The Horrifying Final Stage of the Flood - Halo Lore  

Fuck yeah that would be awesome

So dead space lmfao

@@pingus9934 no although dead space was awesome I want a halo one

So if not dead space,then DOOM?

@@galatay8381 I said what I said:)

They were losing against both of them, but I get your point. Humanity fought through it and survived, the forerunners had to kamikaze the galaxy.

@@tharealchef2539 i believe the forerunners found out the humans were winning against the flood at one point but they didnt know how

@@deansmurf8366 it is explained in Silentium that they were doing just as well as anyone, slowly losing actually; but the flood realized the forerunners would win and destroy humanity, so they retreated to make the forerunners think driving the humans extinct was not an option. This is all because the precursors chose to give the humans the mantle instead, so they wanted their “preferred” creation to survive; even in their twisted flood logic

@@tbg3889 ahh yeah, I knew it was something like that, been a while since I read them, thanks for reminding me

@@deansmurf8366 Sure, no problem g

As well as likely the memories of long dead space gods

Probably remembers when fido had a good poop back in 88 too

@JoeBidenSucks You had me in the first half, then you had me laughing in the second half.

The grave for minds

It’s said that they have all the memories of the original gravemind including the precursor one , they just can’t comprehend the memories yet

Yes. Given time and biomass…..

That would be an interesting fight. I think the tyranids might stand a pretty good chance since they can easily tear through space marines, so fleshy, fragile flood shouldn't be too much of a problem

One crazy thing about Tyranids is they're not from the same galaxy and some believe they could potentially be running away from something even more menacing.

@@wrathin99 that theory never held much water though, right? I thought it was more agreed that they just wiped out their own galaxy and moved on to ours

I believe tyranids would beat the flood, not only only because they beat them in combat by a limdslide but because of theure abiloty to adapt, they are biologically inmune to every bioweapon, and even if they were affecyed they would become inmune soon enough

He nearly got infected btw

@@collindeden5990 nearly, but he *didn't*

@@collindeden5990 not possible

Uuuhhhhh the forerunners had soldiers 100X stronger than master chief

@@chrissierra-5633 yeh, but they didn’t have master chief, the luckiest fuckhead alive

*Where And yeah, that would be cool

Forerunner/ Flood war ending with the Forerunners firing the ring, be a cool way to show the past, give you a new perspective and world/ era to explore, and both answer mysteries and create whole new ones. This and a horror/ shooter Dead Space-type Marines vs. Flood game would be lit

Liiike warframe

@@dmonsterlove The infested are pretty easy to counter in Warframe.

Prequels are always a good idea

If that's so we should be getting more and more waves of unstoppable flood attacks

@@NateJGardner agree

Not quite. It's the ashes of long dead precursors that tried to regenerate but were corrupted after the forerunners genocided them. Only a few precursors made it to the Andromeda galaxy

@@lightmetro7508 ahh, so the precursors are the intergalactic ones and the flood evolved out of the precursors. That explains a lot about the flood's ability to hivemind without physical connection

@@NateJGardner They didn't necessarily "evolve", but mutate out of the ashes of the precursors. The ability to hivemind comes from the precursors understanding of "neural physics" (some halo lore term).

A universal threat that infects everything it sees and is hyper intelligent vs 1 lucky boi

Slipspace is a separate dimension. What he means basically is the flood can gain the technology to enter slipspace, making it unsafe to travel through lest they catch you and consume you there. They'd be using ships though. Initially anyway

@@horrificpleasantry9474 the flood created the entire universe and They made humanity and forerunners before being corrupted , they can legit manipulate the galaxy we’re in 😂

@@SuperFAILMC no, that's a lie. Sorry

no, that’s not even their final form. their true final form is to weave themselves into the fabric of time and space

Forerunners decided to yeet the Precursors. Precursors fled the galaxy, some turned themselves into dust. Dust corrupted and became flood. Humans found it and used it, oh no zombies.

In 343i's lore, they are from outside the galaxy. In Bungie's lore, they are from within the galaxy.

@@Freelancer837 , they always were from beyond the limits of humanity

@@masterchiefpettyofficer1176 What's that supposed to mean?

