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I do believe there are some Flood out there in the galaxy continuing spreading. Imagine if 343i waited all this time for the right moment for the next campaign where The Weapon tells us she detected something… above them. As you or the Master Chief look up and in horror seeing your greatest nightmare you thought you finished it before… is now staring right at you. A familiar roar you don’t want to hear ever again…. The Flood return. Oh man I wanted something like that to happen.
The flood evermind, a galaxy consumed. All FTL travel is cut off universally, and the foood becomes able to calculate for everything. It has grown around solar systems, making Dyson spheres, and connecting to the planets. Flesh moves as the planets orbit, and planets are repurposed. Gas giants are used to create energy and it's moons as factories for combat forms and ships. Planets like mars and earth become the same. Gas planets smaller than earth become ship docks. Earth, assuming it's the place sapient life come from in this model, is turned into the food source... Genetic growth is turned up, thru the roof. The flood breed new hosts to infect and feed themselves as well as converting biomass to being powered, not fueled by food. So the sun powers them at times. This flood form is basically the flood if they were on stellaris, and this is them taking a solar system, planets we can't use they can. And also they mine asteroids. And floof biomass can travel thru tubes like space elevators... As all the planets are now connected by one kilometers long throbbing mass... Mah dic- the flood evermind core
Well considering the size it got in the forerunner war. It already had the capability to corrupt and infect spacetime itself at the end of the war. If the Flood ever fully consumes just one galaxy it will be powerful enough for multi-universal travel as well as going to separate timelines in the spacetime continuum I guess and infecting as well. Basically impossible to stop and utterly horrific to a unfathomable degree if it ever gets to that stage. Now more than one galaxy? GG your gonna be tortured for eternity. Even if you reduce your body to ash and dust the Flood will be still be able to infect you, your “essence” and stuff. Because it can now ignore you killing yourself to avoid it due to bending spacetime. It’s well let’s say I’m happy it’s fictional. Not even Cthulhu or any of those horrors scare me as much.
It’s only scary because you’re afraid. Afraid to lose whatever it is that is dear to you. But with the flood, it is perfection. There’s no wars over stupid shit that doesn’t matter. Think Islam. You believe in the wrong version of the same god we believe in so we’re gonna do some stupid shit. All is one. All are equal. No murders. No drugs. No idiots. Perfection.
Tyrands breed right? They dont convert their fallen victims? A conversing species always wins bc as long you have numbers they have numbers. Converting is the best technique for any life form. Just look at the most horrible thing on earth right now - cancer.
@@JakubWielkiMistrz I wonder if the tyranids found a flood infected universe, tried to infect it and was infected and turned into a hybrid version of the flood and the tryanids.
This kinda Reminds me of Dead Space, as it has a similar concept going on and directly addresses the 'great silence' (the lack of sentient life out in space) by showing that the infection has spread to such a degree that entire planets have become living spacecrafts for the Necromorphs.
My little fan theory is that in the 10,000 year gap, the Gravemind and some pure forms were sitting around getting high and playing games while the rest of the flood sat around in a storage container like pizza rolls in a freezer
I swear I'll never get tired of listening to your delightful voice re-hash the flood's evolutionary cycle, no matter how many times I hear it in these videos. Keep that sweet sweet lore coming.
Make a video theorizing how the flood can be ultimately defeated. I think it’s pretty safe to say they’ll come back in a big way eventually, and if they have other galaxies under control then they seem unstoppable.
tbh, the Halo Array IS the way to defeat them, ultimately. You'd have to build one to cover each infected galaxy, or a handful of arrays that can be moved from galaxy to galaxy. Long process but if the flood are already in a galaxy then life there is basically gone.
The flood always amps up the stakes whenever they arrive so im not as sure that it would work without nerfing them, the halo trilogy already kinda nerfed them or i guess just conformed things to suit a video game
The Flood has returned in a recent audiobook, could this possibly mean the start of the coordination and one of the tests could possible be, fighting a Spartan infected, but that coordination with a new Proto Gravemind, could be the start of this test?? We will see...
I've often wondered: do you think the Flood outbreak on Alpha Halo had any kind of communication with the Flood outbreak on Delta Halo, as in, did the Gravemind have any kind of sway over the events transpiring on Alpha Halo when they were happening? Is this why, as we hear in the lore, that the outbreak seemed to occur across the whole Halo in different areas all at once, almost as though it was being co-ordinated, albeit at a perhaps lesser(more distant and delayed) degree? Maybe then, when the Flood on Alpha Halo were attempting to take control of the Covenant's cruiser, they were going to in fact be heading straight toward the Delta Halo to undo the quarantine and let loose the Gravemind and his primary outbreak.
Actually, for the firing of the omega halo, I don't think it would have necessarily actually killed the flood. The target of the rings is the food source, not them. I think that means that the galaxy isn't necessarily free of the flood, it's just that they don't have a proper food source. We see them surviving in the halo rings for a long time without food, at least from my understanding when no forerunners were running it they didn't have food.
