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Re: A scary thought...
Posted By: Jillybean	Date: 4/4/08 11:25 a.m.
In Response To: Re: A scary thought... (scarab) : The Flood may not depend on evolution. GM may be able to decide what forms a : collection of pure Flood cells take. If it's biological it will evolve. It doesn't depend on it any more than we do, and its own actions may even counteract the natural evolution of the organism (for example, eradicating any Flood member which says 'hey, maybe we should start farming instead of parasitising' but the evolution itself doesn't stop) : It seems that it takes time to learn how to infect a species properly. This : may be purely behavioural learning or it may have a physical/physiological : component. New behaviours can be learnt by a single generation but : physical or physiological mechanisms can't change dramatically in a few : generations. Actually - behaviour takes three generations to take hold, at least for humans. I'm fairly sure that physical change is actually faster than you think it is, but I can't find the reference for it so we'll leave it for now (may have been a discussion group in our evolution course) : Flood biology just smells of design. The Flood has such a strange and diverse : collection of 'adaptations' that it doesn't seem natural. : There are landing pods, crawlers, stingers, hulks, infection forms, carriers, : seesile forms, tentacles, audreys, etc. Look how the mobile pure forms : switch constantly between forms... : Look at the different ways that the Flood can infect you. Infection form + : spores = combat form or carrier. Spores on their own can tentaclize you : (like wot happened to Truth). Look at audrey's Regret glove puppet (half : Flood, half Prophet, and yet still alive.). : I can't prove this but it looks like the pure Flood cells are a biological : Swiss Army Knife. : One question though, is the Flood really just a parasite? Can it exist : without hosts? GM talks as if he will survive after all 'hosts' have been : converted. Is this because Bungie doesn't understand the fundamental truth : of being a parasite (as do the Blade/Vampire story writers) or can the : Flood thrive without hosts? The flood can survive without hosts, they did so for 100,000 years. Even their intelligence survived. If you're asking "can they begin without a host" well, I'd have to say 'no', because their reproduction is based within the spore exploding forms.

Message Index

First contact between the Flood and Forerunners	[AMS] GreyThor	4/4/08 3:17 a.m.
Re: First contact between the Flood and Forerunner	Rosco-128	4/4/08 3:41 a.m.
whoops, my bad, misread your last question	Rosco-128	4/4/08 3:44 a.m.
A scary thought...	Leviathan	4/4/08 5:34 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	reprobate	4/4/08 5:53 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/4/08 6:12 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 6:29 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Rosco-128	4/4/08 6:53 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 1:50 p.m.
hate to dissapoint but	nomis78	4/5/08 6:57 a.m.
Re: hate to dissapoint but	elpolloguapo	4/5/08 7:55 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Rosco-128	4/4/08 6:17 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 6:31 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Rosco-128	4/4/08 6:42 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Jillybean	4/4/08 7:51 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	scarab	4/4/08 10:53 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Jillybean	4/4/08 11:25 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	scarab	4/4/08 1:11 p.m.
I'm not saying that Flood are vertebrates! *NM*	scarab	4/4/08 2:12 p.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Jillybean	4/4/08 4:17 p.m.
Re: A scary thought...	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 4:18 p.m.
Possibly	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 1:57 p.m.
Re: Possibly	Jillybean	4/4/08 4:12 p.m.
Re: Possibly	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 4:17 p.m.
Re: Possibly	grantix	4/4/08 4:42 p.m.
Re: Possibly	Jillybean	4/4/08 5:34 p.m.
Re: Possibly	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 6:20 p.m.
Re: Possibly	grantix	4/6/08 12:17 p.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Jillybean	4/4/08 7:28 a.m.
This is the void I meant	Jillybean	4/4/08 7:53 a.m.
Re: This is the void I meant	Stuntmutt	4/4/08 8:40 a.m.
Re: This is the void I meant	Jillybean	4/4/08 9:07 a.m.
(nostalgic) :sigh:...	stan	4/4/08 11:39 a.m.
It has done this before....elsewhere.	yakaman	4/4/08 8:47 a.m.
Re: A scary thought...	Ragashingo	4/5/08 12:17 a.m.
almost sounds like the red dwarf polymorph story	Onebitrocket	4/4/08 6:26 a.m.
It's a stretch, I'd say... *NM*	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 6:34 a.m.
Re: First contact between the Flood and Forerunner	MasterCheifn	4/4/08 12:43 p.m.
Re: First contact between the Flood and Forerunner	scarab	4/4/08 1:19 p.m.
I believe THIS is First Contact	Capt Spanish	4/4/08 7:27 p.m.
Re: I believe THIS is First Contact	elpolloguapo	4/4/08 7:42 p.m.