@@Freelancer837the flood began in the galaxy but coming from the dust of precursors who existed beyond the Milky Way galaxy

I was going to say.....

Saaame I’m like das not Halo my guy. Let’s be honest master chief could probably solo a brethren moon lol.

@@TheIITroubleIIMaker probably not actually… Brethren Moons were a lot bigger than you think they are. Issac Clark was having extreme PTSD in Dead Space 2 just from a marker, which is basically the “weaker” version of a Moon. They can cause some major mental-scarring hallucinations, and bent the will of the entire human race. I’m sorry but Master Chief is still human, and in Dead Space 3 they had to freeze everything jus to put it to sleep… not kill it. Bottom line: Master Chief would probably go insane, and if he suffers any injury that would lower his immune system in any way (even getting stabbed once) that’s game over because the signal being released would take him over instantly. Master chief is cool and all, and he’s been seen doing some cool stuff, but there are limits to his abilities…

@@TheIITroubleIIMaker doom guy could because he is canonically immortal but master chief could not take it on

@@pixilatedmonster true true

Except flood could dismantle anything in 40k with no real issue

Cosmic Horror is the phrase you're thinking of

@@greyman7605 that's too fanboy-y. They're competitive, but they're not magical.

@@horrificpleasantry9474 1 spore dooms a planet get off your fanboy high horse an look at the lore if you can't stop the initial infection you can't win end of story

@@greyman7605 oh no the "no u" defense, I am utterly refuted now i guess

since there are no images of a keymind as far as i know that would be the most similar thing to one but IMO a key mind would be more powerful especially if it was an older keymind

Orange fanta or mountain dew?

@@browngundam2170 ehhh depends, I like some flavors of Mountain Dew then most and only ever drink orange fanta when I feel like it

@uwau Mhm, there’s so much lord and history in the halo universe, it makes you miss those good old days when bungie was the main creators of the wonderful, action packed and heavily story detailed Franchise

/"I am a monument to all your sins"/

@@browngundam2170 two parts dr pepper on part sprite

Wow nice theory

Maybe that's how precursors multiplied because to gather knowledge and technology you need to have knowledge and technology to exist in the first place

That's one idea that's been hopping around inside of my skull.

Kind of like the backrooms.

Their true purpose was simply just to consume everything there was to consume. Luckily they never got to the stage where they started expanding into the multiverse

Theyve hit 6G

What??? You say the same voice actor who just gerrrr is the voice of the grave mind?

@@xdas11 and the guy who voiced the clones in the Clone Wars.

@@zerophantomyt433 really!? Damn that's one talented man!

That profile picture makes me want to get hydrated

"A grave mind?" *removes obvious disguise* "PERRY THE GRAVEMIND?!"

That Irritated the Hell Out of Me, and it just Shows Me that 343 Do Not Understand the Flood on a Conceptual Level

​@@oaktree149 The Flood isn't the only thing 343 doesn't understand. They somehow get every concept ever created in Halo incorrect. It's impressive if it wasn't depressing.

The flood are worse but the forerunners only gave the xalanyn aka the endless that title because they were afraid of losing their power. This was stated in audio logs in infinite. Also the xalanyn according to the Halo encyclopedia can manipulate living time thus connecting them to the precursors and the flood so I’d imagine they aren’t immune to halos rather just jumped toward through time to avoid the array firing as we see at the end of infinite chief gets teleported 3 days in the future assuming the harbinger opened the portal. The other connection to the flood is in an audio log that the harbinger quotes the Gravemind.

That is one of the more frightening theories proposed by fans. A plan lasting billions of years spanning the galaxy. Imagine the galaxy being the last of billions waiting to assimilated only for it to end and begin again.

Nah they are the ashes of dead space gods so I doubt they couldn't just build something

@@wookiewaffles1503 Ohh okay, thanks for the clarification. in new to the game and got just into the lore hahaha.

@@merrickc1876 As long as the flood collects enough biomass to create a gravemind that gravemind can remember all the memories of the precursors and since their tech was neurophysic based (basically scientific space magic) it can access all other tech and uses it.

@@wookiewaffles1503 put it perfectly, dead God dust

@@digitalninja5941 but not even precursors were able to do inter dimensional travel. It's a stretch to say they can.

