The Flood COMPLETE History (+100,000 Years of Terror)

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The Flood of the Halo video game series is one of the most frightening foes in sci-fi. Learn their ancient origins, connection to the Precursors, Forerunners, ancient Human empire, and their history. From Halo arrays, Shield Worlds, the Didact and Librarian, and their return in the Halo games, novels, and books.
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@Burning-Twilight 4 года назад

The Flood are truly terrifying because of how they can take away an enemies greatest champions. And then use all of their talents against their former allies. Worst every single individual they consume/infect all of their knowledge is forever stored within the Gravemind. Making it possibly the most intelligent and wisest creatures in Halo.

@Dr.Pootis 4 года назад

Not to mention the fact that each gravemind also possesses the knowledge of it's previous iterations, basically making it come back smarter every time

@markmulder9845 4 года назад

@@Dr.Pootis and that the only way to truly defeat the flood is to wipe out all existence of them down to the last molecule. If even one spore survives, the flood retains all its knowledge.

@vinny5638 4 года назад

@@Dr.Pootis This has so many existential implications, it means that eventually /all/ of creation will be the Floods domain. This isn't your regular enemy, like a singular foe working as a cog in a greater machine. This is a force of nature, the Flood is the inevitability of death given sentience. The consequences of mortality are such that it can never be stopped, and it very well knows this. The gravemind references this fact, "defeat is only the addition of time to a sentence i never deserved. I ebb and flow like water, through rock and metal and time." (roughly paraphrased) The Flood is a ceaseless tidal wave of flesh, with a singular timeless goal of absolute conquest.

@yeetwchybaban 4 года назад

@@vinny5638 hmm

@jacrispy6771 4 года назад

Who knew such a powerful creature is played by a pug, epic

@SpeakChinglish 3 года назад

When I played Halo as a kid, the first few missions I was like "oh cool, fighting with Aliens with fancy weapons in space". Then the flood level I shat myself 😂

@MrJoshcc600 2 года назад

My siblings and I were legit scared of that level

@Emper0rH0rde Год назад

I'm 34 years old, and the level '343 Guilty Spark' still scares me.

@Haillightmode Год назад

Same

@mayukhashamyunayudu4362 Год назад

Guilty spark 343. The creeps really set in when most of the grunts would run past me instead of away from me and most of the level just went silent. No gun fights. Nothing. Elite jump scares did nothing to me, but the silence definitely gave me the shitz

@Vergil_Sparda_1976 Год назад

Same, me and my dad when we see the flood in 343 guilty spark he was disturbed and me was terrorized

@latrodectusmactans7592 3 года назад

Halo rings: * Destroy all organisms with nervous systems * Sponges: “It’s free real estate.”

@K.Pershing 3 года назад

Star fish and tardigrades: phatetic

@captpopper7219 3 года назад

Spongebob is the hero to this story

@clxwncrxwn 3 года назад

Jellyfish: don’t forget me bro! I may not have a brain but we’re alive!

@foofgam220 3 года назад

The flood can’t consume sponges. They don’t have nervous systems.

@allbottledup9513 3 года назад

@@foofgam220 Please tell me this is sarcasm.

@galbert117 4 года назад

Just imagine if the Forerunners hadn't attacked Ancient Humanity and instead found out what they were running from.

@shadowsonicsilver6 4 года назад

DrakeMarvell I mean didn’t they do both?

@thecrunchbite4122 4 года назад

Dango Bangal only after a devastating war, which weakened the forerunners before they encountered the flood

@galbert117 4 года назад

@@shadowsonicsilver6 they had attacked Ancient Humanity, thinking they were invading, only to later find out that they had been running from the Flood. By then they had been weakened enough for their stupidity to take hold and allowed the Flood to spread too rapidly for them to contain.

@afrothundergaming3498 4 года назад

@@galbert117 it's not even that they didn't know. It was told in one of the books (I forget) that the forerunners knew of the parasite but didn't consider it a threat (the parallels between Halo and today are astonishing man). The Forerunners and Ancient Humans had a deep rivalry and resentment of each other so when it looked like they were invading, the Forerunners had the "we're defending ourselves against their onslaught" to justify their war. When the Forerunners did find out about the parasite they bunched it with Humans as another sub conflict with fighting humans. "... And now you bring this sickness on our shores." Ur-Didact, Forerunner Supreme Commander. The only time they realized the flood was a potent foe was near the end of the war when the humans were practically facing extinction. They didn't care about the reasons the humans were invading, just that they were invading. It's comparable to when the Mongols invaded the Roman Empire. Iirc the humans tried to send diplomats, but that was far too late during the beginning of the war. The Humans were assholes, but not arrogant. It's also the fact that during the "pre-war" the flood managed to infect faster than the humans to catch up as seen in one of the terminals "... Is it possible we finally got here first?" The humans knew of the Floods imminent and potent danger so they took no risks and sterilized each infected world/ship. Tldr; Basically Humans looked like bad guys and Forerunners were obnoxious assholes fed up with humanity.

@adriancaruso5546 4 года назад

Roll credits

@trevelyandovah8479 4 года назад

What's horrifying, is that the Flood never revert. Once they have learned something, it's there forever because of neural physics. Every Gravemind is the same intelligence.

@thatrandomeliteultra1158 4 года назад

Except two graveminds of different times are never the same in intelligents, the latter is smarter

@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068 4 года назад

@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 no there the same being and gave the same intelligence the gravemind that destroyed the forerunners is the same one that you see in halo 2 and 3

@thatrandomeliteultra1158 4 года назад

@@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068 the one in two and three is smarter because it has more knowledge then the forunner era because it has knowledge that wasn't accessible at the time.

