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Subject: Halo:The Flood questions. *SPOILERS*

So, today I had just finished the book The Flood and I had to reread a few of the last pages. The fact that everyone just died and it ended so abruptly just felt so poorly written. What exactly happened to the TaR to make it go down? Did McKay kill Jenkins with the grenade or did she blow up the line she was told was a very weak point in the ship?

Either way, I felt the book was extremely repetitive and got boring at times while reading about the Cheif.

So tell me, What did you like or dislike the book? Any questions I'll try my best to answer.

[Edited on 06.04.2011 10:33 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2011 10:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

I think it was one of the better books because i knew exactly what was going on and where. i remember when i was young reading the book and playing the game at the same time so i understood it better.

I loved that.

  • 06.04.2011 10:35 AM PDT


Posted by: grey101
I think it was one of the better books because i knew exactly what was going on and where. i remember when i was young reading the book and playing the game at the same time so i understood it better.

I loved that.


Thats exactly how I felt. When I first played CE I was way too young to understand the in depth storyline. When I went back and played it today, it was so great knowing why everything happened and how.

  • 06.04.2011 10:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

Then why are you knocking the book?

Everybody died because the ship had to be destroyed due to being contaminated.

  • 06.04.2011 10:40 AM PDT

After the flood attacked the engine room, she understood Jenkin's warnings. If they took the ship off the ring without sterilizing the entire ship, they would have a risk of flood escape.

The commander was so glory-be-mine bent that he was blind to the fact he was wanting to doom Earth with "live specimens" of the flood, and the prophet.

So she tossed a grenade into the engine line, cutting control(I think, or power) to most of the ship, causing it to crash and burn.

  • 06.04.2011 10:41 AM PDT


Posted by: grey101
Then why are you knocking the book?

Everybody died because the ship had to be destroyed due to being contaminated.


Yes, but the intent of Silva was to bring the ship back and not destroy it. My question is, did McKay let Jenkins free to destroy the line or did she do it herself? And I'm not knocking the book, the things I pointed out were the only things wrong with the book in my eyes.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


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Posted by: grey101
Then why are you knocking the book?

Everybody died because the ship had to be destroyed due to being contaminated.


Yes, but the intent of Silva was to bring the ship back and not destroy it. My question is, did McKay let Jenkins free to destroy the line or did she do it herself? And I'm not knocking the book, the things I pointed out were the only things wrong with the book in my eyes.


She did it herself.

  • 06.04.2011 10:44 AM PDT

I feel that if he had changed that part of the story line, it would have been much better if they had overthrown Silva and escaped while remotely destorying the ship. I know that wouldn't be really Canon, but wouldn't it be possible for them to get stranded on part of the ring that hadn't been destoryed?

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


Posted by: X Arcan3 fury X
I feel that if he had changed that part of the story line, it would have been much better if they had overthrown Silva and escaped while remotely destorying the ship. I know that wouldn't be really Canon, but wouldn't it be possible for them to get stranded on part of the ring that hadn't been destoryed?


He created that part therefore he couldn't change it, any only people that have read the books even know about it anyway.
And i like the original way better than yours, not everything needs to be dramatic or survive people do die.

Impossible, the sections wouldn't have life support far as we know, not to mention they wouldn't have gravity.

  • 06.04.2011 10:52 AM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?


Posted by: grey101

Posted by: X Arcan3 fury X
I feel that if he had changed that part of the story line, it would have been much better if they had overthrown Silva and escaped while remotely destorying the ship. I know that wouldn't be really Canon, but wouldn't it be possible for them to get stranded on part of the ring that hadn't been destoryed?


He created that part therefore he couldn't change it, any only people that have read the books even know about it anyway.
And i like the original way better than yours, not everything needs to be dramatic or survive people do die.

Impossible, the sections wouldn't have life support far as we know, not to mention they wouldn't have gravity.

Well, there would be the station on Treshold. (Where heretics were) Would have been interesting in Halo 2. Instead of "Sentinels working with heretics" we would get "WTF! Holy guardians work with humans!!111!"

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  • 06.04.2011 11:15 AM PDT


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Posted by: grey101

Posted by: X Arcan3 fury X
I feel that if he had changed that part of the story line, it would have been much better if they had overthrown Silva and escaped while remotely destorying the ship. I know that wouldn't be really Canon, but wouldn't it be possible for them to get stranded on part of the ring that hadn't been destoryed?


He created that part therefore he couldn't change it, any only people that have read the books even know about it anyway.
And i like the original way better than yours, not everything needs to be dramatic or survive people do die.

Impossible, the sections wouldn't have life support far as we know, not to mention they wouldn't have gravity.

Well, there would be the station on Treshold. (Where heretics were) Would have been interesting in Halo 2. Instead of "Sentinels working with heretics" we would get "WTF! Holy guardians work with humans!!111!"


Big discussion if the heretics would work alongside the humans.

And the fact I believe the heretics started after a group of Elites found 343 post-halo go boom.

And the marines wouldn't have known about it. :X

  • 06.04.2011 11:19 AM PDT