- FTW 1997
- |
- Honorable Member
- gamertag: [none]
- user homepage:
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Iron Benny x
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I'm referring to point 1, btw.
I haven't read the Evolutions II story myself, as I see no reason to spend money for an entire collection when I need only 1 short story, but from what I've heard of it, in Soma the Painter, Seward is invaded by these Flood "bioships" of some sort. The Flood can definitely create their own vessels (even better if they have a captured Forerunner warship factory) and it would also seem from this story that they can create biological ships as well.
Aha, well, if that's true, then I apologise, I was unaware of this. But, I cannot imagine that these bioships would compare to those of the Tyranids. Nothing I've seen about the Flood has shown that their self-created biological weapons (E.g those weird floating things in Halo Wars) compare to that which the Tyranids can produce. The Flood seem quite limited to gases and fleshy matter, atleast in my experience.
First I'd like to reinforce the fact I haven't read the story so I can't say anything about it with any certainty. Maybe someone else can help you out.
Anyway, it all depends on the Gravemind's available resources and requirements to fight a war. Usually, when somebody puts the Flood at full power, its over.
The Flood is less of a race, but more of a singular macrorganism composed of an "undifferentiated cell type" called the Flood Super Cell, or FSC, that is used to gain biomass. These FSCs can be arranged to fit any purpose, and create any creature, the Gravemind needs to fill any role in the war effort.
Thats why I say the Flood at full power nearly always wins. Its almost a garuntee actually. The city-sized pure forms from Origins are the kind of things the Forerunners had to deal with. They fit the role of siege creatures, built to lay waste to cities (and take the ensuing punishment, even from the impossible power of the Forerunners).
With the Flood, the only one drawback in their biology is available resources because its a factor outside of their control, dependant on indeginous lifeforms. But at full power, the Flood has the entire collective might of the Forerunners mixed with Medicant Bias' and GM's vast intelligence, also mixed with fighting a race with numbers so equally vast the Flood's nature would see it only as an all-you-can-eat buffet. I again refer you to the Star Wars Coruscant paradox. Better weaponry, better defenses, more ships, and larger, well-equipped armies+Flood=mass-genocide.
Except in this scenario its worse because the 'nids and their technology is literally composed of what the Flood eats. Its like covering yourself in steak and running through the African Svannah near hyienna territory. It will not end well.
So the way I see it, the Flood might have the upper hand here.
I agree....
Also if the ships of Tyranids are tyranids themselfs then the flood can take controll of their ships as their ships are alive...