- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Solaris125
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Read that, it will answer everything you jsut asked.
In summation - Yes, the Halos in effect kill all sentient life with suffiecient biomass to become a flood form. Suffiecient biomass merely means that they have a large enough chest cavity to allow an infection form to burrow into.
BUT - after the halo's have fired and all flood have starved to death or been eliminated by the massive sentinal armies created by the forerunners, all species are reseeded on their orginal homeworlds to ensure continuity (to a degree). even if they didn't, theres that little thing called evolution, unless you're a creationalist, then you're screwed.
The Halo's were a last resort, not a first strike. The forerunners were literally overun with flood, they couldn't contain them, not even with the massive sentinel armies and all their technology.
Anywho, read Mrbananas theory, it makes a hellullva lot of sense.
I don't agree with everything in that long arse post, but there is one thing it hlped me on. I always wondered why the Forerunners would keep the Flood for study if they could have just starved them all. But the guy who made the post suggested that the Flood pretty much came out of no where. Like he said, there would always be the risk that the Flood would pop up again. By keeping samples for study, future generations may be able to find a new way to suppress/destory: or even find their origin.
I don't think the flood would repair a ship and destory the refugees on Earth because:
1. knowing the Flood could use ships, perhaps they disabled all there ships (locking themselves up on the Halo "fortrus world"). Ofcourse this idea is flawed, because we know the Forerunners the Covenant got hold of a ship.
2. The Flood would need to know where Ark is.
3. Their concern would prowling the galaxy for food, not searching for a group of survivors .