Flood Containment Breach - Delta Halo - Lore and Theory 

“You’ve demonstrated complete disregard for even the most basic protocols” can apply to bad coworkers as well as Regret.

Binging with Babish's sequel. Gorging with Gravemind.

Installation 05: "CONTAINMENT FAILURE" 2401: "That is absolutely acceptable."

Librarian: "You have been chosen to safeguard one of the most important installations in the galaxy." Tangent: "Sorry, what? I wasn't listening."

For the record 0°K is absolute 0, the coldest temperature possible.

Legit, just before this video watched some Binging with Babish and the intro really got me

They really need to do a trilogy of ancient humanity’s war against the flood and the floods origins

Regarding your “two cents” of the pure forms escaping their pods, you likely mean Volume not Mass. Unless the Flood can somehow crate matter out of nothing, they likely displaced the fluid and built a pressure gradient by expanding their volume. Thanks for the video,l and your contribution to the Halo community!

2020: (screams and runs away) 2048: *Why are you running?*

I just finished a week of binging Babish, and with you starting that way, I thought I had a random tab open to said Babish. You glorious bastard.

The Cold Storage AI just needs to Chill Out.

The Delta Halo incident, particularly the Quarantine Zone, has a lot of continuity problems. 1. The Arbiter's phantom was able to fly right up to an unshielded ledge, and immediately encountered the Flood despite being outside the quarantine shield and before you deactivate it. Why has the infection only stopped here and not taken the ring already? 2. The Flood within the shield already have a battalion's worth of human/Covenant weaponry across the entire quarantine zone, apparently before you even drop the shield. I understand that Keyes and Johnson had a head start, but where did the Flood get wraiths if the Arbiter was the first one in? 3. The Flood have already amassed numerous fighting bodies, which only seem to be human and Covenant, and this is what the Sentinels have been struggling to contain for the last 100,000 years?

The site is experiencing multiple Keter and Euclid-class containment breaches, full site lockdown initiated.

The presence of a Gravemind on Installation 05 demonstrates the ring was inhabited by sentient beings at the moment of the containment breach. Who and what were these beings? Oh the narrative possibilities here are dizzying...

That binging with babish was fairly spot on 😂

What if the forerunners were keeping a full-on gravemind at Delta Halo?? It would be insane to do something like that, sure. A risk beyond measure. But then, so is keeping any flood specimen. Not to mention the 10 proto-graveminds on Installation 07. Imagine what a twist it would be to find out that the gravemind we encountered in halo 2 and 3 was there because the forerunners preserved it. That could also shed some light on how the containment breach happened, and how Penitent Tangent became so lax in its duties. I could see a gravemind, with all its intelligence and wit, easily figuring out how to break out of containment. Or, it could have simply infected Tangent with the logic plague. If it was given a way to communicate, on purpose or on accident, and infect the monitor, that would go a long way in explaining why it just kind of ignored maintenance requests, and went MIA. We see it in the grasp of the gravemind in Halo 2, so we know that happened at some point. But perhaps it happened before the outbreak even started? Imagine the gravemind infecting it, then convincing it to let the individual flood forms break free, and ignore all communications when they came. Or heck, it might have just trapped Tangent in the room with it and not even let it know that communications were coming in. That would help explain the whole sequence of events that have been so mysterious up until this point, and I think it would be an awesome twist to find out that the forerunners' belief in the Mantle was so strict that they even preserved a gravemind!

Unknown alien "wonder what this button does" Flood sound track intensifies

By the time of the 1st log made-of that 1st breach, if I understood you correctly after my initial review, the shielded Lifeworkers and the Isodidact were finished their re-seeding work and had already vacated the galaxy decades before this breach. Also if I understood correctly, the breach occurred from inside out. The flood forms had to have remained viable for 278 + years COUNTING, the century or so the re-seeding required. That can only mean that sentient flood-food had been stored INSIDE the facility WITH the viable forms - to keep the study forms viable- for indefinite periods. If that is true then the Forerunners PLANNED... for them to stay viable until Reclaimers (or Meddlers), arrived. Why? So the Reclaimers could resume the Life Shaper’s work on The Flood?!?!! Okay I am sleeping with lights on from now on....🥺

I was half expecting him when reading "complaint sent to Installation 00" for him to say "complaint sent to yours truly"

Just an interesting thought: The forerunners had access to a crystal that could not only effect slipspace, and space in general, but also time, which modern humanity found in Reach. Mayhap the crystal isn't of forerunner design, but rather, Precursor in origin? And if so, is it possible that, using such "technology", the reemergence of the Flood was inevitable? That the "interlopers" who, somehow, broke through a forerunner teleport field set to recursive mode, were only able to do so, because the Precursors set it up that way?

