A Spartan knows a lot about the UEG and UNSC's secrets. Its less about the the combat prowess of the Spartan and more of ensuring none of that sensitive data ever makes it to The Flood.
@@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuitit doesn’t matter though because if the flood managed to infect a Spartan their knowledge will have already been absorbed and there for the flood will know exactly what the Spartans know once they have that knowledge it stays with the flood even if the grave mind that absorbed them dies all flood forms are of a single consciousness and all grave minds are one and the same wether the past or the future it will always have the same knowledge and experience as the last ones that came before it this why flood are insanely intelligent
A friend told me about a Minecraft mod called ‘scape and run: parasites’ I told him that it reminded me of the flood. He didn’t know it existed and here we are
@@Bigunclestone no they aren't for necromorphs to even arise requires a marker. The flood were the precursors then betrayed by the Forerunners the last few precursors turned themselves into dust and their plan didn't work out and now we have the flood because of the petty forerunners. Noone that becomes a necromorph won't ever have the horror that Jenkins experienced.
@@Commander-Riot-Wolf115 i mean the whole going insane and killing your friends and family and the total lost of all morals and sanity while your thoughts are being more or less piloted by a rock telling you to “make us whole” and that’s not exactly a great thing, convergence in dead space is pretty nuts. buttt tbh if i was gonna choose the most powerful swarm type in fiction it would the the tyranids from 40k bc literally the entire universe minus the galaxy minus the one 40k takes place in (confusing ik) has been devoured by them, that’s. ALOT. of death.
@@Commander-Riot-Wolf115 I'm pretty sure both of them are horrors beyond our imagination and that comparing the "suffering" they cause is fallacious at best
@Lore Tours Yeah, I love infectious fungi and whatnot, and I played a ton of halo as a young toddler to today, so it's just a perfect mix! I love your channel aswell you are always a great source for halo lore!!
@@atthoricus Thanks dude, haven't done a Halo vid in a while now but I am quite interested in doing one on all the different Arbiters as they're quite interesting
Because of the shape-shifting and biokinesis nature of its being, the Flood can, in theory, create titanic pure forms the size of large asteroids and used them as living warships...
Imagine a spin off game similar to Reach in the sense that humanity looses, excpt it will be against the Flood. I know the zombie genre has been resurected and shot in the head too many times to count now, but i could see a Flood centric Halo game being HUGE.
Yet another reminder that the flood are one of if not the most terrifying parasites in all of scifi, the dead space necromorphs are pretty bad, but not to the same scale as the flood, and Warhammer Tyranids are a nasty race, but I think the flood could give the Tyranids a run for their money, only reason I don't think the flood outright crush Tyranids is cause they're so similar, I still put my money on the flood
@@LoreTours that's the big question, I think they probably could, Tyranids aren't really into infecting, they absorb biomass and if they find any traits useful then they incorporate that into their genetics. The flood directly take over a body and then they use the adaptability of the flood super cell to adjust to the situation. Both species use heavy trial and error in developing to a situation, however I believe the flood would be able to adapt the super cell to be able to infect Tyranids, also, Tyranids are exclusively biological, all their technology is organic, this it is biomass, meaning theoretically the flood could infect an entire Tyranid ship, but because the flood also absorb the memories and intelligence of those they infect they are able to use the tools and weapons they once had as well, which means that there is a possibility that the flood could get their tendrils on a few imperial ships and have access to exterminatus, and whatever else was on that ship, titans, space Marines, or even the mechanicus because of that small percentage of biological material, not even ancient AI because even artificial intelligences can be corrupted by the flood with their logic plague, nurgle might be able to find a way to stop them cause plague and infection is kinda his whole gig, the only faction that would be able to stand a chance is the necrons because they are neither biological beings nor are they artificial intelligences, although the forerunners tried that with the prometheans and that still didn't work so it's hard to say
@@realmofrandom3696 Simply put the Flood infect life to grow it's numbers and use unusable bodies to grow it's more complex forms. Meanwhile the Tyranids simply consume everything usable on a planet to grow their fleets and forces.
