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Subject: How did the flood survive on Halo for so long?
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If the rings destroy the food for the Flood, how did they survive so long on Halo? In the Library there is millions of them so they must'v had fresh bodies or they would surely all be carriers then?

  • 03.02.2006 12:56 PM PDT

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The Library kept them in Stasis, but our friends from the Halo universe let them out.

  • 03.02.2006 1:39 PM PDT
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I think they hybernated and retreated back to their lair due to low food. Like a bear in winter. Thy probably began to dehydrate the flood spores and stuff to wait for a person to feed on (Covies who break open their lair) Once they get food they start to spread, and spread they did.

  • 03.02.2006 1:39 PM PDT

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Plus now remeber there was a gravemind on Halo and he can make new flood infection forms when he wants.

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The flood were created as an experiment by the Forerunners, a mysterious alein force more powerful than the covenent. After the experiment went wrong the library was built to study and contain the flood. After that an outbreak spread and the flood moved on to the second Halo where they were kept in places like Containment and Lockout. Anyhow, the flood were frozen in the library and did not require food to exist, then were awoken by the Covenent and began the body harvest..................

Posted by: MC Spartan
If the rings destroy the food for the Flood, how did they survive so long on Halo? In the Library there is millions of them so they must'v had fresh bodies or they would surely all be carriers then?

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The flood were created as an experiment by the Forerunners, a mysterious alein force more powerful than the covenent. After the experiment went wrong the library was built to study and contain the flood. After that an outbreak spread and the flood moved on to the second Halo where they were kept in places like Containment and Lockout. Anyhow, the flood were frozen in the library and did not require food to exist, then were awoken by the Covenent and began the body harvest..................

Posted by: MC Spartan
If the rings destroy the food for the Flood, how did they survive so long on Halo? In the Library there is millions of them so they must'v had fresh bodies or they would surely all be carriers then?

nice point

  • 03.03.2006 5:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: HaloGuy117
The flood were created as an experiment by the Forerunners, a mysterious alein force more powerful than the covenent. After the experiment went wrong the library was built to study and contain the Flood. After that an outbreak spread and the flood moved on to the second Halo where they were kept in places like Containment and Lockout. Anyhow, the flood were frozen in the library and did not require food to exist, then were awoken by the Covenent and began the body harvest..................


About 75% of this is incorrect. There is no evidence that the Forerunners created the Flood (at least that I can think of off-hand), only that they were unfortunate enough to come across them. The Halos were built as a last resort plan to destroy the Flood by starvation, and they were also used to contain and study them. There are seven Halo constructs in the system, and all of them served the exact same purpose, as far as we know. The Flood never "moved onto the second Halo". Also, there is no reason to believe that the Flood were "frozen" in the Library. In the level 343 Guilty Spark, you come across the Flood holding pens, which are in the middle of a swamp, with the Library nowhere in sight. The Flood were more than likely kept in stasis, and it was mentioned in Halo that the "Covenant found something buried" on the ring, so it ws the Coveneant who dug to deeply and too greedily trying to uncover Halo's secrets. The Flood could also have been in hibernation. Or, the Flood could just survive 100,000 years without food, needing a longer period of time to starve to death (100,000 years ago is when the Halo system was last activated).

  • 03.03.2006 10:59 AM PDT
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Same way brine eggs can survive a thousand years or so...

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the flood can go dormant for countless millenia, so they can survive for a while. but then the covenent discovered the library, and released them. and the covenent must have had a big group when they released the flood. because there is alot. -thebrandon721

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On a link on highimpacthalo or a similar site I read that after a period of time combat forms eventually turn to into carrier forms. Surely 100,000 years is long enough? The library being seperate and the covenant not being at the ring for much longer than humans, how is there so many Elite and human combat forms running around? 343 cannot have transported so many humans there, mistaking them for reclaimers/forerunners, so how is there so many? Are some infected forerunners?

  • 03.03.2006 12:59 PM PDT
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anybody here ever hear of stasis fields?
Possible forerunner tech?

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I think they survived because they ate the plants. I think that's why they all look infected on the level 343 Guilty sparck. Either that or they turned to canninbalism...

[Edited on 3/3/2006]

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Yeah but in the library itsself there is no plants and if they turned canibalistic there would be none left.

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The Rings don't kill Flood, they kill their food. In other words us and every other life form with enough "mass" to make a suitable host for the flood.

