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Flood Cellular Biology (see also page 352, specifically Fig. 12.1, of text. Lab report is due Monday) :
Spoonjappa (spoonjoppa@yahoo.com) writes:
I've noticed a couple things about the flood and have come up with some theories concerning them. First of all, I'm going to use my terms for flood in this: The spores are candies, the carriers are pinatas, the Covenant flood are swipies and the human flood are zombies. The pinatas and candies are the only real flood. The rest come from candy parasites. Now, most people who have played any level after 343 GS knows that melee attacks simply don't work on the swipies or zombies, and neither do sniper rifles or head shots of any kind. I think this is because when the candies take over the bodies of their hosts, they begin immediately transforming all living mass into a more protist state, where all the cells work together but have pretty much the same function, instead of individual functions such as digesting, thinking, and complex stuff like that. This means that melee attacks don't really do anything because no vital organs are being damaged, because there are none. (Let's face it, it's going to take a long time to kill someone by hitting them in the arm.) This means that the most effective way to kill them is to blow them to pieces with a shotgun, rocket launcher, or grenade. Assault rifles also work by shredding them all up, but aren't as effective, and plasma weapons and lasers don't do much at all.
The "undead" never go down without a fight. Word has come down from on high in the past that the Flood do still utilize the basic life support and nervous systems of the host (id est: dead or too damaged ain't much good), but this idea still has a lot of merit. And besides, the use of descriptive vocabulary is outstanding ;)
-Finn
