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Subject: FLOOD DISPERSED THROUGH HALO RINGS ??? UPDATED
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This is coming from the REPUTABLE Website Halo,Bungie.org and I believe that most of this info is speculation from Either Jillybean or someone who wrote to her.
There were parts of this theory that had to be omitted because of char. limit but basically it talks about
the flood being the weapon realeased by the Halo through teleportation, and they were used as a sort of biological weapon, used agisnt another enemy.

I'll admit there are flaws in this theory however the flood could be a biological weapon, that was being used against another enemy, and when guilty spark says "Oh im glad to see some of them survive" why would he say that?

When guilty spark said that halo destroys all sentient life in the galaxy perhaps he was refering to the flood being the method through which this happans. UPDATE ***

So I'm gonna keep rambling here and speculate a little more. I don't think that this 'forerunner' would just stumble upon, capture, and decide to study these things.. . Plus, if you just randomly discovered something like this, your first thought wouldn't be to build giant ecosystem-imitating rings capable of destroying all sentient life just to STUDY these blammers. I think the forerunner were definitely trying to biologically engineer these things. There must have been some enemy which the Flood was meant to destroy; or perhaps even warring factions within the forerunner spurred on the development of the flood as a weapon. The halo's are perfect testing arenas for biological warfare. They can imitate any climate, probably even those vastly different from earth-like planets, to see how this bio-weapon will perform. I think some forerunner military and scientific minds got together on these facilities to prepare to fight something or someone.


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  • 06.15.2006 7:58 PM PDT
Subject: HALO IS NOT THE WEAPON THE FLOOD IS !!! (FROM JILLYBEAN) !!!!!!
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  • 06.15.2006 8:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: hunterm90
Plus, if you just randomly discovered something like this, your first thought wouldn't be to build giant ecosystem-imitating rings capable of destroying all sentient life just to STUDY these blammers.


Two weapons are better than one, no?

  • 06.15.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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for some reason i really dislike jillybean.

  • 06.15.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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I like the idea of flood coming from an experiment gone wrong where the forerunners were trying to gain invincibility.

  • 06.15.2006 9:35 PM PDT
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Maybe the forerunners actually created the flood. I doubt it was some kind of accident.

And the idea them not being a naturally evolving species. Maybe they have rediculously long lifespans. Ability to go into suspended animation or something of the like?

  • 06.15.2006 9:45 PM PDT
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I was under the theoretical assumption that the Forerunner first came upon the Flood infection forms as free-floating organisms within Threshold's atmosphere. Curious, they built a separate facility to study them. Unfortunately, the Flood got out of had and spreaded throughout the facility as evidence of a slaughter is apparent through the faded blood pools and splatters throughout the station. The surviving Forerunner sought refuge in the lower levels of the station, and perhaps failed at attempting to cut loose the station. However, a few may have escaped-the Flood also found means of escape, free to plague the galaxy. Suffering loss after loss of entire planets either to the Flood or attempting to quarantine the spread, the Halos were being constructed as the war rages on. Perhaps the Flood spreaded to the worlds of the aliens that presently form the Covenant. Either they blamed the Forerunner for the Flood and/or the Forerunner began to destroy their worlds to try to save what they can. Either way, the aliens must've banded together in a coalition to wage war against the Forerunner. The epic war ends with the Halos being fired.

Or perhaps the Flood was indeed secretly engineered at the facility and a opposing strike team was covertly sent in based on intel to kill everything they see. I always have this gut feeling history repeats itself in Halo.

If I remember correctly and I may be wrong(correct me if I am), didn't the novel say that the Flood wasn't created?

Nevertheless, Halo is a weapon despite whatever relevance the Flood may have to be some sort of bio-weapon. And it'd be a damn good bioweapon at that. Who were the Forerunner's enemies, provided they were attempting to develop this..bioweapon? Well, now we know the Flood is indeed capable of evolution in Halo 2. The Flood controlled Pelicans, they're not so much as driven by Flood forms, as it's piloted by this bulbous Flood growth over the cockpit.

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  • 06.15.2006 9:45 PM PDT

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."- John F. Kennedy

They folded out of the system immediately
after I received the message, without so
much as a "Thanks for saving us from
becoming plasma on Tau Ceti, Durandal".

GAS GIANT

The gas mine is one of many suspended in the depths of the Gas Giant
Theshold, the planet around which Halo once orbited. However, these
facilities predate Halo by thousands of years. More industrial in nature, they
operated autonomously for milennia, with only a handful of Sentinels to
maintain them.

But when the Flood was first encountered, the Forerunners retrofitted
some of these gas giant mines to study the parasite. Dangling from a support
superstructure higher in the atmosphere, the mines could be detached in the
event of an outbreak. The Forerunners captured and stored countless
specimens in their desperate search for any defense against the Flood.

All that they learned was that more extreme measures would be
necessary.

Pg. 87 The Art of Halo


Note my added italics: But when the Flood was first encountered
You dont "encounter" something you created.

And:

It does seem that the Forerunners did encounter the Flood in the atmospheres of gas giants (why else take the time to refit the minning station?) But how did the Flood spread when the only things there were Sentinels?

  • 06.15.2006 9:59 PM PDT
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you know, this explanation of the flood makes a lot of sense. Whether its true or not, i dont know. but it would be nice if there was a story to the forerunners and all that junk. in fact, i think that the halo story is by far one of the best stories ever told. just the way its composed, MY GOD, its almost like it could be real............who knows? hmmmmmmmmm..............real elites? flood? master chief really existing? interesting stuff. i love finding stuff out about halo. i have read all three books from the series. i hope to gain more knowledge about it. if anybody knows a lot more about this stuff let me know..........or whatever. doesnt matter

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Posted by: CHUCK NORRlS
for some reason i really dislike jillybean.