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

@@admiralshadowofasunderedst3068 In Halo 2 and 3, I had more knowledge due to me being in a further point in time, and had infected more.

@uditsingh4926 4 года назад

@@thatrandomeliteultra1158 what he means to say is that all the graveminds throughout the history of halo universe are the same being, one mind - just spread over different timelines and in different forms

@tatepalmer1997 2 года назад

I’ve always preferred the original lore of the flood being an unknown extragalactic parasite from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The mystery added to the terror of the flood, making it seem like it could have devoured countless other galaxies before it came to our own.

@martinnavarrete5279 2 года назад

Well in the books the dust came from outside the milky way and as we know the precursors had seed with life many galaxies before ours, and my personal teory is that the ships that contained the dust weren't of precursor oringin, because the humans did not recognize them even considering the humans were familiar with precursor tech, is probable they consumed other civilization in other place to make their return to the milky way

@martinnavarrete5279 2 года назад

And also when the flood retreated it is mention they went outside the milky way and hundreds of years later when they returned to consume the forerrunners, the flood was diferent, like it evolved, so maybe in that time the flood was spreading in other galaxies, besides is most probable the flood ensure to keep a part of his forces outside the milky way knowing the treat of the rings

@Cybernaut551 Год назад

I agree 100%

@escapetherace1943 Год назад

@@martinnavarrete5279 bro precursors weren't even a thing in the expanded now 'canon' lore, and Humans WERE the Forerunners until somebody got too creative at re-creating the lore they had going for them. Halo 4 and beyond is fantasy garbage anyway that isn't Halo, no matter what who owns the series says. Halo ended at 3 with Bungie.

@benjscar1540 Год назад

It is horribly uninteresting to have the Flood just be the Precursers: I agree completely

@dabuff1319 4 года назад

These guys were so op that they made the religious cult of genocidal aliens team up with their sworn enemies that's impressive.

@shereehi5539 3 года назад

Lmao yes

@babyyeti2540 3 года назад

Only one race though, and to be fair, they were already in the process of being ousted from their position within the covenant when they decided to help the humans.

@ItzMeWill 3 года назад

In the first Halo game. During the mission when you first encounter the flood. You can see the dead bodies of humans and covenant on top of a pillar together surrounded by their weapons. Implying that they were so scared that they put their differences aside and teamed up to fight the flood together

@TheRealSlimShady509 3 года назад

@@ItzMeWill i think the lore says that the covenant established that place as a base unknowing that flood were being contained there. The marines stumbled across it shortly after and thus were killed in the same location. But you may be right

@ItzMeWill 3 года назад

@@TheRealSlimShady509 im not the only one that thinks this....if you look up the video "examining Halos scariest mission" you'll see what I'm talking about...the video goes over the details of that level. You might find stuff about that level that you might have overlooked the first time you played it..like if you go into the level and turn back around and go back outside. You'll find the dead bodies of soldiers at the entrance that just appears out of nowhere. Its like they tried to follow you inside the structure but got killed before they got into the place..you should watch it. It's very interesting

@CourtlySeaDog 3 года назад

in a way, the flood did attempt to achieve the original goals of the precursors, which was uniting all life, albeit into one giant mass of gunk

@ATIMEFORJUDGEMENT23 10 месяцев назад

😂

@NelsenGChess 2 месяца назад

indeed. complete assimilation does uphold the mantel but at the cost of free will. this is how the precursors punished the forerunners and all sentient life subsequently

@codylujan 4 года назад

The moment when you realize Halo lore is just as expansive as Star Wars.

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

@Hey bud Hmm I agree but I'd beat the shit outta that universe

@Prince-to5cf 4 года назад

Star Wars may have more lore but it is the sci fi version of McDonalds. Star Wars easily has the most dumb shit in it as far as sci fi is concerned.

@johnwhite4070 4 года назад

@@Prince-to5cf how ? I'm just curious

@Prince-to5cf 4 года назад

@@johnwhite4070 Star Wars is super accessible and easy to enjoy (Much like McDonalds or any other fast food joint). SW also is a very simple universe. All the planets are basically Earth just slightly different (same gravity, same weather, just geographical differences). Every alien is basically a human with a mask on (Rodians, Duros, etc.) or different skin colors (Twileks, Chiss, etc.) Ik that Star Wars isn't alone on this but I'm still counting it against the franchise. Lastly, the stories are incredibly simple for the most part (Some outliers here and there). Most stories basically are just good vs evil which is generic. The villains do evil shit just for the sake of being bad (no one wakes up and says lets do evil deeds). Most villains might as well have a flashing neon sign that says "I'm a bad guy" (Maul, Palpatine, Malgus etc.). Basically it follows the trope of good looking good guys versus the ugly looking bad dudes.

@mattpryokra2245 4 года назад

Hey bud Hmm Dune: “Where’s my fucking love m8?”

@garyt601 4 года назад

Note to self: Don't feed space pixie dust to dogs.

@TheVirtualObserver 3 года назад

🤣🤣

@TheRealUNGOC 3 года назад

wtf

@Kpoliti.s 3 года назад

@@TheRealUNGOC 10:34

@lonely_ghost9857 3 года назад

Ehhhh no thx...

@jmurakami_346 3 года назад

Or feed a Mogwai after midnight

@Kilo_Twenty 4 года назад

What terrifies me the most about the flood, and what in my opinion makes them the most menacing yet tragic adversaries to ever be conceived of in Scifi, is the fact that they are a perversion of the very beings that created life as we know it. Imagine that. Imagine how magnificent the Precursors must have been. Neural-Physics, inter-dimensional travel, concepts that have grounds in real life that we can't even begin to grasp. Beings far beyond our comprehension only to be pushed to near extinction by their own creations, and to return as a corrupted and twisted version of what they used to be. Set on consuming and assimilating everything they were responsible for creating in the first place into one singular being. That to me is true horror.

