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Subject: Once again, what were the Forerunner doing with the Flood?

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

There's two possibilites here- the Forerunner created the Flood, or the Flood were such a huge danger to them that they needed to figure out how to destroy them by studying them. Because if they just wanted to detroy them, why not throw the Halo ring into the gas giant? The gravity there would have been enough to kill them, or at least trap them. So, there must either be Flood somewhere else, or the Forerunner were experimenting on them. But why? Why would they either create something so dangerous, or why would they be able to trap samples of the Flood to experiment on if they weren't able to kill them? One would think it would be easier to kill them then it would be to trap and study them.

  • 09.18.2004 10:46 PM PDT
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I think it was neither.

The flood on the halo rings are survivors; the flood survivors of the last activation of the halo rings. At one point, the known galaxy was carpeted with flood, who were in the process of consuming the forunner. The flood's origins are unknown, but thats besides the point. What really matters is that they are the sole cause of the destruction of the Forunner. The forunner had to use the Halo rings, first as a place to study the flood, in an attempt to defeat them, then lastly, as a final weapon. The halo rings destroyed the forunner, and most of the flood, save for the few that were on the halo rings.

  • 09.18.2004 11:32 PM PDT
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Sounds remarkably exactly like my theroy I posted in New Mambosa two days ago...

hmmm......

  • 09.19.2004 12:21 AM PDT
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If the flood were not created by the forrunner and were from the gas giant why not put a forcefiled incase they try to escape the the forerunner has problems with the flood

  • 09.19.2004 7:50 PM PDT