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Halo Effect absolutely kills Flood
Posted By: yakaman	Date: 6/10/08 8:23 a.m.
: I've always been iffy about the effect of the halo rings. : Cortana states pretty clearly that "the only way to stop the flood is to : starve them to death", hence the halos fire and everybody dies EXCEPT : the Flood. That seems a bit counter-intuitive as you would imagine that : the halos would simply kill every living thing in it's firing range. But : then you get the problem of the Terminals that claim when Offensive Bias : was fighting Mendicant Bias, as soon as the Halos fired MB lost 70% of his : ships as they were flood controlled, suggesting that the halos indeed did : kill flood too. : Can anybody give me a straight answer? Do the Halos kill flood, or just their : food? The Halo Effect absolutely kills Flood. It kills Gravemind, warrior Flood, Carriers, whatever. The only one (IMO) not definitive is the infection form (the Flood SuperCell - is it the same thing?). The single best proof comes from the terminals in Halo 3, specifically Terminal 6's battle betweeen Offensive Bias and Mendicant Bias: "The [Halo effect] strikes our combined fleets. All ships piloted by biologicals are now [adrift]. I can trade Mendicant ship for ship now and still prevail" Bird and fish exist on Delta Halo (for example) because they are under the radar (not enough biomass). Every other life form is wiped out.

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