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You face an opponent who has never known defeat, who laughs in foreign tongues at your efforts to survive. This is Reply suicide.
"Oh Molly Connoly ruined my life, I thought the world should know."
Say Anything - Every Man Has A Molly
Rampancy?
Um... Somehow, I don't think that's what has happened to 343 Guilty Spark.
He is INTENT on following his procedures for containment to the LETTER. But since being on Delta Halo... he has changed considerably. It's not his job to follow containment procedure on ANY other Halo except Alpha Halo. Delta Halo is left to 2401 Penatant Tangent but he's with the Gravemind.
If you want a good explaination on what has happened, it's this:
ALL creatures, intelligent or not, eventually go insane without interaction. And with 100,000 years to think and run around doing nothing... He's gone QUITE insane.
However, he still has programming to follow, and that takes precidence over emotions and mental stability.
Has he gone rampant? Nope.
He is only doing what he can to ensure the Flood do NOT escape Halo. In the first one, it meant retrieving the Index and getting another Reclaimer to handle it. However... Cortana stole it. You wouldn't hand over Cortana...
So basically... You were to be killed.
I even have a theory as to why AI aren't allowed to integrate with the core or anything like that.... It'll make them a little odd... or able to be controlled by Flood. The Gravemind can control the teleportation grid, why not control an AI in a Halo system?
343 isn't rampant. There's no way he could be. He's just slightly insane due to lonliness and programmed to follow procedure to the letter.
EDIT: I'd also like to note that the Flood went into hibernation, much like a virus will when there isn't much food to be had, then spread like wildefire when they come out of that dormancy.
[Edited on 6/13/2006]