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does anyone belive that the flood were made by the forerunners for a weapon or to abosorb their eneimes once lured to the halo rings since after all the rings are called Fortress Worlds? and since the conveanat base them selves so much off of "absorbing" other races into their group doesnt that seem a little like the flood? so what im thinking is that the flood wer emade by the forerunner for their defense on the rings when preswsed with enemies and then once those enemies were there they would be changed by the flood thats why in halo 2 on delta halo when you first meet the flood again you see little infection forms in the tubes

  • 05.18.2006 6:53 PM PDT
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i read somewhere that the forerunners while around were the most dominate species in the universe. they probably wouldn't need the flood as a defense.

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well ok but then couldnt they use them as more of taking over any speicies that dare defy them by using the flood to change all the soldiers to comabt forms then ultiametley inrto the carriers? bascially using the flood and other armies to replensih their own forces

  • 05.18.2006 7:03 PM PDT
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The Forerunner didn't make the flood, they found it on Threshold.

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if they found it on threshhol how would they get to the otehr halos? and if you can bust an infection form with your weapon wouldnt the extreme gravity of threshold crush all of them

  • 05.18.2006 7:05 PM PDT
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the forerunners found the flood and studed them but when it got out of hand........here its math for ya!

index+recliamer+343guilty spark+ thingy that index goes in=no life any more in BIG radious.

[Edited on 5/18/2006]

  • 05.18.2006 7:21 PM PDT
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?? they found it according to guilty spark in halo 1 telling us the history. But on threshold? idk

  • 05.18.2006 7:22 PM PDT
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......found near/on gas giants

  • 05.18.2006 7:25 PM PDT
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Originally they were just simple viruses until the forerunners found them, they couldve been survivng in the atmosphere as simple virus cells, but gained group mind when they infected the forerunners..

  • 05.18.2006 7:28 PM PDT

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yea.. they found the crazy little bastards somewhere and then they just hid on ships probably and thats how they spread.. i forget in which book or where it was described. they almost wiped out the forerunners... one question... if the flood attacked the forrunners... where are the forerunner flood??... hmmm...

  • 05.18.2006 7:29 PM PDT
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Their bodies deterioated after 100,000 years my friend...

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the forerunner flood probably dont exist now because they have been transformed into carrier forms
then if they found the flood how do you explain the tubes with all the baby flood in the level were you first meet the flood in halo 2 with the arbiter?

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Posted by: Masterchizef
the forerunner flood probably dont exist now because they have been transformed into carrier forms
then if they found the flood how do you explain the tubes with all the baby flood in the level were you first meet the flood in halo 2 with the arbiter?


They kept samples to study them.

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then if ya think about it wouldnt they be one of the reason for there spreading if they are making more and studying them?

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Posted by: Masterchizef
then if ya think about it wouldnt they be one of the reason for there spreading if they are making more and studying them?


They probably aren't making them. They had to study the flood to find out how to destroy it.

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but how would the flood survive all this time without any food to get them going since they are simply starnaded on the halos?and if all life was already wiped out once in order to stop the flood from spreading how would humanity have so many different races?

  • 05.18.2006 7:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Masterchizef
but how would the flood survive all this time without any food to get them going since they are simply starnaded on the halos?and if all life was already wiped out once in order to stop the flood from spreading how would humanity have so many different races?


The Forerunner kept them alive.

  • 05.18.2006 8:14 PM PDT