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Re: Flood Food
Posted By: Wado SG <wyamauchi@msn.com>	Date: 7/11/03 2:26 p.m.
In Response To: Flood Food (Infantier) : Do the flood actually eat? So far as I can see the flood seem to infest a : host, take over it’s body and make it run around and fight and such like, : but they don’t actually eat. There is speculation that the Flood eat that green liquid coolant stuff. They sure do like soaking in it. Perhaps they just store the nutrients they need a head of time and live off of that for a long while. There would be no need to eat for a long time. : The generally accepted opinion is that the biomass/sentient criteria for : “flood food” means that humans and covenant are food, and that Halo is : designed to destroy the food, but is it food like we use food (i.e. : nourishment) or is it more like providing vehicles for the flood to move : around? By vehicle I mean a body with legs to walk on and hands to : manipulate tools, weapons, ships etc. Hmmm... the Flood are parasites. But, I think the definition of food in this case is a kin to fuel for a fire. It is said that the Flood would "consume all" and I don't think this means that they literally eat all (although apparently the Vang from Starhammer had a use for biomass as food). I think what consume all and food means is that there would be nothing left afterwards, like what fire does to a forest. Nothing of value would be left behind. : If this is true, then how long does a body remain useful to a flood? I would : expect that the useful life of an infected body would be limited (surely : it decays, or starves to death when deprived of whatever it would normally : eat, or the muscles waste away, even when animated by the flood?) so the : infection form has to jump ship into another body after a time. With lots : of bodies around a flood could get into one, drive it until it runs out of : gas, so to speak, and jump into another, and so on, gradually spreading : from its point of origin. I don't think infection forms move from host to host. I think their purpose is to infect one host and from there reproduce by either evolving into another form or dividing (making more infection forms). Once a body is infected, the infection form inside becomes one with the body and removal of either could be lethal to both. A host would not have to last long at all, just long enough for the infection form to reproduce or evolve into something else. : Maybe we never see this happen because MC and the covenant do a pretty good : job of killing Flood before they reach their expiry date? : So what about firing the Halo? Firing the Halo is designed not to starve the : flood to death but merely to contain it by burning a “firebreak” around : the outbreak to deprive the flood of any new “transport” bodies with which : to move on. The flood survive, but they are pretty much grounded through : lack of mobility. If the Forerunner now lived far enough away, they could : be sure that the firebreak was wide enough to prevent flood ever reaching : them, should they ever escape their prison. Who said that the "firebreak" was to protect the Forerunners? Sure it makes sense, but until we know what the "mission" was that the Forerunners were on, we really don't know what the reason is for containment of the Flood. 343 GS tells use that naturally the Flood are too dangerous to... [keep around]. The Forerunners may not have been thinking of themselves, they may have been thinking of future races or visitors to this galaxy and by placing measures to combat the Flood, the Forerunners were acting as our (all future races) guardians. Yes Halo will kill all of us according to 343 GS and Cortana, but it won't kill all life. It only will kill life of sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood. The goal might not be to create a firebreak but simply keep the Flood from spreading, thus leaving planets Floodless and able to serve as worlds for future intelligent races. : Questions in summary are: 1. Do flood actually eat? : 2. Are flood food just transport or tools for flood to manipulate their : environment? : 3. How long can an infected host remain useful? : 4. Are the other Halo’s arranged around a galaxy known to harbour the flood : in order to burn the firebreak if needed?

Message Index

Flood Food	Infantier	7/11/03 10:56 a.m.
Re: Flood Food	TJ	7/11/03 11:09 a.m.
Thats a very Scott Adams kinda laugh you got! *NM*	Infantier	7/11/03 11:45 a.m.
Re: Flood Food	RustedAngel	7/11/03 11:20 a.m.
Re: Flood Food	Infantier	7/11/03 11:53 a.m.
Re: Flood Food	Mr Yun	7/11/03 1:18 p.m.
Re: Flood Food	Wado SG	7/11/03 2:26 p.m.
Re: Flood Food	Trevelyan	7/11/03 2:52 p.m.
Re: Flood Food	RustedAngel	7/11/03 4:00 p.m.
Re: Flood Food	Trevelyan	7/11/03 7:19 p.m.