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Subject: Random speculations(possibly old?) and long!
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I don't know if it's old or not, but please just read. =þ

1) Forerunner wierds.

Alright, we know at the forerunner kept a specimen for study, as is all deadly disease today, such as the influenza, or other biologial weapons. okay, we know that some of the most deadly disease are usually kept under heave lock and key, except in certain places where the whole place is unstable, politically and military-wise. okay, anyway, so the forerunner find something or encounter something, fight it, succeed, save a specimen, bring it back, save it, and research it. why didn't the forerunner keep better protection for it? and shoildn't they have spare suits somewhere visible? I mean, present day researchers always keep some spare sterile suits around in case of emergancies...okay I can guess that they did, but then they were used up, and is somewhere on the ring, or destroyed.

2) origin of Humans/Covenant.

I don't know if this has been posted or not, but hear me out. I have been wondering about something. What if Humans and the covenant are from the same origin? For the most part, the Elites(I don't know the other name) look very similar to humans, except for some differences(Mouth and legs, fingers, etc.). Brutes, also very human like, which reminds me of the "Planet of the Apes"(don't ask me why). Almost all the species in the covenent(except the Leh'geko *spelling* which was made up of multiple worms)are bipeds. Notice how essencialy all the creatures in Halo can fit through those doors? This proves that they can all be around the same height or size, except for the grunts and jackals, which are midgits. If you use the fibinochi* sequence, (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,...) my science teacher showed that if you take the fifth number in the sequence(5), you'll find the number of appendages on the humans(2 arms, 2 legs, 1 head= 5 appendages). If for the most part the species in halo almost all have 5 appendages, maybe this is the product of evolution.

There could've been some cataclysmic event,(like the out break of the flood?) and some forerunner scientists and civilians survived. The scientists decided to spread some remenants of their species around the universe after activating the Halos from the ark(?), then spreading them out. They could've all evolved differently on their own planets depending on their climate and enviroment. Deciding to leave relics and the legacy of their technology around the universe hoping that their children would one day find them as the forerunner continuously kept the flood at bay, until the forerunner sealed up the flood and the forerunner died out? And history unfolded after that, ending with the rise of each seperate species, and space travel.

How was that?

3) Ok, I was watching this episode of “X-Files”. It was an episode which a team of archaeologists dug into the earths crust and found spores of some fungus or something(*coughfloodcough*) that infected a host and grew in it until it had to reproduce. It would fight for its own survival by keeping the host alive, but taking control of the body(Mutated combat forms?) and then when it had to reproduce, it would explode, sending the spores every where(flood bloated things?). I also read on the H.B.O. flood page, (thanks!) and in the episode, the fungus left a silicon-based residue.

Ellimist (Ellimist117@aol.com) writes:

i was reading the post "On Slipstream Space and Really Big Explosions" and Toby Dillman said that Humans, the Covenent, and other alien races were carbon based life forms. I beleive this to be true,because we all seem to breath oxygen, which is vital to carbon based life forms. But could the flood be non carbon based?

There is only one other element, stable and abundant enough, that a life form can be based on...silicon.

343 GS says that the flood was changing the atmosphere, this is probably to hurt the other races on Halo 04, not because they need to breath something other than oxygen. They cont seem to mind what they breath.

This is because a silicon based lifeform does not require oxygen and hydrogen. This would mean that they can survive in open vacume, this could have lead to some getting off Halo 04


(I got this from the HBO Story Page, under the Flood.)

Assuming that Ellimist was correct, the flood hold be as he says. Able to survive in open vacuums, but I noticed another thing. The marines appear to breathe in the spores without mutating. The only thing I can speculate is that when the spores, unless breathed immediately on contact, it becomes harmless. It is exactly as it was in the “X-Files” episode, the spores came out and infected immediately, but after a while in the open air, the spores became harmless.

So, assuming this is all almost correct, the flood, could have originated in a planets crust, hidden away for centuries, mutating from previously harmless spores to full-fledged mutating disease-ish spores. Maybe the Forerunner found it, released, went on with their business. At some point, the spores would’ve killed off much of the Forerunners, and then some officials see it fit to construct something(Halo?) to try to isolate the spore-ridden victims. They succeeded, but by then the spores,(flood?) grew smarter and mutated the bodies to become stronger and able to bust out of doors. You’ve seen what had happened in Halo one. Then the Forerunner had to create robots to help hold the flood off until they could activate Halo. They did. Once activated, the robots waited until the flood died of starvation(?) and the robots(Sentinels and 343 Guilty Spark?) repaired the whole place and laid dormant for centuries. By then, maybe some of the mutants fused together on one of the Halo’s and mutated into Gravemind.

Please tear it apart, I do think that the flood is the worlds most mysterious thing.

Chew on that for a while. I would like to see some people tear it to shreds or something.

  • 05.15.2006 5:33 PM PDT
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I was just wondering (off topic) why there isn't a no-scope medal (for sniping obviously, it would be obsurd to get a no-scope medal every time you hit someone with SMG bullets).

  • 05.19.2006 11:32 PM PDT
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I love your third speculation. The idea that the Flood are silicon based life forms proves that they are a galactic threat. Not only that, but they have the ability to control ships, so they could reach there destinations (say a human colony) alot faster. This speculation is somewhat scary. If they can survive in open vacumm (space) then the Flood could just float through space. Gives me the chills.

  • 05.20.2006 12:10 AM PDT