lol, sorry for not being too clear on that one, I didn't mean the Covenant were around that long ago, I was just too lazy to name every race that survive I do like the point about how many other groups have they wiped out before us... For all we know, there are other groups IN the Covenant that we don't know about (remember how the Brutes and Drones just kinda popped up?).supremely wrote:the covenant wasnt the covenant at that time though i think? they probably missed alot of speices, i mean the covenant is made up of species they basically absorb... and who knows how many they've wiped out before like they're trying to do to us.Lurono wrote: It's still interesting that they would kill all potential hosts AND keep the Flood around. And it's interesting that they "conveniently" missed us and the Covenant with the Halos...
And yes, it makes sense that they would change and evolve as they went through hosts... But I still can't see how a creature like the Flood could have enough hosts on a single planet for long enough for them to evolve to their current state. Lets say a crazy disease wipes out all humanity on Earth, does that disease change so it can also affect animals, or does it just kinda die out?