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The Flood, Lysogenics, And You
Posted By: Sardaukar [Pants 138] <jmbt_chopsocky@yahoo.com>	Date: 3/7/05 3:07 p.m.
This is my premier post here... I've read the FAQ's (mostly) and've read a number of topics, and I hope that this is the right place to post Halo Story stuff (couldn't find any other forums; please move if otherwise) I emailed this awhile back, but have decided to just post it here so I can fluff it. Sorry if I caused any logistics messes... Everything in this post is subject to change as proved contradictions come; that's why I'm posting it... I hate misinformation, especially when I'm the one wielding it. Offtopic; could someone include a link to the picture of the Forerunner Console that gives us reason to infer that they have six fingers? I was wondering if they do indeed have five, and that the lines which we see as fingers were actually outlines of the finger placements. I'd have to see it again to be sure... thanks in advance. *'s and ^'s refer to footnotes at the bottom of the text. That stuff is most likely to be what I have erroneously mentioned, knowing my luck. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assuming that Earth is the Ark, and that Forerunner Technology far outperforms anything used by Humanity or the Covenant, what if the Forerunner did achieve a sort of salvation as sought by the Covenant, but only in it's name; what if they discovered a way to imbed their agenda and some knowledge into the cells which would one day re-evolve into humanity, after the Halo Weapon network annihilated all sentient life in the galaxy? This would explain a great number of things; such as why Humanity is innovative rather than adaptive, and why we have made so much progress so quickly, 'on our own'*, but more importantly, why we (or at least, Spartan 117) instinctively know what to press on a comepletely 'alien' Forerunner console to activate a lightbridge; it explains why our original MJOLNIR armor is recognized by GS343**. I believe, that in the Halo fiction, the reason the Flood were preserved and studied were for reasons of emulating the nature of a virus. Suppose that before their discovery, Viral organisms were an unknown thing. The Forerunner may have been fighting more than one war while they studied the Flood, or were faced by some equally gravitic situation that foreshadowed their eventual doom (it could still have been the Flood), so the Forerunner did the cleverest thing: They successfully emulated viral nature, and implanted their abstract agendas, qualities, etc, into a cellular format***, and then created a virus that employed a nonlethal form of the Lysogenic Viral cycle^ that would be scattered on Earth along with root cells which would later become all life on Earth. These viral bodies would remain mostly dormant, awaiting a biologial signal for the proper host to become the successor to the Forerunners, but some would definitely malfunction and mutate into the myriad forms of disease we have today. Sooner or later, Homo Erectus would emerge, and the still-pure Forerunner-Virus would activate, injecting the abstract essence of the Forerunners into humanity. As time went on, certain events would serve as the stimuli to activate a particular part of the injected DNA, such as a morbid interest in flight and spaceflight emerging from the proper present technology and resources, themselves urged on by other stimuli^^. Thus, the containment of the Flood for study is explained and the uncanny familiarity between Forerunner items and Humans is explained. -Sardaukar * (this in itself is a modern miracle- in less than a century we went from controlled aeroflight to controlled spaceflight- but this would tie it into the Halo Story) ** (althought it was 'merely' Mark V at the time, when by 'standards' it should have been a Mark XII) *** (this is actually a somewhat proven thing; modern scientists are in strong favor now that your personality is at least 50% genetically inherited, feel free to correct me if I am wrong) ^ (A viral body latches onto a cell and injects it's genetic information, which then works itself into the host cell's genetic data. The host cell is then otherwise unnaffected, and left free to reproduce, but in doing so it spreads the altered genetic data, until at some point an outside stimulus sets off the data and the cell is reprogrammed to mass produce more viral bodies until the cell bursts and dies. In this application, such a grisly end is not included. Just the stimulus doing something) ^^ (the entire system really would be like this, really, just built like a ladder so that if one thing didn't work right away, then the system wouldn't progress out of sync and ruin Humanity. Think of it as the perfect build order in an RTS game, only biologically)

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The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 3:07 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Jillybean	3/7/05 3:22 p.m.
SearchNazi.	Chester the Destroyer	3/7/05 3:31 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 3:43 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Series III (MetalSilver)	3/7/05 3:37 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 3:47 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Paladin-117	3/7/05 3:50 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Series III (MetalSilver)	3/7/05 3:55 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Gordon Freeman	3/7/05 4:00 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Series III (MetalSilver)	3/7/05 4:26 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Gordon Freeman	3/7/05 3:48 p.m.
Very good thoughts...	58	3/7/05 4:12 p.m.
Re: Very good thoughts...	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 4:30 p.m.
Re: Very good thoughts...	58	3/7/05 5:08 p.m.
Re: Very good thoughts...	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 5:46 p.m.
Re: Very good thoughts...	58	3/7/05 5:57 p.m.
So, Basically, We Stole The Forerunners' Mojo	Steve	3/7/05 4:36 p.m.
Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And You	Pvt. Jenkins	3/7/05 6:44 p.m.
Yes. *NM*	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/7/05 6:54 p.m.
Re: Yes.	Pvt. Jenkins	3/7/05 7:14 p.m.
re-evolve, bad choice	scarab	3/8/05 8:00 a.m.
But evolution's not even a good theory in RL... *NM*	58	3/8/05 9:18 a.m.
Re: re-evolve, bad choice	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/8/05 2:40 p.m.
what Lysogenic means	scarab	3/8/05 8:13 a.m.
Re: what Lysogenic means	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/8/05 2:50 p.m.
Re: what Lysogenic means ADDENDUM	Sardaukar [Pants 138]	3/8/05 2:58 p.m.