The Taken are weak compared to the flood. You don't quite get it, do you? The taken consume and turn an army. Just people. The flood? The flood consumes and turns planets, it consumes everything. Converts everything. It [i]wants[/i] [u]everything.[/u] It doesn't stop an destroying a species. If anything...Oryx would recognize the flood as beings more ambitious than the Hive. It's not just Light,but Dark too. Not just organic beings. [i]Everything.[/i]