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Subject: An Alternate Way Stop The Flood
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Poll: Which is the better option?  [closed]
Option one, kill the Flood.:  11%
(1 Votes)
Option two, kill Gravemind.:  44%
(4 Votes)
Neither.:  33%
(3 Votes)
Neither, I have a better idea. See below.:  11%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 9

I was thinking the other day about an alternate way to stop the Flood. I ran through a few ideas, and settled on one. The more plausible alternative is to engineer a virus that can attack the Flood. The Flood infect things, so why not give them a taste of their own medicine? The virus would attack only Flood, and should not be hard to do in the year 2552 (or whatever). Testing shouldn't be that hard, the Flood aren't exactly rare. They would have two different options going this direction. The first would solve the immediate problem, attack the Carriers and Flood Ground-Pounders but the Flood could rise again. This choice would likely take some time to go into effect, and time isn't exactly something we have a lot of in Halo. The second would likely stop all Flood, almost immediately but would be extremely difficult, but nevertheless, would be the more rewarding: Infect and kill the Gravemind. What do you think is the best option, if any of this is feasible at all?

  • 06.17.2006 1:54 PM PDT
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"Look, everybody always figures the time they live in is the most epic, most important age to end all ages. But tyrants and heroes rise and fall, and historians sort out the pieces." -Jolee Bindo

The Flood is actually a virus.

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  • 06.17.2006 1:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: hamdog
The Flood is actually a virus.
Not just, but a Parasitic Virus. Anyway, what do you think?

  • 06.17.2006 1:56 PM PDT
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"Look, everybody always figures the time they live in is the most epic, most important age to end all ages. But tyrants and heroes rise and fall, and historians sort out the pieces." -Jolee Bindo

Well Johnson survived The Flood because he had a disease of some type, which I think destroyed his nerves which is how The Flood mutiple.

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  • 06.17.2006 2:02 PM PDT

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Kill everyone else in the galaxy including ourselves!

  • 06.17.2006 2:04 PM PDT

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I say we all grab shotguns and lets all go kill the flood!

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  • 06.17.2006 2:06 PM PDT
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well if u kill gravemind there will just be another one. i mean if keyes in halo 1 turned into that big piece of crap then a flood could grow and turn into another gravemind.

  • 06.17.2006 2:08 PM PDT
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Well I'm sure it takes a while to make a Gravemind, and wether or not we stop the Flood the war is going to end soon.

  • 06.17.2006 2:11 PM PDT
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[quote]Posted by: hamdog
Well Johnson survived The Flood because he had a disease of some type, which I think destroyed his nerves which is how The Flood mutiple.[/quote

that seems plausible, we could change around everyones nerves, problem solved.]

  • 06.17.2006 2:12 PM PDT
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Isnt "Kill the flood" and "kill gravemind" the same thing since gravemind is technically one of the flood. I say, you can't infect the flood with a virus because, what would it do? They take control over a host organism. You can infect the host but then the flood could simply jump out, it is, after all, parasitic.

  • 06.17.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: JohanOwnz
Isnt "Kill the flood" and "kill gravemind" the same thing since gravemind is technically one of the flood. I say, you can't infect the flood with a virus because, what would it do? They take control over a host organism. You can infect the host but then the flood could simply jump out, it is, after all, parasitic.
I would have thought that since I listed Gravemind as a choice that you would have excluded him in the "Flood," choice. I didn't say host, I said Flood.

  • 06.17.2006 3:32 PM PDT
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The problem with creating a virus to assault the flood is that the flood is insanely adaptible. Seriously, it not only absorbs organic life into its body but the mechanical as well. The flood were turning the Truth and Reconciliation into a living thing until we punched out its brain.

Think on that. They were making a freaking living space whale that would carry the flood to the stars!

I'd be more worried that the Flood would adapt the virus to serve their own ends.... and that humanity would find itself laid low by this new virus and helpless before the oncoming flood invasion.

  • 06.17.2006 3:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: My Liege
The problem with creating a virus to assault the flood is that the flood is insanely adaptible. Seriously, it not only absorbs organic life into its body but the mechanical as well. The flood were turning the Truth and Reconciliation into a living thing until we punched out its brain.

Think on that. They were making a freaking living space whale that would carry the flood to the stars!

I'd be more worried that the Flood would adapt the virus to serve their own ends.... and that humanity would find itself laid low by this new virus and helpless before the oncoming flood invasion.


i never knew the flood could take control of machines that probably wat the gravemind use to be a machine

  • 06.17.2006 3:54 PM PDT