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Re: The Flood Homeworld
Posted By: punji73 <punji1973@hotmail.com>Date: 2/23/05 3:22 a.m.

In Response To: The Flood Homeworld (Slith)

: Now this brings me to where the Flood may have come from.

: It's unlikely the Flood were the only thing to evolve on their planet. So,
: logically, there were, (or are) other things living on said planet. Things
: that would likely have a defense to combat the Flood.

: Or possibly... Flood are only lethal to things not from their planet -
: everything there has grown a biological immunity to it.

: The Flood would be like scavangers on the planet. Dead bodies would no longer
: have a working defense mechanism, and thus were infected by the Flood.
: However, these bodies would remain benign, becuase the Flood virus would
: not know how to control its host. (The brain has died. Hopefully.)

: So, we've got a nice balance on this world. The Flood can't just infect the
: entire planet, and destroy all other life. Instead, they act as garbage
: disposal, removing unwanted baggage (dead bodies) from the area. Of
: course, some other animal would find these Flood masses a tasty snack and
: eat it. Keeping Flood numbers low, and recycling the dead matter back into
: the ecosystem.

: Now, lets introduce something new: Forerunners. They come from a different
: planet, have no immunity to the Flood, and decide to take a nice
: exploratory survey of this beautiful new world they've found.

: Upon breathing the planets atmosphere, the Forerunners also inhale Flood
: spores. These spores release the virus through the respiratory organs into
: the circulatory system. Soon, these Forerunner pioneers become deadly
: Flood combat forms capable of higher thought. Suddenly the Flood are no
: longer a scavenger cleaning dead bodies off the floor. They are a thinking
: sentient lifeform. (of Doom!)

: The Flood would realize (because its sentient now) that there are other
: worlds, planets, Forerunners, to infest. The Forerunner ship leaves,
: carrying a deadly package of Flood death.

: What happens next is more speculation: Perhaps the Forerunners destroy the
: Flood homeworld, not realizing the consequences of this. Thus destroying
: any way they have of creating a cure, and dooming every race in the
: universe to a terrible, horrific, undeath.
very intersting theory yes, and they then constructed the halo ring worlds to store collections of flood infection forms in case they needed to study them later or something. and if things got out of hand the rings would double as a weapon of mass destruction to whipe out the flood altogether. or could it be that the flood were gentically engineered by the forerunners as a form of biological weapon? that would be a far better reason to go to the trouble of contructing 7 ringworlds to house the flood. in case they found a need to use them again, like they had in the past, then they could just collect infection forms from one of the rings and use them.

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Replies:

Of OP, flood and biologyZak Anderson 2/21/05 3:14 a.m.
     Re: Of OP, flood and biologymooniejohnson 2/21/05 3:17 a.m.
           Re: Of OP, flood and biologyJJMeH 2/21/05 3:20 a.m.
     Re: Of OP, flood and biologyZak Anderson 2/21/05 3:18 a.m.
     OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWZak Anderson 2/21/05 4:32 a.m.
           Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWmooniejohnson 2/21/05 5:10 a.m.
                 Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWZak Anderson 2/22/05 2:25 a.m.
                       Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWmrbananas 2/22/05 9:37 a.m.
           Re: OK GOT A WORKING LINK NOWHawk7886 2/21/05 5:12 a.m.
                 Here's a better one.Louis Wu 2/21/05 5:22 a.m.
                       Re: Here's a better one.Jillybean 2/21/05 7:25 a.m.
                             Re: Here's a better one.MC vince 2/21/05 10:26 a.m.
                                   Re: Here's a better one.Jillybean 2/21/05 1:23 p.m.
                                         Q&ASlith 2/21/05 1:40 p.m.
                                               Re: Q&AZak Anderson 2/22/05 2:20 a.m.
                                                     More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 3:56 p.m.
                                                           Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 4:14 p.m.
                                                                 The Flood HomeworldSlith 2/22/05 4:35 p.m.
                                                                       Re: The Flood Homeworldpunji73 2/23/05 3:22 a.m.
                                                                 Re: More Flood Biologymrbananas 2/22/05 5:13 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/22/05 5:24 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood Biologyselmack 2/22/05 6:54 p.m.
                                                                       Re: More Flood Biologypunji73 2/23/05 3:10 a.m.
                                                                             Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/23/05 11:51 a.m.
                                                                                   Re: More Flood Biologymrbananas 2/23/05 1:14 p.m.
                                                                                         Re: More Flood BiologySlith 2/23/05 5:32 p.m.
                                         Re: Here's a better one.Gil Galahad 2/21/05 4:02 p.m.
                                               Re: Here's a better one.Jillybean 2/21/05 4:27 p.m.
                                   Re: Here's a better one.Finn 2/22/05 6:54 p.m.
     Excellent work. Good reasoning. *NM*Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 2/21/05 11:20 a.m.
     read Starhammer? *NM*Anonymous Cowardly Fool 2/21/05 7:40 p.m.



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