That opening actually caught me off guard, I thought my video suddenly switched to Babbish because I wasn't looking. The voice was really convincing

Installation00 is a B.W.B. alt confirmed.

Okay, that's interesting The fact that the flood escaped like that is interesting, and my theory on why there was a blackout is that some species of meddlers wound up providing the biomass for a gravemind while not allowing the flood to escape the ring! And caused the blackout so that the flood couldn't lure people in Also, have you done that video on prosthesis? I'd really enjoy that!

I think the recent access to the teleporters by "unauthorized parties" is merely to explain what a bunch of red and blue soldiers are doing in this room, with no way in or out, just standing around talking.

I still have this theory 2401 Penadent Tangent was infected with the logic plague during his time on the ring. The Food are very clever. So I'm sure they found a way. Or the builders could have this to happen on purpose as an Experiment, like Vault-Tec did with the Vaults in Fallout.

Sacred Icon and Quarantine Zone are my favourite Halo 2 missions. The atmosphere is amazing.

Seems like we just need to master slipspace now before 2048, get a team to Delta Halo, and prevent the breach before the Gravemind forms.

That's what I love about the Halo Mythology; so many mysteries yet to be solved and speculated on. You can see how there is a ton of material to keep interesting stories going. It is and has evolved over time.

I thought the gravemind is in delta halo's og control room and the control room the arbiter got sent to by the gravemind is a backup installation along the ring, either that or the gravemind is so massive it almost got through the library and collecting the index for itself and controlling a halo, further preventing other beings stopping the Flood from assimilating the universe.

I like how their systems report a containment breach at 24 hours, and then the next reminder is set like 280 years in the future. Lol. Not that the first alert would go away or anything. You'd just think it'd try to make a little more noise for something that could end all life

I want a follow up vid. This topic caught my interest. The intriguing part is the unknown parties, possibly unknown technological advanced species or something else entirely that caused the containment breach

The sentinels didn't have enough toilet paper, obviously.

Wash your hands guys you dont want the logic plague

Penitent tangent: " OH NO! Annnnnnnnnyways. C

I have a theory: Bungie and 343i are secret ONI time travelers and make these games to warn of the future...…. OOOOOOOOoooooOOoOOOO

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Last time I was this early the primordial was still in the timelock!

