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LoneRanger 2.5 wrote:If the Forerunners hadn't kept feeding the Flood beans, none of this would ever have happened!

So that's why Grunts breathe methane!

MulletedOne wrote:

Scelus wrote:I believe it was mentioned that the facility was retrofitted to study the Flood. Also, the video from Server 2 indicate that the Flood started out long before the Forerunners encountered them, as they had "done this before. Elsewhere".

All that means is that the central mind spoke to them before mockingly and dismissively, not that the flood has been around before.

Your interpretation works if the hive mind was just boasting. But, if it was telling the truth, then that means that they have conquered sentient races, prior to encountering the Forerunners. And the "elsewhere" indicates that it was probably another galaxy.

Scelus wrote:

MulletedOne wrote:

Scelus wrote:I believe it was mentioned that the facility was retrofitted to study the Flood. Also, the video from Server 2 indicate that the Flood started out long before the Forerunners encountered them, as they had "done this before. Elsewhere".

All that means is that the central mind spoke to them before mockingly and dismissively, not that the flood has been around before.

Your interpretation works if the hive mind was just boasting. But, if it was telling the truth, then that means that they have conquered sentient races, prior to encountering the Forerunners. And the "elsewhere" indicates that it was probably another galaxy.

Which is speculation of equal viability.

Don't jump to conclusions or face the change of being disappointed in the end, just be prepared for any outcome.

You just gotta love the way that Bungie words things... They manage to always leave more than one possibility =)