Well the issue with that hypothesis is if the flood consumed too much, it would still starve to death. There would be nothing for them to consume without traveling to untouched galaxies
I feel like there’s one thing you didn’t mention/consider: the flood outbreak during the Human-Covenant War was an *accident*. It was never meant to happen, they just breached containment. It wasn’t an invasion, it was infestation, like bugs in the walls.
I mean, you don't even have to intentionally travel to a specific galaxy to reach one. These things are spores. When they are in an interstellar stage, intelligent but not quite intelligent enough to make their own ships, they could integrate communication tech. Then they monitor the Human-Forerunner War and decide that the Forerunners would be a more difficult enemy. Which could lead them to not put all their eggs in one basket and send thousands of small human ships, infected with the flood, as a "spore burst" away from their side of the Milky Way. That way if their invasion fails, a future infected galaxy would send some back. In order to do that they would likely need to consolidate that region of the galaxy, which would take time. Or they are like Tyranids, which is also cool.
Honestly, since the halos only kill consciousness the flood could have escaped containment very easily by simply spreading like fungus and sending vast clouds of spores out into interstellar space. The shotgun approach to spreading wood handily bridge the period of death of consciousness caused by activation of the halos. Maybe traveling at significant portions of light speed the flood would just randomly rain down on any world at any time. It worked for the blob on the flood is so much scarier
Once I heard The Merchant's Serneity theme, i could just imagine stocking up for the Flood Outbreak; "Stranger he he, whatcha need that for? Going huntin' a Juggernaut?" "Stranger, Stranger...now THAT'S a weapon!" "Not only will you need cash, but you'll need Flood guts to buy THAT weapon!"
would unleashing all consuming nanites be an easy way to deal with the flood? or are they like tyranids where even at a cellular level they're fighting back? because I thought that wasnt the case
There is a similar theory for 40K with the Tyrannids. Every galaxy outside of the 40K one has potentially been consumed by the Tyrannids. The big question is though, will the flood turn on itself when there is nothing left to consume? Atleast the Tyrannid are hinted to be smart enough to atleast dedicate some planets to biomass farming.
9:30 cool vid... very entertaining. Just one thought, you can't have multiple "uni"verses, that would be a multiverse. It's kinda like saying "The Lone Rangers" lol... it just doesn't jive
I always had this thought and that they're just waiting to test humanity for the mantle so they can succeed them like intended or add them to the universal hivemind and creating its sweetness that they enjoyed
I in a double playthrough in stellaris with the flood mod, playing as humanity the flood conquered over half the galaxy before every single empire declared war on them. Over the course of a few centuries we still lost. The milky way was consumed. But during the fall of humanity, my lore is that one of my planets “Aegea” was able to pool together its resources to build and launch 5 massive colony ships each with 1 billion people and send them out of the galaxy to hopefully survive the incredibly long journey to another galaxy. So now im playing as the survivors of two of the ships that made it to another galaxy
when you said something about the flood going to other universes, that gave a horrible idea of what would happen if the flood where to go to the star wars galaxy or the star trek universe.
X did you ever do a video of chief and Cortana first meeting? I keep researching and trying to find out if Cortana was the package in reach and she met chief just before CE, or was there more to what they escorted off reach?
I think in Reach, the Package was a piece of Cortana with the vital Forerunner knowledge... but then again Smart AIs can't copy themselves for some reason and they only learned that ability when stealing it from a Covenant AI...
If only one hemisphere had stars couldn’t we theoretically say there are not any galaxies or star systems on the other side..at least in the visible range
Did 343 change fact that the flood can infect via the air, or was that always the case? Seems very OP to me. I don't remember that in the original trilogy
How awesome would it be to have cheif fight a keymind . It would be EPIC . I wonder if it would consume all of the unsc ships and or energy weapons ??? Can they absorb energy ?
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I genuinely disagree. "Hanging around for ten thousand years" is totally the floods prerogative - we're not seeing a huge intergalactic flood invasion force, we're seeing small pockets of infection that waited millennia to be found. As the Gravemind says, "resignation is my virtue"
10:54 want some more evidence of this being a genuine cosmic horror within our reality? The boötes void an absolutely immense section of space that has next to nothing within it that we can tell. It’s so immense it can be seen on the cosmic background radiation as a cold spot I literally don’t have the words or way of contextualize how big of nothingness this place is for next to no discernible reason
Make a video on what if the greater ark survived the forerunner flood war or what if the humans talked to the forerunners about the flood when they retreated into forerunners space
I love the idea of a reality where halo's universe is completly infected by the flood and only the milky way survives and they're trying to get their and destroy all the rings to ensure their eternal reign.
cant the flood just create new biomass by consuming all the carbon, water, oxygen and trace elements needed, until they leave every planet completely unable to ever support organic life again
wait I just thought of something. isn't the state where humanity is in full peace basically the year where Halo Reach ends? does that me that when humanity "wins" that's when it's time to begin to "human floor war"🤔
So the flood and the reapers are one and the same. Except the reapers leave primitive species alone and the flood took the buffet as a personal challenge
Sounds like the Flood are akin to the Tyranids in Warhammer 40k - which are also rumoured to have devoured multiple galaxies and even universes before ariving in the Milky Way. This is implied by the fact that the Tyranids have attacked our galaxy from pretty much every direction.
huh this reminds me of season 2 of Lexx, Mantrid drones dismantle everything in the universe people, planets and stars the whole light universe gone to make more Mantrid drones.
