Who made the Flood Halo?

The Flood's design and fiction were led by Bungie artist Robert McLees, who used unused concepts from the earlier Bungie game Marathon 2. The setting of the first game, the ringworld Halo, was stripped of many of its large creatures in order to make the Flood's surprise appearance more startling.

What created the Flood in Halo?

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.

Did the Forerunners create the Flood?

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.

What is the name for the Flood Halo?

The Infester is a form of the Flood that appeared in Halo Wars 2. It's capable of latching onto vehicles carrying personnel and infecting everyone in one swoop.

How did the Flood get on Delta Halo?

About 200 years prior to 2552, the Flood on Installation 05 escaped and evaded containment due to negligence on the part of the installation's Monitor, Penitent Tangent. The Flood quickly grew out of control around the area of the Installation's Library.

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Who built the ruins on Delta Halo?

Installation 05, also known as Delta Halo, is one of the massive Halo fortress worlds built by the Forerunners.

How are the Flood still alive in Halo?

Even though the Gravemind was destroyed, and all Flood on the Ark apparently eradicated, the Flood still existed on the other Halo rings (excluding Installation 05 which was sterilized by Sangheili forces) and other remaining Forerunner installations.

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.

Who is immune to the flood 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 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.

What killed the Forerunners?

The IsoDidact had the Halos distributed across the galaxy and activated the rings, killing all sentient life of sufficient biomass in the Milky Way, including any surviving Forerunners within the range of the Halo effect.

How did Master Chief defeat the Flood?

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.

Who are the endless in Halo?

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.

How many graveminds are there?

The Gravemind is a fictional, parasitic, hive mind intelligence in the Halo universe. While only one Gravemind is ever seen in the games, the title is given to the final stage of Flood evolution, in which the Flood becomes a superorganism.

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.

Why do grunts not get infected by 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.

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.

Who is the most powerful person in Halo?

Though Halo is built on the idea that Master Chief is the greatest protector and force in the universe, the challenges he must overcome sometimes push against how invulnerable he may appear.

Who was the first Halo?

Halo: Combat Evolved is the first game in the series, but it was re-released in 2011, and it is also included in the Halo: The Master Chief collection.

Who is the father of Halo?

Paul Russel, father of the name "Halo", commenting on the naming process. Paul Russel was an employee of Bungie who served as an Environmental Artist for Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. He was born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Is the Flood in Halo evil?

Is the Flood good or bad Halo? They first appeared in the original Halo: Combat Evolved as a sort of zombie parasite organism that feeds on living creatures, mutating them into violent husks. Space zombies is a good way to put it. The Flood are the big bads of the Halo universe.

Why did the flood help Master Chief?

The Flood joined forces with the Master Chief during Halo 3 because they had a common enemy; the Prophet of Truth. If he had succeeded in activating the Halo Rings; he would've killed everyone in the Galaxy, and the Ark.

Is there a cure for the Flood Halo?

No. There is no cure for the Flood. Over 100,000 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved, the Ancient Humans at one point attempted to create a cure for the Flood.