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10/15/2012 8:11:53 PM
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Why was the Index kept in the Library?
Under normal circumstances the Flood would not have broken containment, so a "Reclaimer" could just walk through the Library and grab it uncontested, right? What purpose does it serve to have the Index in a research facility where the universe's most dangerous parasite is stored?
Also, another related nitpick. Why are there so many human flood armed with human weapons in the Library? Same goes for the Covies...the flood that should be stored there must have been a hundred thousand years old...or maybe they were flood that traveled to the library from other locations?
Eh, just something I was thinking about while playing through CE again in prep for H4.
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The Flood isn't stored in the Library. They were from the Flood Containment Facility in the swamp.
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Weren't they the dead marines that were killed before john encountered the flood for the first time?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] the real Janaka I'm more interested in knowing which door the Covenant opened that released the Flood? ... The door John opened was of the exact same type of door as the ones the infection forms easily bent open... What's up with that, did the Covenant turn off a containment/stasis/hard light field or something?[/quote]Most likely. either that or the infection forms were 'dormant' until the Covenant came and woke them up.
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It's been a while, but if I remember the Terminal's Story, The Libraries on the different Halos are where the Forerunners originally collected all the sentient species throughout the galaxy before sending them to the ark while the halo rings were fired. The Index, was a glorified USB stick with all their genetic data. It's conceivable that Offensive Bias used the rings to store the Flood and research them as he continued his war against the Flood after the death of the Forerunners. As for the abundance of weapons, well a flood soldier isn't a flood soldier without a host. Otherwise its the little blob that runs around. The Flood got their weapons from the bodies they took over. [Edited on 10.18.2012 8:03 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] the real Janaka I'm more interested in knowing which door the Covenant opened that released the Flood? ... The door John opened was of the exact same type of door as the ones the infection forms easily bent open... What's up with that, did the Covnant turn of a containment/stasis/hard light field or something?[/quote] I'm not sure we saw all of that facility...anyways, yeah, I think the Covenant probably accidentally shut down some sort of stasis field or shield generator or something and this either woke the Flood up and/or allowed them to escape captivity.
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Remember the part where you first meet the flood? The first things attacking you are the Infection Forms. It's likely the particular breach in the library resulted in an outbreak of Infection forms, which then escalated once they infected hosts. Remember the flood uses knowledge from it's hosts, so that's why you had combat forms using human and covenant weapons.
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I'm more interested in knowing which door the Covenant opened that released the Flood? ... The door John opened was of the exact same type of door as the ones the infection forms easily bent open... What's up with that, did the Covnant turn of a containment/stasis/hard light field or something?
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Uh, I didn't think that the Library was a storage or containment facility, I'd always thought the Flood had made their way there once they were released from containment in order to stop anyone from getting to and retrieving the Index...if that happens we all know it's game over for the Flood, the Library and securing the activation code to the only real threat to them would be one of the first priorities for them. And if the Library was a containment facility, most of the Flood within it would have been of the Infection Form variety, there were incredibly few Combat Forms in containment, most of the Combat Forms we see in the games came from the UNSC and/or Covenant forces on and around the Halo Ring.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Centurion117 Also, another related nitpick. Why are there so many human flood armed with human weapons in the Library? Same goes for the Covies...the flood that should be stored there must have been a hundred thousand years old...or maybe they were flood that traveled to the library from other locations?[/quote] The Covenant released the Flood by accident. I'm sure that by the time they tried to contain it a good number of them had been infected. As for the human combat forms I'm sure the marines were doing local hit and runs on the Covies but some probably encountered the Flood as well.