A transgalactic flood world sounds peaceful to me. I am curious to know how they would evolve as a species if they were uncontested. Will there be a change to their physical form, to their mind(s), will they start to form in-fighting between different "strands" (as in the equivalent to factions), will they reach higher states of being? It's very fascinating. But, the conundrum still stays of their destruction of free will at the core of their development. So, I guess, by some logic, nothing good can come of something rooted in that starting point.
Idk I think there’s a high chance the flood would just wait the 10,000 years, they are very intelligent and think 100 steps ahead, 10,000 years is nothin to them.
But it said that the flood once they decimated a civilization they leave finding more beings with intelligence and depart from the destroyed world search for more life form throughout the galaxies.
Okay hear me you know halo infinite said something about the endless,well what if the endless was from another galaxy that defeated the flood but was crippled and they asked the forerunners fir help in exchange they asked how to defeat the flood which was the halo rings. It kinda makes sense if you look it at that way
Yes but didn’t the flood come from the precursors who were in our galaxy? So it would only be as many galaxies as they could have assimilated since the first firing of the rings
@@normaaliihminen722 I remember some video talking about halo 3s arbiter being an imposter lmao Dudes faculties are not all there, he isnt nearly as sharp as halo 2s arbiter in terms of writing.
@@halinaqi2194i mean in Halo 2 he also does not recognize Flood Smell and even ask to Ship Master (cant remember his names the white elites with two mandibles cut) whats that smell, bro got amnesia
@@ViquelOoste i mean, you are right but atleast in the game it doesn't feel off since game-only players, arbiter didn't confront the flood until halo 2. So to game only fans, it doesn't seem odd that he doesn't recognize flood blood stains and stench lol
I remember telling my Dad about Halo lore, probably like 5 years ago now, and he pointed out the Biblical themes that I had somehow missed entirely. The Flood was sent by God (The Precursors) to punish mankind (The Forerunners) for hubris (Taking the mantle of responsibility). However, Noah made an ark (The Forerunner's Arks) and and brought two of every animal (Genetic codes) to repopulate the Earth (Galaxy) Everyone probably knows this, it just blew 14 year old me's mind.
Actually halo isn't quite so 1:1 allegorical. You're picking and choosing anyway by glossing over the humans and forerunners being separate. Like LOTR, halo avoided being too on the nose and simply used certain motifs. The Arbiter, prophets and great journey borrow Islamic motifs. And originally the flood was the result of humanity's sins and that matches better than the corrupted Frankieverse lore where the flood are the forerunner pets who ate space cocaine
@@cosmictreason2242I'm not saying the plot itself was meant to be a 1:1 Biblical recreation, but that the forerunners were meant to mirror Human Hubris in the Bible, in a way. The Flood exist *because* The Forerunner tried to take the Mantle of Responsibility (Similar to how Man took the Apple from Eden). They played God for a while, but got too confident and used their power for evil, they eradicated the Ancient Humans thinking they were objectively correct in this, which ended up solidifying their eventual demise.
@@cosmictreason2242 The two things you mention in your last comment are not contradictory to each other. The Flood is the result of humanity's sins, and the pets who became infected by the white powder found on the derelict spacecraft were how ancient humanity first encountered the Flood.
This. Could also do a Dead Space take and have infinity's sister ship found at the edge of the galaxy after an exploratory trip to the triangulum galaxy and found nothing but infection.
Or something like newly infested colony and they send a squad of ODST's to investigate why that small yet important colony at the edge of the galaxy has gone silent. Something like Aliens type game with ODST's.
A Flood Outbreak on a planet were Human/Covenant forces where fighting and have to ally up to survive. Could have Human and Covenant races/classes and gameplay could be kind of like Darktide. 4 player Co-Op survival. Halo Universe is ripe for a horror/survival game based off of them.
Flood galaxies is one of the only reasons why I would ever approve of flood samples kept inside secure installations. Even if we can’t find a cure, at the very least, we would be able to identify new weaknesses.
