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With enough radiation everything but some bacteria will die... of radiation poisoning, not a good way to go but some bacteria, plants and animals would survive. Just not anything "with sufficient biomass"

Rainstorm I have to disagree. Although the flood enemy individually are not to hard to kill there is a massive co-ordinated effort to repair a starship in halo 1 and take over High Charity in Halo 2. Remember "their parasitic nature belies their intelligence".

Good point. I can't believe I never noticed that. It is said time and again that the flood infect living hosts. Which is why killing all sentient life starves the flood. Just wait for them to all die now. But the dead bodies on board Truth and Reconciliation were being used to create a Brain form......

HH404 I have believed the "we are forerunner" theory since Halo 1, but the Halo3.com/comic makes me doubt some of it. I have also believed that the forerunner may have created the flood rather then discovered it due to Gravemind's quote of "I am a monument to all of your sins". I...

Spartan Seraph... you just put into words what I have been formulating for a very long time. It explains everything... but I wonder about N'Chala and the aboriginal subspecies. An alien race finds earth and decides humans should take over their legacy once they are gone... but humans aren't gone so ...

Sorry to post the obvious but a recap of the messages we have got so far seems prudent: Log 5 Transcript says basically: I'm putting a message in a bottle and hope one day people in the future will understand why we fired the rings... blah blah etc. The array recorder data was a record of the firing...

All Halo's are orbiting gas giants. Saturn our gas giant was nearly a star. With just a little more matter, the interior temperature can reach the 10 billion degrees necessary for fusion to occur. This is the process by which Hydrogen is turned into heavier elements like Helium and carbon. Once Iron...