Lets think about it like this, the faction in warhammer are far more powerful than the unsc or covanent, and tyranids are considerd one of if not the biggest current threats in 40k, head on they couod beat the flood though they couldnt survive ring activarion. Necromorphs on the other hand are on par with the flood combat wise, except for obviously flood forms with guns, though brutes and tripods wouldnt care. Its much harder to stop the spread of the markers influence though, and every planet is a new brethren moon. And then the effects of just being around a marker or brethren moon(who are capable of ftl travel) i dont think the flood ever got this big.
@@planetmaker3472 I don't think you fully understand how powerful the flood truly are, the forerunners were so technologically advanced they were borderline gods, even the covenant who were technologically light-years ahead of humanity, actually worshipped the forerunners as gods which is what sparked the human covenant war to begin with. The forerunners would dominate 40k with ease, the only ones that could pose an issue would be the necrons and eldari and only at the peak of their civilizations, and the flood brought the forerunners to their knees. The forerunners would force stars to prematurely supernova because it was the only way they could sure that all flood in a solar system could be sterilized, the prometheans were created specific to combat the flood because it couldn't be infected because of the mechanical body and it wasn't vulnerable to the floods logic plague because they weren't AI, and it still failed. The only way the forerunners could stop the flood was to destroy all life in the galaxy including themselves and have it all start over from scratch. The flood are extremely intelligent because they absorb the knowledge and info of everything they infect, so they can effectively fly any warship they can capture, operate any weapons an infected person carried, they can easily learn any secret, and as soon as one flood knows it, they all know it because of they hive mind. Even if someone is already dead they will have their secrets because they can infect and reanimate the dead, they don't even have to be nearby to infect, they produce spores in the air and simply breathing will begin to infect people. The Tyranids are pure biomass, their weapons, their ships, their armor, it's all biological material, and infecting biological beings is what the flood do best. The two species do the same thing, the flood are just much more chaotic about how they do it, if the two were to fight, I surmise a new even more terrifying race would emerge, a blend of both the floods innate ability to infect and absorb, and the devastating biotechnology of the Tyranids
I think someone must have messed up and forgot how the Flood works if that's the case. I'm pretty sure they shouldn't be able to infect vegetation; their living victims need to have a nervous system. If they could infect plants then the Halo rings would be worthless as the pulse they fire exclusively targets nervous systems. They can cover it all in biomass and kill off vegetation by terraforming, but infecting plants really messes with the lore as far as I'm aware. That one multiplayer map from Halo 3 (Isolation I think) comes to mind. It's covered in Flood biomass but still has healthy grass and trees. I think Halo Wars has a few examples of that, too. And of course the jungle in 343 Guilty Spark if you count that one.
I mean.. technically, they start out as spores first since they are actually the primordials (race the Forerunners were training to take the mantle from during ancient times) that turned themselves into space dust in order to survive aeons.. and the wrath of the Forerunners for choosing humanity as worthy of inheriting the mantle, only to become a corrupted and twisted version of themselves over time.. turning into the Flood. Great video, and thank you for spreading the parasite's lore.
Nice vid man, well edited good speech. Hopefully this channel grows Someones gotta support the Halo universe because 343 seems to have lost their way unfortunately
@@LoreTours Daaaamn that's rough, I've just stopped playing the new ones unfortunately. Infinite definitely seems like the best one from number company so far but they've butchered multiplayer so I don't really want to support them. I miss Bungie so damn much
@@dolebludger I had a lot of fun with multiplayer for about 2 weeks but yeah it dropped off real quick. Some of the recent forge mode leaks look promising though
I mean infected Spartans have been officially made in the story Saturn eats his son where the oni and the unsc found a forerunner ship but was later shown the ship was overrun by the flood and the story comes to a bone chilling ending a Spartan 4 fire team becoming the first infected Spartans
At the pure form wasn’t there a fourth form called the crawler. It looks like a stalker but has no claws and tend to run away from you to gain better angles.
