How the Flood survive the firing of the Halos (+ NEW HALO ANNOUNCEMENT!)
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One of the biggest misconceptions about the Halo rings is that they instantly destroy any Flood threat and render the galaxy totally Flood free. However, that's not exactly the case, so today, I wanted to address this misconception and explain how the Flood survive the firing of the Halos. There might also be a lil Halo news surprise towards the end ;D
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I thought today we'd touch on how the one thing that was created to destroy the Flood entirely doesn't *exactly* do its job. As if the Flood weren't freightening enough already 😂 Hope you guys enjoy!
In a few days I should have a video up talking about how Halo Outpost Discovery could be a huge tease for Infinite. Trust me, ya don't wanna miss it :D
Can't wait for the Doom vid👌
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HiddenXperia one question in the halo official spartan field manual spartan grant (spartan ops) talks about the banished on page 45 do you think this is a hint to a potential spartan ops sequel in infinite or in a later game?
Glad to be a part of the team
hope you get better man hey also after you do your doom demons vs flood. you really should look into the Kett from mass effect Andromeda they are a gene stealing race that can convert any biological creature to there race. I would love to see them convert a Flood grave mind into a kett mind using their gene injection.
"Caught a pretty nasty virus or something"
Everyone watching in 2020: " hmm interesting"
went down to the comments for exactly this, was not disappointed, thanks!
@@grif5447 Same, lmao.
Motero Argentino Same
@@KSI_Revelations nah it exists, i work as security to hospitals, seen people with it, don't want to get any closer to it. and so! please keep safe my people!, and dont start a war over whether or not it exists based on someone's say-so im just putting in what i've seen and heard from my charges.
HAHAHAH
The flood forms in the thumbnail look like a family watching their last sunset together
Lol i love his thumbnails
You don’t need a population to infect when you’ve got family
Yup right before the array fired and killed them all
That’s not a family I want to be apart of.
Yeah a family of hive minded freaks
The flood can "starve" because of the degradation of matter. Inactive flood forms just laying there would degrade over time because of the half lives of the biological matter they're made of, thus they're "starved" for new biological matter to consume and can't continue to propagate. It's kind of like why areas like Chernobyl won't be habitable for hundreds of years as the radioactive matter degrades.
Ahhh, interesting, thanks for the explanation dude!
@@HiddenXperia senpai noticed me. My life is complete.
basically they "starve" from a lack of fuel thus leading to the body self cannibalizing to maintain energy or from what he said or both simultaneously.
So did the Flood get wiped out by the Halo Arrays or did they just starve and die after all the food got zapped?
Even though Chernobyl is actually inhabitable, approx. 2000 people do live and work there officially in the exclusion zone. Most of the washing of buildings and the region did the trick.
"Must have inhaled a flood spore or something"
*the halo rings would like to know your location*
master chief: *EXISTS*
*flood has left the chat*
haloARRAY.exe has stopped working
*the covernant has left the chat*
*unsc has joined the chat*
forerunners: *ight imma head out*
Damn
Aged like coffee
Easy just get up to a high area and the water can't *reach* you
_Wait wrong Flood_
Lol this comment has more likes than the pinned one
With this being the top comment im not even mad that my comment got ignored 😂😂😂
just get on the Ark... true for both floods
Ouch. Lol
“It’s over! I have the high ground!”
"... And why the aftermath of Halo firing is actually a really disturbing thing."
Man, the totality of Halo universe is disturbing
Did you miss the backstory to the Spartan 2 program, next to the creepy feature of automated temperature systems cooling a room down to freezer levels to preserve a person’s body when they die in the room?
@@crypto1223 told you, whole halo universe is disturbing
What about warhammer 40k, like the death corps of Krieg…
Especially halo 5
4:19 You forgot to mention that infection forms can jump out of a combat form when it is of no use, like in halo 2 when a combat form loses its arms. So if the infection form is still alive and well, then it can just hop out and find a new host.
Very true! Thanks for pointing it out!
Your welcome
Yeah, but after the Halos fire there is no longer any hosts for them to infect.
good point, of course the infection form probably got its nerves toasted too.
