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[Also] ...I have got to thinking the last while that the earliest evidence of the Flood is found not on 343, but on the level Assault on the Control Room; in the large-underground-chasm-cleaved-room (which incidentally I think is a water reservoir) with 1.5 bridges. To the far right we find the dead bodies of Humans and Covenant, weapons littering the ground, as we have seen so many times before. Why is this the first sign of the Flood's presence? Well, for the first time in the game we find not only dead Marines, but Covenant, specifically Grunts and a Hunter. The fact that only one Hunter is found dead, it's "mate" no where to be found, is suspicious. The most convincing however is one Grunt in particular, who not only lies in a pool of his own blood, but has been dragged to it's present spot, as many Grunts later in the game have also been by the Flood.
Though not conclusive by any means, I still think this is a clue intentionally left to show that the Flood were released (by ???) far before the Covenant stumble upon them during the level 343 Guilty Spark.
Good eye. ;-)
While crazed, unchecked speculation is always good for the soul, a little basis in the realities of the game experience make it endlessly more interesting...
Keep it coming folks, I'm still here. :-)
-mnemesis