The Flood Blight Stalker is just terrifying in concept. The parasite has already taken over a planet (or at least most of it) and have these forms to specifically go out and hunt down any survivors.
So what happened to the original key mind? The one that was a planet sized Gravemind. Does it not exist anymore, or is it just lumped in with the regular Gravemind category?
As in the original Primordial? The Didact basically used a stasis chamber to age it billions of years in a few seconds to destroy it. It's consciousness survives as a part of the Floods Hive Mind so only its original body was destroyed.
@@LoreTours I think what they meant was the term Key mind used to refer to massive, near planet sized, Graveminds before the term started to become used for all central flood intelligence.
343 Retconned original Keyminds, just throwing them into Graveminds as well. Not a huge change but seeing as the Keymind was previously used to describe Graveminds that got large and intelligent enough to unlock that status and Precursor knowledge, which is what allowed them to use their technology, its a bit annoying the term means something significantly less now. Especially when the new method says a Gravemind who had just just Forerunner knowledge is the same as the Keymind which got Precursor, suggesting Graveminds instantly get it all or they need to reach a random undescribed size to.
I'd consider the pod injectors fragile but strong because they die easily but are still capable of digging through the chests of enemy's with armor plates in the way
The flood used to be the primordials. They ended up turning themselves to dust to reform later but time ended up corrupting em. Thus they ended up being the first flood spores! Really just went from friendly cosmic horror god species to not so friendly cosmic horror god species.
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8:23 I would not want to imagine how bad the stank is inside the room. The chief is alright with that mjolnir armor shielding him from the decaying fumes, but the arbiter went head first into that disgusting miasma chamber. Yuck
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Oddly horrifying that the main battle plan for the event of an infected Spartan is literally nuclear bombardment
A Spartan knows a lot about the UEG and UNSC's secrets. Its less about the the combat prowess of the Spartan and more of ensuring none of that sensitive data ever makes it to The Flood.
One hell of a way to go
@@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuitit doesn’t matter though because if the flood managed to infect a Spartan their knowledge will have already been absorbed and there for the flood will know exactly what the Spartans know once they have that knowledge it stays with the flood even if the grave mind that absorbed them dies all flood forms are of a single consciousness and all grave minds are one and the same wether the past or the future it will always have the same knowledge and experience as the last ones that came before it this why flood are insanely intelligent
It does work at least
Considering that an uninfected. Spartan can take down an entire army I wouldn’t take the chance either I’d glass the entire planet just to be sure.
I love the classy jazz over the narration of the horrific infection process
Classy jazz playing while ungodly horrors beyond comprehension are about 😌
A friend told me about a Minecraft mod called ‘scape and run: parasites’ I told him that it reminded me of the flood. He didn’t know it existed and here we are
Sounds like a good mod. Heard about the wardens the other day. Minecraft is getting pretty good on the spooky front
Necromorphs from dead space is like the flood
@@Bigunclestone no they aren't for necromorphs to even arise requires a marker. The flood were the precursors then betrayed by the Forerunners the last few precursors turned themselves into dust and their plan didn't work out and now we have the flood because of the petty forerunners. Noone that becomes a necromorph won't ever have the horror that Jenkins experienced.
@@Commander-Riot-Wolf115 i mean the whole going insane and killing your friends and family and the total lost of all morals and sanity while your thoughts are being more or less piloted by a rock telling you to “make us whole” and that’s not exactly a great thing, convergence in dead space is pretty nuts. buttt tbh if i was gonna choose the most powerful swarm type in fiction it would the the tyranids from 40k bc literally the entire universe minus the galaxy minus the one 40k takes place in (confusing ik) has been devoured by them, that’s. ALOT. of death.
@@Commander-Riot-Wolf115 I'm pretty sure both of them are horrors beyond our imagination and that comparing the "suffering" they cause is fallacious at best
I have the weirdest obsession with the flood no matter how gross or horrifying it gets it doesn't bother me and I love it.
