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Posted by: Uriel S167
Posted by: Poy Poy
The flood didn't attack him in Halo CE?
The Flood never attacked Johnson because it wouldn't be worth the Gravemind's time. Something about the Orion/Spartan program made Johnson immune to the Flood attempts to assimilate.
So they just move to kill Johnson (like they do with John 117) rather than kill & try to assimilate into the collective.
And here's were I come in.
Johnson's time with Orion resulted in him contracting a rare disease known as Boren's syndrome. This was covered up in files stating that Johnson captured a crate of 200 plasma grenades on some colony world under attack by the covenant, and he used them all. As a result, he got a massive dose of radiation, causing his disease.
But on to the point, this disease "scrambles" your nervous system, which is what the flood use to take control of your body. To the flood infection forms, Johnson had no central nervous system.
They mobbed him, attempted to infect him, and then left him be. Johnson came to after some time, and fought his way through the facility he was in.
The Flood had no controlling Gravemind on this ring at this point, so they were in a very simple feral state, infecting what they could, and gathering bodies to form a gravemind.
As a result, Flood simply attacked him rather than attempting to infect him.
And, on another note, John was almost infected when returning to the pillar of autumn to destroy it. A combat form jumped him and smashed the back of his head with a wrench, depleting his shields, when an infection form got one if it's stingers through a soft spot in the suits neck. he was saved by Cortana who used his suits power supply to run a current on the outside of the armour, killing his attempted infectee.