  • 06.15.2006 10:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: SPARTAN 209
Note my added italics: But when the Flood was first encountered
You dont "encounter" something you created.



Of course you do.. Humanity encountered the atom bomb.

  • 06.15.2006 10:39 PM PDT
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spartan 209 has a VERY valid point here. from the sounds of it the forerunner came across the flood like ..........say you came across a hive of bees. first reaction? naturally its "aw crap"

once again ANOTHER plot hole. there are just so many loose ends, and bungie has to answer ALL of 'em in one game. wow. hope this turns out to be a good game

  • 06.15.2006 11:01 PM PDT
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errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr











no

  • 06.15.2006 11:03 PM PDT
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god


feels like ive been waiting for like ages for this game.

  • 06.15.2006 11:05 PM PDT
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I think the forerunners engineered the flood to erase all life in the galaxy for some purpose.. what u guys think

  • 06.15.2006 11:13 PM PDT
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yes, I know, and I have known since halo CE

  • 06.15.2006 11:25 PM PDT
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hahah totally thought it said
HALO IS NOT THE WEAPON THE FLOOD IS A JELLYBEAN!!!!

<----- is way to tired
:)

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its just a moral that is played through the game. Nature cannot be contained

  • 06.16.2006 12:18 AM PDT
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Or maybe, like Bungie has said, they were discovered on Threshold...Or maybe like the game says, the rings were built after every other stratigic option had been exhausted...What a thought?

  • 06.16.2006 12:33 AM PDT

Posted by: LIME31
I got his sarcasm...one person has to implement sarcasm and then you get a pile of terrorist chipmunks crashing your party, not fun at all..

remember the time between the construction of the rings and the "discovery" of The Flood is not known. It may even be a millenium, no one knows. If they had found them and realised they were spreading too fast these Halo's might have been the only way. The multiple climates being a product of Forerunner's trying to engineer their own planetary ecosystem into the rings so that it would be habitable for its controllers-remember that the monitors can't initiate the final weapon, only reclaimers can-. At that hunterm90's proposition is just as likely. We simply don't know enough to tell what was going on all those years ago. Hopefully the release of Halo 3,"Ghosts of Coral",The Halo Movie and the HGN will tell us more.

EDIT:Iceman as said above, it doesn't HAVE to be answered in one game and chances are it won't be.

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  • 06.16.2006 12:40 AM PDT
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I always thought the forunner were not just one race, but a group of races, much like the covenant. That one of the races ceated the flood, and the rest of the forunner attempted to destroy it. Otherwise, I'd say it was pretty arrogant of them to destroy all life.. what if another race was immune..let say because, they had chocolate sauce for blood.. I'd be annoyed if i was killed because some bunch of advanced 'tards were getting their ass handed to them lol. (if you can get annoyed when your dead..)

  • 06.16.2006 12:56 AM PDT

Posted by: LIME31
I got his sarcasm...one person has to implement sarcasm and then you get a pile of terrorist chipmunks crashing your party, not fun at all..

If there were any other races destroyed in the blast, I'm sure remnants of their existance would have been confirmed long ago, But only forerunner structures remain. It wasn't arrogant of them, it was their only choice to ensure that whoever was on the Arc would live to reproduce and start the life cycle all over again.

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holy crap sometimes i think people are stupid THE FORERUNNER CREATED THE FLOOD!!!! (ACCIDENTLY)aka(EXPIREMENT GONE WRONG) THE RINGS WERE MEANT TO DESTROY THE FLOOD AND ALL LIVING THINGS EXCEPT THE COVENANT AND "FORERUNNERS"

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Posted by: whoppersandwich
Hopefully the release of Halo 3,"Ghosts of Coral",The Halo Movie and the HGN will tell us more.

EDIT:Iceman as said above, it doesn't HAVE to be answered in one game and chances are it won't be.


HOLY CRAP THERE WILL BE NO HALO MOVIE DONT YOU GET IT HALO 3 WAS THOUGHT TO BE A MOVIE IT WAS ALL HIDDEN THEN HALO 3 THE GAME WAS REVEALED DUH!!!!!!!!

  • 06.16.2006 1:17 AM PDT
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The Covenant believe that when the Halos are activated the Covenant will embark on a "Great Journey" similar to that undertaken by their gods, the Forerunners. Finding and activating the Halos is a prime goal of the Covenant.

However, few if any members in the Covenant are aware that the Halos, when activated, destroy all sentient life in the galaxy. Whether the Prophets do know the true effects of activating a Halo is uncertain, but the very fabric of the Covenant is built on accomplishing it, believing this will propel them into the "Divine Beyond", a heavenly paradise they will share with the Forerunners.

As the Master Chief and UNSC discovered, the Halos were not built as religious icons; they are galactic weapons of mass destructive sterilization built by the Forerunners to contain a parasitic race known as The Flood.

The currently living Arbiter, who is either leading or an important member of the separatist movement, knows the true function of the Halos after speaking with 343 Guilty Spark. Following this, he helped some UNSC troops stop Tartarus from activating Installation 05, and hence the entire remaining Halo network. The loyalists still seem to believe in the Great Journey, and will most likely continue to try to activate the Halos.

  • 06.16.2006 1:21 AM PDT

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