Who released the Flood in Halo 2?

In the Halo Wars 2 expansion "Awakening the Nightmare", the surviving Flood were accidentally released by the Banished while salvaging the wreck of High Charity.

Who released the Flood in Halo?

After losing two Marines, the first squad, together with Captain Keyes and Johnson, continued until they found a locked door. This was probably the same door that the Covenant forces locked in order to contain the Flood outbreak. Upon opening the door, they released the infection.

What happened to the Flood in Halo 2?

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.

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.

Who was the AI that betrayed the Forerunners?

05-032 Mendicant Bias was a Contender-class Ancilla. He was the most advanced Forerunner AI at the time of his creation, and was charged with organizing the Forerunner defense against the Flood before his defection to the Gravemind, who ultimately caused him to become rampant, and turn against his creators.

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What created the flood?

The Flood's Backstory

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.

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.

Did the flood appear in Halo 4?

Although The Flood don't physically play a role in the Halo 4 Campaign, they do in the background history of particular Characters. Flood is now a game type in Halo 4's Multiplayer and it is the brainchild of the game type, Infection.

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.

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.

Will the Flood be in Halo 5?

The game mode returned in Halo: Reach (2010), Halo 4 (2012), renamed "Flood", The Master Chief Collection (2014), and Halo 5.

Will Flood be in Halo infinite?

Nope. Allusions are made in the early chapters of the Halo Infinite campaign that Zeta Halo hides a threat that stands to be far worse than the Flood. And the creepy parasitic species does not appear in any capacity.

Why can't a Spartan lose his shield?

This award is appropriately named because the shield was "the hoplite's most important piece of equipment." A Spartan could lose his helmet or breastplate with impunity but would be disgraced if he threw away his shield because, “You wear the armor for your own protection but you carry your shield for the protection of ...

Did the flood infect Cortana?

CortanaEdit

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.

What happened to Spartan babies if they were weak?

Spartans had to prove their fitness even as infants.

If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers.

Why did God start the flood?

But God found one righteous man, Noah, and to him he confided his intention: "I am about to bring on the Flood ... to eliminate everywhere all flesh in which there is the breath of life ... .

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.

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.

Are all the Forerunners dead?

Although they themselves are essentially extinct, evidence of their existence remained, spread across the galaxy in the form of numerous creations, installations and artifacts.

Is Master Chief a descendant of the Forerunners?

Master Chief, Johnson, Mobuto, and Commander Keyes would then be genetic descendants of the Forerunners. This is also supported by 343 Guilty Spark's reactions to Master Chief in Halo: Combat Evolved, where he assumes that Master Chief understands everything that has happened on Halo.

Why did the Forerunners go extinct?

When the Great Purification occurred, ending the Forerunner-Flood war, a small minority of Forerunners fled the Milky Way Galaxy leaving their species nearly extinct at the time. The vast majority of their species died when the Halo Array fired as planned.

What happened to the gravemind after Halo 3?

In the end, the Gravemind was destroyed as Halo's activation destroyed itself and the Flood that had escaped containment.