- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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]