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Edited by Edcub One:
2/20/2016 7:32:50 AM
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[quote][quote]But if even a single flood infected ship survived it would have all been for not, especially seeing as the receded the galaxy right after.[/quote]
Not necessarily. While Halo's pulse certainly does kill Flood, it has always been described as being meant to starve them to death.
[i]"The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life. You don't believe me? Ask him."
-Cortana, Two Betrayals, Halo CE[/i]
Also, according to Silentium's epilogue, Rebirth, the Forerunners waited several years before reseeding the galaxy to ensure that their plan had actually worked.
The flood could have waited a lot longer
[quote]I will have to look into the burns.[/quote]Should be page 77 of Silentium.
I don't have the book :(
[quote]Also with Forerunner technology they simply could've slowed down time so that mere minutes to them could've been centuries to the people outside (as my early let quote shows they could manipulate time within the fractal dimensions) and just take over the Galaxy then.[/quote]While hypothetically true, in practice it's a bit different. For one, we don't know how easy it is for Forerunners to alter the flow of time in slipspace bubbles. Secondly, do not forget that nearly all Forerunner tech is based off of access keys, and specific markers to ensure that only the intended individuals can access certain things.
The Flood can subvert all forerunner technology through the logic plague. The forerunners tech seem to be easily able to manipulate's time seeing as it was being done in installation 006, and the primordial's physical form was destroyed when they Iso Didact accelerated time quintillions of times over, which had no known after effect.
For something like a Halo shelter, that would be very well hidden and locked down. For how powerful the Flood are, the Forerunners still kept secrets from them. IE: The Flood only learned of the Lesser Ark at the very very end of the war. So late in the war, that the Flood's battle to access it was cut short by Halo's pulse.[/quote] But they learned of it before they fired so they could have simply kept a few flood in Slipspace for safety.
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Edited by Lord of Admirals: 2/20/2016 7:55:19 AMRight, but that was just one example; even then, their knowledge of how to access the Lesser Ark wouldn't have saved them from Halo anyway. As far as we know, the Flood didn't know of any installations capable of surviving Halo. Even if they did, would the Flood even care to survive? The Primordial and the Graveminds are aware that weapons, even as grand and elaborate as Halo, only delay them, and they had effectively succeeded in ensuring that the Forerunners would be meaningfully erased from time with the apparent destruction of the Domain, so only their military technology and installations would be left. [i]"Like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply an addition of time to a sentence I never deserved, but you imposed." -Gravemind, Halo, Halo 3 "The history of all Forerunners was now lost to us. We relied upon the permanence of the Domain to preserve our record of the events that led to this point. But without that record, would future civilizations know anything about us? Or only of our weapons?" -343 Guilty Spark, Terminal 2, Halo CEA[/i] For a civilization that was built upon the belief of supporting and safeguarding life, that's a giant kick in the pants, even after they had lost everything they built over 15 million years. Welp, It's 2AM. I'ma head to bed. Appreciate the conversation though. Haven't had one like this regarding Halo's story in months.
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You guys have [i][b]way[/b][/i] too much time on your hands.
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Probably.