And you think the primordial corrupted remains of space gods who created all life in the universe couldn't conquer it?

Honestly

Just hell, really

That wouldn't be a hell of a crossover. That'd just be straight hell.

Sadly I didn't know it was in that different ppl making different parts style and didn't enjoy it very much.

@@Darek_B52, Rewatch it. Your opinion might change this time around. Think of it like Red vs Blue Season 14.

Why

Yeah,, lets not bring up that load of horse shit. CE managed to make the flood seem more like a threat in one level then infinite managed to do their entire campaign. Why, because the showed us, instead of just telling us over and over again how dangerous they are!

Flood just infects one of each and has all of their knowledge combined. Easy

The flood just need a single spore the infection is instant and the fact that flood will an can assimilate anything even the pesky ones with the ability to adapt it doesnt matter once the flood controls one it knows everything genetically and can infect the rest no problem.

zerg gets shitted on by both, unless they kolekt enough esens to become somewhat like the xelnaga nids win if the hive mind gives a shit/uses its psyker crap. Nids lose against flood due to reliance on synapse crap flood wins in every long game due to unlocking their past memories with the gravemind flood loses every short game

@Daniele Fabbro Exactly why they win every long game. But with the gravemind unfinished, the nids and zerg might stand a chance By psyker crap I meant he hive mind (if i remember correctly) can do magical bullshit like defying the physics of space hell, and if space hell defies quantun farking physics... you get it, hive mind can do magic probably. An interesting concept here, is if we think that the hive mind's mind is technically just a quantum computer, would the flood be able to infect it with a 'flesh and bone' computer virus style virus. Since most protein builds and muscles (presumably the nids work the same way as our current knowledge on bioforms) can technically be hacked with chemical reactions and dna splicing... speaking of dna... both the hive mind and the flood are masters of it right? this is most interesting...

@Daniele Fabbro I wonder how "mechanical plague thats gonna kill us" like skynet would do against something like warframe's infestation, which is not as smart (but does have a sort of hive mind, albeit not fully controlling all the infested) but can infest both mechanical and organic creatures

I’m not going to lie, an asymmetrical game where the Gravemind is playing an RTS or a “Bot switching” (like sending out units and being able to control each of them as you choose) game against the 4 other players. Crazy potential, 2 Spartans, a brute, and an Elite walk into a derelict ship and have to survive it all against a single player, kind of like that old game “Evolve” if you remember it.

Space Dandy episode

@@orangefish0297 I fuckin love space dandy

No no, the Flood are literally- (or were) the remains of the precursors, they had broken themselves down into dust so that they could effectively be immortal but got corrupted and couldn’t return to their original form, so they were forced to wait thousands of years maybe to float back into our galaxy and be discovered by ancient humans.

Defeated outright once, I thought? A Keymind existed by the end of the forerunner-flood war, but not by the end of the events of the Halo games. Even then, they didn't defeat the flood, they only managed to kill everything else so it starved to death over Millenia, and even then some flood survived. It was only a Gravemind during the Halo games.

@@decoded360 meanwhile the glory of the Hivemind has never lost and is currently speeding towards the 40K galaxy at massive speeds to kill everything

@@DCPTF2 but do they have to wipe out every living creature that has brain cells in their galaxy just to stop them?

@@wookiewaffles1503 yes and no, initially the flood would but then as all infections do they would adapt and figure out how to survive, like in Halo 3 when the flood figures out how to take over and use a covenant cruiser.

@@wookiewaffles1503 actually no, Tyranids only require raw materials to sustain themselves, give Tyranids a planet with the raw resource wealth of Earth even without the population the Nids would tear then planet bare of everything from the dirt on the ground to the very atmosphere itself, in fact killing off everything creature in the galaxy that can fight back is more a net gain for the Tyranids as they don't need to spend Biomass to acquire more biomass so every planet they leave a floating ball of lifeless rock just means when they do need to fight they can spend that net gain in it

dead space god dust on dogs*

That would be awesome, but I would bet the Flood would win because they can assimilate any form into a form of theirs, but I don't know if that can be done with flood material/rotting corpses. I'd love to see this in action though!

As a fan of StarCraft's setting and the Zerg especially... Zerg are supremely, absolutely, without a doubt, fucked