  • 03.18.2006 3:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: King Yayap
I think they survived because they ate the plants. I think that's why they all look infected on the level 343 Guilty sparck. Either that or they turned to canninbalism...


^^ I dont think they ate the plants and if they were cannibals we wouldnt have much of a problem fighting them,they'd be eating each other..

[Edited on 3/19/2006]

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its just a game it doesnt have to make sense as long as you can kill them its a good game

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Jimmy Magnaum is right. The Flood were dormant for thosands of years, then the Covenant let them out. They live underground, that's how they got to the Pillar of Autumn. They came out of air shafts or tunnels that kept them underground, then entered the Autumn through its much-abused hull. The seven Halos work as a team, and the Forerunners built Halo as a last defense. The stations, like the one at Thershold, in the Arbiter Halo 2 level, were built before the rings. The last activation was 100,000 years ago, and 343 Gulity Spark is 101,217 years old.

  • 03.19.2006 12:56 PM PDT

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to the guy wondering about why theres so many combat forms: Bungie has to have enemies, and it wouldnt be much fun being in a level with 3 or 4 human combat flood would it? So its just a way to have a body count.

  • 03.19.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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They ate grass. why do you think the land is so barren?

  • 03.20.2006 7:26 PM PDT
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Maybe they ate each other...!!

O.o

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its just a game it doesnt have to make sense as long as you can kill them its a good game


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Posted by: King Yayap
I think they survived because they ate the plants. I think that's why they all look infected on the level 343 Guilty sparck. Either that or they turned to canninbalism...


ok dudes this is a work of SCIENCE FICTION

it is possible for alien lifeforms to exist, that need not eat. just because the rings are for "killing their food", food doesnt have to be taken literally. also, its possible that they could recycle all waste material, potentially living off of one meal forever.

and GET THIS! i have contemplated long and hard for very many years. the only flood to survive stasis for so long were the infection forms, OR some other not-mentioned form, some kind of spore (in halo 2, and the very beginning of the level "oracle" there is a tank in the middle of the first room. inside are these little things swimming around, even smaller than infection forms, but extremely similar.) when the covenent released the flood, the infection forms took over the bodies of the elites, and then some humans... IF THE COMBAT FORMS WERE TRAPPED FOR MILLENIA, WHY IN HELL WOULD THEY LOOK SO MUCH LIKE HUMANS AND ELITES?!?!?!
its simple. the only flood that existed before the covenant got there, were either infection forms, or these spore-like creatures

oh yeah in the halo 2 level "sacred icon" part of the level is enveloped by clouds of green stuff. THIS is also the spore i am referring to.

also-i think this was mentioned in the books-when a combat form is mangled beyond use, it grows infection forms inside, thus becomming a carrier.

everything i posted here is backed up by text in the books, and a few other places, but it is common logic---especially the part about the flood being old dead elites.


also! the flood, just because they are a dank infestion, dont HAVE to be dumb. they are obviously somehow remotely-controlled by the Gravemind...
"they are all one body and one mind"

[Edited on 3/22/2006]

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About 75% of this is incorrect. There is no evidence that the Forerunners created the Flood (at least that I can think of off-hand), only that they were unfortunate enough to come across them. The Halos were built as a last resort plan to destroy the Flood by starvation, and they were also used to contain and study them. There are seven Halo constructs in the system, and all of them served the exact same purpose, as far as we know. The Flood never "moved onto the second Halo". Also, there is no reason to believe that the Flood were "frozen" in the Library. In the level 343 Guilty Spark, you come across the Flood holding pens, which are in the middle of a swamp, with the Library nowhere in sight. The Flood were more than likely kept in stasis, and it was mentioned in Halo that the "Covenant found something buried" on the ring, so it ws the Coveneant who dug to deeply and too greedily trying to uncover Halo's secrets. The Flood could also have been in hibernation. Or, the Flood could just survive 100,000 years without food, needing a longer period of time to starve to death (100,000 years ago is when the Halo system was last activated).






thats a good point but if u look on halo two at the end and u count the rings there are seven but i think there were 8 because mc destroyed the eighth halo ring in halo 1 i dont know?

  • 03.24.2006 5:51 AM PDT
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Infection forms can survive w/o food for thousands of years. Combat forms do become carriers, but only after they've become to damage/mutilated to be of any use in combat anymore. They don't just change into them over time, just like infection forms don't just change into combat forms over time.

  • 03.24.2006 7:51 AM PDT

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