I remembered the mission “Keyes” were Cortana said: “Look! They’re gathering bodies.” So the parasite eats organic material through its host? Can a spore eat without being inside an elite or marine corpse? Also they might gather food for “Gravemind” so it can make more spores. I was thinking: How many Graveminds are? And how many food do they need? When I reached Cpt. Keyes, he was trapped within a lot of marines in a blob. I was thinking that they might absorb the bodies and leave the bones.
Another small question, based on the small dialogue during the cinematic of H2A in mission “The arbiter”: Does Brutes eats small species like jackals or grunts? What’s the Covenant main source of food? I was thinking in humans and small species.
Halo universe turns into a horror movie for me when I think in this things: What do they eat?
I don’t think the Flood literally eat their victims, they’re a parasite. They get knowledge and combat forms which eventually create a carrier form full of infection forms. No eating.
However, I can easily imagine a brute eating a grunt. I don’t think the Covenant have a main source of food since each race would require different nutrients. Brutes ate meat as seen in Contact Harvest, while we know Elites ate meat and grain from Glasslands.
There was one instance of Jackals and Grunts rounding up human civilians and eating them on the human colony of Draco III. The victims were soon avenged though by Chief and his Spartans.
The Flood doesn’t eat its victims, it assimilates them. They’ll take corpses and gather them in places most likely to make infecting them and converting their biomass more efficient. As far as I know, only one Gravemind has ever existed at a given time. The bones are actually fairly important to the Flood, as they require the calcium to sustain themselves, and will typically avoid using organisms with little calcium mass as Combat Forms.
The Covenant have no ‘universal’ food source.
- Sangheili have their own things that they farm, such as colo (some kind of animal) and irukan (a grain). - Unggoy were primarily sustained in the Covenant using food -Yoink!-, eating some kind of blue paste. It tastes and smells bad, but it’s nutritious, according to in-universe descriptions. - Kig-Yar… well… Kig-Yar eat whatever the hell it is that Kig-Yar eat. - Jiralhanae eat meat, primarily. Stuff like thorn beasts and humans. Unggoy and Kig-Yar will also eat human flesh, as they apparently did on Draco III. - Lekgolo consume… things. We know that some colonies eat Forerunner technology. - Yanme’e apparently bred livestock for food at some point in their history.
I think that the food eats the victims intestines not the person. So that the infection could take over and control the victim it has gotten.
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> I think that the food eats the victims intestines not the person. So that the infection could take over and control the victim it has gotten.
The intestines actualy get liquified during the infection,to gain space for the infection form and material for the mutation.
You might wanna fix your grammar.
I’m guessing flood can alter it’s strategy when there’s not enough hosts to infect. Haven’t we seen groups of infection forms just “chilling” on dead bodies?
