How the Flood caused the fall of High Charity

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Today I thought we’d look back at one of the Flood’s most recent achievements, and one that actually has some future significance - the Fall of High Charity!
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[@HiddenXperia]

Moral of the story: Flood > Everything

[@saulw6270]

HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! If the gravemind could teleport chief to high charity why not flood forms

[@saulw6270]

HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! QUESTION DID HUMANITY NOT COLONIZE MARS!!? But it could teraform other way far away planets

[@saulw6270]

scs1156320 ohhhh genius

[@unscbattlegroupsierra3kurt743]

HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! Can you do a video of how sanghili speak English with their mandibles and no toung and also how sanghili when born their mandibles are connected then open when mad

[@eaglejesus4351]

What if cortana had like an incomplete logic plague and was like constantly fighting it and one of her fragments couldn't handle the logic plague and then it got cured of its rampancy or something and still was effected by the logic plague

[@AWolfe-ho1fh]

This would actually be a fantastic setting for a flood horror game. Being like, an elite minor, or a released marine prisoner, surviving inside High Charity for the 38 or so days of it being infected, going down the Commons area, and other Covenant civilian structures, with each day leading to more flood biomassed areas, and stronger flood foes, with less or more... 'rebelized' Covenant soldiers like the SPV3 had with their remade flood levels. More or less the goal would otherly be, find a space worthy vehicle to escape the flooded city, or lone wolf style, survive as long as you can. What do you guys think about this idea?

[@atomicthagamer4257]

Paladin Leeroy spores would kill you in a month

[@aeronautisch]

Yeah, people could make this possible in Halo: Custom Edition.. People have made custom campaigns before so this wouldn't be entirely impossible right? The people who have made SPV3 could make this come true!

[@arbiteras]

how about a game where you have a halo rpg and visit High Charity as hub? Fully explorable so we can have some idea of what it used to be

[@ants7279]

Have you ever read the Novel Death Tropers its basicaly what your decribing its realy dam good trust me its worth the purchace on Audiobook I swear it.

[@MiGLifeCrisis]

its not happening

[@rosesera2202]

20 million people used to live in this city, now it's a ghost town.

[@stormclash7193]

Slow claps

[@thegreatcannoli189]

November 2552, never forget

[@takeusernname]

High Charity is my city

[@tiagoteixeira7517]

Actually, it is 20 million San Shyumm and 7 billion covenant menials, check halopedia

[@reichtangle7734]

Tiago Teixeira have you ever played cod 4? And hiddenexperia said there was 20 million plus.

[@lothric3362]

I still remember that mission where you look up into the sky to see High Charity and the covenant fleet real nostalgia there

[@greaterhalo0659]

Okay remove that fucking hentai profile pic

[@moose7145]

@@greaterhalo0659 one year and still there lol

[@leonard_church]

J. Jonah Jameson aren’t you supposed to be yelling at Parker to get pictures of Spider-Man?

[@SuperiorBat-te3ff]

@J. Jonah Jameson Could you at least pay Peter in advance

[@supersonic20091]

@J. Jonah Jameson But what are you gonna pay him for? Sitting there in his apartment?

[@ethanwagner6418]

Prophet of Truth: *watches as the Covenant fights itself on High Charity instead of fighting the flood. Morgan Freeman: It was at that moment that he knew: he fucked up.

[@macruz8503]

Ethan Wagner: 😭😂👆🏽 this comment!

[@agent66thewolflingagent23]

Ethan Wagner good job

[@bromodragone8405]

Actually, I don't think he cared.

[@MrKILLINOOBZ]

@@bromodragone8405 by that point he started to go more insane than before

[@JohnSmith-qy2fh]

The real question is why the Gravemind crashed his giant mobile base into the Ark. Seriously, if I had a giant base of operations, I wouldn't crash it into something.

[@deepfryingdory9496]

John Smith that is a good question...

[@spartz117]

If they didn't all life would've been eradicated quite easily, given the gravemind wouldn't have enough units to infiltrate the control room nor would he have gotten direct contact with Master Chief and Arbiter to go soft on them just long enough

[@edgardeloera2874]

John Smith Two words...insurance scam. The gravemine was having issues after its devorce, lost both his kids in a costudy battle with his bitch wife, also lost his home and nice 2004 ford truck. He needed Money to hire a hit man to kill his bitch wife and her lover. His insurance payed for the "accident" .

