So will the flood be returning?

God I do hope so. It would be nice if 343i (assuming they bring the flood back in Halo 5/6) made the flood much more dark and fearsome than they were in the original 3 Halo titles.

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> <mark>The Flood is not a Promethean creation</mark>… The Forerunners were wiped out by the Flood because they could not handle the outbreaks. Since they decided to wage war on the ancient humans without finding out the real intent of the Humans “attacks,” the Forerunners lost the one chance they had to save the galaxy and preserve their existence.
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> OT: Of course the Flood is coming back. It will most likely be the Humans final test to assume the mantle, to succeed where the Forerunners failed.

Read the books moron.

> > <mark>The Flood is not a Promethean creation</mark>…

He’s right. The Flood wasn’t a Promethean creation.

PROMETHEAN.

I believe you meant to say Precursor at any rate. In any case, Silentium states that the Flood are “degraded” Precursors, so they aren’t really Precursor “creations”.

either way I think the fact that they seem mystery is that part of the thing that makes them scary,

I want to fight the GRAVEMIND.

With the Didact loose (unconfirmed death) and the Janus Key it may be very possible that some of those Forerunner structures that are quarantined are rich with dormant Flood right around the corner.

I find it difficult to believe that they can be completely eradicated since its indicated that a single spore can kill a planet. Considering that the forerunners have kept specimens in storage for study, it will only take one of them to escape to cause the universe havoc.

> I’d say there s a strong possibility of the Flood returning. Between the likely chance of the Flood coming from outside the galaxy to the probably still Flood-infested installation 07, they will likely return soon.
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> Just like the Primordial said over 100,000 years ago, <mark>humanity will soon be judged for the Mantle.</mark>

I’m looking forward to season two.

They’ll be back. They are infested in multiple places still. Maybe even parts of earth still from when they crash landed in 3. Also, I don’t believe the Ark was 100% destroyed, as well as the other Halo installations having them in study chambers etc.

Boy I hope they make a return

If the Flood doesn’t return, I’d be surprised. Instillation 07 has several Graveminds on it! Perfect setting, and excellent way to introduce the Precursors as Flood are just another form of Precursor, albeit a tainted one.

The conclusion of the Forerunner Saga shows that there is a definite chance of the Flood returning.

The Precursors created/became the Flood (somewhat accidental, but they liked the results) and are now using this new form to cause chaos and misery, and ultimately… unity (peicing together things from Primordium: Unity could be the use of the Flood to create more Graveminds/Precursors). The Forerunners’ aggression surprised the Precursors, and now they vowed to make sure no creation rises to challenge them again.

Humanity is their last major creation. We need to take the Mantle. The Didact was the example of the Flood’s corruption and madness, making such a noble and powerful figure into a homicidal maniac.

> I’d say there s a strong possibility of the Flood returning. Between the likely chance of the Flood coming from outside the galaxy to the probably still Flood-infested installation 07, they will likely return soon.
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> Just like the Primordial said over 100,000 years ago, humanity will soon be judged for the Mantle.

This

> God I do hope so. It would be nice if 343i (assuming they bring the flood back in Halo 5/6) made the flood much more dark and fearsome than they were in the original 3 Halo titles.

I agree, although I liked the Flood, they always seemed very goofy to me, I hope they horrify them, make them much harder, make them terrifying, like they should be, as read on the books.

We haven’t been on a Halo ring for a while. The Flood weren’t just going to magically appear on Requiem.

In a version of the immortal words of spartans the have gone before:

the Flood are never killed, they’re simply temporarily missing in action

I sure hope so!

I really, really hope so.

They’re such a fun and unique enemy to fight.

Here’s hoping the Flood Juggernaut idea comes to fruition.

I hope they do. They are very interesting as a species, would be great to have them return. We could have more variants, promethean-flood conflict, could be very. very, interesting

I think the Infinity will go back to its original mission:

Finding the remaining Halo rings.

That way they’ll come across Installation 07, and the Flood will be brought back into the game.