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Edited by King PWNinater:
1/24/2013 3:05:49 AM
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Why didn't the Halo rings kill The Flood?
I never really got this. Anyone else ever wonder this? The array killed pretty much everything except The Flood. Why though?
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3 RepliesImagine you've got a bomb that only destroys fried food. Now, put that bomb in a Chinese buffet with a bunch of fat people. When the bomb goes off, all that's left is the salad bar, and we all know that fat people aren't going to eat the salad. Eventually, the fat people die, and skinny people can then repopulate the buffet. /Halo
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Because the Halo Array was/is tuned to destroy anything with a central nervous system. Flood are immune to this because of their physical make up. They don't posses different cells for different functions so much as they posses one cell that can function at everything. This makes/made it impossible to target the Flood for elimination by the Halo Array. As such, the only way to defeat the Flood is to starve it. Without biological compounds to replace their dying cells, they eventually just die.
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Edited by Ockeghem: 1/24/2013 11:30:32 PMI agree...it is a convenient reality that lets the rings function properly within the Halo universe and narrative. I accept it happily, as long as I don't think to much about how stupid it was to build it. [b]A) [/b]With all their smarts and tech, and the fact that you can actually kill individual flood, you think they could have targeted them some how [b]B) [/b]If you were faced with building a super-weapon to wipe out all sentient life to stop the flood's food, OR living a little longer while waiting for the flood to perish all of its food supply, I would take the second option. At least it would give more time to explore option A. But, ultimately, Bungie designed the universe so they determine that reality, and I accept it. After all, the ring mechanic made for (as of now) my favorite original sci-fi game plot.
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They do, just the sentient ones. They can kill the Combat Forms and above, including Graveminds, but not Infection Forms. They wipe out any sentient being bigger than a squirrel.
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Necro
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Edited by Silverback Elite: 1/25/2013 11:32:16 PMBut the Halo: CEA terminals and Halo Legends both show that the rings kill the flood.
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The Forerunners are silly though. With their technology they should have invented Necrodermis and conquered everything!
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Rings kill sentient life not the Flood itself. Also, if you watch the terminal vids they explain some spores were preserved before the rings were first activated.
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They killed all sentient life in order to starve the parasite, which would kill them eventually.
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Because the Forerunners didn't have enough time to find out what could kill the Flood, so instead they decided to make weapon that killed everything the Flood [i]ate and lived off of[/i], save for a few specimens of every species in the galaxy, stored safely on the Ark for a while.
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4 RepliesHalo can be tuned to kill/destroy anything, even physical objects.
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Because the Halo arrays don't kill things on the halos.
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The array was used to kill the Flood. Seeing as the Flood are of extragalactic origin, they couldn't let them take over all life in this universe, and growing more biomass. With the re-seeding they hoped that over time, someone would come up with an solution to the Flood.
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Edited by TooMuchAlcohol: 1/24/2013 1:26:27 PMThe array was used to kill the Flood's food. Seeing as the Flood are of extragalactic origin, they couldn't let them take over all life in this universe, and growing more biomass. With the re-seeding they hoped that over time, someone would come up with an solution to the Flood.
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The Flood aren't sentient beings.
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1 ReplyEdited by Haruspis: 1/24/2013 12:47:18 PM"The Flood covers more of our galaxy with each passing day, they feast on the essense of life itself. The only way to stop their advance is to remove that life upon which they feast." ~ Faber "One single Flood spore can destroy a species." ~ Rtas "The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death." ~ Cortana
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1 ReplyErm... no. That statement from Halo CE was ignored a while ago. Flood only live on Installations and some infected Shield Worlds. Halo kills everything that possesses a nervous system, and can even be tuned to destroy machinery.
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2 RepliesBecause Halo doesn't kill the Flood and the Didact was inside the planet from Halo 4 which I believe is a Shield World, which also protects you from being killed by the Halo's blast.
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2 RepliesThe Flood can only be starved. The Didact was in a shield world, which protects creatures from the Halo arrays.
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Didact was in a Dyson Sphere.
