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[angelo]

If I were writting the story I'd stick with your first theory.

I actually believed that is what would occur at some point during Halo 2, especially after reading First Strike... but I was wrong. Hopefully I'll still have a chance to be redeemed though. Right bungie? You wouldn't want to leave angelo hanging now would you?

[thebruce]

Re: Flood theories

[Kojubat]

Re: Flood theories

[angelo]

Re: Flood theories

[thunderclap8]

my personal theory is that the forerunners 'seeded' worlds with the potential for life to develop before they wiped themselves out. Sort of the 'restarting windows' solution

I also wonder if the flood were some sort of experiment in the area of eternal (or at least extended) life. They seem to resurrect themselves quite well...

[Phaedra]

Re: Flood theories

[Smoke]

The Forerunner were masters of efficiency.

The Halos serve a dual purpose; containing the weapon that would wipe out all life (and thus starve the Flood to death), as well as acting as a massive, multi-environment laboratory to observe the Flood, possibly finding a way of destroying them were another outbreak to occur. That this acts as an inadvertant ark for the Flood is somewhat ironic, but it is a sound idea.

There are two stockpiles of the smallpox virus left in the world. The disease was wiped out decades ago, much to the relief of many. There has always been talk of destroying the last samples; were they to fall into the wrong hands, the results would be disasterous. A supervirus could be crafted, that could, quite literally, kill nearly every person on the planet. However, the knowledge that can be gleaned from the samples is invaluable, and they are the only source for an antivirus, were such an outbreak to occur.

I am still of the opinion that the Ark is the Earth/Luna system. Or, possibly, the seed theory. That all the races we have seen have been bipedal oxygen breathers (with the exception of the, scientifically viable, methane-breathing Grunts) lends quite a bit of credibility to that idea.

[angelo]

Re: Flood theories

[Shadowkiller]

From my understanding of the Halos from the games is that they were research facilities meant to study the flood, but they also contained a last resort weapon in case they broke containment. To cleanse the galaxy you don't have to do it from the Halo that lost containment, once one Halo fires the rest follow suit. The only way to continue the firing after cancelling it is from the Ark.

On the Delta Halo to me it seems like it was the Halo that lost containment. It is battle scarred with burnt out hulls of ships and environmentally where the battle with the flood still rages it is rather harsh. Very unlike Halo 04, which was rather pristine.

[Gestas]

[NSA]

Humm! My few ideas..

I *believe* Cortana mentioned somewhere during Halo that when the Halo's activate they do kill all viable life in whatever huge radius, but whomever is on Halo survives the blast. As the explosion goes outwards I suppose, the idea is viable. Since we've only encountered Flood on Halos (and that weird Forerunner gas mining place!), I would assume this idea works. Since the Halos supposidly "starve" the Flood, they would either (A) be dead everywhere from 'hunger', or (B) be everywhere but not expanding their numbers. Otherwise, (C) happens.. where the Halo's kill everything in their radius that is a host or viable host. Since the universe must have been mighty overrun by flood, and since we dont see flood anywhere else, the Halo's must have worked outside the Ring.

[Roarke]

[Smoke]

[NSA]

[Phaedra]