I thought that was only a gameplay feature so they had some form of offensive ability when they don't have arms.
i thought infection forms DID have a nervous system, so they would be destroyed/killed
Imagine a flood infection form in a flood infection form (ik it isnt possible just imaginate)
Bas Emaus the connect integrally with the nervous system of the host to live I’m not sure why anyone would think it wouldn’t die also the Halo ringers were also meant to reseed the rest of the galaxy with life and clean up the remains of the infection this video is not entirely based on all available or even obvious factual lore
Pretty sure the whole stupid point of the halo rings is that they kill everything BUT the flood, like that's their thing
The halo rings starve the flood so it will die out then they will repopulate the universe after the flood has died out
Ikr
That still doesn't excuse the Forerunners for letting flood survive their Fortress worlds, but then we wouldn't have half of the Story for Halo. Just saying for being an advanced civilization they aren't good with sterilization on local levels.
For all they know the flood could have taken over multiple other galaxies and could return. Heck, for all we know our galaxy could be the last galaxy not infected by the flood xD
@@JS-xv3dm Why is it in fictional theories in universes we are "Only the last" Fiction tends to forget how massive the universe really is. At min it is via observable levels 60+ Billion Light years, good luck infecting all of that and avoiding magnetars, Super massive black holes, great attractors and potential False Vacuums not even Flood can survive False Vacuum end of the universe levels. It could potentially go into slipspace. :P
@@JKAzrael247 Given that the Flood in it's most known powerful form and scope is a reality-warping physics screwing Eldritch Lovecraftian Horror, it could probably survive all that or escape it.
@@Spartan-343 If that was the case why didn't the precursors make themselves a K3 civilisation by making a Mega Earth Shell world around a super massive black hole, has all the energy they need for this universe's life span and can have several hundred seperate shell world layers. basically a galaxy's population several times over inside 1 light year of space. It's not that easily detectable, isolated and secure within one highly protected location and no problem with waste heat. Considering they were the biggest civilisation on scale, they didn't plan for contingencies with the Forerunner. After all i've noticed in the Halo Universe, you can have a million + system/world empire but still be arrogant enough not to stop galactic threats.
They hoped the Monitors would guide future humanity about how to fight the flood and resume research on them so they can cure it.
but the real question remains
Will Halo Infinite have Playable Elites?
I asked that to an Elite who works at 343 and he said: "Wort wort wort, wort wort" There you have it, its confirmed.
I met a Sangheili once. He glassed my planet. Darn Sangheili. Always messing my day up.
@@redthree603 wort wort wort
@@redthree603 although they are a pain in the ass on legendary
#GlassedPlanetsHaveBadRecords
" I caught a pretty nasty virus earlier this week" damn, he be predicting the future
When the outpost discovery was announced, around a week or so ago, i literally freaked out. Having played the games and read many novels, hearing that i could actually interact with the halo universe in real life, was literally a dream come true. I hope to see some of you at the Anaheim site!
Joseph Figueroa are you working with Umbrella Corp? What’s with the logo, eh?
You caught the t-virus after that resident evil video
Careful what you cover
And the g-virus
He's either becoming a G virus creature or a Blacklight Prototype creature.
@@thorshammer7883 yeah pretty much
@Grayest LOL
Here’s my answer, the flood is based on knowledge, for every victim it adds more biomass and more knowledge. Eventually if they don’t get enough new knowledge they mull over it and get bored/angry and they start tearing themselves apart trying to dig up new knowledge.
*flood effectively consumes everything in the galaxy
Combat form: ... Now what!?
(Another combat form) "... Space trip!" And the flood head elsewhere.
I’ve always wondered this... what happens when you take over the galaxy...
They go full intergalactic like good old parasites do
All combat forms would return to base to be re purposed, but hard to say what for considering the flood lives to infect
@Stale Bagelz we all die...... include the flood as well....
Unless they found another way to jump to another universe or realm....
Doesn't backpack reload the rocket launcher at the beginning
Me: Instantly triggered
Still love ya
Back pack reload?
@@icarus7961 In Halo CE if you double tap the reload button then switch weapons the gun you swapped away from will reload "on your back"
Weldon Swartz Hey I backpack reloaded most of the CE footage, it’s instinct now 😂
@@HiddenXperia Backpack reloading makes the library on legendary actually bearable.
The weak shall fear the strong
So the entire galaxy should fear the Flood, but the Flood should fear the dreaded hand sanitizer...
Dislike!
I never thought I’d find you here
@@HiddenXperia Well hand sanitizer does only wipe out 99.99% of germs
hi dad
well you say it leaves the flood immobile well did you forget about the sentinels that go and burn everything?
Smallzthehomie 760 this made me think of the assassin from rick and morty but as a sentinal instead. “Oohh boy, time to go burnin again!”