[@weeerazer3099]

United Nations Space Command Still trying to find me?

[@ShibaInuMochi]

Given that it's the Gravemind, they wanted to crash it into the Ark so it could spread it's infection making it their ultimate goal. Keep in mind that the Ark also has countless life forms, space and technology to thrive.

[@urriso7538]

Had the great schisim never happened, the flood would have lost quickly. The Gravemind must have known about what was happening when Tartarus tried to kill Thel. Had the prophets not been retarded, High Charity would never have fallen, and most likely taken itsself, and the entire fleet, to earth and finished humanity off.

[@spartz117]

Lots can happen with a religiously insane empire you know. Hence why the covenant didn't destroy the Pillar of Autumn during the boarding party, and why they kicked off one of the most tactically advanced commanders of their fleet Thel Vaduum, or, for short, The Arbiter

[@urriso7538]

True.

[@weeerazer3099]

Its Thel 'Vadam.

[@willieearles3151]

Urriso Meh, had the prophets not been retarded, the war probably would've been to assimilate humanity into the covenant, not kill humanity completely.

[@urriso7538]

Zack Mck Humanity was originally going to be assimulated. The very first encounter was I think with drones and brutes, and somehow a marine pissed off a brute. It's been forever since I read Contact Harvest, so I might be wrong.

[@themadspartan]

"Alas brother the flood.. it has evolved"-swords elite officer..

[@weeerazer3099]

Glad your not a Petty Officer

[@4realm8rusirius]

master chief john117 another faker

[@chadmcelroy4194]

master chief john117 What? The Flood is Evolving?

[@PolskiHetman]

master chief john117 the real chief is above

[@shadowguy321]

This just makes Cortana's gambit in Halo 3 all the bigger. The Sangheilli could never hold quarantine around High Charity indefinitely, if they screwed up just once it would be Galactic extinction, hell they did screw up once, hence why a carrier got to Earth. Cortana using the torture the Gravemind inflicted on her to get it overconfident and send its entire army of flood to the Ark, that is next level. Like seriously, she outsmarted a freaking Gravemind! Damn girl, that is not easy! Bigger AI have tried and failed

[@habibainunsyifaf6463]

high charity is the flood's galactic all you can infect buffet

[@naverilllang]

Most buffets aren't cleaned out in a single sitting...

[@bbarbiter]

Nathan Lang we're talking about the flood here

[@ImperialistJoe]

"Heh" [infects ur city] "nothin personnel kid" -precursors or something

[@amanem6857]

Its a pity, High charity seemed a Fantastic City, The only one I know Where the Covenant Used to live together and The most Advanced, I would like to see another covenant City :/

[@weeerazer3099]

Yeah that would be cool

[@eikh1682]

Yup thats what I said. legit a sad story of how they lost their home, I hope they'll build another one

[@bywyjimma]

Amane Montoya can't be another covenant city because the covenant doesn't exist anymore

[@jedigamer9935]

What about a city built in cooperation between Humans and Sangheli.

[@amanem6857]

I forgot I commented on this :v

[@andresherrera2902]

I remember how in Halo wars 2 how most of the Banished forces never believed the parasite was a real thing. I guess there wasn't a lot of survivors to tell the tale

[@greaterhalo0659]

Can you imagine a flood infected super star destroyer crashing on corsaunt in star wars?

[@majorchief8424]

Coruscant vs Flood, now that would be sheer chaos

[@connoroneal7405]

well I hope you're there to help deal with it

[@thesilliestgoose5990]

Darth Vader it would basically be Flood heaven with over 10 billion potential hosts

[@majorchief8424]

Can Darth Vader be infected by flood?

[@weeerazer3099]

The question is How many Flood would Vader kill before they infect him?

[@kremitthetaco8725]

He attac He protec but most importantly *He infec*

[@bromodragone8405]

True

[@iliadnetfear2586]

By the Rings...

[@robertemerson9109]

I know that from somewhere.

[@canceldeez8923]

He cannot spell

[@olafvikingul]

but most importantly he mis jok

[@alexiel4406]

I like the idea that Cortana is acting on her last thought during rampancy before she found the domain, that thought being “have to protect John” and what better way of protecting a solider then by making there be no wars ergo take over the galaxy

[@adigo720]

How I C O N I C was the battle though?