I wonder if the flood managed to achieve the trans galactic stage during the end of the forerunner flood war, would be terrifying if they escaped the Milky Way right before the Halo array was fired
Honestly given how lntelligent they are and the fact that they DID leave the galaxy during that period, it'd be a pretty big over site not to send a couple of ships towards neighboring galaxies and I'm pretty sure the books state the flood showed up in never before seen ships implying they did just that
Currently we don't even know what they did when they retreated during the Human-Flood war. That amount of time could've been used to expand to other galaxies while the Forerunner-Human war was still on-going
it was to go to other galaxies. the story is currently being worked on, and was intended to be a surprise initially, but everyone guessed it. the never meant to keep the stuff about trans galactic in the lore. oversights happen
I love the idea that the Flood is out there biding it's time and the only that's stopping them from infecting the Milky Way is the Halo array. Kinda like how the Wall was stopping the White Walkers from invading Westeros in Game of Thrones. Makes you wonder what the potential ramifications could be of say, destroying a certain Halo ring 🤔
I do think there are still plenty of unaffected galaxies too though, we saw Spark get sent by the Librarian to help the Precursor seeds begin anew in a faraway Galaxy which is likely going to be left alone seeing as it was supposed to be an optimistic send-off
It makes me think of how there are horrifying rogue AI's in Cyberpunk that are constantly running rampant in the Net, and the only thing keeping augmented humanity safe from what is quite possibly the closest thing to Hell in Cyberpunk is another AI that acts as an extremely advanced firewall, known as Blackwall. The worst, part? Nothing says that Blackwall itself couldn't possibly go rogue at some point...
My best guess in why the Flood from other galaxies don’t show up is due to the fact that it could put the odds in the Precursors favor which for a test would be cheating, could be that since those galaxies are entirely consumed that galaxy’s test is over which means that the Flood has to make do on its own with this one and build up its own force.
Or as a test the consumed galaxies reset and new life is formed but we never see those outcomes. Or in our galaxy's case the flood is an unfortunate glitch in how the precursors usually operate on galactic tests.
I think personally, and something that’s more terrifying for me- The flood has already consumed practically everything in the Universe. It’s all one big gravemind now, and the only reason the Milky Way hasn’t been consumed is both because of the Halo Array- And the fact that if it consumed us, it would no longer have a purpose. It’s very likely keeping us alive just so it can have a purpose
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Do you think there are entire galaxies out there infected by the Flood...?
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nah
maybe.
Also I can't wait to see you do another What if Video. What ifs are one of my favorite things to watch.
I do believe there are some Flood out there in the galaxy continuing spreading. Imagine if 343i waited all this time for the right moment for the next campaign where The Weapon tells us she detected something… above them. As you or the Master Chief look up and in horror seeing your greatest nightmare you thought you finished it before… is now staring right at you. A familiar roar you don’t want to hear ever again…. The Flood return. Oh man I wanted something like that to happen.
The flood evermind, a galaxy consumed. All FTL travel is cut off universally, and the foood becomes able to calculate for everything. It has grown around solar systems, making Dyson spheres, and connecting to the planets. Flesh moves as the planets orbit, and planets are repurposed. Gas giants are used to create energy and it's moons as factories for combat forms and ships. Planets like mars and earth become the same. Gas planets smaller than earth become ship docks. Earth, assuming it's the place sapient life come from in this model, is turned into the food source... Genetic growth is turned up, thru the roof. The flood breed new hosts to infect and feed themselves as well as converting biomass to being powered, not fueled by food. So the sun powers them at times. This flood form is basically the flood if they were on stellaris, and this is them taking a solar system, planets we can't use they can. And also they mine asteroids. And floof biomass can travel thru tubes like space elevators... As all the planets are now connected by one kilometers long throbbing mass... Mah dic- the flood evermind core
Yeah the Transgalactic Stage for the flood is definitely a scary thought. Surrounded by consumed galaxies
Well luckily it would probably take centuries for the ships to reach the Milky Way, so there’s some breathing room at least
Well considering the size it got in the forerunner war. It already had the capability to corrupt and infect spacetime itself at the end of the war.
If the Flood ever fully consumes just one galaxy it will be powerful enough for multi-universal travel as well as going to separate timelines in the spacetime continuum I guess and infecting as well.
Basically impossible to stop and utterly horrific to a unfathomable degree if it ever gets to that stage. Now more than one galaxy? GG your gonna be tortured for eternity. Even if you reduce your body to ash and dust the Flood will be still be able to infect you, your “essence” and stuff. Because it can now ignore you killing yourself to avoid it due to bending spacetime.
It’s well let’s say I’m happy it’s fictional. Not even Cthulhu or any of those horrors scare me as much.
No shot, I just watched one of your videos right before this one.
Fuck! It's the tyranids all over again.
It’s only scary because you’re afraid. Afraid to lose whatever it is that is dear to you. But with the flood, it is perfection. There’s no wars over stupid shit that doesn’t matter. Think Islam. You believe in the wrong version of the same god we believe in so we’re gonna do some stupid shit. All is one. All are equal. No murders. No drugs. No idiots. Perfection.
*Tyranid galaxies:*
~Finally, a worthy opponent! Out battle will be legendary!