Aside from the spores, the Flood is still rotting biomass.
"Starving" them means removing their supply of replenishing biomass. ie: victims.
Without new biomass to sustain them, the graveminds would perish...over time.
I guess the presumption is there is something in its lifecycle it can't produce on its own. It seems to me simple biomass it has: it could simply cannibalize itself. On a planetary or cosmic scale, it can function much like the Earth's biosphere, a collection of carbon-based lifeforms consuming one another. Its possible that whatever form of waste the Flood excrete can't be consumed by itself.
My guess is it can't create its own neural centers. It can repurpose "brain matter" from its hosts, but as that brain matter decays, it must find new hosts to assimilate. At a certain point, even the Flood spores simplistic neurological system will break down. But this is probably an incredibly long process, like waiting for a seed bank to fail.
so i think the reason flood survive is because deep down you know in their hearts they a just kind people and really want to be friends but you know how it is people just dont like difference and they keep trying to refuse the kissses from the nice flood and i mean thats just not very nice you know but also the flood are sometimes a little weird with their kisses do you remember that time when they tried to kiss arbiter out of nowhere and he was like no please thank you there was also that time where gravemind stroked mastercheifs cheek and he giggled and gravemind took it as a wrong message the morale of the story is just be friends with the flood and kiss people to save them and thsat is the cure for the flood
You are an infection form trying to fool us right?
Hey fuck outta here wit that sap shit
@@dave212 i just dont understand why you would even say that yes i like them little forms and you know how cute they are they do those lil wiggle things with the sacks and tentacles and we can be like oh thats so cute please mother may i hold one and then she goes yes son but just make sure to kiss them plenty of times in a day or they will rip your throat open and your brain will be like oh noooo im being controlled by the flood
@@Xxpwnage223x cute? Someone get the FBI
Interesting head canon tbh
THEY USED FLEX TAPE TO FIX EACHOTHER
Nice one
Phil swift is a precursor confirmed
In order to prove the masking power of Flex Tape, I CUT THE FLOOD IN HALF AND PIECED IT TOGETHER WITH ONLY FLEX TAPE
This is unessesary
Xperia's talked about the flood so much that he's finally becoming one
Dr. Pootis he is a Gravemind
He’s got the logic plague
HiddenXperia I hope you feel better dood and I love your videos byw so just so good!
I consider these videos a survival guide for space zombies.
Well it could be worse. Atleast there's no hyperversal god of Flesh or Disease in Halo unlike the SCP Foundation universe which is Yaldabaoth.
I hope you feel better!
I must of inhaled a flood spore or something
*Knock on door*
PROMETHEN FBI OPEN UP
I really love your videos man. Really well written, tons of effort put into them and very informative. Love it man makin me nerd out about halo all over again :)
The flood would starve because their biomass would decompose
I don't see how they decompose at all. Let's use Earth as an example. If they decomposed and humanity was repopulated then they had a farm where one of the bodies decomposed it would have affected the soil with flood DNA or something and get into the food and turn them into flood
@@justinchromiak6053 decompose as in every part of them breaks down into there base materials including the DNA and any other even remote trace of what they used to be
I would imagine that the flood feed off of something that is part of the nervous system
Like the electrical signals that go through it
The electricity running through your CNS isn’t even enough to power a lightbulb.
@@Paddy656 Neural physics also don't exist in reality, dipshit
Kagji actually yes it is in the real world neural physics is the physiology off the neural network in the human body
@@definitelynotadam4972 That is not even abstractly close to what neural physics are in halo, you pedantic asshole
@@NecrosAcolyte relax fanboy
"I must have inhaled a flood spore or something" begins to violently convulse and scream as his body is torn apart, bones and limbs snapping
That intro gets me everytime been watching for yeeeaars and your videos are still always intresting, its nice considering the time we have to wait for infinite until then i have all this halo lore to fill me in.
I really hope they make a grand entrance for the flood, just as scary as 343 Guilty Spark... but different obviously
They starve because Stalin took away their potatoes
In Soviet Halo, You consume Flood
In Soviet halo you eat the grunts
@@jdjdjdjdjdmdjdmksmdndmsndi2016 in Soviet Halo, corpse teabags you
In Soviet halo elites tea bag you
@@jdjdjdjdjdmdjdmksmdndmsndi2016 in Soviet Halo, all life in the universe wipes out Halo Array
The flood videos you make are my favorite series . You are my favorite professor when it comes to halo
I took "starve" by not spreading, dying of exposure, being lifeless on the ground not "consuming something" and the host is fully lifeless and the form can't move on to create more spores/etc. The biomass from "dead" flood decays (from exposure), and seeds new life. The Flood in the Halo rings (in the deepest parts of the ring) and dormant ships adrift in space were probably just microbes that never really fully decayed or something or forms that just hibernated and never died from exposure but they can't spread outside from where they're at.
