How did Halo stop the flood?

The parasite is depicted as such a threat that the ancient Forerunners constructed artificial ringworld superweapons known as Halos to contain it and, as a last resort, to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop the Flood's spread by starving it.

Is the Flood eradicated in Halo?

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

What happens if a Spartan gets infected by the flood?

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.

Why didn t the flood destroy the halos?

Because the Halo Array was/is tuned to destroy anything with a central nervous system. Flood are immune to this because of their physical make up.

What is the flood Halo weakness?

The Incendiary Grenade instantly destroys all pure Flood forms and is the one true weakness of all pure Flood forms, as well as its Support Weapon counterpart, the Flamethrower.

How the Flood survived Halo 3

What did the Flood want Halo?

First introduced in the 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved, it returns in later entries in the series such as Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo Wars. The Flood is driven by a desire to infect any sentient life of sufficient size; Flood-infected creatures, also called Flood, in turn can infect other hosts.

Why didn t Master Chief get infected by the flood?

Why didn t Master Chief get infected by the Flood? EXCEPT in one case where, in 'The Flood', he gets ambushed by a lone infection form which actually inserts its tendrils into his spine if i remember. Cortana saves him by vaporising the Flood form by overcharging his shields.

Did the flood corrupt Cortana?

The Flood nearly succeeded in corrupting the human smart AI Cortana while holding her captive in High Charity. Cortana was quickly rendered helpless against the Gravemind, being completely incapable of identifying the points of the Gravemind's intrusion in her system.

Does Master Chief have a weakness?

Weakness: Age. Age is a weakness that nearly everybody tries to hide. People dye their hair, use make-up, or even undergo surgery to try to reverse the effects of aging. Master Chief hides his age quite well.

How did Master Chief become immortal?

He was augmented as a child, he has spent many years in cryo-sleep, and the Librarian did the evolution thing to him in Halo 4. For all we know, the Chief is now immortal.

Is anyone immune to the Flood in Halo?

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.

What is the most powerful Flood in Halo?

The Tank Form is the most powerful that the Stalker can transform into. It's comprised entirely of raw biomass and are tough to take down.

Who created the Flood in Halo?

Sometime during the war between the Forerunners and the Precursors, the Precursors created the Flood as a final test of Humans and Forerunners. The Flood was first discovered by Prehistoric Humans in 110,000 BCE during their colonization of planets.

Why doesn t the flood infect grunts?

Those are the "tank" varient of a flood pure form. 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.

What is the strongest monster in Halo?

Who built the Halo rings?

As it is known in modern times, the Halo Array is a network of seven ring-shaped megastructures created by the Forerunners, designed to exterminate all sentient life within the Milky Way galaxy.

How old is the Flood Halo?

The Flood first entered the galaxy from the Large Magellanic Cloud at the edge of the Milky Way roughly 110,000 years ago, contained in cylinders in unmanned vessels where they were kept as a powder.

What is the strongest ship in Halo?

Covenant supercarriers are thought to be the most powerful non-Forerunner space-faring vessels ever created.

Why can't Johnson get infected?

The most basic, simple explanation is that Johnson isn't immune, he was just lucky (i.e. the infection forms that went after him were weakened like the ones that got Jenkins, his augmented status just gave him a chance the others didn't get, or his perception that they “passed him up” is just dead wrong.)

Can grunts be infected by Flood?

Looking back, I realise that the Grunts and the Jackals are the only two species that don't get infected by Flood, and are instead just outright killed ingame.

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.

Why does Master Chief never talk?

And also, just from the standpoint of personality, Chief is a stoic character. He's a man of few words. If he speaks too much, it goes against his innate persona.

What planet was Master Chief born on?

The Master Chief, originally named John, was born in March 7 2511 and first lived with his family on the human colony planet Eridanus II.