Tyrands breed right? They dont convert their fallen victims? A conversing species always wins bc as long you have numbers they have numbers. Converting is the best technique for any life form. Just look at the most horrible thing on earth right now - cancer.
I think tyranids were sent by the old ones for revenge against the necrons
Weren't the Tyranids running from something much scarier?
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Well, connect the dots now
@@JakubWielkiMistrz I wonder if the tyranids found a flood infected universe, tried to infect it and was infected and turned into a hybrid version of the flood and the tryanids.
This kinda Reminds me of Dead Space, as it has a similar concept going on and directly addresses the 'great silence' (the lack of sentient life out in space) by showing that the infection has spread to such a degree that entire planets have become living spacecrafts for the Necromorphs.
My little fan theory is that in the 10,000 year gap, the Gravemind and some pure forms were sitting around getting high and playing games while the rest of the flood sat around in a storage container like pizza rolls in a freezer
That image is great thanks for the BASED analogy lol
Tyranid wars in Warhammer 40,000 really nails the fear of being surrounded.
I swear I'll never get tired of listening to your delightful voice re-hash the flood's evolutionary cycle, no matter how many times I hear it in these videos. Keep that sweet sweet lore coming.
Make a video theorizing how the flood can be ultimately defeated. I think it’s pretty safe to say they’ll come back in a big way eventually, and if they have other galaxies under control then they seem unstoppable.
tbh, the Halo Array IS the way to defeat them, ultimately. You'd have to build one to cover each infected galaxy, or a handful of arrays that can be moved from galaxy to galaxy. Long process but if the flood are already in a galaxy then life there is basically gone.
We need a flood horror survival type game
Like a state of decay but halo
There’s dead space
The flood always amps up the stakes whenever they arrive so im not as sure that it would work without nerfing them, the halo trilogy already kinda nerfed them or i guess just conformed things to suit a video game
Branching Sickness is a fan-made Halo game in development and it's about marines fighting against the flood
@@mr.t-rex3113i was thinking like drad space honestly
It's disturbing to consider how, if you think about it, outbreaks of "hegemonizing swarms" like this probably really do happen out there IRL.
The Flood has returned in a recent audiobook, could this possibly mean the start of the coordination and one of the tests could possible be, fighting a Spartan infected, but that coordination with a new Proto Gravemind, could be the start of this test??
We will see...
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I've often wondered: do you think the Flood outbreak on Alpha Halo had any kind of communication with the Flood outbreak on Delta Halo, as in, did the Gravemind have any kind of sway over the events transpiring on Alpha Halo when they were happening? Is this why, as we hear in the lore, that the outbreak seemed to occur across the whole Halo in different areas all at once, almost as though it was being co-ordinated, albeit at a perhaps lesser(more distant and delayed) degree? Maybe then, when the Flood on Alpha Halo were attempting to take control of the Covenant's cruiser, they were going to in fact be heading straight toward the Delta Halo to undo the quarantine and let loose the Gravemind and his primary outbreak.
Meanwhile with the end of Point of Light, Sparky is leaving the galaxy... Lol.
Actually, for the firing of the omega halo, I don't think it would have necessarily actually killed the flood. The target of the rings is the food source, not them. I think that means that the galaxy isn't necessarily free of the flood, it's just that they don't have a proper food source. We see them surviving in the halo rings for a long time without food, at least from my understanding when no forerunners were running it they didn't have food.
Well the issue with that hypothesis is if the flood consumed too much, it would still starve to death. There would be nothing for them to consume without traveling to untouched galaxies
I feel like there’s one thing you didn’t mention/consider: the flood outbreak during the Human-Covenant War was an *accident*. It was never meant to happen, they just breached containment. It wasn’t an invasion, it was infestation, like bugs in the walls.
I mean, you don't even have to intentionally travel to a specific galaxy to reach one. These things are spores. When they are in an interstellar stage, intelligent but not quite intelligent enough to make their own ships, they could integrate communication tech. Then they monitor the Human-Forerunner War and decide that the Forerunners would be a more difficult enemy. Which could lead them to not put all their eggs in one basket and send thousands of small human ships, infected with the flood, as a "spore burst" away from their side of the Milky Way. That way if their invasion fails, a future infected galaxy would send some back. In order to do that they would likely need to consolidate that region of the galaxy, which would take time.
Or they are like Tyranids, which is also cool.
The Reapers, the Borg, the Tyrannids, and Chaos, don't got shit, compared to the pants-browning fear and power of The Flood.
Honestly, since the halos only kill consciousness the flood could have escaped containment very easily by simply spreading like fungus and sending vast clouds of spores out into interstellar space. The shotgun approach to spreading wood handily bridge the period of death of consciousness caused by activation of the halos. Maybe traveling at significant portions of light speed the flood would just randomly rain down on any world at any time. It worked for the blob on the flood is so much scarier
Once I heard The Merchant's Serneity theme, i could just imagine stocking up for the Flood Outbreak; "Stranger he he, whatcha need that for? Going huntin' a Juggernaut?"
