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Posted by: V101
We all assume that the Covenant released the Flood.
However Cortana and the Master Chief may have made it more difficult to secure the area when the Flood were found.
In the level "Silent Cartographer" Cortana and the Master Chief set out to enter Halo's map room but are stopped by the Covenant locking the doors. Cortana doesn't seem interested in trying to crack the system. Instead the Master Chief is told to disable the security system. So the MC runs off and does just that. The door/s open and all is well.
However?
Did shutting down Halo's security system have more profound effect? Did the shut down effect the security of the system containing the Flood. Maybe some other doors that were previously locked were opened as well. This may have lead the Covenant to investigate and possibly several other security systems were down. So the Covenant failed to see any real threat until it was to late.
By the time the Master Chief reached the Library the Flood were well and truly out and about. Multiple combat and infection forms were evident. The footage that the Master Chief views from the fallen soldier shows the Flood were already present when Keye's arrived. Keye's was on his way to the Library when Halo's security system was shut down.
The same footage shows a door the Covenant had tried to seal off. However with no security system in place it may have been difficult to do.
Hmmm I wonder a little about this. Sure shutting down the security system opened the door allowing the Master Chief access to the map room but did that action also have more profound consiquences?
Maybe the Covenant are not as stupid as we all think. Maybe they just saw a few open rooms and went in to investigate. Then the Flood came out of stasis or perhaps the stasis was interupted by the security shut down. The Flood then infected and overwhelmed the few Covenant in the area. Lets face it the Flood can quickly overwhelm unsuspecting prey.
Once a few Covenant were infected then more Flood could be generated and the rest is history. The Flood could have grown from a small threat to a very large problem before the Covenant even knew what was going on.
My theory is somewhat similar to yours. My theory is when the Master Chief shut the Silent Cartographer security system, he probably shut the whole installtions system. Because in the book, the Security Shaft is guarded by Zuka Zemanee, Yayap, some Grunts, stealth Elites(afterwards), and Hunters. So when the Chief shut it down, that must have given the Covenant the access to the Flood facility. So when the Humans arrived, it was when the Covenant tried to stop the Flood, it failed due to no security.
Then here comes the Chief to save the Marines.
Basically, the Covenant might have been at the Flood facility when the Chief shut down the Installations Security system. So I really believe our good friend the Chief released the Flood, from the Silent Cartographer island, since that might have been Alpha Installtion's whole security system.