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Posted by: grey101
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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
Well the Forerunner weren't absolutely sure starvation would even work against The Flood. Not only that, but the Forerunner cataloged the Flood and kept them locked up in Instillation 04 and 05 for study. No one knows if they did the same on the other Halos.
That's interesting that the Forerunner were unsure if it would even work. You know, the Forerunner became really lazy during the Forerunner-Flood war apparently.
Not lazy, desperate. They ran out of options with the Flood since they had underestimated them and let them spread at the beginning of the war, towards the end it came to a point where the Forerunners would sacrifice their own planets and make solar systems collapse just to beat the Flood, since they had Mendicant Bias on their side.
True, bad wording on my part. I just never understood why they would underestimate something that serious. From what I've read about Cryptum, they saw what it did to the humans and how serious the Flood were.
The Forerunner seem to have an air of overconfidence to me, so perhaps since they never really had to try that hard against an enemy, the Flood just overwhelmed them. Still though, 300 years and it ended in a last resort. It just baffles me.
Read cryptum again, that was told from the didacts point of view on the situation. He quickly says after that most forerunners though the flood was a mad up lie to justify what the humans "did to them". Which is why bornstellers mother though of it to be some old stellar disease.
The forerunners didn't care for the flood because they though "if the mere apes could beat them so can we" while in reality the misguided use of this "mantle" along with politics held them back. Which is why the master builder went berserk after the elder san shyuum said the san shyuum that knew the cure was recently killed. This is another reason why they didn't kill the humans completely (which they would have done other wise).
The reason it ended in a last resort is because (as of now) the only forerunners that took the flood seriously were the librarian and didact. The builders just saw it as a perfect way to ensure their political dominance.
Had the forerunners not fought a secret war,used all of their military might,and paid attention from the start; they would have won no problem.
Another issue is the gross "misuse" of this "mantle". Interesting how it would have been perfectly fine to outright exterminate humanity for pretty much no reason yet they couldn't kill the flood due to the mantle.
They deserved it.
Wow, thanks, you really know your stuff. I haven't read Cryptum at all but it's definitely on my Christmas list, trust me, lol. I still wonder though if the Flood are being starved, how long does it take for them to die?
Eldor Thug 37 also made a point about if the Flood are made of the same materials as their hosts, why aren't they killed by the firing of the Array? Are the hosts' spinal cords assimilated into something else or some other reason?