Eternal Vigil:

True, but I pretty sure they were held in hibernation for research in some facilites neither the UNSC or the Covenant have encountered.

Also, as I postulated in one of my stories, some of the Flood biomass likely remained on Installation 05.

Yes, but I'm wondering why they would study them on the weapons meant to destroy them. If the Flood they studies got loose, they would lose a ring, and thus the ability to wipe them out. Just seems a little risky to me.

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Eternal Vigil:

True, but I pretty sure they were held in hibernation for research in some facilites neither the UNSC or the Covenant have encountered.

Also, as I postulated in one of my stories, some of the Flood biomass likely remained on Installation 05.

Yes, but I'm wondering why they would study them on the weapons meant to destroy them. If the Flood they studies got loose, they would lose a ring, and thus the ability to wipe them out. Just seems a little risky to me.

They were weapons of last resort. I believe they were trying to find another way to stop them.

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Eternal Vigil:

True, but I pretty sure they were held in hibernation for research in some facilites neither the UNSC or the Covenant have encountered.

Also, as I postulated in one of my stories, some of the Flood biomass likely remained on Installation 05.

Yes, but I'm wondering why they would study them on the weapons meant to destroy them. If the Flood they studies got loose, they would lose a ring, and thus the ability to wipe them out. Just seems a little risky to me.

They were weapons of last resort. I believe they were trying to find another way to stop them.

Hmm, fair point there Vigil.

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for the record the flood are neither alive or dead or at least the parasite is alive but the body is killed 

There are many rings so they are alive.

If I were the UNSC, I'd Nova-Bomb all the Haloes. Sure-fire extermination-although I supoose they could float away into space and make their way onto a world/ship.

The flood always find a way to survive. There must be much flood that is still alive and they must already have a new gravemind that controls them. Too me it seems impossible to kill the flood. You only stop them for a short them. In Halo 1 Chief destroys the ring which should kill the flood but they didn't. Surely it must be the same with Halo 3. We don't what happend after Halo 3 but they stopped the flood anyway but only for a short time.

The Halo rings are not made to kill all the flood. Only all other sentient life in the galaxy to starve the flood out. And many people here has mentioned that there must be flood on the other rings that is maybe contained. What do we know? Anyway, the Flood will surely never die.

xXxSuper BKxXx:The Flood are very much alive. After all the Flood threat on Installation 05 was never fully taken care of AND it's probable that other installations (ex. Threshold Gas Mine) are still being used to contain the Flood. All in all, the Flood still live but it remains to be seen if they are still going to be an influential figure in the Halos to come.

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I only have time to say this. Most of you dont have a bloody clue as to how the Halo Array is supposed to work.

Halo's: pulse radius of 25,000 light years. Pulse designed to kill of any bio mass sufficent to sustain Flood infection. No food means no survival, atleast for the most part. It does not spesificly target "sentient" beings. More on that classiffication later.

Ark: large space station constructed out side the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy. Used as a safe activation point of the Halo Array. It does not act as a Halo ring itself.

The ending of Halo 3:

When the ring was activated it was unable to complete its entended purpose, meaning creating a pulse that destroys biological matter of sufficent mass for the Flood infestation. Instead it was destroyed and in so doing created an explosion area large enough to sterialize the Ark, if not out right destroy it. Thus it destroyed the Flood on that particular station.

Granted that is not confirmed data, just observational data.

However you should still do your homework and actually learn how the bloody system works before even attempting to post about it.

VaultingFrog is right, countless times through the games they mention that the Halo rings were meant to destroy life, mostly sentient. And if you didn't pick that up, Master Chief and evryone in the UNSC refer to Halo as a weapon, why would they call it a weapon if all it was going to do was destroy the flood?

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For the most part, none of these were addressed. I'm somewhat shocked, but then again not really.

ISITTHECAPTAIN:

the ark was not ment to kill the flood 

if u have played halo ce it says it was ment  to kill the floods food supply (humans and covenant) so the arks activation would have starved the flood of thier food so the forrunners could kill them easier

Thank you, Cortana. As was said previously by Vaulting Frog, the Ark was not a Halo ring in and of itself. It was more the remote detonator to the seven Halo rings put on standby in the Milky Way Galaxy should something interupt the firing sequence. It was a safehaven for the Forerunners; a "bunker" if you will- to retreat to when the rings were being preppared to fire.

That being said, the Halo array didn't send out a magical beam of Slim-Fast to starve the Flood so the Forerunners could pick them off in their mildly comatose state, as your second statement leads to believe. The Halo array kills the Flood's food source- as someone already mentioned. This would have killed the Forerunners had they stuck around, and in the year 2552, it threatened to kill Humans, Elites, Brutes, Prophets; anything with sentient thought.

 Next.

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AntonioZer0:

That is retarded.  The Halo Series is done. Bungie is discontinuing halo No more story. Yes there is ODST, however thas a prequal. Bungie said it is done with the halo series

I respectfully disagree.

Just because Bungie has finished the Halo Trilogy, is no reason for the fans to conjecture and ponder what happened next. I have no doubt that their will be a few books will be released on the subject in the future.

 Don't forget- as I'm sure most of you know- Halo: Reach in Fall 2010 and the yet-to-be-released Halo: Chronicles.

Finally;

GRUNTS PWN 123:for the record the flood are neither alive or dead or at least the parasite is alive but the body is killed 

/FACEPALM.

Now, on to my input. Are the Flood still alive? Most definitely. The Gravemind and several thousands of Combat Forms were incinerated and destroyed when the Ark took heavy damage following the destruction of Installation 04. This was, however, just on the Ark. Several questions immediately spring to mind. What condition is Earth in? Did any Flood Spore escape the tactical glassing of Africa?

There were also several planets that most likely had mid to high levels of Flood infestation. They wouldn't have been destroyed at the loss of the Gravemind, but would now be in a feral state. This means that they're nothing more than wild, albeit very dangerous, animals. There would be a mild level of concern enshrouding the Flood situation, and in a couple centuries or so another Gravemind would emerge.

That and there's also the ever present threat of them being extragalactic. 

 

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There are still more installations, we've only destroyed 1 or 2. So they are on those other installations

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Not necessarily, but it's a possibility. It's possible that Installation 04 was the only one that included a research facility for the Flood; but that's left to personal interpretation.

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The Interrogation of Ellen Anders

Halo: Archangel

The flood are still very much alive...

 

1) Graveminds quote at the end of H3 suggests this, as he said "Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is merely the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."

2) Even if the flood were destroyed in THIS galaxy, they will be back.  The flood did not originate in our system, therefore they have, in another system, achived the intergalactic stage and found this galxy.

 3)  There are most likley other flood testing facilities on other rings/ forerunner constructs.

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The flood are still very much alive...

 

1) Graveminds quote at the end of H3 suggests this, as he said "Resignation is my virtue; like water I ebb, and flow. Defeat is merely the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved... but you imposed."

2) Even if the flood were destroyed in THIS galaxy, they will be back.  The flood did not originate in our system, therefore they have, in another system, achived the intergalactic stage and found this galxy.

 3)  There are most likley other flood testing facilities on other rings/ forerunner constructs.

I find 1) to be ominous

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