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The Flood became more virulent as the infection took up more aspects; the most prominent of these was the [[logic plague]], the ability to subvert and corrupt Forerunner artificial intelligences. This metaphysical form of corruption could eventually be perpetuated by any Flood form or infected AI, and rapidly spread across the Forerunners' data networks. The Forerunner [[Juridical]]s were forced to halt all legal proceedings as their principal network and many of their primary agents—[[Catalog]]—were overtaken by the logic plague.<ref name="s214">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 214-215''</ref> Even in the final years of the war, the Forerunners were determined to salvage infested vessels and purge them of both biological and software infection wherever possible; only a minute fraction of these attempts were ultimately successful, eventually resulting in the Forerunners terminating these efforts completely and opting for complete destruction of all infected ships.<ref name="s214"/> | The Flood became more virulent as the infection took up more aspects; the most prominent of these was the [[logic plague]], the ability to subvert and corrupt Forerunner artificial intelligences. This metaphysical form of corruption could eventually be perpetuated by any Flood form or infected AI, and rapidly spread across the Forerunners' data networks. The Forerunner [[Juridical]]s were forced to halt all legal proceedings as their principal network and many of their primary agents—[[Catalog]]—were overtaken by the logic plague.<ref name="s214">'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 214-215''</ref> Even in the final years of the war, the Forerunners were determined to salvage infested vessels and purge them of both biological and software infection wherever possible; only a minute fraction of these attempts were ultimately successful, eventually resulting in the Forerunners terminating these efforts completely and opting for complete destruction of all infected ships.<ref name="s214"/> | ||
In this late stage of the war, the Flood became powerful enough to use [[neural physics]]-based technology, allowing them to take control of the numerous [[Precursor]] artifacts, such as [[star road]]s, that had lain dormant across the galaxy for millions of years. The Forerunners did not possess any formidable defense against the sheer power and destructive capability of the Precursor constructs, which were capable of effortlessly dealing widespread devastation on entire Forerunner fleets. After disabling their weapons and shields, the star roads corralled Forerunner vessels into smaller units to allow their crews to be parasitized by the Flood. Less than one half of one percent of Forerunner vessels attacked this way were able to self-destruct before they were overwhelmed.<ref name="s214"/> The Precursor constructs were also capable of manipulating space-time to become unsuitable for Forerunner slipspace travel and leaving entire fleets stranded or lost in anomalous slipspace transit.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 235-236''</ref> | In this late stage of the war, the Flood became powerful enough to use [[neural physics]]-based technology, allowing them to take control of the numerous [[Precursor]] artifacts, such as [[star road]]s, that had lain dormant across the galaxy for millions of years. The Forerunners did not possess any formidable defense against the sheer power and destructive capability of the Precursor constructs, which were capable of effortlessly dealing widespread devastation on entire Forerunner fleets. After disabling their weapons and shields, the star roads corralled Forerunner vessels into smaller units to allow their crews to be parasitized by the Flood. Less than one half of one percent of Forerunner vessels attacked this way were able to self-destruct before they were overwhelmed.<ref name="s214"/> The Precursor constructs were also capable of manipulating space-time to become unsuitable for Forerunner slipspace travel and leaving entire fleets stranded or lost in anomalous slipspace transit.<ref>'''Halo: Silentium''', ''pages 235-236''</ref> During this time, entire planets such as [[Triniel]] committed planet-wide mass suicide to deprive the Flood access to their biomass as potential hosts. The Flood would then leave the dead world untouched as there was nothing of interest on the planet for them despite entire Forerunner cities being left intact.<ref>'''[[Halo: Renegades]]''', ''pages 202-203''</ref> | ||
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