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Re: The importance of organic reclaimers
Posted By: Jimmy	Date: 5/3/05 4:42 p.m.
In Response To: The importance of organic reclaimers (Wado SG) : In hisco scopea's post on the HSP ( : http://halosm.bungie.org/story/newssearch.html?newsitem=793 ), it is : speculated that those that built the facilities on Reach are not the same : as those that built Halo. : Regardless of that being true or not, it appears that the same conclusions : were reached in the context of a catastrophic Flood outbreak. Now from the : books and game we know that the Flood can infect organic life AND steal : the memories from those infected. We also know that the Flood can : infiltrate electronic/computer systems. Given it might be the knowledge : stolen from the infected hosts that gives the Flood the ability to : infiltrate the computer systems, there is still evidence of further : "adaptive" abilities of the Flood such as the Keye's Blob and : Gravemind to interface with electronics/computer systems. : Now Halo has some safeguards against the Flood taking over purely on their : ability to interface with electronics. Protocols did not allow constructs : to be in the core and important tasks such as the re-unification of the : Index with the Core are reserved for only the Reclaimer(s), who happen to : seem to only be humans. Humans, of course are organic, making them subject : to Flood infection. : So what is to keep an infected human from being a Reclaimer? Well conversely, : what good would a security system be if all you needed was "body : parts" to get by it? : To keep the Flood from gaining control, I believe the creators of Halo and : the creators of the facilities on Reach came to the same conclusions. : First, limit the access of computers/constructs/AI's. And second, encode : the security protocols to something that cannot be used if altered by the : Flood. : The first limit is demonstrated by the role of constructs on Halo, and in the : facilities on Reach there were no holographic projectors or access points : for constructs. Imagine the fear the creators must have had to cause them : to cast away their own technology and live on dirt floors (underground on : Reach) knowing the Flood was out there and that their own constructs could : be used against them. : The second limit is evidenced in the controls of Halo, how the Reclaimer : could just intuitively use the controls and how a Reclaimer must unify the : Index with the Core (other organic creatures tried but it did not work for : them). Also the mechanisms for opening the secured doors in the Reach : facilities had something to do with blood which seems to tie into a : genetic encoded system as the key. Any presence of Flood alteration would : likely set off alerts and keep the doors locked down. : Any thoughts about this? I like this theory. It's so simple, I'm surprised no one has suggested it before, and it makes the most sense so I think it's right. This explains a lot os weird "rules" on Halo.

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The importance of organic reclaimers	Wado SG	5/3/05 3:25 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Urk	5/3/05 3:43 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Wado SG	5/3/05 4:27 p.m.
I think it was refering to Keyes not Sarge?	Gggall78	5/4/05 10:41 a.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	GryphonOsiris	5/3/05 4:39 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Wado SG	5/3/05 4:47 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Jimmy	5/3/05 4:42 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Slith	5/3/05 5:24 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Wado SG	5/3/05 7:00 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	ajenteks	5/3/05 5:35 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Wado SG	5/3/05 7:16 p.m.
Re: The importance of organic reclaimers	Morgalad	5/17/05 9:02 a.m.