Forum:The flood and dead bodies

I'm confused whether the flood only infect alive bodies or they infectboth alive and dead bodies. In Halo1, the marine you meet before you meet the flood (with the pistol) might say he survived the flood by playing dead. According to this then that means the flood can't infect dead bodies. In halo2 though on the level "the arbiter", a elite will say when youreach a hallway filled with bodies, "We should've brung weapons to burn these bodies. Each is a potentional host for the Flood." So this leaves me confused! Can the flood infect dead bodies?


 * Maybe the Flood specifically wanted live ones in that instance. Anyway, it also says that the Flood can infect dead tissue in the HGN, so I'd count that as the proper answer. -- Dragonc laws ( talk ) 05:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd say they only infect live bodies because if they are dead then they can't move or use that living thing's energy to make more Flood. Best not to see, No bo dy ^  [Noone to talk to] + [Nothing here]  + [False Character]


 * But when the flood replace your heart when they infect u alive so either way it wouldn't matter and the flood then make there own flood and dna reactivating and using organs and tissues since in HGN they said they can infect dead tissue.

Yes. They can infect anything that is biotic (with intelligence) but if the hosts are dead, they can only become brain forms. I mean, straight from Halo CE, Keyes dies, then becomes a Brain Form and earlier in that level, the flood gather bodies. :--Kwarsh [ Talk to me! ] - [ Stuff I've done! ] 18:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * No, he became a brain form cause he held tons of valuable info for the flood. It don't matter if your dead as long as your head and upper limbs are intact (at least one arm). (maybe just the brain for the head part) idk but the head and limbs are most important.

Three Things. Caculim,fleash,torso. So a decayed body no, but a recently killed yes. Envy  Skull  Effects  00:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, it depends just HOW decayed, but yes, anything with calcium stores, sufficient muscle mass at least to build off of to produce enough strength to move, and any nerve center from where the organism can be controlled are all that are needed for a body to become a Flood host. As for the weird marine guy crazyness thing, I think Bungie just shoved him in to scare you, creep you out, stuff like that, and maybe didn't really pay attention to the story aspect. G ü é ß Ł ¥ -∏ <font color="#6666ff">é <font color="#3333ff">Ґ <font color="#0000ff">∫ <font color="#0000cc">ø <font color="#000066">ñ <font color="#000000">¥ -<font color="#000000">† <font color="#007700">ħ <font color="#00cc00">î <font color="#00ff00">И <font color="#44ff44">g <font color="#99ff99">¥  05:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you guys for telling me! That's what I thought to that it had to be fresh.


 * I think that the dead bodies become brain forms. Remember High Charity? They were laying on the side as if sum1 got mutated whilst laying on the floor, obviusly dead asthey wud become combat forms if they were alive.


 * that's just flood infection forms hibernating.


 * Yes, some dead bodies do become brain forms. Others become combat forms. On Two Betrayals, near the bottom of the pyramid, there's a rocket launcher and a health pack next to two Flood combat forms. They just hadn't been resurrected yet, but they were dead, and they didn't become brain forms. <font color="#000000">G <font color="#770000">ü <font color="#cc0000">é <font color="#ff0000">ß <font color="#ff3333">Ł <font color="#ff6666">¥ -<font color="#9999ff">∏ <font color="#6666ff">é <font color="#3333ff">Ґ <font color="#0000ff">∫ <font color="#0000cc">ø <font color="#000066">ñ <font color="#000000">¥ -<font color="#000000">† <font color="#007700">ħ <font color="#00cc00">î <font color="#00ff00">И <font color="#44ff44">g <font color="#99ff99">¥  04:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)