, about the Cure to the Flood...

How exactly would it reduce the Flood's numbers? Cryptum describes humans infecting themselves with a set of destructive genes, and then putting themselves as bait for the Flood. Now, unless the method of infection was different than what we have encountered in other media, wouldn't the genes only affect the infection form? How would it spread to eliminate the Flood?

  • 01.19.2011 9:32 PM PDT

"It is done. By my hands. The pyrrhic solution is ignited. All I have left is the quiet of space to lull me to sleep.
I will dream of you." - The Didact

Given the fact that the Forerunners never figured out that answer, and that the novel is from a Forerunner's perspective, I highly doubt anyone, within the book's canon or in real life, will ever know.

  • 01.19.2011 10:41 PM PDT

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It might had worked the same way the original flood did, the flood we know of today took awhile to be made from its host, I think cuz idr. The humans could had set the traits to multiply as the flood expanded (they like to share traits to make stronger flood) as the genes spread it would slowly show up like a computer virus effectively shutting down the host.

Idk I'll edit when I reread the book

  • 01.19.2011 11:02 PM PDT

The Flood seem to share a neural link of some sort. Perhaps the genes hi-jack this and utilise it to kill the Flood.

It could be anything. We'd need to know more about their biological make-up before even being able to post strong theories.

  • 01.20.2011 12:23 AM PDT

I'll remain a soldier until the war is won.

"Using genetic engineering, a third of the human population was altered to carry a set of specially designed genes. This group of humans was then allowed to become infected by the Flood. Once the genes were exposed to Flood DNA, they triggered a cascade of cell destruction that spread throughout all Flood biomatter. The majority of the Flood died off as a result, although they would return in full force ten thousand years later."
~Halopedian

  • 01.20.2011 8:10 AM PDT

Oh hey there

Posted by: petarded2
It's a metaphor for the 07s' lack of identity. too old to be newfa­g, yet too new to be oldfa­g, we wander b.net in search of a home, forever trying to be something we are not.

We don't really have a lot of information about it. But I think, and this could be completely wrong, that it might have something to do with the link between all the Flood forms and the Gravemind. Perhaps when a human infected with the cure is infected by the Flood it spreads through that link.

  • 01.20.2011 8:13 AM PDT