Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: BlueRuby2k10
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Not like they would've gotten very far.
Why is that?
Let's see.
There only escape route would be the Ark Portal and what was waiting outside of it's exit? A fleet of Elite and Human ships. And considering Mendicant Bias had control of the portal's destinations, he could just toss it into a sun or black hole if they got on it.
How do you know Mendicant Bias would automatically know there were Flood, and not just Chief, Arbiter, Cortana, Johnson and Spark on the ship?
And there is no way fast enough for the UNSC to know if the ship had Flood on it or not. You saw how fast the Flood entered into, and spread all over Voi. If attacking Earth would take too long, the Flood could have still spread itself by extreme means, such as launching themselves off of the Frigate, and onto Defense Platforms, ships, whatever, soon having the whole fleet under the Flood's control, and soon, Earth.
You don't give Mendicant Bias enough credit.
Well truth be told, I never read through the Terminals. And that's where I fall short. Still, didn't the Dawn have a Slipspace drive? Couldn't it have just followed set coordinates back to Earth, if not a random location, perhaps stumbling upon an entirely different race to infect? Just exploring all of the possible outcomes.