@ensignmjs7058 3 года назад

I never realized the Halo universe backstory was so intricate.

@geordiejones5618 Год назад

Back when Bungie actually gave a shit

@Danilio. 8 месяцев назад

@@geordiejones5618 Exactly

@gunnergunnarsson3534 7 месяцев назад

Actually, the lore after Bungie was superb as well. But they didn’t translate that material well into the game

@rgnk.l1173 6 месяцев назад

There is so much lore to explore in Halo it’s not even funny

@Danilio. 6 месяцев назад

@@rgnk.l1173 For real. The Halo franchise is so vast that it actually inspired me to start writing my own books that I wish to publish in the future.

@chrisrios435 4 года назад

When I was young (halo1) I would call them the “popcorn shrimps” Edit: almost 1k likes! never received this much, here’s to our childhood memories!

@EXLIFEGUARD 4 года назад

same haha

@africancouscous 4 года назад

I called them green balloons

@daniellejarvis9131 4 года назад

@@africancouscous they are

@africancouscous 4 года назад

Danielle Jarvis bruh

@karsultimategold8560 4 года назад

@oatlord 3 года назад

"Bring me the beloved dog pet. I need to test this strange substance."

@josephtheginger2907 4 года назад

Ahh the reason I almost broke a window playing halo 3

@BlackCowboy0 4 года назад

Josilar. Same but a wall with a sledgehammer

@jvhunko 4 года назад

Same but i tor my tv off my wall and out the window and on a dumbass below

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

You're welcome

@saren7283 4 года назад

Damn, with how nerfed and bad their AI was in Halo 3 you must have had a hayday with the flood from Halo 1-2

@fimman532 4 года назад

@@saren7283 "Stay the fuck down you bastards" -Me

@ArtificialDragon 4 года назад

Ahh the greatest ancient evil of all of sci-fi, the Flood. They r the ultimate evil and when they return to the halo franchise, I will be looking forward to fighting them again.

@xxvaltielxx1789 4 года назад

* *_laughs in Cthulhu_* *

@jacobweatherford4696 4 года назад

@@xxvaltielxx1789 ikr the flood are far from the greatest i can name something far far worse and then yeah there is the mighty cthulu.

@Darkestestmatter 4 года назад

The Tyranids have already consumed at least one galaxy, if not more, and are now looking for a Milky Way snack. The Flood are formidable, but the Tyranids are unstoppable. ;)

@jacobweatherford4696 4 года назад

@@Darkestestmatter I wouldnt say the tyranids are unstoppable remember the ultra marines and blood ravens took down hivefleets invading their home systems during the first tyranic war and the events of dawn of war 2.

@jacobweatherford4696 4 года назад

@@Darkestestmatter but I've done my research and I believe if the two species were to engage it would be a very bloody conflict err well tyranids have icor not blood but you get the picture and feasibly depending on the situation it could go either way if the tyranids have more resources and they are dealing with a feral stage outbreak the tyranids no doubt would win because theyd figure out the flood communicate using pheromones and just make creatures that can block said pheromones probably a enhanced strain of malonthrope or venomthrope and they would also be smart enough to know to use their swiftest creatures like warriors and termagaunts my strategy would be to have termagaunts with spike rifles shoot down infection forms while the warriors preferably a venom brood bombard combat forms with heavy ordinance while close combat oriented warriors take out combat forms that get too close with a mix of scything talons and boneswords why boneswords? Because boneswords as said in lore completely destroy the nervous system of whatever creature they get a clean hit on so any combat forms that are brought down cant be revived theyd just be lumps of flesh on the ground and that means the flood won't have any use outside of biomass also warriors have skin harder than diamonds so combat forms arent gonna be braking through that easily.

@liamhandville6107 3 года назад

Me doing homework: Damn, this is boring Me Watching this video: *sitting up straight in my chair taking mental notes*

@vulcanoctusal-abass9824 4 года назад

So this is how COVID-19 mutates to COVID-20...

@scottmcintosh4397 4 года назад

Sequels are NEVER as good as the original release.

@shadowsonicsilver6 4 года назад

Uhhh Flood’s more I wanna say.... Cancer that’s contagious and a Hive Mind.

@nick27072 4 года назад

Lmao

@jvhunko 4 года назад

Ima shoot my self now

@Alex-pd4dk 4 года назад

Covid-19 is a fucking joke compared to pretty much any other disease

@glennlaroche1524 4 года назад

Don't have a dog, and my flerken hates weird space dust, so I think we're good.

@theforge7668 4 года назад

My dog is growing tentacles is that bad?

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

@@theforge7668 Perfectly normal. You should ingest them and feed yourself to others.

@theforge7668 4 года назад

The Gravemind on it

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

@@theforge7668 Nice

@javabucket561 4 года назад

The Gravemind did you just suggest feeding himself to other humans..? Bruh cannible

@Crazyreplay26 3 года назад

I always love the flood. I found there odd look and behaver was way more better then your normal zombie trope. I love how there is some truth and meaning behind the Graveminds words in Halo 2. I love how the Flood can adapt. I also mostly love one line that Ship Master in Halo 3 said that is so true when it comes to the Flood. One single Flood spore can wipe out a entire species.

@LordXarius 4 года назад

The most powerful plague in sci fi history is being covered by in my opinion the best sci fi lore channel on RU-vid.

