My Flood Theory
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:52 am
I apologise in advance if my creation of this thread breaks any forum rules or the theory has been already brought to attention or disapproved. This is a work in progress theory, made by a noob to ARGs and a somewhat learned scholar of the Halo universe. It delves into a possible origin of the Flood and a reason as to why it can spread so quickly. This little idea also shows that the threat of the Flood is on an even grander scale, as hard as it may be to believe.
Alright, I was watching an episode of the X-Files. In the episode, Mulder and Scully were investigating the disappearnaces of a company of loggers. It turns out that the insects believed to have killed the loggers had been hibernating in the several century old trees the loggers cut.
This gave me a possible explanation for the spreading of the Flood infection. Perhaps the Flood evolved and thrived before the Forerunners, but in a dormant state. The Forerunners, after discovering the other life, may have toyed with the Flood virus, awakening the sleeping parasite in their quest for knoweledge. Perhaps the newly awakened bacteria can activate dormant bacteria, which will explain how the Flood can spread so quickly. Imagine, if dormant Flood bacteria was all around us on Earth, it would only take a single active cell to unleash them all. A bit of poetic irony isn't it? The thing the Forerunner's unleashed ultimately brought them to their doom.
I'm very open to constructive criticism, so if you know something in my theory is impossible, post it so that it can be repaired and revisited with the possibility of harboring a different idea or theory.
Alright, I was watching an episode of the X-Files. In the episode, Mulder and Scully were investigating the disappearnaces of a company of loggers. It turns out that the insects believed to have killed the loggers had been hibernating in the several century old trees the loggers cut.
This gave me a possible explanation for the spreading of the Flood infection. Perhaps the Flood evolved and thrived before the Forerunners, but in a dormant state. The Forerunners, after discovering the other life, may have toyed with the Flood virus, awakening the sleeping parasite in their quest for knoweledge. Perhaps the newly awakened bacteria can activate dormant bacteria, which will explain how the Flood can spread so quickly. Imagine, if dormant Flood bacteria was all around us on Earth, it would only take a single active cell to unleash them all. A bit of poetic irony isn't it? The thing the Forerunner's unleashed ultimately brought them to their doom.
I'm very open to constructive criticism, so if you know something in my theory is impossible, post it so that it can be repaired and revisited with the possibility of harboring a different idea or theory.