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Note about the Flood | |
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 9/12/06 1:05 a.m. |
In Response To: My Thoughts on the Halo Series (Gravemind) : If you disagree, which I'm sure some of you will, then feel free to offer
This is almost too much to digest in one go, but one line in particular sticks out: "There are of course many questions to be answered. Why did the Forerunners devise such a roundabout way of killing the Flood? Was the “Let’s take them down with us” approach really the only thing that would’ve worked? If so, then why were the Halo installations ineffective at eradicating the Flood?" According to 343GS' dialog in "The Library", the installation was built to contain and study the Flood, not eradicate them-- in fact, to preserve them as a species, he says. There is an unanswered question here, and it may not be "why couldn't the Forerunners annihilate the Flood" but rather "why did the Forerunners choose to contain rather than eradicate the Flood." The Heretic is of the opinion that the Forerunners were incapable of doing so. It is part of his viewpoint, which completely undermines the godlike stature of the Forerunners and thus the legitimacy of the "great journey". He says they couldn't make a weapon that killed the Flood, that the best they could do was box them up on Halo installations. I think he's wrong. I think the Forerunners deliberately chose not to do so. For some reason, the survival of the Flood was so important to them that they were willing to destroy ALL other sentient life in the galaxy rather than let them perish. Why? |
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