That's how I always took from Halo CE when Cortana says "Halo doesn't kill flood, it kills their food".
When they stay starve , I believe it’s meant to encompass the entire flood species, like starve off the infection , I believe the rings do kill active flood units but not the spores but with no biomas to infect , the rings work ! Just my guess
thats one beautiful thumbnail
Bro, I love your videos. New halo fan, but learning a lot with you. Thanks, mate
Helo ring:fired
Combat form:"well I'm gonna lay down now"
See, this is why you should wear a suit in quarantine hiddenX
You know, I'm actually surprised we havent come across any of the ancient-hunanity ships or technology.
We see so many forerunner things, but not ancient humans. :T
Bungie-era halo games left forerunners very ambiguous, and at times hinted towards them being humanity pre-halo firing. It would make sense in the context of H1-to reach that we wouldn't see ancient human technology because ancient humans would've been the forerunners.
However in 343 era games, with much more defined and explored forerunner and ancient human lore, you are right. It is weird that there isn't any ancient human tech lying around.
Halo 5, Hellcat Armor. One ship found and studied.
The Forunners destroyed everything of the Ancient humans and returned them to a Neolithic state pre firing. Not entirely sure of the timeline for the Human-Forerunner war, but the Forerunner-Flood war lasted for 1000s of years before the Halos were fired. Safe to assume any trace of Ancient humanity would have been wiped out, given what we know about Charum Hakor and the one who resided there.
An entire campaign where you play as a forunner during the ancient flood wars just call it 'Halo: Forunner' would be really neat. Give people perspective on how ancient , resilient and DANGEROUS the flood really are and have been for who knows how long.
It's pretty simple for combat forms. If the method of infection for combat forms is to control the nervous system and change it from there. Then there is no guarantee that the systems for consuming nutrients would change along with it. Now that the body isn't taking in any nutrients it would begin to develop gangrene. Eventually this would render the combat form permanently useless, and the infection form it houses would probably suffer the fate of having it's nervous system die out as it is not recieving any substinance to keep the signals flowing, and once the signals stop flowing the form cannot halt the decay now present on the infection form part.
Thanks for the link to the Halo Outpost discovery. 😉😆
I just wanna know why the forerunners create a weapon that could wipe out the flood instead of just stunning them for a few thousand years
because you cant wipe out the flood. The flood especially in their final stages are impossible to kill. They are precursors corrupted over time or many anyways. Its highly likely some moved to other dimensions or universes. Or who knows what else.
Awsome video I really like learning more about the flood and I'm a really big halo fan
8:00 I was fully expecting him to say we get to experience being changed into a flood form
Love your vids man! Can't wait for Halo Infinite. It's going to be absolutely amazing.
Thanks man! Fingers crossed :D
Calm down, i say that everytime since almost 10 years now...
maybe the infection form feeds on the nervous system's electrical output?
They do
Possibly, but that doesn't explain why spores die out considering they're essentially just airborne encapsulated cells
@@HiddenXperia DNA, telomeres, and biomass needed to convert into fuel for bodies and cellular processes; without biomass for fuel they must cannibalize their host into nothing and with no host the flood themselves would degrade over time into dust.
(remember pvt Jenkins and that old flood spore that couldn't quite do the job due to breaking down while being stored away for eons)
The biomass itself is eaten up and any flood left just break down over centuries due to the half life of the atomic structures that make up the chemical properties that make up cells breaking apart, even carbon will self destruct into protons, neutrons, and eventually the particles that make up protons and eventually the fine space dust of nothingness that you can see sometimes spewing out of black holes if given enough time.
Nuh uh the flood can do photosynthesis. Otherwise how the fuck would a keymind stay alive? Also they might just get energy by using neural physics.
@@nerdlingeeksly5192 that sounds totally right !:)
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Bungie really should have clarified that the shipmaster means infection when he says “spore”.
That space flood dust really breaks the world mote than once.
That precursor corrupted dust thing could have just been a one thing thing that only happens with precursors themselves, same for 343, they just had to make that pretty cinematic of a spore landing on a planet and infecting forerunners.
