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Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1
Posted By: scarab	Date: 4/26/08 3:36 a.m.
In Response To: Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1 (Dubble.utoo) : Not really. I think you're missing something :-) : The flood require biomass like carbon and calcium as a structure to build up : flood super cell masses upon. Like steel columns in a building. Plants have plenty of carbon and calcium. Though I've never understood why Flood would require calcium for food. Was it just an idea to explain the lack of Forerunner bones? <- Some sort of half formulated idea that just stuck. : There's a : type of fungus called 'entomopathogenic fungus' that functions in a : scarily similar way. It invades the host (insects) and takes over its : nervous system, makes the insect fly to a high place, and then kills it. : The fungi eats the insect, forming more fungal mass, and the spores float : away on the wind to infect other insects. The fungus is using the mobile insects as vectors. The Flood was using sentients with FTL as vectors. Kill the vectors, contain the Flood. : Lets roll with these analogies for a sec. The galactic can of bug-spray kills : all the insects in the galaxy. The fungi would have no means of growing, : or movement and would effectively be halted, and starve to death, or go : dormant. Kill their food, starve the Flood. : The flood, needing biomass as a structure to build upon, would be reduced to : puddles of formless supercells, infection forms and a starving gravemind. : Firing the Halo array would effectively 'rip the supports from the : buildings.' I think that everything bigger than a spore dies. : I believe the gravemind to be one and the same as the gravemind from the : flood-forerunner war as many times throughout Halo 2 and 3, he recites : knowledge of the war, e.g ""I have beaten fleets of Thousands! : Consumed a galaxy of flesh, and mind, and bone!" I think this is 'genetic memory'. A proto-GM is formed and the genetic memories reassert themselves and a full GM awakes.

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A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/25/08 11:36 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/25/08 11:36 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	mendicantbias00	4/25/08 11:52 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/25/08 12:09 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	xMixMasterx	4/25/08 12:29 p.m.
Yeah but...	stan	4/25/08 1:17 p.m.
Re: Yeah but...	xMixMasterx	4/25/08 1:43 p.m.
Re: Yeah but...	nomis78	4/25/08 2:18 p.m.
Maybe true, but...	stan	4/25/08 2:43 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	scarab	4/25/08 3:43 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	xMixMasterx	4/25/08 3:53 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	Cthulhu117	4/25/08 4:42 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	scarab	4/25/08 5:27 p.m.
Yet...	stan	4/25/08 5:34 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	deadguy71	4/25/08 3:57 p.m.
Re: Maybe true, but...	scarab	4/25/08 5:18 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Don	4/25/08 1:46 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Awe Venger	4/25/08 12:21 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/25/08 12:39 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Don	4/25/08 12:47 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	xMixMasterx	4/25/08 2:35 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	discopete019	4/25/08 2:59 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	deadguy71	4/25/08 3:50 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	scarab	4/25/08 4:02 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/25/08 10:00 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/25/08 11:23 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Dubble.utoo	4/26/08 12:57 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	reprobate	4/26/08 1:50 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/26/08 10:40 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	deadguy71	4/28/08 6:06 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	scarab	4/26/08 3:36 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	4/26/08 10:45 a.m.
Did the Forerunner crew volunteer?	Jillybean	4/26/08 7:36 a.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	mub	4/25/08 7:17 p.m.
Re: A little speculation *Spoilers* Part 1	Jillybean	4/26/08 7:41 a.m.
On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *long*	elpolloguapo	4/30/08 1:31 p.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	Louis Wu	4/30/08 1:44 p.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	elpolloguapo	4/30/08 1:52 p.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	bluerunner	4/30/08 2:51 p.m.
The Halo Effect	Capo Rip	5/6/08 1:39 a.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	Ciarán	5/2/08 8:31 a.m.
You are a GENIUS	scarab	5/2/08 2:56 p.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	elpolloguapo	5/2/08 4:37 p.m.
Re: On the Relationship Between Halos and Flood *l	Red_Breast	4/30/08 1:52 p.m.
Exactly...	stan	4/30/08 5:26 p.m.
Total Perspective Vortex	scarab	5/2/08 2:53 p.m.
Re: Total Perspective Vortex	Leviathan	5/2/08 3:40 p.m.
The total perspective vortex doesn't kill...	elpolloguapo	5/2/08 4:39 p.m.
In response to UNSC Trooper's question...	elpolloguapo	5/4/08 7:41 a.m.
Re: In response to UNSC Trooper's question...	DHalo	5/4/08 11:46 a.m.
Re: In response to UNSC Trooper's question...	InnerRayg	5/4/08 9:17 p.m.
Fair enough	elpolloguapo	5/5/08 6:29 a.m.