@MetaNerdzLore 4 года назад

Damn thanks man hope you like it

@TechNinjaSigma 4 года назад

damn straight

@RandomlyQuestionsThings 4 года назад

Aiko Hikari how so?

@nick27072 4 года назад

Plague*

@Dennis19901 4 года назад

Plaque is the stuff you have on your teeth lmao

@coolguy5016 4 года назад

“I am a monument to all your sins”

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

No I am

@adolfgaming1761 3 года назад

@@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G Hell no i am

@draven4464 3 года назад

I mean, what the fuck did humanity do? They were just like "hmm this is interesting" at first then "oh he'll nah, this needs to end". Not like the flood came Ikea with assembly instructions, they didn't know what it was gonna become. I mean it was originally the forerunners fault tbh

@thewardenofoz3324 3 года назад

@@draven4464 they let Bruce Jenner become a "hero"

@bobfishtheblobfish3619 3 года назад

@@draven4464 i think it's treating itself as The Devil, considering itself to be retribution to all life

@somejuggalo707 8 месяцев назад

Being 7 years old and having fun wrecking house as master chief to abruptly have it become a horror game was the most nerve rattling experience I had as a kid gaming!!!!

@aidanpysher2764 4 года назад

I imagine, if they return to Infinite, the Flood will be MUCH more gruesome and terrifying.

@Mizra-dq3lj 4 года назад

They technically can, there are flood samples in every halo ring, right?

@heyolorenns 4 года назад

Probably not. Its 343 working on halo so they want they're fucking game being rated T so they're jus gonna look like a marine in all his armor wit jus a zombie face 😑 I hate how child friendly halo is. Went from Sargent Johnson saying ass shit or sum other profanity to "hell or damn"

@TheVirtualObserver 3 года назад

@@heyolorenns Depends. The Flood turned up in Halo Wars 2 and looked absolutely horrific, plus 343 added a ton of new pure forms, their base movement speed seemed to be ramped up, and in general they seemed to be given the proper treatment. (If you haven’t seen it already I highly recommend you watch the introductory cutscene to the Awakening the Nightmare DLC because it showcases just how well 343 has updated their design while keeping it very much the same Flood we all know and love imo.)

@fearingracer4253 3 года назад

@@heyolorenns They are listening to the community this time, They returned so much that we want so it’s an inevitability that we’re getting the flood

@Miper45 3 года назад

Doubt it.343 panders to little kids and probably want a teen rating.

@nuclearphoenix177 4 года назад

Imagine a grave mind trying to figure out how to get into space with modern day technology and getting frustrated with constantly failing to get a significant amount of bio mass in space

@jackkraken3888 3 года назад

Or worse still having to deal with activating Windows in space.

@maximillianderembourg4887 3 года назад

JEFF BEZOS IS FLOOD !!!!

@Ark........... 2 года назад

Computer: Please put in password Grave mind: I DON'T KNOW THE PASSWORD OPEN UP!!! Computer: please put in password Grave mind: SCREW IT I WILL HACK YOU INSTEAD!!! *Computer proceeds to blue screen* Grave mind: F**K

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei 2 года назад

Gravemind just playing Kerbal Space Program with actual biomass but without any tutorials.

@ThebunnyCEO 3 года назад

"An insanity-inducing loud buzzing sound-" Me: Oh my tinnitus? I've already gone mad

@Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand 2 года назад

I never played a Halo game and this is the first time I'm exposed to its lore. I never knew it was so interesting and ominous, great video, I enjoyed it.

@Badmunky64 4 года назад

now if only they could have explained this in the actual game.

@lonely_ghost9857 3 года назад

I doubt any of us would actually care if a cutscene or somethin' showed and explained All or most of this.

@draven4464 3 года назад

As cool as that would've been, most people just skip the cutscenes cause they're basic bros with no actual care as to why anything happens

@jumpingsloth3963 3 года назад

It was pretty cool. Discovering the hidden terminals in halo 3 with vague backstory on the lore.

@ZipperOfficial 2 года назад

They are in the terminals of Halo 3 (The best halo imho), one of the craziest is the message from Magnificant Bias who is seeking atonement. Which seems to me that this AI may actually still be alive in some capacity.

@Potato_tomato47 Год назад

They did it perfectly by not over expositing

@VinlandicSoul Год назад

Wow, that was immensely entertaining. I never knew the lore behind the Flood. Thanks for this video!

@inquisitorgarza312 4 года назад

The Momentum to our all sins. The Flood are one of the most deadliest form of parasites I’ve have encounter in literature media. The Flood don’t just create a zombie form, but create a Hive Mind that could out think any individual organisms, and worst they will used the intelligence of the host. Considering that the Forerunners were extremely intelligent and knew the strength and weakness of their technology, and considering that the Flood would’ve won the War were it not for the Halo Array firing killing everything. Though if the Flood were to be released in Cortana Galaxy they will spread rapidly and there will be nothing that Cortana or her Created can do anything about it, and considering that they all may be affected by Logic Plague. There is nothing we can do about it to stop it if it continues to grow.

@trogdor856 4 года назад

Bro if you think the flood is bad go look up warhammer40k , the Xenos (alien) Species Tyranids, imagine the flood but far worse and grosser + Scary, that being said they do have alot of similarities.

@orkermon7292 4 года назад

@@trogdor856 Yeah, and Nurgle's pox-of-the-week is just as bad as well.