It's such an interesting concept!
@Lore Tours Yeah, I love infectious fungi and whatnot, and I played a ton of halo as a young toddler to today, so it's just a perfect mix! I love your channel aswell you are always a great source for halo lore!!
@@atthoricus Thanks dude, haven't done a Halo vid in a while now but I am quite interested in doing one on all the different Arbiters as they're quite interesting
@Lore Tours it would be a cool video.
You'd get along with Dr. Halsey.
Because of the shape-shifting and biokinesis nature of its being, the Flood can, in theory, create titanic pure forms the size of large asteroids and used them as living warships...
In theory I guess that's what the Flood would do if they wanted to start conquering other galaxies
@@LoreTours let's be real, flood does
But unlike the Tyrannids they do not need these to reach other planets.
Kinda like the brethren moons
@@AertaBT yrs, i forgot about those
Imagine a spin off game similar to Reach in the sense that humanity looses, excpt it will be against the Flood.
I know the zombie genre has been resurected and shot in the head too many times to count now, but i could see a Flood centric Halo game being HUGE.
Yeah, i always thought it would be nice to have something like that. maybe centered around the loss of the In Amber Clad?
Yet another reminder that the flood are one of if not the most terrifying parasites in all of scifi, the dead space necromorphs are pretty bad, but not to the same scale as the flood, and Warhammer Tyranids are a nasty race, but I think the flood could give the Tyranids a run for their money, only reason I don't think the flood outright crush Tyranids is cause they're so similar, I still put my money on the flood
Could the Flood Infect the Tyrandids? 🤔
@@LoreTours that's the big question, I think they probably could, Tyranids aren't really into infecting, they absorb biomass and if they find any traits useful then they incorporate that into their genetics. The flood directly take over a body and then they use the adaptability of the flood super cell to adjust to the situation. Both species use heavy trial and error in developing to a situation, however I believe the flood would be able to adapt the super cell to be able to infect Tyranids, also, Tyranids are exclusively biological, all their technology is organic, this it is biomass, meaning theoretically the flood could infect an entire Tyranid ship, but because the flood also absorb the memories and intelligence of those they infect they are able to use the tools and weapons they once had as well, which means that there is a possibility that the flood could get their tendrils on a few imperial ships and have access to exterminatus, and whatever else was on that ship, titans, space Marines, or even the mechanicus because of that small percentage of biological material, not even ancient AI because even artificial intelligences can be corrupted by the flood with their logic plague, nurgle might be able to find a way to stop them cause plague and infection is kinda his whole gig, the only faction that would be able to stand a chance is the necrons because they are neither biological beings nor are they artificial intelligences, although the forerunners tried that with the prometheans and that still didn't work so it's hard to say
@@realmofrandom3696 Simply put the Flood infect life to grow it's numbers and use unusable bodies to grow it's more complex forms. Meanwhile the Tyranids simply consume everything usable on a planet to grow their fleets and forces.
Lets think about it like this, the faction in warhammer are far more powerful than the unsc or covanent, and tyranids are considerd one of if not the biggest current threats in 40k, head on they couod beat the flood though they couldnt survive ring activarion. Necromorphs on the other hand are on par with the flood combat wise, except for obviously flood forms with guns, though brutes and tripods wouldnt care. Its much harder to stop the spread of the markers influence though, and every planet is a new brethren moon. And then the effects of just being around a marker or brethren moon(who are capable of ftl travel) i dont think the flood ever got this big.
