- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I would just like to pop in here real quick to clarify... The Hunters are sentient. They have names, they have personal relasionships with each other and have emotions...most notably rage, as seen when they go crazy after losing a bond brother. The Brutes are sentient. They have emotions, they have feelings, they think, they talk. The Drones...I'm actually not all together sure about the Drones, but I think they are indeed sentient. They appear to be able to think rationally and make decisions on the battle field, even though they don't communicate in any way that we can detect. And why else would they be part of the Covenant if they don't have a "soul", as one could put it. As for why these life forms are not infected by Flood...
Hunters: They can't be infected because they are made of thousands of tiny worm-like creatures. They infection form would have to infect only one, which it can't because it by it self has insufficient biomass.
Brutes: I have no idea.
Drones: I don't have an exact quote, but sometime during the game doesn't 343GS say something about the Flood needing calcium? If so, that might explain the Drones, if they have no calcium in their bodies.
Oh, and animals are sentient. They display emotion, can think for themselves, communicate. They are both concious and experience feeling. Bugs? I don't think so... but probably not.