: Yeah, he does seem to be going insane. I am probably being too critical about
: somethings in the story. I really like my stories to be cohesive and well
: thought out and Halo seems to want to leave somethings as mysteries... or
: maybe that was Bungie... idk =-P

Protocol. When the Flood were contained he could do whatevs, once they were free he had to stick to his programmed "containment protocol" plus, we don't know if vacuum kills Flood spores....Forerunner didn't want to risk having chunks of Halos floating around with viable Flood spores on them