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Posted by: rst7503
Haha. This is post gave me some good laughs. I'm sorry, but mass guardsmen will obliterate even Spartans. It is said that the even a single standard-issue lasgun can punch through Space Marine ceramite armor if it was hit in a weak spot, and ceramite is like one of the toughest materials available to the Imperium. Imagine what a massed barrage of lasgun shots can do the Mjolnir armor. Absolutely no chance.
You are not factoring in the Necrons or daemons against the Flood, and they will absolutely obliterate the Flood, considering that neither races can actually be infected by the Flood. One is made of metal, and the other isn't actually a native of the material realm. The Necrons have organic matter-stripping technology, and the daemons are simply just daemons. There is no competition that the Flood can pose.
If memory is correct, Mjolnir suits comprise of a material, not unlike ceramite, and Titanium hardened at an atomic level, just wanted you to know that the UNSC were getting there, eventually... As for massed guardsmen, a smart spartan wouldn't get into that situation, and I don't think any spartans are dumb by any means. If I thought that Mjolnir armor could survive a single shot of any kind of weapon from 40k I'd be kidding myself, but I don't doubt that the spartans could dodge just about any kind of weapon in their arsenal. It'd be like trying to swat a supersonic fly, pardon the strange metaphor, spartans were made for speed, the strength is just a cool add-on. On the other hand... They would still obliterate the phrase, "spartans never die" their ability to fight back depends on them being able to use enemy weapons, and as they can flip 66 ton tanks, I think that's definitely credible.
Hey, I'm just defending the awesomeness of the spartans ^_^
As for the Necrons, as I said, it is another "if" situation, if they have already assimilated another race, they could definitely win, the flood after all, are more powerful based on the life they destroy. Given no other life to infect, you would end up simply with Necron occupied planets who's atmospheres are filled with flood spores. The Necrons might even like that, it would stop any biological races interfering. In this outcome, the flood would simply "exist".
As for the Chaos Daemons, I did not factor them in because of their instability in the material realm, because of the enormous scale the flood exist in, the daemons could not possibly do enough damage before being cast back into the chaos. If they did, however, overcome this, then they could plausibly defeat the Flood, but for the first time, this is an "if" favoring the flood.
I know my stuff, I didn't write this without thinking about it, however, critique is appreciated, so thanks :P And glad you got a laugh out of it. And hey, you didn't stamp out my ideas for the Covenant, that's good.
One last thing on the Necrons, they are machines, and as a Gravemind has been known to corrupt even forerunner, sentient AI, that would give them a good chance, but again... "if".
edit: I don't kid myself... I voted for 40k
[Edited on 12.10.2011 4:38 AM PST]