@Misterscout 4 года назад

Deadspace is very similar but the flood is a little more intelligent

@nathanieljohnson5430 4 года назад

@@trogdor856 Honestly, I've always felt the Tyranids would be the same as the Flood if you gave it time to consume a few galaxies. It's not really fair when you compare one that's still getting started vs one that probably has everything outside of the milkyway consumed

@halowraith1 4 года назад

@@trogdor856 40k wannabe trash

@SylvesterAshcroft88 2 года назад

It's scary how much the flood's existence makes sense, bungie definitely used their experience from marathon extremely well!

@SavishGoat 4 года назад

I’ve seen tons of videos talking about the history of the Flood but this video is by far the best, most detailed and understandable one I’ve seen

@theloniousMac 2 года назад

Playing against the flood in the original HALO CE, was one of the creepiest and scary video game experiences I ever had.

@ATP2555ify 4 года назад

If the Flood aren't in Halo Infinite, we riot.

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

Yes

@biennialfawn5524 4 года назад

I mean, I doubt there going to but they might get mentioned

@GruelingFive8 4 года назад

@Ole Brumm bruh we have a handful of minutes from Infinite, we will find out in time what's up

@Dennis19901 4 года назад

@@GruelingFive8 Don't hold your hopes up. Pretty much the only good thing so far 343 did was reiterate on games already existing (Halo 1 and 2) And even there, they couldn't keep their hands off' the multiplayer and fuck that up for both games as well.

@TheVirtualObserver 3 года назад

Infinite’s set to last 10 years, so even if they aren’t in it during the initial release, I’m certain they’ll show up sometime during the game’s lifecycle. 🙂

@rantradio 4 года назад

What blows my mind more, is that UNSC don't even Know that ancient Huemans were more technologically advanced than them now. We need the Halo story to come full circle with the return of a few or more Forerunners (maybe Builders), Flood/Precursors, and Huemans finding out their ancient past and finally receiving The Mantle of Responsibility.

@alexisbaz8746 4 года назад

ONI knows, they found a destroyed AH Ship and some ruins with building with Roman style, the Hellcat Mjonlir was created with some AH technology they found.

@TheVirtualObserver 3 года назад

@@alexisbaz8746 Which book did that happen in?? I didn’t know for certain if ONI knew of AH’s existence, however I was under the impression that if they did, they would absolutely hide that knowledge from the general public and anyone else in the UNSC who absolutely didn’t need to know about it.

@rantradio 3 года назад

@@alexisbaz8746 oh, I had a eerie feeling ONI knew.. Oni is the most corrupt piece of shit dirt bags, and would keep it quiet for all eternity unless someone breaks away from them and reveals all.

@Shade01982 3 года назад

@@TheVirtualObserver I don't remember the details, but part of it is revealed in Halo 5. The armor description basically implies this.

@edgarapocal 4 года назад

Great video I really enjoy "ancient" Halo lore. Only thing about the Prometheans, they were actually the Warrior caste among the Forerunners, they volunteered to be composed into the robotic beings (Knights) so they could better fight the flood, the Didact later composed humans in an attempt to increased the number of Knights when their numbers started to fall.

@shermangraves6715 4 года назад

All I heard out of all this was; “Exterminatus.” Yes, Inquisitor, this planet right here.

@CrowbornChaos 3 года назад

Lol they literally were glassing planets, which is a similar method to Exterminatus, and that still didn't stop the flood.

@CrowbornChaos 3 года назад

Also, Halo Rings beat exterminatus any day, and flood still came back...

@arghya4NE 3 года назад

@@CrowbornChaos heretic

@RikkiTikkiTavi290 3 года назад

The Forerunners started detonating stars to stop Flood and deny them territory and all it did was slow them down a little.

@ozryelvarnis8828 3 года назад

I love that you showed the terminals from halo three but followed with information that directly contradicted them in halo 4.

@bardanjusik9041 4 года назад

we now know why Elon Musk made the "not a Flamethrower" or whatever its called

@jcdenton4621 2 года назад

I just realized that the Flood and Halo is a combination between The Thing and Aliens.

@Ultramendoza 4 года назад

The first time I played Halo and fought these things I almost had a heart attack, no kidding, I was like: WTF??? GET ME OUT OF HERE!!! AHHH!!!

@lonely_ghost9857 3 года назад

I kid u not I freaked tf out. My first halo game (besides Halo Reach) was Halo 3 and damn bro when i saw the flood I remember throwing my controller in fear and shock when the flood jumped down from above and yeeted those poor marines

@ns3v3n 3 года назад

You just freak out more and more as you see your shotgun ammo go lower and lower until you run out....

@91Definite 3 года назад

Shit...in Halo 2 them niggas jumped like 10 feet a thousands of them. You know how hard it was to aim and shoot them muhfuckas 😕😥?!

@paulemica4718 3 года назад

I just fire fucking everywhere when I see flood for 1st time.. they are terribile enemy

@yasininn76 3 года назад

And that's it? I quitted halo for YEARS before actually finishing it

@LMG1792 4 года назад

After watching so many of your Star Wars videos I loved seeing this halo one.

@romanruddell 2 месяца назад

I was one of those boys who grew up in the 90's only to rent movies for the explosions and action scenes, i always found it difficult to understand and follow what was going on. Same went for gaming hence why I was always skipping cutscenes to get back to the action. From a diehard Halo fan your 22 minute video literally explained the whole lore of this and actually made me understand things so much better and easier so thank you. Like I loved Halo 4 and never realised the librarian was the didactics wife thats sick

@rudytrujillo4197 4 года назад

I have always been confused about Halos story in general even if I loved the games. Thank you for compressing it down for me to understand :)

@toniodivichi5749 4 года назад

This was very comprehensive. I feel like I understand them now. Thank you.

