What is a Flood Spore?

Flood Spores are the most basic of Flood forms that are crucial in the formation of Flood hives. Spores are also used as methods of suffocating future hosts and clearing the area of uninfected hostiles. It is not known if spores take a specific form or if they are just any type of floating Flood biomass.

How big is a Flood Spore?

It would seem that the Flood spore is relatively large in size, perhaps from 3-5cm in diameter (about 1-2 inches) and due to its advanced genetic structures (the ability to form into a number of different structures to benefit a hive community) the fungal spore would most likely be larger, as the Flood organism exists ...

How do Flood Infection Forms work?

The largest self-contained form that the Flood can produce itself without using other biomass is an "infection form". These forms seeks hosts, living or dead, and attempt to drive sharp spines into the host and thereby tap into the nervous system.

Is the flood a virus?

The Flood (Latin Inferi redivivus, meaning "the dead reincarnated") the Parasite, as they are known to the Covenant, as the Shaping Sickness, by the Ancient Humans, are a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms that can reproduce and grow by consuming sentient life forms of sufficient biomass and cognitive ...

What created the flood?

The Flood's Backstory

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.

Halo Lore: How one single Flood spore can destroy a species

Are the flood still alive?

Even though the Gravemind was destroyed, and all Flood on the Ark apparently eradicated, the Flood still existed on the other Halo rings (excluding Installation 05 which was sterilized by Sangheili forces) and other remaining Forerunner installations.

Why is Johnson immune to the flood?

The Flood attempted to infect Johnson but he was able to shrug off the effects due to the complications of his Boren's Syndrome.

How did gravemind get on High Charity?

Though he promises an alliance, Gravemind has ulterior motives. His Flood infest the human ship In Amber Clad and makes a slipspace jump into High Charity itself, in an effort to use the station to escape the confines of Halo.

What is the strongest Flood Halo?

What controls the flood Halo?

(Seen in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo Wars) Coordinated stage is when the Flood becomes truly dangerous; they are now controlled by the Gravemind that was created in the first stage. (Seen in Halo 2)

Can the flood infect Spartans?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them.

Can the flood infect dead?

Infection forms can be dispatched with a single shot from any weapon (heat is most effective), but can easily overwhelm in large numbers. Infection Forms can reanimate disabled Combat Forms and infect deceased bodies.

Can Master Chief be infected by the flood?

In Halo: The Flood, Master Chief almost becomes infected by an infection form when it penetrates into his chest and almost manages to reach his spine. In The Mona Lisa, a Marine was slashed by a Combat Form and was infected that way.

Why can't the flood infect grunts?

Those are the "tank" varient of a flood pure form. Hunters cannot be infected because they lack a central nervous system. Also, jackals and grunts do not have enough biomass to be converted into combat forms. They are either broken down and turned into infection forms, or combined into a carrier form.

Why didn't the gravemind infect Master Chief?

The Gravemind has no real reason to kill the Chief, Humanity has no weapon that can destroy the Flood that is already so far spread as it is on Installation 05 and Humanity wants to stop the Halo's.

Are the flood on Zeta Halo?

Nope. Allusions are made in the early chapters of the Halo Infinite campaign that Zeta Halo hides a threat that stands to be far worse than the Flood. And the creepy parasitic species does not appear in any capacity.

Can you get sick from walking in flood water?

Be aware that floodwater may contain sewage, and eating or drinking anything contaminated by floodwater can cause diarrheal disease (such as E. coli or Salmonella infection).

Can you get sick from cleaning up flood water?

NSW Health has today issued advice for people in flood-affected areas as they enter the clean-up phase. Acting Director of Environmental Health, Dr Adi Vyas said there were a variety of environmental health risks following flooding, particularly as floodwater may be contaminated with sewage and chemicals.

What diseases come from flood water?

In addition, flooded areas may contain electrical or fire hazards connected with downed power lines. Floodwater often contains infectious organisms, including intestinal bacteria such as E. coli, salmonella, and shigella; hepatitis A virus; and agents of typhoid, paratyphoid and tetanus.

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.

What do the halo rings do?

In the games' stories, the Forerunners built the Halo Array to contain and study the Flood, an infectious alien parasite. The rings act together as a weapon of last resort; when fired, they kill all sentient life in the galaxy capable of falling prey to the Flood, thereby starving the parasite of its food.