@@planetmaker3472 I don't think you fully understand how powerful the flood truly are, the forerunners were so technologically advanced they were borderline gods, even the covenant who were technologically light-years ahead of humanity, actually worshipped the forerunners as gods which is what sparked the human covenant war to begin with. The forerunners would dominate 40k with ease, the only ones that could pose an issue would be the necrons and eldari and only at the peak of their civilizations, and the flood brought the forerunners to their knees. The forerunners would force stars to prematurely supernova because it was the only way they could sure that all flood in a solar system could be sterilized, the prometheans were created specific to combat the flood because it couldn't be infected because of the mechanical body and it wasn't vulnerable to the floods logic plague because they weren't AI, and it still failed. The only way the forerunners could stop the flood was to destroy all life in the galaxy including themselves and have it all start over from scratch. The flood are extremely intelligent because they absorb the knowledge and info of everything they infect, so they can effectively fly any warship they can capture, operate any weapons an infected person carried, they can easily learn any secret, and as soon as one flood knows it, they all know it because of they hive mind. Even if someone is already dead they will have their secrets because they can infect and reanimate the dead, they don't even have to be nearby to infect, they produce spores in the air and simply breathing will begin to infect people. The Tyranids are pure biomass, their weapons, their ships, their armor, it's all biological material, and infecting biological beings is what the flood do best. The two species do the same thing, the flood are just much more chaotic about how they do it, if the two were to fight, I surmise a new even more terrifying race would emerge, a blend of both the floods innate ability to infect and absorb, and the devastating biotechnology of the Tyranids
imagine a possible infected spartan being so much of a threat they would straight up basically nuke the immediate area
Fun note: flood can in fact infect grass. Look it up haha
I think someone must have messed up and forgot how the Flood works if that's the case. I'm pretty sure they shouldn't be able to infect vegetation; their living victims need to have a nervous system. If they could infect plants then the Halo rings would be worthless as the pulse they fire exclusively targets nervous systems. They can cover it all in biomass and kill off vegetation by terraforming, but infecting plants really messes with the lore as far as I'm aware. That one multiplayer map from Halo 3 (Isolation I think) comes to mind. It's covered in Flood biomass but still has healthy grass and trees. I think Halo Wars has a few examples of that, too. And of course the jungle in 343 Guilty Spark if you count that one.
it's now got me thinking and scared that the fact there could still be Flood that is alive right now even during Halo Infinite 😭
Oh most definitely, the Flood seems to be dotted all around the galaxy in little Forerunner sites
Imagine being infected and being turned into a meatball to be used for later, like you that weak
I just thought of something horrifying...the flood...BUT UNDERWATER
What I like about this vid is that I’m hearing jazz music over a terrifying documentation of the flood 💀
Gotta put people at ease y'know
@@LoreTours well said good sir 💀
Absolutely amazing video. Genuinely thought the video had more views, it was really well done and intriguing.
Loved it
Thanks friend, glad you enjoyed it :)
Ah yes something to watch at a lonely night
Hope you enjoyed it :)
I mean.. technically, they start out as spores first since they are actually the primordials (race the Forerunners were training to take the mantle from during ancient times) that turned themselves into space dust in order to survive aeons.. and the wrath of the Forerunners for choosing humanity as worthy of inheriting the mantle, only to become a corrupted and twisted version of themselves over time.. turning into the Flood.
Great video, and thank you for spreading the parasite's lore.
Dang even when grunts turn into flood their still just cannon fodder except for energy this time…
Grunts got sad lives man
The background jazz music is very soothing for describing cosmic horrors beyond our comprehension
Nice vid man, well edited good speech. Hopefully this channel grows
Someones gotta support the Halo universe because 343 seems to have lost their way unfortunately
Thanks friend. Tell me about it 😅 Still haven't completed Infinite as I've had two 10 hour playthrough saves corrupted 🙃
@@LoreTours Daaaamn that's rough, I've just stopped playing the new ones unfortunately. Infinite definitely seems like the best one from number company so far but they've butchered multiplayer so I don't really want to support them.