"Stranger, Stranger...now THAT'S a weapon!"
"Not only will you need cash, but you'll need Flood guts to buy THAT weapon!"
First time watcher. I really appreciate your enthusiasm.
would unleashing all consuming nanites be an easy way to deal with the flood? or are they like tyranids where even at a cellular level they're fighting back? because I thought that wasnt the case
There is a similar theory for 40K with the Tyrannids. Every galaxy outside of the 40K one has potentially been consumed by the Tyrannids.
The big question is though, will the flood turn on itself when there is nothing left to consume?
Atleast the Tyrannid are hinted to be smart enough to atleast dedicate some planets to biomass farming.
9:30 cool vid... very entertaining. Just one thought, you can't have multiple "uni"verses, that would be a multiverse. It's kinda like saying "The Lone Rangers" lol... it just doesn't jive
What makes this worse is the infected minds/souls are still present within the hive. Muted and silent tortured by the gravemind
I always had this thought and that they're just waiting to test humanity for the mantle so they can succeed them like intended or add them to the universal hivemind and creating its sweetness that they enjoyed
I in a double playthrough in stellaris with the flood mod, playing as humanity the flood conquered over half the galaxy before every single empire declared war on them. Over the course of a few centuries we still lost. The milky way was consumed. But during the fall of humanity, my lore is that one of my planets “Aegea” was able to pool together its resources to build and launch 5 massive colony ships each with 1 billion people and send them out of the galaxy to hopefully survive the incredibly long journey to another galaxy. So now im playing as the survivors of two of the ships that made it to another galaxy
question would you rather replay Halo 5 or rewatch season 1 of the halo tv show.
when you said something about the flood going to other universes, that gave a horrible idea of what would happen if the flood where to go to the star wars galaxy or the star trek universe.
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X did you ever do a video of chief and Cortana first meeting? I keep researching and trying to find out if Cortana was the package in reach and she met chief just before CE, or was there more to what they escorted off reach?
I think in Reach, the Package was a piece of Cortana with the vital Forerunner knowledge... but then again Smart AIs can't copy themselves for some reason and they only learned that ability when stealing it from a Covenant AI...
Transuniversal flood would turn it into something from marvel/dc. Would fit in perfectly with all the other universe conquering threats there.
If only one hemisphere had stars couldn’t we theoretically say there are not any galaxies or star systems on the other side..at least in the visible range
The halo galaxy is definitely due a galaxy outbreak invasion, be a good way to end the MasterChef story
It could be that the flood retreat to farm galaxies and wait for biomass to accumulate and then reassimilate
Did 343 change fact that the flood can infect via the air, or was that always the case? Seems very OP to me. I don't remember that in the original trilogy
How awesome would it be to have cheif fight a keymind . It would be EPIC . I wonder if it would consume all of the unsc ships and or energy weapons ??? Can they absorb energy ?
Probably waiting for a species that can reach some specific level of knowledge they need for the next step of evolution.
We all heard of the dead universe theory, now we got the undead universe theory. :C
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So this is sorta like the Zerg in Starcraft or the Borg in Startrek in a way.
Straight away, a swarm of infection forms.
Flood galaxies would definitely take out the tyranids.
You got that right. And they probably would devour the Tyranid Hivemind's soul as well once they are at it.
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I genuinely disagree. "Hanging around for ten thousand years" is totally the floods prerogative - we're not seeing a huge intergalactic flood invasion force, we're seeing small pockets of infection that waited millennia to be found. As the Gravemind says, "resignation is my virtue"
The prometheans built the rings to destroy galaxies to prevent the flood from spreading
lol the flood just chills & watches one piece for 10,000 years
The theory that really is frightening, the precursors always were the flood.
Doubt it. Precursors that exist in others galaxies would not allow that. The Pimordial/Gravemind does not speak for all Precursors
10:54 want some more evidence of this being a genuine cosmic horror within our reality?
The boötes void an absolutely immense section of space that has next to nothing within it that we can tell. It’s so immense it can be seen on the cosmic background radiation as a cold spot I literally don’t have the words or way of contextualize how big of nothingness this place is for next to no discernible reason
So basically the Precursors are the halo version of the mass effect reapers
A whole flood galaxy should eventually starve.
Make a video on what if the greater ark survived the forerunner flood war or what if the humans talked to the forerunners about the flood when they retreated into forerunners space
maybe the precursors ALWAYS were the flood. They just played good cop/ bad cop with the milky way galaxy.
The problem with this is that the unity of the hivemind will break at some point and then its just constant civil war.
I love the idea of a reality where halo's universe is completly infected by the flood and only the milky way survives and they're trying to get their and destroy all the rings to ensure their eternal reign.
What if these other galaxies learned to defeat the Flood or managed to find a cure?
People forgetting the Flood exist because of a precursor the forerunners didn't delete.
