- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: My Liege
The thing is, Johnson's nervous system is degenerating. That's the reason why the Flood couldn't assimilate the nervous system.
If we were to give every human being Boren's Syndrome to protect them from the flood...
a.) We'd all end up dead soon enough due to neural degradation
b.) we'd all end up dead when the hivemind of the flood decides to just kill us off since we're bio-incompatible.
THose are all good points, but you are missing the interesting little part that mentions that the left over Flood bits from the infection form that tried to infect him was actually regenerating him. That could be implying that not only is he infection-proof, but he is also in remission.
Posted by: Amorphous Joe
Getting back on topic, I think Sgt. Johnson's circumstances are unique and it would be pretty difficult to replicate them for every living human being in the galaxy. However, because I don't really know how Bungie plans on ending the story arc, there are many possibilities. Plus it wouldn't be very fun to the player if suddenly the Flood were simply no longer a problem.
Well, you have another good point, but this only helps protect against infection forms, you would still have to deal with all the other pre-infected Flood warriors. Plus, no one said that the infection forms couldn't still kill you, they just wouldn't infect you.
[Edited on 6/28/2006]