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That's true they could have been found on any planet. But the problem is that they're not an advanced race, like humans or Elites, that you can just exterminate by destroying a planet. The exist in various different forms... from spores to Graveminds. The forerunner helped them spread. Left alone on their own planet who knows what the flood would have become. But the forerunner took them off their planet either by accident or for experimentation. Now they've spread through out the galaxy. It wouldn't matter if you destroyed 1 planet or 1000. They are too spread out for an effective strike. So the only option is to ensure they don't spread to other galaxies. And the only way to do that, at least in the forerunner minds, was to starve them to death.

A bit of that is speculation but it should be logical.


good point. it does make sense. so wad u're saying is that the forerunners tried to quarantine them to prevent hem from evolving but ended up helping them spread by mistake?

  • 06.07.2006 8:55 AM PDT

Facts are the enemy of tru7h....

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good point. it does make sense. so wad u're saying is that the forerunners tried to quarantine them to prevent hem from evolving but ended up helping them spread by mistake?



Pretty much. They discovered them on some planet and started to study them. You know just the normal animal research like we would do here on earth. Then they found out that they were a particularly aggressive species that could take over and consume other species. But by that time the problem was getting out of hand. So they build research facilities to study them to try and find a weakness (those would be the Halos). The forerunner discovered that they had no evident weakness and devised a extreme measure in case the flood got really out of hand (starving them to death by wiping out their food source). Then something bad must have happened that made it necessary for this extreme measure to be enacted.

That's pretty much how i see it.

-Stu

  • 06.07.2006 9:01 AM PDT
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alright i'll compromise. the flood were found on threshold, moved into the halos, where they were experimented on genetically 2 try and where the forerunners tried to bioengineer them into weapons. there. a collection of all the flames i got since i started this thread. go suck on it.

  • 06.07.2006 11:13 PM PDT

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