In Response To: Re: Let me speculate man! It's healthy! :-) (Ciarán)
 
: Speculate away! There may well be other Flood forms we haven't seen, and I
 : realise that I left out the Flood/Keyes blob in my lifecycle, however, in
 : this case I think the following terms have been interchangeable: Rangers
 : Infection Forms
 : Spores
 : I think the term Spores here is now not quite correct, since 343GS explicitly
 : states that the spores are carried by the Rangers. However, everyone will
 : probably still call them Spores or Infection Forms, since Bungie
 : themselves seem to do so (check out Evil Otto's walkthrough of The
 : Library for examples in the first few paragraphs).
 : Speaking of speculation, if all you need is one spore, then maybe a few are
 : still hanging on to Keyes' neural net. The MC gives is a bit of a shake
 : after ripping it out of the blob, and goo (that's a technical term) flies
 : off, but then he merrily sticks it in his head. That said, I reckon the
 : slot is isolated from his body, so the spores can't infect him, even when
 : he does take his helmet off in the Longsword. Maybe this is discovered,
 : possibly from data Cortana got from the Core, and ONI works out some other
 : way to wipe out the Flood instead of cleansing the galaxy of life (which
 : the Forerunners couldn't find out), and the Humans and Covenant live
 : happily ever after.
 : Nah!
 If Bungie calls this   the spore then that must make this  the ranger!
 Seems pretty simple to me.
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