[i]The Flood is a lot more than a glorified fungus. The Flood is the current version of the Precursor species. Add to that, the Flood's strength is directly related to the strength of its victims. The Forerunners were insanely advanced, and because of that, so were the Flood. The parasite has access to the collective knowledge of all it has infected. They are essentially omniscient. The Forerunners were also betrayed by their hyper-intelligent AI, Mendicant Bias, when he was corrupted by the Flood. He took more than half their entire fleet with him. The Forerunner-Flood War is a lot more complicated than you seem to realize. You're not even talking about Halo vs Star Wars anymore. You're talking about things that have beaten the Forerunners without any understanding as to why. Can you please give up? It's obvious that you've lost, and this is getting boring. [/i]