Doesn't biomass rot so the flood need new biomass to stay alive
Keep frozem boi
When your watching during the corona virus.. and he says he had a small virus🥈
Well, thankfully there’s one close by. Thanks for bringing it to Orlando!
My man inhaled some flood spores
Rip HiddenXperia
What it the flood when to a different Galaxy and took it over
If they succeeded then they would go back to the original galaxy and assimilate em they do have I think 3 stage and the finally stage where they went out of space to infect other I think
RIP Galaxy
Depends wich galaxy and their inhabitants some might even be capable of *COMPLETELY* exterminate the flood
@@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593 ......the only case I can think of to wipe the flood is to destroy the galaxy itself...........starving them seem to hold them off probably few hundred year.......the flood seem like version of the galaxy common cold or flu that almost impossible to wipe out......they always come bitting you the imminent you peacefully chilling you life....
Can't wait to know how it's like to be infected by the flood lol
I would love to see a movie about a group of Marines stumbling across a ship of immobilized combat forms, and trying to piece together what happened. This needs to take place before the events of Halo 1. And then send infection forms stalk the Marines around the ship and eventually meet their demise to the flood.
0:36 watching this video in 2020 has different meaning now
CHICAGO???? YESSSSS I CAN GO!!!! AND YOU’RE GOING TOO?????? HOLY SHYT!!
The flood could have survived??!?!
Welp gotta get some fire rockets and shotguns
Time to get some SCP Foundation nuclear alpha warheads ready.
@@thorshammer7883 what about nova bombs (the nukes that can shater plants)
@@ethanjeffries7914
Hmm how about reality warpers like SCP-3812 or Mekhane the machine god?
It's so eerie to think about all the Flood, Marines, Covenant you've killed (or the Halo would kill off) are still there. But especially if all Halo's were fired and everything is just dead. Damn I love Halo.
Maybe the flood version of "starving" is that over time, the infection form completely loses the ability to control its host leaving both immobilized and unable to move on their own accord. Eventually it further loses the ability to sense/see/ hear anything at all, so what we're left with is a catatonic flood form that technically can't decay and is stuck in the isolated confines of its own body.
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Can you do the Flood vs The Zerg from Starcraft?
The Zerg will easily win that war. Zerg Rush for the win! lol
@@adamgray1753
Reasons?
@@thorshammer7883, if you didn't understand my comment then I suggest you look up the Starcraft term, "Zerg Rush".
@@adamgray1753
From my point of view the Flood are more dangerous they spread faster, gain more knowledge the more people they infect, produces Flood spores to infect the atmosphere, and can create any Flood combat form of any shape or size with enough bio mass, and they can use technology and AI to gain further advantages in a battle. Also the Flood Gravemind or Keymind is much more intelligent and clever then any Zerg Overmind or Queen.
@@thorshammer7883 It was a joke .-.
Thank you so much for sharing the link for those conventions
“I must have inhaled a Flood spore” 🤣 Best quote over... almost... *ICONIC* ;)
0:34 virus you say?
They starved because shaggy and I ate all the Scooby snacks and pizza lol 😅😅😅😅😅
4:56 Personally, after learning more about how Marathon and Halo use certain words for different contexts, i’ve never taken the whole “starved” to be literal starvation.
Like you said, the Flood don’t need nutrients to survive.
Additionally you’ve made it abundantly clear that the Flood’s greatest asset is their intelligence; so if the Halos were fired, the Graveminds and other co-ordinating intelligences would be destroyed, leaving only the Flood forms that doesn’t have a nervous system…however, they wouldn’t have any hosts to infect in order to create a new Gravemind.
The Flood don’t starve in terms of hunger but knowledge.
They would be unable to create a new Gravemind, and thus would be significantly easier to destroy…so long as no organics are the ones that attempted to cleanse the galaxy of the remaining Flood.
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Ok yes all nervous systems are destroyed but what about lord shaggy he isn’t mortal 🤔🤔🤔
The flood were accidentaly created by ultra instinct shaggy when he got the flu they are actually the flu infused with 0.8% of Shaggy power
No it means Lord shaggy will simply become an ULTRA GRAVEMIND
@@onlinepseudonym7985 LOL no the flood is nothing compared to shaggy
Can Shaggy beat SCP-3812 the strongest reality warper of all time?
Thor's Hammer shaggy is reality 😂
Maybe they starve from not gaining more knowledge?
