Did the precursors create the flood?

It was later revealed that the Flood was not a creation of the Precursors, but the Precursors' perverted and insane remains of themselves. The dust that humanity had discovered that led to the birth of the Flood threat was one of the failsafe measures the Precursors put into place to try and avoid their extinction.
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Why did the precursors become the flood?

However, over millions of years, the dust became defective, failing to reconstitute the Precursors and instead inducing madness and mutations in lifeforms that came in contact with it. This form would later be known as the Flood.
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Who created the Flood in Halo?

According to Halo lore, the Flood is a product of a war between the Forerunners and the Precursors. Some Precursors, who lost the war, were turned into regenerative dust that created horrific mutations. The remaining Precursors assimilated into this newfound corruption.
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Did the precursors create the universe?

No, they did not create the universe, or in any way influenced the events leading to the creation.
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Did the precursors create humanity?

After leaving Universe One, the Precursors used Primal technology to create Universe Two, where they settled in the Milkly Way Galaxy. They placed Zeban just near the center, and created the Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Sangheili, Mgalekgolo, Jiralhanae, Yanme'e, San'Shyuum, Humanity and the Forerunners.
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Precursors' History | Origins of the Flood (Halo Lore)



Are precursors the endless?

A popular theory going around at the moment is that The Endless are either disciples of the Precursors out for revenge or may even just be the Precursors themselves. Along those same lines, some fans believe that the Harbinger is ultimately trying to resurrect the Precursors (and potentially The Flood alongside them).
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Is the Gravemind the primordial?

Now synonymous with the Gravemind, the Primordial had ensured its consciousness would survive for as long as the Flood prevailed.
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Did the precursors create the Forerunners?

They can theoretically accelerate the evolution of all intelligent life and travel across galaxies. They also created the system that Forerunners used for storing information known as the Domain.
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Are any precursors alive Halo?

iirc it's mentioned that all but a few Precursors were killed in the Forerunner-Precursor war, the survivors either turned themselves into what would become the flood or escaped to another galaxy.
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Is the harbinger A precursor?

Count the fingers! So, The Harbinger is not a Prelate (we think). Here's another early days theory: she's a Precursor. The Precursors are Halo's OG race, a collection of Lovecraftian beings so ancient and advanced even the Forerunners mythologised them.
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Are the flood on Zeta Halo?

Zeta Halo was actually the site where numerous experiments by the Forerunners on the Flood took place, and when the ring was lost it was basically conquered by the Flood, with multiple proto-Graveminds on its surface.
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Are hunters immune to the flood?

The reason Hunters cannot be infected with the Flood is the Hunters are not one creature. They are a lot of little worms that form into one big killing machine, and so, do not have a central nervous system.
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Are the precursors extinct Subnautica?

Soon afterwards, it can be assumed that the Precursors went extinct, with only their research and structures to be found in the future.
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Are Flood in Halo infinite?

While the terrifying parasite didn't directly appear in the Halo Infinite campaign, players did notice that in the game's second level, Foundation, a Forerunner cylix labelled with a Flood Infection Form symbol could be found in a secret room (thanks, HiddenXperia).
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Why did the Forerunners betray the precursors?

In response to the change of power, the Forerunners launched a brutal revenge strike against the Precursors for stripping them of the Mantle. Despite the Precursors' superiority in almost every way, the Forerunner betrayal took them completely by surprise.
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Why did the Forerunner keep the flood?

This was discussed in the Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals. 343 Guilty Spark says that the Librarian decided to save them. She did this because of Ancient Humanities victory over the Flood 10,000 years before the Halos were fired.
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How did the flood survive Halo?

"Anything with sufficient biomass or cognitive capability to sustain them". So somehow, when the Halos activate, they target only large creatures, and creatures with sentience. The Flood are immune to the firings of the Halo. However, without food to sustain them, they went into deep hibernation.
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How was the Gravemind created?

Life Cycle. A Gravemind starts out as a Proto-Gravemind—a Flood form created by merging the bodies and biomass of numerous sentient life forms; some Flood forms may also be repurposed and merged into the Proto-Gravemind.
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Is primordial in Zeta Halo?

While firing the Halo as part of a test, the Forerunners of Zeta Halo inadvertently released another Flood Gravemind known as "the Primordial" from its ancient prison. Not realizing what they had found, the Forefunners brought the Primordial to Zeta Halo as a captive.
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Is Gravemind a villain?

Type of Villain

The Gravemind is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Prophet of Truth) of the original Halo trilogy. It is a parasitic hive-mind intelligence and the leader of The Flood. The Gravemind is a collection of the sentience and knowledge that has been gathered by the victims of the Flood.
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Is the Didact a Forerunner?

Shadow-of-Sundered-Star, more commonly known as the Ur-Didact (Ur- meaning original), was a Forerunner Promethean who held an extremely high status in the Forerunner society as supreme commander of the entire Forerunner military.
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What is worse than the Flood in Halo Infinite?

So There is only one way in truth that the Harbinger, endless, ext., Yatta, Yatta… can be worse than the flood… That is if it becomes it. During halo 2 the Gravemind says “Now I shall talk, and you shall listen”. In the audio logs in infinite that same line is repeated to a marine by the harbinger.
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Is the Master Chief a Forerunner?

MC is human, so Guilty Spark refered to him as a forerunner.
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