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I would like to discuss the flood in this post not only how they fit into the history of the Forerunners but also various tings like how did that one marine escape being infected, what drives the flood a collective or some varient, why are there no flood or mention of flood off the halo rings. I apologize for the length it's just to start things off.
Why discuss the flood because I think the flood are as interesting as the convenant, Master Chief and all the other characters that Bungie makes so well.
I want to start this discussion by going over the anatomy of the flood.
- from most sources the flood in my opinion the flood are less parasitic and more of a semi-virus, they seem to contain dna for flood reproduction and creating various flood forms, but despite this, the flood unless the forerunners gathered millions or millions of Forerunners were infected and were put into containment, the flood need a flood form that can spawn infection forms without killing itself and has a stable food source, similar to plants.
I believe that the flood "see" electrical pulses, whatever you could call something that would easiliy see nerves, circuits or the like. the reason I say that is that the flood are after the nervous system the reason why and how certian species are infected and further mutated if at all i is due to the structure of the nervous system. That they target those with a single centeral nervous system to make infection and information gathering as easy as possible .Why not the head, because it's too vulnerble in most species.
grunts make better carriers than combant forms since it's more efficient to use the smaller amount of organic tissue availible to generate more infection forms than making a weaker combat form that would be less able to spawn infection forms when it needs to.
I don't know how a host's brain affects infection but there must be reason that an elite's head would be rendered usless while a human's still appears to have a purpose, one thing I keep in mind is that the flood tend to do things that serve their purpose and do it in the most effiecient manner attainable.
That's all I wish to say for now, any insight on this subject would appreciated.
[Edited on 9/24/2006]