@MrLovolovo 3 года назад

as 13 year old i had never thought halo would be soo vast and grow so much.. as 29 year old i am loving it.. and i never regretted being the only one in class buying the xbox instead of the playstation 2 😁

@yapyapthedestroyer2562 4 года назад

Hey guys, since the flood is destined to return in halo, if a gravemind does return and master chief encounters it, do you think he will remember him and comment on it, or the personality be different and not even comment on master chief. Also do you think that the gravemind should have had a name.

@MetaNerdzLore 4 года назад

one of the many tangents I wanted to go down but constrained was that the way the Primordial merged with the Gravemind, and something said that the Gravemind in the games has the memories of the ancient one, and I think that there was a proto on a shield world that also shared memories if I remember right.

@yapyapthedestroyer2562 4 года назад

MetaNerdz Lore yeah but you know they might do something stupid like, well idk. But I so hope if the flood eventually return and master chief encounters him, that the gravemind comments on master chief like he did in floodgate, and in cortana. Also if anyone heard in halo 3 on the last mission halo, when getting near Johnson’s warthog, in the tunnel you hear him saying something, on how he will return. And in the gravemind log in halo wars 2, it is finally confirmed that a gravemind will return, hopefully with the same voice, and wanting revenge on both cortana and chief

@LowellBoggs 2 года назад

Nice explanation of the history of the flood. I never played the games but greatly enjoyed the books. Please make a post flood history as well. I like the way you present the information.

@gustonzimasheen 4 года назад

Did the Precursors exist before swearing was invented? kidding. Love the video

@Leonidas1210vc 4 года назад

idk why but i really love hive mind/hive focused creatures like Aparoids, the flood and Xenomorphs.......just....its just something about them...

@vanessaoftheundead2613 4 года назад

I like them too

@Leonidas1210vc 4 года назад

@Altair Omega yus, I've had quite a bit of fond memories of that game especially with multiplayer, me and my cuz would just demolish each other in it

@Leonidas1210vc 4 года назад

@Altair Omega my favorite thing to do was strapping the cluster bomb to the arwings and just lit it rain around the map

@Leonidas1210vc 4 года назад

@Altair Omega man im not one for nostalgia but damn.

@IAMSONICTH3H3DG3H0G 4 года назад

Awww thank you

@Illisil 2 года назад

at 4:42, I've never realized how the human brain is shaped just like the heads of Xenomorphs, the creatures from the Aliens Franchise.

@wormboymm1 Год назад

Such a complex lore I am reading Greg Bear's ''The Forerunner Saga" And I'm still only retaining half the info I also play MTG and was thinking while watching this That a crossover between MTG and Halo would be so amazing I would love to see the Flood being so infectious that is spilled over into the MTG universe

@yousufawan9560 4 года назад

i only played halo 3 as a kid at a friends house and just played 1 level. wish i could play the whole series :(

@MetaNerdzLore 4 года назад

damn gotta fix that they are awesome

@user-cz3yk5qf7m 4 года назад

@Ninja Love Ooo a potential new fan! If you want to play them in release order it goes: Combat Evolved, 2, 3, ODST, Reach, 4, and then 5. If you want to play them in the timeline of events it goes: Halo Wars (an RTS game but canonically happens first) then Reach, Combat Evolved, 2, ODST, 3, 4, 5, and Halo Wars 2. If you don’t have an Xbox there are plenty of books that you can read and All of the games except for 5 are in the process of being released on PC if you’d rather wait for that.

@user-cz3yk5qf7m 4 года назад

Ninja Lover ODST is the name of a spin-off game which runs in parallel to the events of Halo 2. Instead of playing as a Super Soldier like the other games, you play as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper or ODST. Halo Wars is an RTS or real time strategy game which is very different than the other games which are all first person shooters. In an RTS you are like a commanding officer directing soldiers where to go. You can look up gameplay of a game like Starcraft or command and conquer to see what I’m talking about. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but it ties in to the lore so I’d recommend either playing it or watching the cutscenes or a summary on RU-vid. Hope that helps feel free to ask more questions!

@shredz3327 4 года назад

Δp well technically you’d get to the end of mission two on halo 2, THEN do ODST then go back to halo 2 & as ODST takes place within 24 hours and starts when the covenant carrier goes into slipspace at the end of the mission.

@Dennis19901 4 года назад

All Halo games are on steam now So you'd best get on that...

@zacharymabb4873 2 года назад

This infection..."The Flood" as the call it. It seems like a stronger or more organized version of another parasite from a different dimension. (franchise) They called it "Parasite X". These strange life forms used their gelatinous bodies to seep through any armor or shell of their prey. The X invade the body and rapidly reproduce, killing the host creature while simultaneously copying it's DNA and memories. It then mimics it's victim almost perfectly. Everything about this copy is the same as the original except for its goal, which changes to entirely focus on growing more powerful. As it spreads the infection, it seeks out stronger and stronger creatures to fight. This may seem strange initially, but if a mimic is slain the X will revert to its gelatinous form and swiftly infect its killer so that it can obtain its stronger form. If an X parasite were to infect an able pilot who had access to a suitable vessel, it would travel planet to planet essentially becoming a galactic plauge. Even the counter-measure to the X was similar to the halo rings, at least in terms of it's indiscriminate and destructive nature. They created a predator to the X that they named "Metroids" after their word for "ultimate warrior". The Metroids would drain the life out of any host, and were entirely immune to the X's infection. A small amount of Metroids released freely on a planet would swiftly result in the extinction of all native species. It makes one wonder which of the two parasites would take control of the other.

