I mean, there have been a few hints that the flood might come back in Halo 5, so I wonder if the didact can use them to make some Promethean/flood hybrids?
I doubt it, otherwise why would Didact use it on Forerunners/humans to make soldiers to fight the flood when he could just incinerate the flood directly?
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> I doubt it, otherwise why would Didact use it on Forerunners/humans to make soldiers to fight the flood when he could just incinerate the flood directly?
Agreed. Otherwise the Halo rings would serve less of a purpose overall.
I can’t imagine such infected biomass to be composed…even the didact himself couldn’t compose himself after various self experiments
I agree with the first two comments. If they were to be composed, then all the Didact had to do was find the source of the outbreak and compose the flood there. He wouldn’t have needed to create an army of Prometheans if that was the case
Pure forms probably not, as they don’t have a mind of their own to be processed into an AI. Combat forms can, as far as I know, as there were a few subjects in Silentium that had been processed, but still retained a link to the Flood.
As for directly weaponising it, it could probably be blocked by some sort of specialised shielding, or something like that. Personally, I’m still wondering why the council decided Shield Worlds were such a bad idea…
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> Pure forms probably not, as they don’t have a mind of their own to be processed into an AI. Combat forms can, as far as I know, as there were a few subjects in Silentium that had been processed, but still retained a link to the Flood.
> As for directly weaponising it, it could probably be blocked by some sort of specialised shielding, or something like that. Personally, I’m still wondering why the council decided Shield Worlds were such a bad idea…
Noble spirit of self-sacrifice? Or the builders decided they’d rather die using their own construction than survive using solution proposed by a warrior-servant.
I don’t think shield worlds would have done much against star roads. I doubt the Didact prepared for that. Stealthier models like Onyx or the Sanctuary seem to be an exception not the norm.
The 7 rings meant to wipe the galaxy seems to have been kept a secret to most anyway. Likely to prevent the flood from finding out before it was ready.
Now that I think about it, it is strange that the Composer can’t compose flood. Maybe the flood have some weird bio-electric field that nullifies the Composer’s beam. In real-world science, the flood would just be biomass like any other life form and logically would be able to be digitized by the giant space-Tron laser, but we need to have a cool campaign somehow.
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> Now that I think about it, it is strange that the Composer can’t compose flood. Maybe the flood have some weird bio-electric field that nullifies the Composer’s beam. In real-world science, the flood would just be biomass like any other life form and logically would be able to be digitized by the giant space-Tron laser, but we need to have a cool campaign somehow.
We don’t actually know if the composer even works properly on everything. It’s only ever been used on humans and forerunners, two supposedly very similar species.
I do find it odd that those with resistance seem to be resistant to the whole disintegrating effect too. Chief’s already immune and the didact seemed to have some degree of resistance.
In primordium there were strange infected forerunners who had retained some level of control thanks to the composer, but didn’t seem to be digitized at all. They were organic and held together by their armor. Given some of the early concept art for the Prometheans, I feel like the composer wasn’t all about digitizing originally, but is a result of h4’s chaotic development.
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As many have said, if it could be done, it would have been done.
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Composition is a total body experience analogy to what Cortana went through… Since the Flood vessels are merely puppets of biomass and the real consciousness is literally out of body, there is “nothing” to compose. There isn’t a genetic network to digitally copy, there is just nearly blank but reactive tissue reacting to what appears to be a hyperspace consciousness.
I think that’s going to be a twist in one of the final games. The Flood are going to digitize themselves and infect the Prometheans, assimilating the Didact and ending the Forerunner - Flood, assembling the union of both almighty, antediluvian warmachines in a single ray of consumation, amalgamating both Flood hunger and Forerunner science.
343 would win my undying respect if they managed that.
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> I think that’s going to be a twist in one of the final games. The Flood are going to digitize themselves and infect the Prometheans, assimilating the Didact and ending the Forerunner - Flood, assembling the union of both almighty, antediluvian warmachines in a single ray of consumation, amalgamating both Flood hunger and Forerunner science.
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> 343 would win my undying respect if they managed that.
Yeah, that is where I got the Idea from. I think something similar will happen in campaign.
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> I think that’s going to be a twist in one of the final games. The Flood are going to digitize themselves and infect the Prometheans, assimilating the Didact and ending the Forerunner - Flood, assembling the union of both almighty, antediluvian warmachines in a single ray of consumation, amalgamating both Flood hunger and Forerunner science.
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> 343 would win my undying respect if they managed that.
Or they could just use Precursor tech like they did in the Forerunner Saga. Star Roads sound a lot better than War Sphinxes and Promethean Knights.
But yeah, I think the Prometheans will most likely be corrupted since they were created by the Ur-Didact, and he himself was corrupted by the Gravemind. It wouldn’t surprise me if his creation ended up deferring to the Flood due to the logic plague or something.
Probably not. I mean, there’s no mind to extract. The Flood represent unity and essentially share the same consciousness as the Gravemind. With the exception of odd cases like Jenkins who retained some of his original personality, of course. I could imagine him having been saved if the UNSC has access to a composer. I think his experience as a Flood combat form could have prove invaluable to the UNSC.