Flood transport form

The Flood Transport Form, more commonly known as the Sweeper, was a Flood Pure Form. Unlike the Carrier Form, which carries and incubates Infection Forms, the transport would carry up to six unarmed Combat Forms to any particular destination.

Physical Description & Physiology
The sweeper would have had four triple-jointed limbs to move its load of troops around, and featured numerous tentacles to consume or recycle biomass, dead or alive. The sweeper also boasted a biomass re-processor that converted recently consumed biomass into rapid-growth embryos or Combat Forms.

Biomass Conversion
Before the Sweeper, or Transport Form, released its cargo, it would pass four steps, specifically:


 * 1) The Sweeper would pick up and collect any available biomass with its tentacles, whether an already assimilated Flood entity, or a sentient being.
 * 2) The biomass was then put inside of the Sweeper, and consumed for internal recycling.
 * 3) When enough biomass was consumed and processed, the Sweeper's growth pods would begin to form and then proceed to grow within the creature.
 * 4) The Sweeper would then cough up and shoot the growth pod into the air.

Trivia

 * This was seen in The Art of Halo 3, though it was cut from the retail version of Halo 3.