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Posted by: Rolling Flame
Posted by: Tupolev
The reason that they were still alive is that the Forerunner labs were supposed to be carrying out long-term automated study, not because the Forerunner failed to intentionally kill them.
Which means that even if the Halo effect DOES kill Flood, the Forerunner would have set up a system for evacuating and later restoring Flood to their labs much in the way that they had a system for reseeding the galaxy with non-flood life; it's totally within their capacities and logic.
The only problem is that, according to Cryptum, the Flood and other life were already on the rings before they were fired. I can't imagine the Forerunner would go to the effort to contain them, and stick them in the containment facilities, then move them to a safe location, and then move them back to the ring.
How is that a problem? Like I said, they built an infrastructure for reseeding the entire galaxy; that they could built a delivery system that could send a few flood spores out to each lab network is hardly much of a stretch, especially if they think continued research is vital (which 343GS certainly did, anyway; it's pretty clear from The Library that he thought the labs were a good idea and that nobody expected the Covenant to happen. And, to be fair, The Covenant probably wouldn't have been created if Mendicant Bias' dreadnaught hadn't seemingly escaped Offensive Bias 100,000 years ago.).
[Edited on 01.21.2011 11:32 AM PST]