Are the endless the Flood in Halo Infinite?

The Flood was the ultimate threat, so dangerous that it necessitated the use of the Halo rings, designed to wipe out all life in the galaxy. Halo Infinite had the impossible task of raising those stakes and did so by introducing a new enemy race to the franchise: the Endless.

Is the Flood extinct in Halo Infinite?

As a result of the firing of the seven Halo installations, the surviving Flood were successfully contained and eventually died out.

Who is the endless in Halo Infinite?

The Xalanyn, also known as the Endless, was an advanced race, whose members were imprisoned by the Forerunners on Installation 07 by 97,368 BCE due to their ability to survive the effects of the Halo Array. Their cylixes were eventually discovered by Atriox during the Battle for Zeta Halo in 2560.

Can the Flood infect the endless?

We know the Endless couldn't be infected by the flood, and technically the Precursors couldn't in their dust form. We also know that the Forerunners hated them for refusing them the Mantle and would do anything to erase them, including imprisoning them without trial and deleting any records of the Precursors.

Will the Flood return after Halo Infinite?

As established in the Forerunner Trilogy of novels(Halo: Cryptum, Halo: Primordium, and Halo: Silentium), the Precursors, and thus by extension the Flood, would eventually return in approximately 100,000 years to test Humanity who the Precursors had picked as their successors, not the Forerunners.

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Who stopped the Flood Halo?

The Flood would threaten ancient humanity and then the Forerunners, who ultimately build and activate the Halo Array to stop the parasite's spread.

Why can't grunts get infected by the Flood?

Hunters cannot be infected because they lack a central nervous system. Also, jackals and grunts do not have enough biomass to be converted into combat forms. They are either broken down and turned into infection forms, or combined into a carrier form.

Who created the Flood?

According to Halo lore, the Flood is a product of a war between the Forerunners and the Precursors. Some Precursors, who lost the war, were turned into regenerative dust that created horrific mutations. The remaining Precursors assimilated into this newfound corruption.

Is Harbinger an endless?

There's a scene towards the end of Halo Infinite in which The Harbinger relays a sense of bitterness towards the Silent Auditorium (a place the Forerunners used to judge, imprison, and punish their enemies), which is really the strongest piece of evidence that she is indeed one of the Endless (or someone who represents ...

Who are the parents of the Endless?

Later revealed during events of Sandman: Overture, the siblings do in-fact have parents, with their father being Time, the personification of time itself and their mother being Night, the personification of the endless darkness that existed before the dawn of the universe.

Who is the strongest endless?

Death is the strongest of the Endless because of how necessary she is, and because she will be the last of them to exist.

Who created the Endless?

The Endless characters were created by Neil Gaiman and first appeared in the comic book series The Sandman (1989–1996). They embody powerful forces, or aspects, of the DC Universe. They are depicted as among the most powerful beings in the DC Universe, distinct from most gods, as gods are created by mortal belief.

Are the Flood dead in Halo?

The Flood was killed or contained, unable to reproduce and grow due to lack of hosts, and eventually died out. The only surviving specimens were contained in state of the art, high-security Forerunner research facilities, such as the Halo Installations and the Threshold Gas Mine.

Are skimmers the endless?

They're probably not Endless. Harbinger/Skimmers are obviously same more or less, but Endless are probably a completely different ballgame. They're either Precursors or a new enemy entirely.

Does Earth exist in Halo Infinite?

It is the current capital world of the Unified Earth Government, and home to the headquarters of the United Nations Space Command. With a population of around ten billion, Earth was the most populated planet in UEG territory prior to the Covenant invasion.

How was the flood defeated?

Most of it was wiped out when the Chief used the rebuilt Installation 4 to destroy the gravemind and most of the flood on-board the ring and the ark. Without a central intelligence to coordinate it, the flood loses coordination.

Can Spartans be infected by the flood?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them.

Is the gravemind Captain Keyes?

Unfortunately for the Captain, however, the Flood caught up to him. Keyes was unable to hold off the onslaught and was promptly captured, infected and turned into a Proto-Gravemind.

What happens if the Flood infect a Spartan?

Should a Spartan become infected with the Flood, code CORRUPTER is declared and weapons of mass destruction are deployed to contain the threat. Such infected Spartans have been simulated in War Games.

What species are immune to Flood?

There are no species that are immune to the Flood. The Flood is able to infect anything that has any kind of biomass. Any living being can be assimilated into a Gravemind— bonus points if it has some kind of nervous system, because if it has a nervous system, it can add to the collective intelligence of the hive mind.

How did the endless survive Halo?

The Endless survived the Halos firing, and were found afterwards when the preserved species on the Lesser Ark were returned to their homeworlds. The only canonical means for an organic creature to survive the Halos without being on the Halos themselves is to be in temporal stasis, like the Primordial was.

Are the Flood the precursors?

It was later revealed that the Flood was not a creation of the Precursors, but the Precursors' perverted and insane remains of themselves. The dust that humanity had discovered that led to the birth of the Flood threat was one of the failsafe measures the Precursors put into place to try and avoid their extinction.

Is the primordial still alive Halo?

However, as later demonstrated during the Ur-Didact's encounter with the Gravemind, the Primordial's consciousness had survived the destruction of its physical body, having transferred itself into the Flood's compound mind intact.