The Flood in Star Wars (Flood vs SW Galaxy)

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I am fairly sure this has been discussed before, but not in-depth on this forum. So I’ll ask, what would happen if a Flood outbreak occurred in the Star Wars galaxy? Would they be able to contain the infection, or would they be consumed, etc. What would happen? Answer can be any era (Republics, Empire, etc.), and any scenario.

Example Scenarios:
1. A backwater spaceport planet in the Outer Rim. At a local bar, the shady patrons are interrupted by a loud noise in the sky. They look towards it and find themselves looking at a strange dark violet/blue sphere. As the sphere disappears, a strange bulbous purple ship materializes, unlike any kind they’ve seen before. Emanating from the ship is an ominous trail of brown clouds. As the CCS Battlecruiser, Indulgence of Conviction, crashes onto the surface, some of the populace begin trekking toward the ship for a closer look. They should have evacuated immediately, for the entire planet was already endangered of being lost.

2. On Coruscant, an excavation team stumbles across an old container of suspicious dust. The container is accidently dropped and breaks, exposing the workers to the dust. Although they don’t feel 100%, they shrug it off and continue as normal. Little did they know, the situation was far worse than anyone could imagine, as that night, they began to undergo a horrible transformation.

I think that the Flood has a large edge in this situation, especially if it’s a surprise attack, as the Flood spreads fast through unprepared and unaware civilians. Especially if they begin on Coruscant, as the planet is full of spaceports, trillions of potential hosts, and plenty of other diseases, slums, and lowlifes, mostly ignored by the rest of the population, which would perfectly mask the disease until it’s too late. Other things to keep in mind are how powerful the Gravemind would become if the Flood were to infect a Jedi/Sith. Most critically, in the SW universe, faster-than-light crafts are common, cheap, extremely widely-owned, simple, and much faster than slipspace. This gives the Flood incredible, quick access to anywhere else in the Galaxy.

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This has already been discussed in the Halo vs Star Wars thread here on waypoint and in other forums…and the answer is usually yes the Flood would win most of the time.

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Oh this is sad, just sad. If the flood gets access to a single spaceship, whcih they can get very easily, it’s all over for the entire galaxy. Seriously, the Librarian had estimated that in 300 years the Flood will overwhelm the Forerunner’s defences, and this is before Mendicant Bias showed up and made the last 5-10 years if the Forerunner Flood War hell for the Forerunners. 2/3rds of the galaxy left to fend for themselves, the Flood expanding at a geometric rate. Grave minds and Keyminds rivalling the intelligence of Contender Class A.Is (though the latter’s abilities are now put into question due to Escalation) and with the arrival of Key Minds the Flood can control Precursor artefacts.

The Forerunner Saga, specifically Silentium showed the true capabilities of the Flood. So in what way did you think this was a fair fight?

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> This has already been discussed in the Halo vs Star Wars thread here on waypoint and in other forums…and the answer is usually yes the Flood would win most of the time.

I find the scenario intriguing, so I made this thread for more in-depth discussion.

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> Oh this is sad, just sad. If the flood gets access to a single spaceship, whcih they can get very easily, it’s all over for the entire galaxy. Seriously, the Librarian had estimated that in 300 years the Flood will overwhelm the Forerunner’s defences, and this is before Mendicant Bias showed up and made the last 5-10 years if the Forerunner Flood War hell for the Forerunners. 2/3rds of the galaxy left to fend for themselves, the Flood expanding at a geometric rate. Grave minds and Keyminds rivalling the intelligence of Contender Class A.Is (though the latter’s abilities are now put into question due to Escalation) and with the arrival of Key Minds the Flood can control Precursor artefacts.
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> The Forerunner Saga, specifically Silentium showed the true capabilities of the Flood. So in what way did you think this was a fair fight?

It’s less of a versus thread, and more of a “how would this go down” question.

I’ll ask another question then, how can the galaxy win? Or how long does it take for the Flood to completely take over?

