- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
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?