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  • 06.18.2006 12:21 PM PDT
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Whoops, didn't read your whole post; ignore what I said.

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  • 06.18.2006 12:27 PM PDT
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I just skimmed it and read "the flood are a virus," not "the flood carry a virus." My bad, I'll try to read people's posts more carefully next time.

  • 06.18.2006 12:32 PM PDT
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well they're 50/50 they are parasites and they carry a virus but they're still parsites

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  • 06.18.2006 12:35 PM PDT
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I figure the yellowish haze would have characteristics of a virus. I'll bet anyone who inhales it will feel throat and lung spasms as well as bodily numbing with an amnesia-like sensation added with disorientation/confusion.

But the Flood itself can't be a virus, or otherwise it would spread far more quickly. If it's referred to as "parasite" all the time, then let's go with parasite. If it's a virus, then a cure could be found.

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  • 06.18.2006 12:36 PM PDT
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get it now?

  • 06.18.2006 12:36 PM PDT
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The flood are not a virus. They are parasites which inject their own DNA into your bloodstream, causing a material change. The whole green thing is because the tissue is left dead once you are fully morphed.

  • 06.18.2006 12:40 PM PDT

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they're both!



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  • 06.18.2006 12:40 PM PDT
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Here are the definitions of a virus and a parasite just to clear some things up on there diffs.

n. pl. vi·rus·es

1. Any of various simple submicroscopic parasites of plants, animals, and bacteria that often cause disease and that consist essentially of a core of RNA or DNA surrounded by a protein coat. Unable to replicate without a host cell, viruses are typically not considered living organisms.

2. Something that poisons one's soul or mind: the pernicious virus of racism.

par·a·site
n.
1. An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.

The Flood themselves are parasites, whether they carry a virus we don't know but it does make sense seeing as how they can alter a victims DNA.

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  • 06.18.2006 12:57 PM PDT
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It does sound like they have the charecteristics of a virus, but knowing Bungie, they will probably come up with an even wilder (and cooler) explanation for it. Something neurological in nature perhaps, or something even more devious. Consider how the flood have intelligence, and they can even fly pelicans, not with a pilot, but with some sort of bulbous growth over the cockpit. Very interesting thread, good job.

  • 06.18.2006 2:45 PM PDT
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viruses don't have the power to kill your body and then posses it like a demon. The haze and "whips" are decay. They are creatures that take over your body. More like a parasite on steroids than anything else.

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  • 06.18.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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nope your just -blam!-

  • 06.18.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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no. a parisite just latches on to a host, and uses it for energy...the way the flood mutate it's victims...well...you cant really call it either can you? Maybe.....It's a Virus, and a parisite, all in one....what fun!

No, a parasite is something that attaches itself to a host and takes the hosts recources, in the flood's case they tap into the centeral nervous system and take control of the host. They also use up the host's minerals ans whatever the infection form needs. The reason why you think some are green (halo 2 ) is because thats the marine's chest armor piece. The flood could mutate the host easily by sending chemicals/enzymes to alter the muscle and skin tissue of the host.. the reason why its green in Halo:CE is because thats what skin looks like when its rotting.

The sensory tentecals are from the infection form, they etheir drive them through the chest or out of the neck of the host. The mutations take place because the infection form tells the body to do so, not because it has a different virus.. also, another reason the flood aren't a virus is that you cannot become a flood form in any way other then being infested by a flood parasite. You cannot become a flood by 'inhaling' flood spores, in my opinion flood spores are simply unfinished flood infection forms.

  • 06.18.2006 3:03 PM PDT