- DarkBen64
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: RU551NSP4RT4N
Posted by: FTW 1997
You obviously havnt read what we posted before and btw I'm tierd of correcting people...the flood learns everything instantly...they are the best stratigsts Possible because they get knowledge from their victims...and by the way the flood has quadrillions of ships that are forerunner and forerunner ships are superior ...and we have all agreed that if flood can infect them then tyranids then they are totally doomed ...even if they adopt to flood the flood will find a way to infect them whatever they do...the flood always finds a way to get around the defense ...read all the posts before like I did and then post.Ok lets set some things straight....
I have read everything and all you guys are arguing is that A. Forerunner ships are so awesome they kill everything and B. The flood could assimilate thyranids. That is the gist of what I read.
Flood don't learn everything they discard almost everything except some key things like how to fire a gun or some crap like that. Now look at the Thyranids they learn and adapt they are constantly striving for genetic perfection. Their link to the hive mind is so great that once even a low caste thyranid finds a weakness in something the WHOLE THYRANID RACE KNOWS IT.
The flood do not have quadrillions of ships. There aren't even that many forunners let alone ships.
Most of the forerunner ships encountered during many battles were just regular ships like barges so of those many ships the flood had I wouldn't think that many were actual warships(I may be wrong).
To the people spouting that pure forms were gaint lumbering beasts that destroyed cities. Thyranids have many many huge gaint monsters that are equivelent to pure forms. Flood have to have ships to use so they can infact and travel with. Thyranids don't. Not only that they have trillions upon trillions of ships, they still outnumber the flood. I don't think flood would be smart enough to activated the halo array or make stars go supernova.
tl;dr: Everything the flood can do thyranids do better.
^^fanboy
Okay, so here we go
1) Of course its the gist. You don't post specific evidence and points in writing a gist of something.
2) Congratulations, you just described the Flood. Do you know what the term "macrorganism" means? The Flood is not a race of beings, they are more of a singular, super-creature with one, over-ruling consciousness called Gravemind. That consciousness has no real physical form. The giant plant we see in Halo 2 is an organ it uses to speak verbally, though it doesn't need it.
3) This is where the fanboy stuff comes in. "The flood do not have quadrillions of ships. There aren't even that many forunners let alone ships."
Prove it. The Forerunners had 3million fully populated worlds, and the Forerunners themselves were artificially immortal. The only time they ever die is "if by war or a fatal accident." The Librarian for example was more then 10,000 years old but the only word Born could find to describe her was "youth."
Just as well, to prove the trillions of ships thing, the following passage is describing a Forerunner quarentine system, blockading the Prophet homeworld. "Now, however, ten thousand years after their defeat, the system was surrounded by trillions of vigilants that constantly wove in and out of space-time, sometimes so rapidly they seemed to shape a solid sphere." (pg. 144, Cryptum).
And the Flood used warships as a defensive meassure. They used civillian vessels as battering rams to forcefully infect Forerunner ships, so as not to lose any warships in the process.
4) Well your usage of the word " may have giant monsters equal to the Pure Forms" tells me that they in fact do not have any confirmed to be that size. Under your logic, the Flood suddenly have a monster the size of a planet that flings moons and even stars at its enemies.
See? I can assume things too.
The Flood have their own means of traveling naturally through space. Read Soma The Painter.
Yes. So do the Flood. Trillions of ships/space based weapons. And have you read the calculated intelligence of the Gravemind? If you have and still believe him to be unintellegent enough to shoot the cannons on a Forerunner warship (the weapons that destroy stars) then there is simply no talking to you.
6) tl;dr: Everything the flood can do thyranids do better
Not helping your case, just making you look like a raging fanboy.
Says the raging fanboy.
I can confirm that tyranids do indeed have aliens the size of pure forms, and larger. Look up biotitans.
Next, the 'ship's' involved in the san'shyuum quarantine were not ships, but sentinel like constructs, which would easily be taken down by the mass if tyranid ships both inside and outside the galaxy. They were tiny robot like things. Nothing against tyranids.
The tyranids are also a macroorganism in that sense, as the hive mind has no physical form outside of incredibly elite tyranids such as swarmlords, which are virtually invincible in combat and if killed come back with further experience and knowledge.
It is up to the claimant to provide the proof, so please prove that the forerunners had quadrillions of warships.
Have you ever read the power of the hive mind? All but the most powerful psyker have tried to contact it and died violently.
Tl;dr although this fanboy doesn't understand the claimant-proof concept, anything the flood can do the tyranids still do better. Especially since that without forerunners, the flood is nothing, and the tyranids have psykers, which can screw up any forerunner tech .
[Edited on 08.14.2011 3:04 PM PDT]