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5 years and counting on Bungie. I feel old and worthless.
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Posted by: Wazooty
Posted by: CoolCJ24
Posted by: Wazooty
I pretty much agree through and through. I wonder if humanity actually thought thehy cured the flood when they sacrificed 2/3 of their population to them, or if they were simply doing its wishes and feeding them humans so they could delay the inevitable another 100,000 years. (that also makes me wonder why the precursors would even bother to delay their consumption of humans...perhaps the war with the forerunner made them weaker than the flood wanted when they took them in).
It gives me high hopes for this trilogy because it means the forerunners and everyone involved in the original flood war has probably been preparing for this inevitable oncoming of the precursors for the last 100,000 years. No doubt the forerunners have been waiting for this eventuality since they learned of it, and have many systems in place to help humanity fight and try to win.
It's going to be crazy epic.
When Humanity sacrificed 2/3 of the population, they didn't cure the Flood like the Forerunners thought; they had in fact satisfied the Precursor's/Timeless One's Mantle, in that the humans were willing to become the Flood, so the Flood left, seeing humanity as worthy of the Mantle. The Forerunners however de-evolved the humans after a war with us (which was shortly after we sacrificed many to the Flood and satisfied the Mantle), so the Flood returned prematurely upon the galaxy (when they should've waited 100,000 years after ancient humanity's sacrifice) to avenge humanity I presume.
The reason why the Flood do not have mercy on the humans of 2552 era, I presume, is because we are the devolved, "new" version of humanity which has not been tested by the Mantle yet.
I know that. I read the book. But it does not answer what I said. It was said in cryptum that the humans who sacrificed themselves carried a virus that killed the flood. Now I wonder, did humanity actually believe that their virus actually caused the cure, or do you think they knew the truth as to why the flood stopped targeting them?
I don't have Primordium myself, I only know several of the key plot points, but I'm certain that I read from another user on this forum that Primordium states that there wasn't actually a virus or cure, just that humanity sacrificed 2/3 of their population.
I would however be very glad on any clarification on that, as you have the book, and it may well be that humanity did at least attempt using a virus.Before the conversation between the Didact and the Timeless One near the end of Primordium, it was thought that humanity had sacrificed that much of its population in order to find the cure and wipe out the Flood.
Wazooty was wondering if humanity made the sacrifice knowing what the Flood truly wanted, or did they actually think their virus had stopped them. It's an interesting question, and based on certain thoughts from the Lord of Admirals I find myself leaning toward the fact that some of the human leaders knew the truth.
Honestly, though, one could argue for it either way. Definitely a lot more questions than answers at this point.How it happened was humanity's leaders somehow changed the genetic code of certain people in patterns, so that the flood could not keep up with such different genetics. Think of it almost as selective breeding just to wipe out the flood.