I miss Bungie so damn much
@@dolebludger I had a lot of fun with multiplayer for about 2 weeks but yeah it dropped off real quick. Some of the recent forge mode leaks look promising though
I got really scared when i first saw the flood ingame
I mean infected Spartans have been officially made in the story Saturn eats his son where the oni and the unsc found a forerunner ship but was later shown the ship was overrun by the flood and the story comes to a bone chilling ending a Spartan 4 fire team becoming the first infected Spartans
Talks about the most horrific things in the known universe
Plays calming piano tune in the background
Just think of the flood having 1 consciousness as if the grave mind ahd way more than 47 alternate accounts
Nothing like hearing jazz while hearing about a deadly fictional parasite.
the images at the start of the video gave me flashbacks to dead space truly chilling
for a video explaining on how disgusting the flood is, the added background music is a hilarious combination.
Seeing all this is like the combination of the “the thing, dead space and these flood all together into one puzzle
A nightmare fuel mish mash of fleshy gross alien blobs
At the pure form wasn’t there a fourth form called the crawler. It looks like a stalker but has no claws and tend to run away from you to gain better angles.
The Flood Blight Stalker is just terrifying in concept. The parasite has already taken over a planet (or at least most of it) and have these forms to specifically go out and hunt down any survivors.
So what happened to the original key mind? The one that was a planet sized Gravemind. Does it not exist anymore, or is it just lumped in with the regular Gravemind category?
He prolly just didn’t mention it
Keymind has been retconned to any Flood central intelligence
As in the original Primordial? The Didact basically used a stasis chamber to age it billions of years in a few seconds to destroy it. It's consciousness survives as a part of the Floods Hive Mind so only its original body was destroyed.
@@LoreTours I think what they meant was the term Key mind used to refer to massive, near planet sized, Graveminds before the term started to become used for all central flood intelligence.
343 Retconned original Keyminds, just throwing them into Graveminds as well. Not a huge change but seeing as the Keymind was previously used to describe Graveminds that got large and intelligent enough to unlock that status and Precursor knowledge, which is what allowed them to use their technology, its a bit annoying the term means something significantly less now. Especially when the new method says a Gravemind who had just just Forerunner knowledge is the same as the Keymind which got Precursor, suggesting Graveminds instantly get it all or they need to reach a random undescribed size to.
I've got to say have a nice day
Music 🙂
Video 💀
Excellent video thanks
I'd consider the pod injectors fragile but strong because they die easily but are still capable of digging through the chests of enemy's with armor plates in the way
You should do halo music in the background if you can the music you have kinda breaks the atmosphere of the rest of the vid but love the content!
This video is nice I'm enjoying this music with the effed up pics!! Good choice!
Gotta mellow you all out while showing you grotesque body horror
Are you going to cover the primordial?
Food really I didn't think they needed to eat
definitely didnt know alot of this great job
The flood is real
Beautiful jazz
I hit the floor it's me I'm back and old video is not my first time counting on one of you videos
343 should've never tried to explain where the flood came from.
Yeah giving them an origin story really kinda ruins the cosmic horror vibe.
@@rustyshovel7179 the explanation I always assumed is that they were just a failed forerunner experiment
The flood used to be the primordials. They ended up turning themselves to dust to reform later but time ended up corrupting em. Thus they ended up being the first flood spores!
Really just went from friendly cosmic horror god species to not so friendly cosmic horror god species.
@@Kinglizard220 is this the actual story a fan theory or just 343 trying to bullshit an explanation
@@Doyoueverwonderwhywerehere its cannon. idk why ur so upset tho
I enjoy the jazz
Is that like a mod from Minecraft
So basically, goku solos.
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@@firestarex3544 im so happy to knowing that theres a person who dumber than me.
And it was entire dragon ball fandom.
Goku would get infected. Hes not a thinker, hes a fighter. Also he loves letting people fight him at their strongest
Solos all of us... as a flood form....
Ah, the W'rkncacnter!
Poor choice of background music
I like it
Great video 👍 while I’m eating
😂
8:23 I would not want to imagine how bad the stank is inside the room.
The chief is alright with that mjolnir armor shielding him from the decaying fumes, but the arbiter went head first into that disgusting miasma chamber.
Yuck
It actually smells good. I remember cus I was there
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