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-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.
Posted by: Ktan Dantaktee
First of all, that ship crashing was a desperate attempt,
More excuses. Shouldn't matter if a single spore could supposedly destroy a species.
had the Gravemind gotten enough time to come up with a strategy and use his more powerful Flood forms, Earth would be completely under Flood control.
What more powerful Flood forms? More powerful than the pure Flood forms? Like what? And what could be more effective than sending an entire Covenant ship filled to the brim with Flood?
He didn't anticipate that 2/3 of Earth's army would be in that exact area,
You don't know that. In fact, the slipspace drives on Covenant ships are extremely precise. It's more probable that he sent them to that exact spot in order to assault and distract their forces. After all, his main objective wasn't Earth.
he didn't expect for the Sangheili to show up, and he didn't have powerful enough Combat Forms to take Voi.
Again, it's more probable that he fully expected that and what more powerful forms are you suggesting than Pure forms?
I'm talking about the Flood that fought the Forerunners and nearly won, the Flood that could rip tanks apart, the Flood that could bring battleships out of the sky.
He used the most powerful forms that were established in the canon at the time and he didn't take Earth. And again I point you towards the original comment, which is not even dealing with numbers of Flood, but a single Spore. Even a larger scale infestation was contained, completely refuting the single Spore statement.
Secondly, still talking about full-power Flood. Full power Flood would have taken High Charity in about 1-2 days.
That's certainly a strong theoretical assertion. But then you can say this and that "would have," done whatever in retrospect. No more powerful Flood forms existed at the time though, so tough -blam!- bro.
And of course what dictates from where everyone is starting? This only works if we're starting the Flood at a point where they've already gotten ahold of a whole lot of biomass, which would have to have come from the Haloverse.