Yo, keep up the good work my guy. Quality content as always

Nice video. Wondering which species was sneaking around the installation? Could it have been the last visit to the galaxy by survivor Forerunners responding to request from Penitent Tangent? Like one little squad returning but never leaving because of the Flood? Maybe not. Besides that being fairly unlikely anyway, as much as I like the idea, I think the Flood getting enough intelligent biomass to produce a Gravemind, might have required something a little more substantial numerically speaking? When I said a squad of Forerunners returning, I did envisage literally like a special forces squad of just four individuals or so. Even if these were sent, which would be a bit far-fetched at that point, considering it seems virtually all if not entirely all the last Warrior-servants besides the Didact himself, perished at the end of the Forerunner-Flood War. 4 Forerunners would be very juicy prospects for the feral Flood to get their outgrowths on, but you'd think they'd need a bit more biomass than that within the containment area. If the Flood burst out and surprised a small party/squad of investigating Forerunners, maybe they'd have enough biomass from non-intelligent animals and plants inside the containment area after ''acquiring'' the Forerunner squad? It is still a bit of a stretch. Like, a lone squad of Forerunners zipping back into the Milky Way from out of exile, just to check up on that particular installation. It does sound for all the world as though a different, less advanced spacefaring species as yet unexplained, discovered the installation, but were overwhelmed by the feral Flood outbreak which then allowed them to gain a Gravemind with their collective biomass? Obviously they'd need starships to get to the installation, so it does beg the question, what the hell happened and why also didn't the Flood try and get their starship? Maybe they did. There are a lot of story line possibilities from this mystery. I'd like to imagine that a space-faring civilisation possibility even weaker than the UNSC would become millennia later, happened on the installation, and sent an expeditionary force onto the HALO. Exactly how many individual beings they'd send, and how long they'd stay, before being wiped out in the containment zone by the Flood, is unclear. You'd think the Forerunner sentinels might have something to say about a force of aliens landing without permission on the installation, and the sheer number of them would surely defeat a more primitive incursion of generic aliens coming in to have a nosy at what they can take or reverse engineer? Maybe they sent 1 ship and crew went down, sort of like (under very different circumstances) how the survivors of the UNSC _Pillar of Autumn_ went around Installation 04. Maybe that is why the Flood couldn't use their starship because it never came down (not having enemies like the Covenant to deal with, in that time) but dropped a scouting party off while passing? Maybe the civilisation that sent them itself got wiped out by civil war or fighting someone else in between times and so never followed up what happened to the group sent to the installation? Or perhaps it was just a rogue group of bandits using their own dropships to land on the installation after finding it themselves, and meeting their fate with the Flood (also explaining why whichever species they belonged to, wouldn't follow up what happened to them because, they were pirates/bandits/insurrectionists from that species?) Perhaps they were the unknown species equivalent of human insurrectionists pre-Human Covenant War, so were neither looked for or missed? It would sort of make sense for this sort of thing to happen. Just look at Ancient Egyptian pyramids, and how tomb robbers and randomers went in and stole things from them for literally centuries and even millennia for some of the older ones (and yes, that does include stealing the building stones themselves) In England, Stonehenge stood largely intact for millennia (though, deteriorating, in some disrepair) until the Medieval Period when local farmers used some of the (smaller) stones for their own buildings. It wasn't that those Medieval farmers had anything particularly against Stonehenge or what it represented (indeed, they wouldn't have even known what it exactly was, as Stonehenge itself had been abandoned as a place of Bronze Age ritual worship long before Medieval times, with the site being actively developed and used along with the rest of the ritual landscape, though abandoned for various reasons all the same) It still held significance and was clearly something special, but nobody knew what. Peoples, cultures and customs evolve, or are displaced. The people that built the first version of Stonehenge (it was a wooden henge at that time, not to be confused with Woodhenge specifically, though) were subtly different to those that developed the site for generations. Medieval people picking at the apparent ruins, to use in their own walls and enclosures, so far removed in time from those that made them in the first place, with no means to properly understand them or their provenance and importance to Archaeology (with no such subject even existing back then as we know it; though a hint of Antiquarianism had begun to form a couple of centuries later by the end of the Renaissance), is somewhat forgivable. It is a shame that happened, but that is how these things go. Chinese herbal remedies have been grinding up precious dinosaur bones and teeth (calling them _dragons_ bones and teeth) for about, say, the last 5,000 plus years at least; cue apoplectic rage from a Palaeontogist -.- real talk though it's tragic and still goes on (because Chinese ''traditional remedies'' purport and pretend to be "superior" to Western i.e. European and American Medicine due to such ignorance and superstition) Countless dinosaur fossils would have been (and still are being) sacrilegiously destroyed in this manner. Apparently it improves virility and acts as an aphrodisiac (ahem bullshit) Mammoth carcasses nearly perfectly preserved by the metres thick permafrost in Siberia, were commonly burnt on log fires when found by locals, whom superstitiously claimed that ''Mammut'' (''Earth Moles'' - that is one big and weird looking subterranean animal with suspiciously big weight bearing legs, right? -.-) were "bad omens" and "evil spirits". So they destroyed them on sight - whenever the Summer weather and/or increased precipitation would reveal new ones being eroded out of the simultaneously thawing permafrost along their riverbanks (usually, though riverbanks weren't always the location for these things being unearthed) Things improved as the world has developed more in many countries, though who knows how many priceless frozen Mammoth carcasses were destroyed over the centuries for such superstitions. Which leads me onto the third concept for the mystery species that may or may not have visited the HALO installation; could they have innocently enough, been astroarchaeologists and astrobiologists of their species, looking into the installation they happened on? Maybe it was just a chance find, just their group. And then they all went missing and were never seen again? Could make for some cool stories about the time after the HALOs fired and the time post-Forerunner Flood War. So the three main concepts: military expedition gone wrong; pirate/bandit incursion gone wrong; astroarchaeology mission gone wrong. I also like the idea of the Forerunner Sentinels clocking the unknown species as a threat and eventually keeping any others out, aggressively. Would make sense if a group of them were wiped out before the Sentinel's optics during containment. P.S - I also think that Penitent Tangent may have started to go insane, in a more advanced version of what happened to Guilty Spark? Could be something like that. I don't think it was negligence so much as it was...being left in isolation for thousands of years and not being as well-suited to coping with it as Guilty Spark was? (whom also went a bit doolally after a while anyway; though he spent thousands of years coping and spending time doing stuff to not be so bored) It would be like getting stuck in an individual Minecraft world for 100,000 years. Can't blame them for going a bit crazy. I don't think the Forerunners appreciated the implications of what such a timespan meant for them (though even if they did, at that point in the Forerunner-Flood War, they couldn't really do much about it anyway - that said, why they couldn't have paired up monitors or something to give them at least one friend I don't know)

I would love a further dive into this, so interesting

I have been waiting too long for this

This is exactly what ive been looking for. Hopefully this answers all my questions.

