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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Syn AngelFire
If radiation and biological attacks don't effect the flood or Gravemind, I say stop it from communicating.
The flood works by following instructions from its "central intelligence" or Gravemind. If you could isolate how the Gravemind communicates with its infections forms, then you could possibly stop the flood. With no communication, the infection forms would revert to baser instincts such as the drive for food (infecting anything and everything). But, with no ulterior motive, the flood would eventually hit a glass ceiling.
We know that the Gravemind doesn't just try to infect everything, because it tries to stop any attempt at destroying the flood. So, this means a flood that is unable to communicate would not know what is going on halfway across the galaxy. Sure they could still infect things local to them, but their motivations would be different. They would most likely be unable to accomplish meaningful tasks that would help their species evolve or adapt. They would just infect.
In essence, stop communication, stop the flood.
The problem with this is Gravemind literally IS the Flood. He exists on a superior plane of consciousness that allows him to control a biological "body" such as the Flood. I'm not exaggerating when I say that trying to cut off the Gravemind from the Flood would effectively be the same exact thing as trying to cut your consciousness off from your physical body.
The only way to stop the Flood is quite literally to starve them to death. Nothing else works against them perminantly.
True, killing the Gravemind will just make things slower, the flood will fall back into a feral state and begin to infect as much as they can, slowly forming a proto-Gravemind and then when enough mass has been achieved, a Gravemind will be made again.