What I need is a series covering a war between the transgalactic flood and the entirety of the tyranid hivemind
Eventually wouldn’t the flood not have anywhere left to go like every universe be infected would they just chill
I havent watched through this yet but I dont understand. how do they go to other galexys? only the forerunners made a ship able to go to other galexys
Wouldn't this have defeated the purpose of the rings then? Thought the rings wiped out almost all life.
cant the flood just create new biomass by consuming all the carbon, water, oxygen and trace elements needed, until they leave every planet completely unable to ever support organic life again
Basically precursors from Halo are leviathans from Mass Effect
"You....will....be...FOOD....nothing....more"
wait I just thought of something. isn't the state where humanity is in full peace basically the year where Halo Reach ends? does that me that when humanity "wins" that's when it's time to begin to "human floor war"🤔
So the flood and the reapers are one and the same. Except the reapers leave primitive species alone and the flood took the buffet as a personal challenge
Sounds like the Flood are akin to the Tyranids in Warhammer 40k - which are also rumoured to have devoured multiple galaxies and even universes before ariving in the Milky Way. This is implied by the fact that the Tyranids have attacked our galaxy from pretty much every direction.
Just gotta watch out for the WAAAAAGH they're running from.
Maybe they need to call commander Shepard
huh this reminds me of season 2 of Lexx, Mantrid drones dismantle everything in the universe people, planets and stars the whole light universe gone to make more Mantrid drones.
Once they consume a galaxy they cannot stay there or they’ll starve
"We are hungry. We must feed"
Flood galaxies can’t exist because if they did, they’d have come back and consumed ours
A transgalactic flood world sounds peaceful to me. I am curious to know how they would evolve as a species if they were uncontested. Will there be a change to their physical form, to their mind(s), will they start to form in-fighting between different "strands" (as in the equivalent to factions), will they reach higher states of being? It's very fascinating. But, the conundrum still stays of their destruction of free will at the core of their development. So, I guess, by some logic, nothing good can come of something rooted in that starting point.
Idk I think there’s a high chance the flood would just wait the 10,000 years, they are very intelligent and think 100 steps ahead, 10,000 years is nothin to them.
But it said that the flood once they decimated a civilization they leave finding more beings with intelligence and depart from the destroyed world search for more life form throughout the galaxies.
Also, the Flood are the Precursors that the Forerunners imprisoned
Why couldn't the gravemind on halo 2 control the flood on halo 1?
not sure it depends on how the dev's play it out
Okay hear me you know halo infinite said something about the endless,well what if the endless was from another galaxy that defeated the flood but was crippled and they asked the forerunners fir help in exchange they asked how to defeat the flood which was the halo rings. It kinda makes sense if you look it at that way
i think that would be the best plot to end halo.
One thing that would be frightnening is if the flood were to invade earth in the marvel or dc universes!
With how bad the halo show is, I wouldn’t mind the flood, reaching the transuniverse stage and going from the blue universe to the silver universe lol
Yes but didn’t the flood come from the precursors who were in our galaxy? So it would only be as many galaxies as they could have assimilated since the first firing of the rings
Holy ѕhіt, I didn't realise Halo was a horror game
The humans were culling flood infected forerunner worlds. Ancient humanity had the best grip on the flood.
Until the forerunners dug their won grave and destroyed them
Wouldn't we still exist in a post-Transgalactic flood infection? Our biomass and minds would still exist within the hivemind, just with less free will
Arbiter: “what is it? More brutes?”
Chief: “don’t play fucking dumb we literally spoke to a gravemind together you know the flood when you see it”
I remember seeing one video which theorizes that Arbiter is lacking Perception skill altogether.
Arbiter: "I was just grasping the last sliver of hope that I was wrong, but thanks for the straight talk."
@@normaaliihminen722 I remember some video talking about halo 3s arbiter being an imposter lmao
Dudes faculties are not all there, he isnt nearly as sharp as halo 2s arbiter in terms of writing.
@@halinaqi2194i mean in Halo 2 he also does not recognize Flood Smell and even ask to Ship Master (cant remember his names the white elites with two mandibles cut) whats that smell, bro got amnesia
@@ViquelOoste i mean, you are right but atleast in the game it doesn't feel off since game-only players, arbiter didn't confront the flood until halo 2. So to game only fans, it doesn't seem odd that he doesn't recognize flood blood stains and stench lol
I remember telling my Dad about Halo lore, probably like 5 years ago now, and he pointed out the Biblical themes that I had somehow missed entirely.
The Flood was sent by God (The Precursors) to punish mankind (The Forerunners) for hubris (Taking the mantle of responsibility). However, Noah made an ark (The Forerunner's Arks) and and brought two of every animal (Genetic codes) to repopulate the Earth (Galaxy)
Everyone probably knows this, it just blew 14 year old me's mind.