Great content my guy

Love your videos as always, Installation 00! May I suggest you do Breakdown Videos of Forerunner Vessels, such as: SoJourner-class DreadNought, The DIDACT's Flagship - The Mantle's Approach and Fortress-class Vessels (from the books)? Thank you very much.

What I’m still questioning is why in the hell did the forerunners decide to save some flood in the first place. The whole purpose of the Halo array is to kill the flood, so why the hell would they save some, also if they could keep creatures alive and safe from the halo rings why didn’t the forerunners put some of their own people in these safe places

"I am 2401 Penitent Tangent, the Monitor of s****ness" 13:35 And Brexit also happened in the Halo universe...

Love your content please keep it up and find peace in the domain.

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Maybe 2401 was captured by the Meddlars and they had a huge presence in the Quarantine Zone, so thats why the Cold Storage AI's messages never went through to him and how the Gravemind got enough bimass to develop.

Liked this one a lot have always been curious on how the flood escaped that Installation

I love your videos especially the armoury

Well done Babish. 🤣

I wonder what had happened to 2401 Penitent Tangent which ultimately cause him to malfunction so catastrophically? Logic Plague?

I love binging with Installation 00.

I love that the Phantom we see in H2:A's version of Sacred Icon's cutscene is flying in backwards

The Flood, I love The Flood.

You can't just pull mass out of nowhere, if the fld can magically generate free mass, then they wouldn't even need to consume biomass to grow. Even if they absorbed the fluid in the tank to grow, they can't get any bigger than the contents of the tank already are.

Master-chief about to tiny whisk the flood until it roughly doubles in size.

My biggest question is why was the maintenance requests ignored

In 2037 Elon Musk's car fell into slip like a comet. A few years later it emerged near the halo at which point I gradually fell from orbit. Boom! Breach explained!

Anybody else think an installation 00 and Binging with Babish is a colab over we need?

You gave me a little thought when you mentioned that the infectious diseases pale in comparison to the flood. Is there any information anywhere about people with cancer being infected by the flood?

I always thought the gravemind resided in the halo's control room, someone told me that's why the halo had to be activated in that weird place at the end of halo 2

The year 2334 is actually really close to where humanity in the halo universe started to colonize other planets and Slipspace drives were still new by that time. Is it possible that a miscalculation caused a colony ship to jump to Delta Halo and the sentinels let it land just like the Pillar of Autumn did? It would also explain how Cold Storage was accessed. In Ghosts of Oynx we know sentinels generally don’t know much about reclaimers and with lack of intelligence they probably let these humans into the facility thinking they could help somehow. It would also explain why there’s so many human combat forms during those flood missions. In Amber Clad didn’t have thousands of marines on board and the ship wasn’t infected until after the events of Quarantine Zone. But we know these colony ships can transport something like 10,000 people on them. Most of which would have likely been marines or something. Please help me out. I think I’m on to something.

I'm betting there is another species at play in the halo universe. Obviously there's humanity and the covenant species, but then what was with that mysterious ship that crashed on installation 04? It didn't look like either human or covenant. And then there are the beings that breached containment on installation 05, which definitely wasn't too recent given the fact that it had both enough time and enough biomass to form a gravemind

i like how i decided to watch this on the day it was posted lol

2401 Penitent Tangent is basically a really bad manager who was just chosen to be in a managing position because of his high status and he fails at doing anything correctly while his subordinates are actually competent and actually try to do their jobs

Well, we just have to wait and see. . . Meanwhile, stay in your Quarantine Zones, ok?

Love the babish references

@Installation00 I don't know if you've opened up the terminal in Halo CE Anniversary edition and whether or not that's canon or not BUT there is a cutscene there that shows the Covenant most likely breached the containment on Delta Halo because the Oracle was telling them to stop before they unleashed the flood to which it actually shows images of the Covenant Elites succumbing to the flood. The cutscene if you want to find it is during the mission to save Captain Keyes from the covenant when he's captured. > The red screen in the command room. Also, I know, old video.