@julianmitchell1907 3 года назад

Damn, didn't talk about those gigantic neural star highways (giant space rubber bands) that were created/controlled by the Precursors... Which subsequently could be controlled by the flood. Also that the flood consciousness is an eternal hivemind, and all graveminds retain all memories forever- i.e. the Halo 3 gravemind remembered the Forerunner war.

@redohealer2 3 года назад

2:15 I hated that mission on legendary

@Valeij221 3 года назад

I feel like this is how most people view Covid 😂

@redlight3786 4 года назад

They are the true perfect organism.

@rxonmymind8362 3 года назад

Like the Thing & Blob into one species.

@OldNavajoTricks 3 года назад

Raises Xeno eyebrow in amusement... Gurgles in Thing... Clicks in Yautja... Hits snooze button in C'Thulu...

@notyou2353 3 года назад

"perfect organism" Okay, who let the synthetic out? We don't need him helping the xenomorphs.

@somaloll Год назад

I like the concept of a full galactic conflict happening while we're, for example, watching a video about that same thing 😂.

@The_Big_Jay 4 года назад

Can I just point out how the addition of the precursors actually breaks part of Halo's story? Well, not specifically that, but the rewrite that went with it did. Let me ask, why did the Covenant attack Humans? The original story was that the prophets were treating the forerunners like gods, letting them run the Covenant like a cult. They figured out that humans were descendants of the forerunners, which is why a human hand was always needed to activate forerunner tech. However, if the word got out to the rank and file of the Covenant, it would be revealed that the prophets were lying for their own gain, so they wanted to wipe humans out. But with the rewrite of forerunners and humans being 2 distinct species that evolved completely independent of each other, the catalyst for the whole series no longer exists. They also removed the explanation for why humans are the only ones able to activate forerunner tech.

@lukesanchez9961 4 года назад

Damn good point

@Dennis19901 4 года назад

The latter is explained anyway. Humans "inherited" the mantle of responsibility when the Halo rings were fired. It's by design that humans can operate any and all forerunner tech. I guess the first bit now changed to that they were simply mistaken. Also, according to other Halo lore, the Covenant wanted to claim Harvest since it contained many forerunner structures. Obviously humans declined and the Covenant got so salty over this that they vowed to destroy all of us.

@TheVirtualObserver 3 года назад

@@Dennis19901 Also worth pointing out is the fact that many modern humans have inherited geases which were passed down by the Liberian that granted them an unconscious familiarity with Forerunner technology. (Hence this is the in-universe explanation for why Humans often don’t need to be told how to activate Forerunner structures, we “just know”. Also the Forerunner artifacts that the Covenant’s luminaries picked up on Harvest weren’t artifacts at all but were rather the Humans living on the surface itself because Humanity was already marked as the Reclaimers to the Mantle.

@starsilverinfinity 2 года назад

Basically to top off what Dennis and Panda said, when the Covenant found Harvest they were confused af as to why there were so many forerunner "artifacts" on the planets surface. Then after some consulting with a fragment of I think Mendicant Bias they realized that all this time they had mistranslated the symbol for "reclaimer" as in a person/group of persons as "reclaim" as in, reclaim these artifacts Basically Harvest made the Prophets realize their whole religion was a lie and the true heirs to the Forerunners stache were the humans, not them. In a bid to retain the power that leading a zealously religious stellar. . .empire (i think thats a good term for what the Covenant is) they waged war on the humans in order to wipe out the biggest risk to the entire Covenant as they knew it. It was this uncharacteristic bloodlust for human blood that ultimately became their undoing, ironically as up until that point the Covies tried to subjugate wrather than eliminate (even the Hunters/Lekgolo who literally were eating their artifacts, or atleast - some were). That combined with the rising interspecies tension, bids for power amongst the High Prophets before and during the war, and finally their attempt to excise the second oldest species of the Covenant basically resulted in the Great Schism and their own undoing So, no - the rewrite doesn't break the lore, instead it takes the original idea and adds depth to it while retaining aspects of the original prompt (atleast, the one you provided)

@beachbum111111 2 года назад

@@Dennis19901 The whole 'mantle of responsibility' rewrite is just convoluted crap that should've never been added in the first place, it degrades the lore as a whole.

@acardenasjr1340 10 месяцев назад

Greg Bears Books really opened my eyes with Halo Lore. There could be entire games built in that early Universe. They've did it before with Reach, a protaganist that knowingly dies a hero. The same with Ancient Humans in their war agaisnt the Forerunners and Flood.

@not_tellingaus 6 месяцев назад

whos here watching after the tv series!

@johnchapley716 4 года назад

The flood always reminded me of the trapperkeeper episode from south park hahaha

@MattyVice Год назад

The flood being the ancient primordial species is awesome

@tennesseedogpack Год назад

Tyranids + Nurgle’s blessing = The Flood

@janluus9590 4 года назад

Forerunners:"You will be banished for your war crimes!" |Along time later| Forerunners:"So this is why they glassed planets..."

@ChipeloAndCrew 2 года назад

I love the lore and how humanity was a space faring civilization and was punished and devolved into our ancestors while the rest of the galaxy went to war

@randomnessman3514 Год назад

The most horrifying theory I've heard about the flood is that there not degraded precursors, they are the precursors, and that's why the forerunners fought them

@cassianolara7713 Год назад

“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

@cocofellas 2 года назад

Halo should be a religion.

@lyasu69 3 года назад

that would mean that this franchise (Halo) is not just a draft and the most important thing in any franchise is the storytelling. Thanks a lot for your work and for those who love Halo

@bruceli9094 Год назад

The Flood played both sides. Well played. GG

@smolcan4984 7 месяцев назад

Holy the halo universe is so rich with the right people and the right budget someone someday out there will created a master piece of show the world sill ever see

@sebastianlugun2501 2 года назад

Remember True Intentions of Flood is to check whether a Specific Species is worthy to hold Mantle of Responsibility.

