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Posted by: camboy45
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.


Having not played through halo 2, I can't say much about delta halo, so I'm going to answer with some questions of my own:

1) Is it possible that someone was on delta halo before halo2 took place?

2)making the assumtion that gravemind is either immortal, or has an extrordinarily long life span, could he have either:
__ A)Teleported flood from halo 04, or...
__ B)Decided to let other flood forms loose on delta halo when there
__ was food available to them

If not, then I really don't know.


[Edited on 6/30/2006]

  • 06.30.2006 3:41 PM PDT
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i think waht gravemind ment by living on was that; truth wants to activate halo. when it goes off, truth will die intstantly, but all the flood will live

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i think that the forrunners did their experements on the flood on halo so they don't spread out and they made that last resort weapon just in case so the flood did escape from halo and they attacked the forrunners then the forrunners activated halo

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Posted by: camboy45
Posted by: Rakdos
Posted by: camboy45
To further support the theory that the Flood may have been a failed attempt by the Forerunners to achieve immortality, I present this quote from the Transcript to High Charity:
"TRUTH (over loudspeakers):

The parasite did not defeat the Forerunners, and it shall not defeat us.

GRAVEMIND:

Arrogant creature! Your deaths will be instantaneous while we shall suffer the progress of infinitude!


So even when everyone else is dead, the Flood will still remain?



Umm, I don't remember GM EVER saying that. And if you're referring to that gravelly voice over the HC loudspeakers with Truth, that would be Tartarus talking.


Nope that was Gravemind. Tartarus was already off to Delta Halo to activate the ring. Play it again. You'll notice Tarty and Gravy have distinc voices.


Wow. Never realized that. That just throws everything in a whole new light now for me lol. I'm gonna have to go play it and see if I can notice anything else.
Thanks.

  • 06.30.2006 3:47 PM PDT

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