- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: unco4ever
Hey this is a little off topic but how did the flood learn to fly interstellar ships and drive tanks, it may be because they steal all the memories from the person they infect but still. Everysingle flood form single mindedly making an attack on a certain planet-thing is a little mind boggleing. One other thing remind me where in amber clad came from.
Good question. There are a couple of possible explanations for this. One is that the Flood are a hive mind and each is controlled by a single consciousness, like say the Gravemind. They would all act as extensions of his body, so in reality only the gravemind would need to be intelligent. But if that is so, who or what controlled them in Halo 1? Another school of thought is based on a comment that 343 Guilty Spark makes in Halo 1, which is that "their parasitic nature belies their intelligence" or something like that, which to me says that although they may look like space zombies, they are really concious and aware and have an agenda of their own to keep. And if they are individually intelligent, then they might be far more intelligent than either the Covenant or Humans in order to adapt to their technology so quickly, which reinforces a connection with the Forerunners.