That would make sense
The flood: exists
HiddenXperia: I can milk you.
This is why the Gravemind in Halo 3 knows if Chief fires the Ark, he will just be delayed many years, but he will wait
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What if Shaggy vs flood?
No
Yes
Alexander Hernandez Shaggy would lose, Scooby Doo would win though.
One of the only times Shaggy would need to use at least 50% of his power...
How about Shaggy vs SCP-3812.
I believe there is a flood spore lifespan, considering its size. I’d say like a 2-3 week lifespan. The flood spore when it takes a host it colonizes and makes more, but if there is no host they starve.
That’s my theory.
I love how he just adds handsanitzer in there
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Just say ICONIC
flood infection forms:ahhh what i nice day
halo ring: *fires*
infection forms: what was that dies-
surviving flood : IM A SURVIVOR
master chief: looks at flood
surviving flood : goddangit
RE: flood starving, it would kinda make sense that the flood feeds on the neural energy of the host. when the nervous systems are destroyed, there goes the energy source.
Next video:
Why THE FLOOD Should Replace MASTER CHIEF As Halo's MAIN PROTAGONIST
I always thought the flood starving meant not getting fresh hosts while the existing flood forms rot away
the hand sanitizer at the end was so prophetic
I'd expect the Flood "starving" to be neurodegeneration. They probably need nutrients to uphold the nervous system of their host.
In the Halo Legends origins episodes they do show the flood like, flying away after the blast in the forerunner flood war but in Cortana’s narration pretty much right around that time she does specify it doesn’t wipe them out but it wipes out their “food”
Also damn I wish I knew about the convention thing when it was actually happening, I’m not far from Chicago
Still the coolest intro on CZcams, really interesting video as well
My theory for the Flood starving is the need to replenish the decaying biomass and flesh of its infected forms. As time goes on, the bulk of the infected forms, pure forms, and even hives will start to deteriorate at too high a rate for the Flood to keep up with when they don't have a near constant supply of living tissues to consume. This would obviously take place over a very very long time, considering it would be multiple generations before the Flood's numbers start to really break down and die off, but the last time the Rings were fired, it took many many years before the life in the Library was released back into the galaxy. Plenty of time for the Flood to just decay and die. That's what makes the most sense to me
HiddenXperia: The Halos can’t completely destroy the Flood
*WHAT*
Sitting here eating yoghurt and I thought of this;
The flood hungers for *purpose*, they're a test for humanity / the forerunners to see if they're worthy for the mantle due to their precursor heritage, after the Halo event no sentient life (human or otherwise) exists and as a result the flood's no longer got a reason for existing. So I see it as rather than a physical hunger but rather mental hunger that they need to satisfy, after all they just assimilate living creatures, always attacking but never feeding from them. If anything they only consume knowledge
I always worked under the premise that after all "life" in the galaxy was killed massive waves of sentinels were deployed which had to destroy the remaining flood. The "starving" was atributed to the flood not being able to infect any more living beings, thus they run out of "food".
I feel like the Halos are the Forerunner's first tech to tap into the Neural Physical aspects of the universe. It pulls a radiation that can be tailored to specified use, determinable to the user's choice, and dispensed in a manner impossible for any other Forerunner tech, and contains levels of energy impossibly stored within the rings themselves. The Forerunners had access to Precursor tech, so it makes sense to eventually reach that level of ability. Radiation from the "Living Universe," controlled on a Neural level by tech (as opposed to a creature, such as Precursors and Graveminds) as programmed for a given purpose. This also explains the destruction of Precursor tech by the firing, if a device can act as its own bane. I think the Forerunner Builders finally got control over the tech, turned in on the Flood, and were able to program the directives to not penetrate Forerunner shield installations or Flood research facilities on the very Halos firing at point blank range, given the presence of full-bodied Flood forms with nervous tissues simply put into stasis.
I think it’s like a rampancy thing but for the flood, starved of knowledge till they suddenly become dormant.
It's odd how common of a misconception this is when Cortona tells you in halo ce that the halo doesnt kill the flood, it kills their food...you know...the whole reason you end up destroying it.
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I think they should have just had the halo's destroy all biomass rather than the nervous system thing. Would really fix up a lot of the plot holes surrounding the "starving" the flood thing and wouldn't affect the overall story that much at all.
One possibility is that the forerunners used the solvent once the array fired, which would explain why we don't see lots of flood infested planets where there ought to be plenty