The Flood isn't something you treat like cannon fodder, when it appears it needs to feel special - eldritch, monstrous, terrifying. I do think the Flood will figure into the series when the Reclaimer Saga has wrapped up, and frankly, the longer the wait the better. I'd rather 343i focus on refinine the villains they already have than adding a third faction. Adding the Flood to the mix would overcrowd it. There are already enough factions - the Covenant may be dead, but there are likely splinter factions who don't know that and the Prometheans, who still need to establish themselves as the new primary villain sandbox now that the Covenant is a bit player. I don't think we'll see them in Halo Infinite. It was on a deadline, and needed every resource at its disposal to stop the Halo Array. Then it realised that the real prize was out of the galaxy, and redirected its efforts to bending slipspace to jump directly to the Ark without ever entering Earth orbit. The Gravemind know there was something important on Earth, and sent that ship as a vanguard while it readied High Charity for a jump. Keep in mind that the Fleet of Retribution was quarantining the system, and that ship was the sole escapee, and was pursued with enough ships to make it irrelevant. Since the flood could take a cruiser to earth, couldn't they take a cruiser anywhere in the universe as well We also know the Flood inhabited other facilities, such as the Flood that infected the Threshold gas refinery we see in Halo 2, and that the entire external surface of the Shield World in Halo Wars was dominated by the Flood which, despite amassing a tremendous amount of biomass, weren't able to escape the Shield World. It's likely that the Flood still reside on other Halos, though we've seen little of Gamma Halo before it got taken through slipspace somewhere, Zeta Halo didn't seem to have any Flood or Monitor, and the other rings haven't been discovered yet. The Official Spartan Field Manual suggests that this has happened several times, but that knowledge of these events is restricted. There are dedicated Spartan units for Flood intervention, who have developed protocols for dealing with it - namely, enclosed armour like MJOLNIR or Cyclops suits, lots of flamethrowers, and if a Spartan has been infected bug out and nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. There are other facilities out in the galaxy where the Flood still survives. Whether this means they got all the Flood on it, or it the rebuilding also reconstituted samples for research, we don't know. We also know that afterward, the Elites glassed the surface of the ringworld, though it has since been reconstructed. The rest of the ring seemed fine until the Covenant and UNSC blundered in, at which point the Flood tried to leave on captured ships, and was foiled with the Elite and Brute fleets stopped their battle temporarily to unite and destroy anything trying to flee the surface and anything that had been captured. At best they've broken out of their storage facilities, and fought the Sentinels to a stalemate which in turn established a quarantine zone around the Library. We don't see the Flood infesting Delta Halo completely, though. In Halo 2 we see delta halo AND high charity completely infested with flood It's considered one of the most dangerous regions of space to travel, between the field of microdebris, hostile sentinels, big chunks of malfunctioning technology, and the possibility of Flood spores. What's left of Alpha Halo is under quarantine. Has there been any new material that has explained how the flood has fully been defeated? or do you think well see them again in Halo Infinite?Īfter Halo Nightfall we see that there are definitely parts of the original ring that could still support life and support the flood I understand that earth is safe since the Arbiter's forces had to glass half of Africa, and i understand that high charity was destroyed at the end of halo 3, but doesn't that mean that there is still flood on Delta Halo? and since the flood could take a cruiser to earth, couldn't they take a cruiser anywhere in the universe as well? But not only that, in Halo 3 we see the flood take a covenant cruiser to earth and infest the earth. In Halo 2 we see delta halo AND high charity completely infested with flood. But after Halo Nightfall we see that there are definitely parts of the original ring that could still support life and support the flood. We saw the flood in Halo CE, which presumably was wiped out after the Pillar of Autumn was destroyed. So Ive read all the books that have been released since 2015 and even after extensive googling i still don't see how the flood could of been fully "eliminated" at the end of halo 3.
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