Lol your Babish impression/American accent is really good

Having a Binging with Babish channel crossover would be the most strange and amazing mix

The forerunners should have used discord, the monitors would have communicated far better that way.

It's a shame there's no mention of any futuristic food in halo for Babish to recreate. I'd love to see a collab.

This is the weirdest pasta tutorial I’ve ever watched

It would appear to me that millennia of isolation causes the monitors ai to malfunction. 343 got so bored he would eject entire sections of the ring into space just to watch what happens. I wonder if 2401 released a flood spore intentionally.

When there was a mention of Covid... All I could picture was a bunch of flood forms wearing face masks....

Is there anything in the covenant lore, that possibly shed light on this? I mean they have been roaming around space a little longer than humans.

Gotta ask, is it ever explained why the Halo array was so poorly staffed? Only one major AI per ring with no backup, no second opinion, no middle level AIs with system and weapon access, nor anything but the Sentinels and these basic 'observer' AIs that don't seem capable of doing anything but filing reports. In Halo wars 2 the Dr ejects a part of the ring surface to destroy a legion of Banished. Where are the security AI that can do that without needing a Monitor's oversight in the event of a Flood infection? For a weapon system so crucial and powerful the Forerunners surely would have installed multiple backups to ensure nothing would go wrong. Not to mention that besides the rings' main weapons there are no real larger weapons ever seen or mentioned. There are the Sentinels, but they are fairly underpowered, unintelligent, and task specific. Where are the anti-ship weapons to pr a ring if needed? Or at least some nuclear weapons to sterilize infected areas? Actually, why have flood stored on the rings at all? I get that the rings are meant to destroy flood and their food, but a nuke can take out an infection in its early stages. And putting the flood on your superweapon is just giving them easy access to it, where conceavibly they could infect it and eventually destroy the main weapon system of a Halo Ring. Just, give your superweapon more oversight than just one person, and put your samples of a galaxy destroying infection some else. Like, isolated stations that will explode or immediately fall into a star if anything goes wrong. And never expect anything to work forever. 90-something thousand years is a lot, and beats my last phone, but when Flood containment fails it will spread very quickly.

1:41 y'all ever notice the phantom is flying backward. the animation team fucked up and actually made the scene wrong, so they had to play it in reverse and hope no one would notice the error.

I mean the flood form in the tank shouldn’t gain in mass but in volume which would also increase the pressure there.

The flood from outside the galaxy came broke in having a hive mind and knowing how to get through the security system and then that explains how they were able to build a grave mind

With the tank, if it shrank to a sufficiently minute size, it could displace it enough to IMPLODE, having much the same effect. Thoughts?

It's possible the delta halo was inhabited by a species weve yet to see, or a group from the covenant or humans discovered it, but never reported back before they were overtaken. That implies that there should be ships and vehicles left behind. My guess is plot holes like that are just forgotten details by the devs that either were never thought about or had no time to be added. Considering Halo 2's very short development cycle, I wouldn't be surprised either or both of those are true.

Binging with babish plug.... nice

I have a theory on who the meddlers are: maybe the meddlers are part of the assembly. This would explain why the ship that crashed on alpha halo had no life signs inside and why the meddlers were able to get into the cold storage facility

2401 penitent tangent sucked at containment mystery solved

Is it just me or have we all just been watching Binging with Babish under lockdown too

Okay but what did the flood infect and who were the parties to access the installation systems? Like they would have to be considerable parties in order to even form a gravemind.

my brains hurting

Lol nice babish impression

The gravemind is the final form of pickle rick . Change my fucking mind.

Just putting this here cuz it bugs me, and sorry if you got 10-30 comments that point it out. 08:24 and you say mass, however mass show the density of an object, Volume on the other hand shows arial size and it can be increased without adding material to the object So this is a long explenation to say, you ment volume. Good vid

Could the "unauthorized parties" have been the precursors?

Hey Instillation 00 how is the research coming on atriox and his enrollment in the covenant and banish

Would you be willing to make a video on Sins of the Prophets? It's a Halo reskin mod for the rts sins of a solar empire.

Didn't you make a vid about this like a month ago?

I know the rings have plant and some animal life but not much in the quarantine zone, I never got how they managed to form a gravemind with the little biomass available.

Holy sh*t that make sense now why in Halo 2, alot of structures looking they haven't been cleaned or maintain after a few centuries becuase of 2401 capture compare to the other games. Why didn't I think of that?!

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