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The Flood collectively learn any information contained within the minds of their sentient hosts. For example, during the ill-fated raid on the ''[[Infinite Succor]]'', after even one Sangheili was assimilated, all the Flood could open any doors and access any system on the ship immediately afterward, demonstrating the Flood's ability to share collective knowledge across their species. Furthermore, when the Flood assimilated the Prophet legate, the [[Minister of Etiology]], the Flood reflected the high-level knowledge of the Legate through its individual organisms to Special Operations Commander Rtas 'Vadumee, mocking him with the words, "''the Forerunner could not defeat us...what chance you?''". The Flood, however, reflect unusual knowledge in the individual psychologies of its individual species in processes facilitating increased infestation: The Flood were sighted gathering bodies in the corners of the Covenant ship ''Truth and Reconciliation'', perhaps making it easier for infection forms to find hosts to reanimate. The Flood were also gathering body parts for a new proto-Gravemind aboard the ''Infinite Succor''. | The Flood collectively learn any information contained within the minds of their sentient hosts. For example, during the ill-fated raid on the ''[[Infinite Succor]]'', after even one Sangheili was assimilated, all the Flood could open any doors and access any system on the ship immediately afterward, demonstrating the Flood's ability to share collective knowledge across their species. Furthermore, when the Flood assimilated the Prophet legate, the [[Minister of Etiology]], the Flood reflected the high-level knowledge of the Legate through its individual organisms to Special Operations Commander Rtas 'Vadumee, mocking him with the words, "''the Forerunner could not defeat us...what chance you?''". The Flood, however, reflect unusual knowledge in the individual psychologies of its individual species in processes facilitating increased infestation: The Flood were sighted gathering bodies in the corners of the Covenant ship ''Truth and Reconciliation'', perhaps making it easier for infection forms to find hosts to reanimate. The Flood were also gathering body parts for a new proto-Gravemind aboard the ''Infinite Succor''. | ||
Flood combat forms have been sighted crudely operating {{ | Flood combat forms have been sighted crudely operating {{Pattern|Karo'etba|Ghost}}s, [[M12 Warthog|Warthog]]s, [[Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraiths]], and [[Scorpion]]s in ground operations, although with slow deliberation and clumsy driving and accuracy. The assimilated crewmen of the [[UNSC frigate]] ''[[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]'' were also able to initiate a [[Slipspace]] micro-jump for the frigate and perform rudimentary maneuvering of the ''In Amber Clad'', navigating the frigate from the atmosphere of [[Installation 05|Delta Halo]] to ''High Charity'' and then crashing the vessel into a tower, releasing Pelican dropships to rain down upon the Covenant capital. | ||
While one of the Flood's main strengths lies in the decentralization of its compound mind and ability to be reborn from even the most carefully reduced remnant, it is nonetheless known to develop and assume a certain "core" Gravemind as an embodiment for its strategic intelligence. The Forerunners observed that the Flood exhibits a seemingly instinctive tendency to recoil and concentrate all of its otherwise distributed assets around this core when threatened on a large scale. A threat to the Flood's existence major enough to prompt such action was the imminent firing of the Halos, at which point the Flood gathered all of its available assets and launched an attack on the Ark.{{Ref/Game|H3|Detail=[[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal 3]]}} | While one of the Flood's main strengths lies in the decentralization of its compound mind and ability to be reborn from even the most carefully reduced remnant, it is nonetheless known to develop and assume a certain "core" Gravemind as an embodiment for its strategic intelligence. The Forerunners observed that the Flood exhibits a seemingly instinctive tendency to recoil and concentrate all of its otherwise distributed assets around this core when threatened on a large scale. A threat to the Flood's existence major enough to prompt such action was the imminent firing of the Halos, at which point the Flood gathered all of its available assets and launched an attack on the Ark.{{Ref/Game|H3|Detail=[[Terminal (Halo 3)|Terminal 3]]}} | ||