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Flood win easily. The Star Wars universe has no real defense against them. Jedi/Sith would get infected just the same as everyone else and the Death Star would at best only stall the Flood. Droids are the only thing that might be somewhat effective, but they have been shown to be not all that effective (they’ve lost to Gungans). Other than that the Star Wars universe doesn’t really have any kind of high end weapons or technologies that could help them. Flood just have to get one ship that can hit FTL and they have won.

Even the Forerunners, who were far more advanced than anyone or anything in the Star Wars universe were pretty much powerless to stop the Flood outside of Galaxy wide genocide.

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I don’t think so. Star Wars has its own disease which is a bit similar. Imperial Bioweapons Project 171A, a bioweapon that basically turnsspecies into intelligent zombies. If they can survive these(there is a ship full of them out there still in deep space), then I’m sure they could survive the Flood.

Edit: There is also the Brain Worm that was found on Geonosis during the Clone Wars, can’t forget those nasty things… but then again they were only fought on a very small scale compared to the Flood.

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> I don’t think so. Star Wars has its own disease which is a bit similar. Imperial Bioweapons Project 171A, a bioweapon that basically turnsspecies into intelligent zombies. If they can survive these(there is a ship full of them out there still in deep space), then I’m sure they could survive the Flood.
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> Edit: There is also the Brain Worm that was found on Geonosis during the Clone Wars, can’t forget those nasty things… but then again they were only fought on a very small scale compared to the Flood.

The ship full of the bioweapons is still out there? It would have been destroyed by either the new republic or first order I would have thought… anyway the flood would have a complete field day in the SW universe! They can easily take over tech like battle droids, vultures, etc. and dont get me started on ftl… if they get ONE planet completely infected thats a Keymind then they dont need ftl cuz Star Roads. They would destroy star wars entirely

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> > I don’t think so. Star Wars has its own disease which is a bit similar. Imperial Bioweapons Project 171A, a bioweapon that basically turnsspecies into intelligent zombies. If they can survive these(there is a ship full of them out there still in deep space), then I’m sure they could survive the Flood.
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> > Edit: There is also the Brain Worm that was found on Geonosis during the Clone Wars, can’t forget those nasty things… but then again they were only fought on a very small scale compared to the Flood.
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> The ship full of the bioweapons is still out there? It would have been destroyed by either the new republic or first order I would have thought… anyway the flood would have a complete field day in the SW universe! They can easily take over tech like battle droids, vultures, etc. and dont get me started on ftl… if they get ONE planet completely infected thats a Keymind then they dont need ftl cuz Star Roads. They would destroy star wars entirely

Don’t revive two year old threads pls, thx

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The flood would without a doubt destroy the SW universe. Without a weapon with the magnitude of the Halos, they would die.

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That’s when Death Stars became useful.

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> 2. On Coruscant, an excavation team stumbles across an old container of suspicious dust. The container is accidently dropped and breaks, exposing the workers to the dust. Although they don’t feel 100%, they shrug it off and continue as normal. Little did they know, the situation was far worse than anyone could imagine, as that night, they began to undergo a horrible transformation.

Then they’re screwed from preventing it from spreading.
Coruscant is the worst possible place for military operations. There’s close to no “ground” since it’s an ecumenopolis, the city goes way down inside the; there’s close to no place for ground vehicles to move; literal alleyways everywhere. It would be just a nightmare trying to go from a place to another, now try fighting.

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> > 2. On Coruscant, an excavation team stumbles across an old container of suspicious dust. The container is accidently dropped and breaks, exposing the workers to the dust. Although they don’t feel 100%, they shrug it off and continue as normal. Little did they know, the situation was far worse than anyone could imagine, as that night, they began to undergo a horrible transformation.
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> Then they’re screwed from preventing it from spreading.
> Coruscant is the worst possible place for military operations. There’s close to no “ground” since it’s an ecumenopolis, the city goes way down inside the; there’s close to no place for ground vehicles to move; literal alleyways everywhere. It would be just a nightmare trying to go from a place to another, now try fighting.

The Krytos Virus from the Legends EU showed that well enough.