I don’t understand why the forerunners would keep the flood on the rings? And I don’t know how they kept them alive aswell? I know they probably wanted to study them but I thought the forerunners would be wise enough to not keep flood spores in case of if they broke out and infected the whole galaxy again? And what I don’t understand is how they kept these flood alive? If the flood was still alive on the rings wouldn’t that mean the rings didn’t work properly and the flood didn’t completely go away?
I don’t know but I’m interested to hear theories about this
For the same reason we still have the most deadliest of diseases locked up, because we know eventually we going to do need a cure, so we study it and find a way to get rid of it.
I doubt organisms on the Rings are killed by their activation. They were being used as preserves to protect specimens and the whole idea would be dumb if the Rings just killed everyone on it. It also wouldn’t make sense to activate the array from a Ring if it just ends up killing you. It would be logical to assume organisms on the Ring are protected from the affects of the array. As for why the kept Flood in containment, they were trying to find a cure.
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> I doubt organisms on the Rings are killed by their activation. They were being used as preserves to protect specimens and the whole idea would be dumb if the Rings just killed everyone on it. It also wouldn’t make sense to activate the array from a Ring if it just ends up killing you. It would be logical to assume organisms on the Ring are protected from the affects of the array. As for why the kept Flood in containment, they were trying to find a cure.
Yeah I found out things on the ring do survive but what was the flood eating to survive on the ring if they were locked in containment?
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> Yeah I found out things on the ring do survive but what was the flood eating to survive on the ring if they were locked in containment?
Nothing. They were kept in stasis.
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Does that mean they were like put to sleep and dormant
The flood was kept for research purposes. So that maybe one day there will be a cure of some sort. Or even to just see why they do what they do.
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No, it means they went to a 5 star resort.
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> I don’t understand why the forerunners would keep the flood on the rings? And I don’t know how they kept them alive aswell? I know they probably wanted to study them but I thought the forerunners would be wise enough to not keep flood spores in case of if they broke out and infected the whole galaxy again? And what I don’t understand is how they kept these flood alive? If the flood was still alive on the rings wouldn’t that mean the rings didn’t work properly and the flood didn’t completely go away?
> I don’t know but I’m interested to hear theories about this
Technically Flood is not alive. It’s not a living species. It’s a parasite but not the kind of bug parasite but more like a virus or sickness. You can google parasite and you’ll see what i mean. The Halo rings were never designed to kill and destroy the Flood, it was designed to kill every living thing existing in the whole galaxy to starve Flood. Flood starving would devolve it and it succeeded in doing so but only because it managed to devolved it, it doesn’t really remove it. Flood still exist after the Halos were done so what the Forerunners did was to store them in Installations called “Fortress worlds” built and designed to contain Flood for studying for a potential cure against Flood.
Like i mentioned Flood is not alive and it doesn’t really decay either so that’s why Flood was able to i guess “not die” even though it’s not alive during those 100k+ years of studying and like the above mentions, they were also put in stasis which basically puts anything into an inactive state. Not like cryo sleep though. I believe stasis do prevent physical changes but i may be wrong. One or more Flood infection forms became weak after being studied and experimented on so much for 100k+ years but other than that they were all fine during those years.
I guess i should also mention that the effects from the Halos firing does not affect anything on the actual Halo rings (Installations). Confirmed by the events from the third Forerunner trilogy book. The remaining Forerunners and Ancient Humans survived the activation of the Halo rings by being on the Lesser Ark (Installation 00). Just to mention it.