- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ChrisK
Here is why the flood on halo installation 04 (and elswhere) didn't die over the 100,000 year gap between the fireing of the halos and the events of halo 1:
Okay, to start, you have to notice that the flood seem to only be found on the halos. Now, I read somewhere awhile back (I'm not sure when or where) that the halos were built both as a last resort weapon against the flood, and to research the flood.
If the halos were fired at any point in time, which we know for a fact that they were, it is likely because the flood was spreading, and by that I mean that it somehow got off the halos, and to somplace else. Assuming that that is in fact the case, then, shouldn't it stand to reason that because we still find them on the halos, then they should also be found elsewhere?
Not quite. I personally don't think that the flood are immortal, but rather that they have been preserved on the halos, possibly so they could be resaserched under controlled conditions. The halos, like other forerunner structures, was built to last a LONG TIME. For many many minllenia. They are obviously still fully functional at the time of the halo games.
If I'm right, then the flood we see in the halo games have been in suspended animation all this time, and that is why they still are alive. As for gravemind, I really don't know...
Good point, but then where did the Flood on Delta Halo come from? No one seemed to release them like in 04, and what about Gravemind? Was he in suspended animation just as he is in Delta Halo? It would seem he has been quite aware for a very long time.