Phoenix Logs/Flood Lore/Combat Forms


 * Pestilent puppets.


 * Combat forms are relatively intact sentient hosts under the control of an
 * infection form that has nested within. Though sections of the host's body are
 * consumed and converted into Flood cells, some limbs and sensory organs are
 * retained to utilize available weapons, tools, vehicles, equipment, and even
 * starships. The infection form does augment its new body and repair minor
 * damage in order to better serve as a living weapon, but ultimately the combat
 * form is utterly disposable.


 * The infection form driving the host body does not feel pain or fear, though the
 * same cannot be said for the host. Worse, in some horrific circumstances the
 * infection form is unable to completely dominate the original personality and the
 * victim remains fully aware of their irrevocable transformation and use as a tool
 * of the parasite.