- DonVinzone1
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Posted by: jross1993
Posted by: DonVinzone1
If that is the case, than that sorts out the Cortana confusion as well:
Halo kills Flood....the Flood we see (Graveminds, Combat forms, Carriers, Infection forms, Pure forms) but not the spores.
So in a way Cortana was right: it kills the Flood's "food" (and their physical forms) but not the real threat: the spores.
We see the Flood structures (Which we can hypothesise are made up of Flood Super Cells) on existing Forerunner structures get destroyed when the array is activated.
If the pulse can wipe these infestations, then it can certainly cleanse the spores, which are made of the same thing.
One could argue that those structures were (proto) Graveminds, and other collections of Flood made from consumed sentient life.
And I guess that's what makes the difference in the effect of the Halos: it kills those who are controlling a body which they've taken over, simply because those still have "sentient life" as their main form. Spores on the other hand are not big enough to sustain a self aware conscious, don't control a body of sufficient biomass, which means they have no cells the Halo arrays can destroy.