- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
From what I understand from other people's theories in the forums is that the flood were a creation of the forerunners in an attempt to achieve immortality that failed miserably. If this is true, it would explain how they survived all those years without food. The reason they didn't die from the Halo rings when they were detonated, was because they only destroy sentient (thinking) life, which the flood are obviously not