@robertgeraghty4454 5 месяцев назад

When I played the flood level as a kid I started crying and had to take a break

@Spartan2818 3 года назад

What pisses me off the most about 343s retcons is the humans had a cure and it was really interesting how they did it, and then the story of the forerunners wiping humans out and later finding out they had a cure but it's now lost. Such a better story

@lennardchurch8483 3 года назад

As far as I'm aware, the notion of humanity having a cure was introduced in the Forerunner saga, and in the same books it was revealed to be a lie, that the Flood pretended Humanity's "cure" worked as part of its manipulation of the mortal races.

@CrazyRussian16 3 года назад

The 352 dislikes are the Ur Didact and his ripoff terminators.

@Commando_scylla 3 года назад

Exactly

@GingerwillowTheFeatheryOwl 5 месяцев назад

I feel bad for the precursors. Imagine wanting to protect life at all costs then being killed by your creations for wanting them to protect life. Then when you try and start over, you get turned into a thing with the exact opposite goal as you.

@randompalmtopgaming7541 2 года назад

The HALO canon is phenomenally epic and deep. Whoever came up with it is an absolute Sci Fi legend. But I'm bugged by its very core premise - that of the Halo array. How are the energy pulses that the array is emitting, traveling faster than light?

@lennardchurch8483 2 года назад

It's science-fiction magic in a setting where entire ships can be shunted into 7-dimensional slipspace to bypass the speed of light to traverse enormous distances, and light can be turned into solid platforms and projectiles.

@kragglewulf4105 3 года назад

BROTHER.... GET THE FLAMER.... THE. HEAVY. FLAMER. Also @MetaNerdz Lore thank you for doing this video, I recently got back into Halo with the MCC back once upon a time my only lore was Halo and Halo 2 and then I left console for good to go back to full PC gaming. 2001 was a long time ago for this to start lol.

@Verdugo47 Год назад

i was never keen on halo or it's lore but i LOVE the flood just the pure terror of biomass is so cool to me.

@starsilverinfinity 2 года назад

A parasite so lethal it made a hyperadvanced species develop their own take on the shotgun

@khamaji09 2 года назад

Been scared of them in game ever since I was in high charity halo 2 and I was just standing there getting my nerves together. I just turned around a flood attack form was just standing behind me up close. Scared the shit out of me. It wasn't even making a noise

@kmdreacts Месяц назад

Slight correction to the Composing of ancient "devolved" humans: They were living on Installation 07, Zeta Halo, when The Didact Composed them. There were tribes of humans all over the ring way back then, which is Halo lore nuts like us were so Hyped upon hearing Infinite would be set on Zeta Halo. Primordial. Mendicant & Offensive Bias. House of Pain. Ancient human settlements.. Infinite could've been So damn good.. Instead, they decided to once again forgo the Flood, and introduce some new random enemy we never see, who just so happen to be Worse than the All-universe consuming Flood.

@matsuhikotakagawa8060 Год назад

One of few lores I love in Halo-4: Humans got sandwiched between 2 super-powers... and eventually lost *both* wars 😭 One of few events that actually got me crying 😅

@zephyfoxy 4 месяца назад

It's weird to see how a lot of sci fi horror lore kinda relates to each other. This has some Dead Space necromorph/marker/brethren moons feel. An alien race acquiring biomass from around the galaxy, surprisingly intelligent, even possessing psychic abilities. I wonder how much of that was inspired by Halo.

@Kenshiroit Месяц назад

Also the thing and perhaps doom although in this last case they were demons

@TheSnoozeFox 2 года назад

wtf I had no idea the Halo lore was so good I haven't played the franchise since they came out as a kid, really need to try it again as an adult.

@priatalat 2 года назад

What's crazy is that this is in just ONE galaxy in the sea of trillions. In another you probably have Star Wars happening while Earth exists in a different galaxy completely. When you think about it in that scale, the flood suddenly seem miniscule and insignificant.

@beetanatormask325 5 месяцев назад

The domain was also precursor in original as well, the forerunners were just able to get access

@vizthex 3 года назад

never played halo and don't know much about it, but goddamn these things sound cool af. unless you're a victim of course.

@an_egg_cultist 3 года назад

Yeah, Halo has some really cool lore. It is biased because I love Halo, but if there is a question, you can find an answer for it.

@crieverytim 3 года назад

As someone whose only heard of this game in passing, this is awesome

@finalomega8894 3 года назад

They are like the Beast in Homeworld. This video... dosdos minutes lol.

@omahanprabla3058 6 месяцев назад

I think Precursors knew the eventualities that were to come, they were ok with what happened and never "fought back" because they were either in control this whole time or just bored, or maybe they came to some advanced realization impossible for us to comprehend.

@humbleheathen69 2 года назад

I've always held strong in the opinion that the forerunners just threw a genocidal hissy fit and got spanked pretty hard by the flood. Then the flood told them to go find their own switch to be hit with.

@gho5tspartan26yt Год назад

19:31 so this is why the Lekgolo that forerunners tried to use against flood are still where they were

@V8SplashMan 3 года назад

Some guy: "We just received a report that a rumor is going around saying the flood probably still alive, we have zero confirmation this report is accurate" Me: FIRE UP THEM RINGSSSS

@yaydylan316 3 года назад

When I was young I usually just played halo 4 as I was born in 09. I was so weirdly fascinated when my brother showed me the flood in multiplayer. I was scared to so I tried to study it online.