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Subject: Why doesnt Halo kill the Flood??????
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Ok Halo kills sentient life so why not the flood their living breath sentient life arnt they.
Or is this just another bit where theres a weird paradox no one understands.

  • 11.06.2006 8:24 AM PDT

Well it's possible Halo's weapon DOES kill flood infected hosts. The statement "Halo doesn't kill flood" could just be refering to the spores them selves. This could be for any number of reasons. Perhaps like many modern day diseases, creating a cure is more than just saying "that's it, kill it", and Halo's weapon could not be set to target the flood infection.

  • 11.06.2006 8:39 AM PDT
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The flood are like zombies and i dont think they live and breathe in the same way as sentient life as you put it. They change the body structure of the host and over time it decays almost like it was a corpse. The forerunners tried everything and the only way they could totally stop the flood was starving them and they tried every option according to 343.

  • 11.06.2006 9:41 AM PDT
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I dunno... sure seems like the forrunners never tried a shotgun....

  • 11.06.2006 11:53 AM PDT
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if the forrunners can bild a planet why dont they bild one to trap the flood on and then send it toward the sun?

  • 11.06.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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I've always wondered this before. Why would these almighty, smart species, make somethign that can only kill sentient life and not the threat?

  • 11.06.2006 4:03 PM PDT

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It's possible the Flood do not qualify as full-on sentient life.

  • 11.06.2006 4:46 PM PDT

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Takes way too many resources probably.

  • 11.06.2006 4:47 PM PDT

I don't think resourses would be an issue when it comes to saving the entire galaxy from oblivion. Like I said, we can build massive sky scrapers and machinery, but still can't cure many of the tiny diseases out there, and the forerunner may have had the same problem on a much larger scale.

  • 11.06.2006 5:44 PM PDT
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Because - the Forerunners, for some reason, decided to keep a small portion of the Flood alive by keeping it on an installation. They intentionally did not kill all of them.

  • 11.06.2006 7:32 PM PDT
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Because - the Forerunners, for some reason, decided to keep a small portion of the Flood alive by keeping it on an installation. They intentionally did not kill all of them.


Just like in the Alien movies and in Predator 2. It is a common mistake in sci fi to keep a few of a species alive to "study" them.

  • 11.06.2006 8:22 PM PDT
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Thats smart

  • 11.06.2006 9:40 PM PDT
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because then there would be no story line. life as we know it would fail, and everything would be surrounded in a cloud of apple juice, then die slowly from pwntness...
because bungie made it that way that's why

  • 11.07.2006 7:31 AM PDT
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What I don't get is that 343 GS said that the Halos were activated around 100,000 years ago. Well did anyone else think about it. If halo kills all sentient life (keeping in mind I dont know the "definition" of sentient life) there isn't enough time for evolution. Evolution takes millions of years. If halo killed everything that could sustain the flood which I think is pretty much any large complex organism, it would take millions if not billions of years for life to evolve back into large complex organisms that could sustain the flood.

This makes me think that life was sheltered when the halos went off (Ghosts of Onyx, I know). But if life was sheltered, it had to be sheltered for the grunts, drones, jackals, elites, brutes, hunters, prophets, humans and all the species we haven't seen yet. Unless the Forerunners built a bunch of these shield worlds, (like the one in GoO) I don't see how all these complex organisms could have evolved in such a short time period of 100,000 years.

  • 11.08.2006 2:04 PM PDT
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well, if you think about it, if it killed all life that could contain the flood, wouldent the floods curent hosts be whiped out as well? or does it kill everything exept the ones already on halo...?

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shield worlds...thats in GoO. maby one of them are broken open from the inside by the occupants before the flood can die?but that doesnt make sense... flood in only on halo installations, kept there to be studied. so if the rings are activated, everything, is in everything outside of the shield worlds and halo is killed. in this theory the flood is also killed by the rings, exept for those kept for 'studying' in the halo rings. but think f the library level in h1. 343 guilty spark says he is glad some of the flood survied to reproduce....if the protocol of halo is to destroy, why he wants them to live? questions...

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1 thing - if the halo got rid of the flood then the forerunners would still be here
and that would mean that there is no game because the forerunners are who the covenant worship and why they have a conflict with the humans

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343 guilty spark says he is glad some of the flood survied to reproduce....if the protocol of halo is to destroy, why he wants them to live? questions...


Maybe 343 Guilty Spark has been so bored doing nothing for the past 100,000 years that he's glad that he has something to do (contain the flood).

I don't know though, I just pulled that out of my, well you get it.

  • 11.08.2006 7:31 PM PDT
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I think the technology cannot target the Floods DNA or they are simply immune to Halo.

  • 11.08.2006 8:01 PM PDT

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I was wondering since the Forerunners put the flood on halos couldn't they just blow the Halos up and forever kill the flood? Or is there something I forgot or missing?

  • 11.08.2006 8:52 PM PDT
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halos were ment to have a purpose, theres about 3 that destroys all and the other that created living

flood are dead and its oraganisms can live throughout the solar system without air until it latches on a host that is sutible for the cells to live in the body...... otherwize its completely destroyed.....

halos destroys planets, creates them, and resurrects something else. the flood is in another galaxy basicly

  • 11.09.2006 12:23 AM PDT
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say... if halo blew up everything that lived, then why would the forruners build... how meny are there, anyway?

  • 11.09.2006 3:00 PM PDT

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1stly, the flood aren't considered sentient life. they are of hive mind, therefore not sentient.

2nd, every race regardless of how great will eventually find something that brings it down, period.

3rd, the flood have proven themeselves time and time again to be remarkably resilient and difficult to terminate. just because you kill all of them in the certain part of the game sure as hell doesn't mean there all gone.

  • 11.09.2006 4:03 PM PDT
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very good question

  • 11.09.2006 9:31 PM PDT
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The flood can be killed, but they can also come back to life, and you can't say that no flood at all survives. And there are a lot of Halos, each a containment center for the flood.

  • 11.09.2006 10:47 PM PDT

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