As the server video showed, the Flood have "done this before". So, they couldn't have been created by the Forerunners.sarge2552 wrote:could this message be talking about when the flood were created/found, because of this quote from 343 in the book The Flood,-pg.237The installation was specifically built to study and contain the Flood. Their survival as a race was dependent on it. I am grateful to see that some of them survived to reproduce.
it indicates that the flood were either created, studied and kept alive in the structures, or that they were discovered as a dying organism, and were protected, and put in a special place so they could survive, this would also go with the line about being foolish to think all life went along the same lines, the forerunners underestimated the floods ability to survive...
I'm going with the belief that they meant the Forerunners' survival as a race depended upon studying the Flood, and it was just a bad bit a scriptwriting. ('Cause the Flood survived elsewhere. The Monitors are machines and therefore logical. They won't make such a broad, sweeping and logically faulty statement.)