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February 9, 2002

There are a number of different Flood/Forerunner/Covenant/Human theories out there - some have been submitted to us here and some are to be found in the HBO forum. James Altman poses an interesting hypothesis for us here.

James Altman (JediJames2@msn.com) writes:

The question that has been brought up many times is why the Forerunner did not just outright destroy the Flood, as opposed to destroying all other life in the universe.† Perhaps, and like I said, this is a long shot, perhaps the Forerunner are the Flood.† Stick with me for a minute.† What if the Flood began as some sort of disease that infected some members of the Forerunner species, and, instead of killing those that were infected, the rest of the Forerunners just sent them off to the Halos to be studied, looking for a cure.† What if, having not yet found a cure, the rest of the Forerunners are infected.† Before being infected, they program the Sentinels and the Monitors of the installations to keep trying to find the cure, and, if the Flood is somehow released, to destroy all life in the universe that could be infected by the Flood, as opposed to killing the Flood, which would, in fact, be as if they are committing suicide.

It would explain why the Forerunner decided to keep the Flood around, yet many other questions still remain unanswered. Who has the answers? You?

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