- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: Pewter
The Flood Super Cells can Die, saying a dead flood organism can still be a vector for infection is the same thing as saying a dead small pox victim is still a vector. If the flood super cell was unkillable, then glassing half of Africa would make no sense.
The Beast is no normal virus, it's akin to mixing replicators, Borg nanites, black light virus, and a little bit of interdimensional eldrict horror.(the original beast was picked up in hyperspace). It doesn't use humans and other species as glorified meat puppets like the flood, it breaks them down to form a bio circuit to use the ships it infects. No pure form is going to be able to combat what esentually is a red tinged grey goo.
And unlike the Flood, it doesn't need to infect other sentients to reproduce, it just needs them for food and parts(their tech).
If the flood and the beast were placed at opposite ends of a galaxy, let's say the star wars galaxy, and given a single Star Destroyer each(with crew to infect), The Beast would win hands down.
As for the Prawns/Covie Debate; Doging tends to involve getting out of te blast radius; something Spartans tend to do on a regular basis, books and otherwise. And to be frank, a prawn mech is a lot more impresive than the mojlnr suits(never can remember how you spell that).
Conversely, that mech is going to tear covenant infantry and tanks a new one. It's weapons can reduce full grown men to chunky salsa, it can catch projectiles and launch them back.(admtitly, far less usefull against plasma weapons). It has enough mini missiles to preform it's own macross missile massecer. And it's fairly durable; It was hit by two speedig trucks, possibly hundreds of smaller rounds, took two 20mm Anti Material rounds(fired by what halos sniper is based off of no less), snatched a Rpg out of the air, and it took a 20mm grenade launcher shot to the back to bring it down, with no major wounds to the user.(and one has to remember that the driver in said sequence wasn't a prawn soldier, but a mutating beuracrat who didn't know how to use said mech)
Of course the Beast would infect a Destroyer first, I'm talking about ultimate biology.
The Flood and Beast are ultimately just equals; the methods are different, but they really are the same. Beast infects mechanical parts. Gravemind hacks them with his mind. The Flood do NOT need to infect sentience to reproduce, this is a common misconception. They need only living biomass to reproduce. Anything alive can be consumed, sentience are good only if you have the need to create Combat Forms or need to gather information about a military enemy.
The fight is too close to figure out a winner.
As for the mech: what we do know is the mech can be destroyed by conventional missiles, and Covenant plasma torpedoes and bombs make missiles look like rocks.
Yes the mech is impressive as is Beast, but you'd honestly be jumping to conclusions if you say
Mech>Covenant
Beast>Flood.
You need to consider what can kill both, and what can't kill the other. We know biological tampering does nothing to the contemporary Flood; Forerunners tried thousands of different methods ranging from containment to bio attacks but still utterly lost.
In fact, you yourself said Flood with Forerunner weaponry could likely defeat the Beast. Forerunners had the same weaponry but couldn't defeat the Flood, so....