The Didact suggests the Flood is capable of infecting the universe itself. That’s pretty cool, until you remember what the Flood does. The Flood weaponizes the Star Roads and uses them to surround enemies, crush planets, and prevent slipspace travel.Īll Precursor technology operates on the principle of “neural physics,” which believes the universe itself is a living organism beyond our limited understanding of life. For example, Silentium shows us the Star Roads, roads the Precursors used to bridge planets and possibly move stars. We are the last of those your kind defied and ruthlessly destroyed.įorerunner technology is far beyond what humans the Covenant are capable of, but Precursor technology borders on incomprehensible even to the Forerunners. We are the last of those who gave you breath and form, millions of years ago. They created the Forerunners and countless other species, and when they decided to pass the Mantle (in general terms, responsibility for all life) to humanity instead, the Forerunners opposed them. I’m pretty sure it’s no coincidence the wording of that chapter echoes the Book of Genesis. Yes, in a failed attempt to protect themselves from the Forerunners’ genocide, the Precursors turned themselves into the Flood. It brought only disease and misery but that was good, we saw the misery and found it good.” Others became dust that could regenerate our past forms time rendered this dust defective. Some adopted new strategies for survival they went dormant. Then Silentium brings it all together and reveals the terrible truth: Then, they explain how humanity found an ancient powder that caused disease and mutations… with the strong implication that the Precursors developed the Flood as a biological weapon. These three books toy with the reader as they slowly uncover parts of the truth.įirst, they reveal that the Forerunners destroyed their creators, the Precursors. And while it tells the story of the Forerunners’ final days, the Didact and the Librarian, and even 343 Guilty Spark, it’s really about the origin of the Flood. The Forerunner Saga was epic, especially the third book, Silentium. Fleets of Flood-infected ships surrounded Forerunners and invaded their systems! These are far from mere zombies. Remember, they’re telepathic and/or a hive mind. If they spread enough, the Flood form Key Minds, essentially Graveminds on a planetary scale. Graveminds are only the second-highest known form of the Flood. The Flood we saw in the original Halo trilogy was comparatively weak to what it was in the Forerunners’ time. And since the Flood are intelligent, suddenly you have Gravemind messages appearing on your phone, with all his usual psychological torment and manipulation. To go back to the zombie comparison, imagine if the zombies created a computer virus that made your electronics do what they wanted. This is demonstrated most notably in the corruption of Mendicant Bias and the Gravemind’s interrogation of Cortana, but the Forerunners considered it a plague. Meanwhile, the first game’s Anniversary Edition (also present in the MCC) incorporated the best parts of the first game’s novelization to demonstrate what even a Proto-Gravemind can do. His cryptic verses and sinister presentation were damaged by his rather plant-like appearance, even if he was still intimidating, so the Master Chief Collection altered his design to more closely resemble his canonical description as a massive conglomeration of corpses. They are not zombies.Īfter the first game’s implications that the Flood became so dangerous the Forerunners had to wipe out the galaxy to stop it, Halo 2 introduced the Gravemind: an intelligent, sinister manipulator in control of the Flood hive mind.
#THE FLOOD HALO SERIES#
But as the series progressed and the lore expanded, they became more. Infected creatures twist and mutate into undead monstrosities. On the surface, the Flood is Halo’s version of zombies. Halo: Combat Evolved introduced the Flood as a plot twist partway through, and suddenly this wasn’t just a game about shooting aliens anymore. It’s not often we focus on a particular aspect of a story rather than the entire thing, but like last year when we discussed spooky moments in Pokemon, you can’t say Halo itself is spooky. Because he wasn’t scary enough before.After I finished the Forerunner Saga, this post was inevitable.
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