Actually halo isn't quite so 1:1 allegorical. You're picking and choosing anyway by glossing over the humans and forerunners being separate. Like LOTR, halo avoided being too on the nose and simply used certain motifs. The Arbiter, prophets and great journey borrow Islamic motifs. And originally the flood was the result of humanity's sins and that matches better than the corrupted Frankieverse lore where the flood are the forerunner pets who ate space cocaine
@@cosmictreason2242I'm not saying the plot itself was meant to be a 1:1 Biblical recreation, but that the forerunners were meant to mirror Human Hubris in the Bible, in a way. The Flood exist *because* The Forerunner tried to take the Mantle of Responsibility (Similar to how Man took the Apple from Eden). They played God for a while, but got too confident and used their power for evil, they eradicated the Ancient Humans thinking they were objectively correct in this, which ended up solidifying their eventual demise.
That’s very interesting! It’s nice to see biblical parallels in this way
The flood is also the biblical flood.
@@cosmictreason2242 The two things you mention in your last comment are not contradictory to each other. The Flood is the result of humanity's sins, and the pets who became infected by the white powder found on the derelict spacecraft were how ancient humanity first encountered the Flood.
Not gonna lie, having a game based around ONi researching a flood consumed galaxy or something would make a cool horror spin off
This. Could also do a Dead Space take and have infinity's sister ship found at the edge of the galaxy after an exploratory trip to the triangulum galaxy and found nothing but infection.
You could maybe transport/build a halo array in that galaxy and fire it
Or something like newly infested colony and they send a squad of ODST's to investigate why that small yet important colony at the edge of the galaxy has gone silent. Something like Aliens type game with ODST's.
Dude that sounds incredible
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A Flood Outbreak on a planet were Human/Covenant forces where fighting and have to ally up to survive. Could have Human and Covenant races/classes and gameplay could be kind of like Darktide. 4 player Co-Op survival. Halo Universe is ripe for a horror/survival game based off of them.
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(also you should do a series on the flood when you finish your necromorph one)
Flood galaxies is one of the only reasons why I would ever approve of flood samples kept inside secure installations. Even if we can’t find a cure, at the very least, we would be able to identify new weaknesses.
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I wonder if the flood managed to achieve the trans galactic stage during the end of the forerunner flood war, would be terrifying if they escaped the Milky Way right before the Halo array was fired
Honestly given how lntelligent they are and the fact that they DID leave the galaxy during that period, it'd be a pretty big over site not to send a couple of ships towards neighboring galaxies and I'm pretty sure the books state the flood showed up in never before seen ships implying they did just that
Currently we don't even know what they did when they retreated during the Human-Flood war. That amount of time could've been used to expand to other galaxies while the Forerunner-Human war was still on-going
it was to go to other galaxies. the story is currently being worked on, and was intended to be a surprise initially, but everyone guessed it. the never meant to keep the stuff about trans galactic in the lore. oversights happen
I love the idea that the Flood is out there biding it's time and the only that's stopping them from infecting the Milky Way is the Halo array. Kinda like how the Wall was stopping the White Walkers from invading Westeros in Game of Thrones.
Makes you wonder what the potential ramifications could be of say, destroying a certain Halo ring 🤔
I do think there are still plenty of unaffected galaxies too though, we saw Spark get sent by the Librarian to help the Precursor seeds begin anew in a faraway Galaxy which is likely going to be left alone seeing as it was supposed to be an optimistic send-off
@@Rev_GooseEither that or they both see blighted and darkened Galaxies surrounding us.
Yessss I love that analogy, I didn't think of that until now but it's really similar
It makes me think of how there are horrifying rogue AI's in Cyberpunk that are constantly running rampant in the Net, and the only thing keeping augmented humanity safe from what is quite possibly the closest thing to Hell in Cyberpunk is another AI that acts as an extremely advanced firewall, known as Blackwall. The worst, part? Nothing says that Blackwall itself couldn't possibly go rogue at some point...
@@HiddenXperiaanother thing to consider other than destroying a halo ring, but also damaging the Ark and lastly deactivation of the halos
The Flood consume the entire Universe, where everything is dead:
*Dead Universe*
*Dead Space*
Fuck me, the Necromorphs is the Flood
My best guess in why the Flood from other galaxies don’t show up is due to the fact that it could put the odds in the Precursors favor which for a test would be cheating, could be that since those galaxies are entirely consumed that galaxy’s test is over which means that the Flood has to make do on its own with this one and build up its own force.
Xperia explained it in the videp
Also sounds too much like Tyranids.
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Or as a test the consumed galaxies reset and new life is formed but we never see those outcomes. Or in our galaxy's case the flood is an unfortunate glitch in how the precursors usually operate on galactic tests.
I think personally, and something that’s more terrifying for me-
The flood has already consumed practically everything in the Universe. It’s all one big gravemind now, and the only reason the Milky Way hasn’t been consumed is both because of the Halo Array- And the fact that if it consumed us, it would no longer have a purpose. It’s very likely keeping us alive just so it can have a purpose