[@HiddenXperia]

pretty ｉｃｏｎｉｃ considering it happened in the classic art style and involved the Flood :^)

[@sajjior1175]

HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! Thats iconic

[@quirkyadventures1722]

I know everybody hates the covenant but this kinda sucks... Just imagine all the information lost, that station must have housed the entire history of the covenant and all the races living on it and when the flood infected all that information would be lost, also all the logs and data of all the people living there... that would have been lost and all of those people and generations of information would be lost forever

[@calebsmith6202]

High Charity was only one city out of the hundreds of planets and installations like it. I'm sure that an empire as vast as the Covenant had backups of their history.

[@Mr-Ad-196]

Science FictioNation ahhh I forgotten that the grave mind is like a giant living memory card with a ☁ save system

[@ColoradoStreaming]

Well, if you think about it- if the Covenant succeeded then they all would have died anyway. Its like they turned the Halo rings into a giant cool-aid dispenser.

[@adamgray1753]

Yeah really, @J. Jonah Jameson. Such people help to form the very basis of diplomacy.

[@Krfification101]

It's like the tragedy at Ossus, or the burning of the library of Alexandria.

[@TheGarrett27]

Never thought the flood would be powerful enough to infect all of high charity... (200 MILES!! WTF??)

[@lothric3362]

TheGarrett 27 20 Million living there too holy shit

[@o_o-037]

All those civilians; men, women, children, animals. Oh God.

[@Arendelft]

Just remember a lot of that was open space.

[@solowingborders3239]

( O_〉O)? I think you mean: And not just the men, and the women, and the children too.

[@yeaiamtrill]

Double A Batteries I KILLED ALL OF THEM

[@MyWorkingOut]

Elite: ok grunts u flank the green spartan ok Grunts: -follow the elite- Follow the leader follow the leader That was the true fall of the high charity

[@weeerazer3099]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

[@MyWorkingOut]

Grunt: oh crap Ima get a promotion oMG Omg OMg -gets shot in the head-

[@HiddenXperia]

Masterchief: "Boo" Entire Grunt force within the Covenant: *Manically runs around with hands in the air*

[@MyWorkingOut]

-Hunters come- Grunt: Follow the new leader Master Cheif: -hits hunters in the back- yeah there is no leader anymore

[@weeerazer3099]

I am their Leader now

[@John.T.]

How the Flood caused the fall of High Charity. They entered Hight Charity.

[@ENRAGEDAustin11]

I don't understand the whole Mars portal thing. Why did 343 write that in? It's just silly. High Charity has slipspace capabilities, and Cortana clearly knew about the Ark according to her message in Halo 3 in Floodgate. Why not just make the story simple and say the Gravemind got the coordinates for the Ark from Cortana? Not all this BS about a second portal just inconspicuously opening up on Mars as well. I mean, High Charity had to use Slipspace to get to mars so why not just cut out the Mars bit? I mean, if Flood infected High Charity got to mars, why didn't it send any dispersal pods there? Why didn't it swarm earth with dispersal pods while it was passing through the neighborhood? The Mars portal thing is just...bad writing.

[@ethanwagner6418]

ENRAGEDAustin11 it actually takes a long time to get to the Ark without a portal. Even with a portal, the trip is long. I believe the book Hunters in the Dark implies that the trip through the portal took a month or so. I imagine that a normal trip through slipspace could last years.

[@ethanwagner6418]

chris pearson yeah see I didn't have any exact numbers.

[@Omni601]

ENRAGEDAustin11 It's not really bad writing if you knew the fact that slipspacing across a fucking Galaxy would take a whole entire 8 to something months or even weeks. It was smart and the whole pod thing was to save it for the attack on the Ark, they needed everything they had to make sure they were available to infect the Ark, a bigger and better option. If I was a Gravemind, I would do the same because I rather use my army to infect a bigger construction than just Earth, what's not to say they would have fail? PS. It's just pretty obvious my dude

[@ENRAGEDAustin11]

PearlyGreat Cortana was only exposed to the Gravemind for around 30 days. Nowhere near 8 months. Also it only takes humans, with inferior slipspace technology, around 2 months to get to the Ark as confirmed in Halo Hunters in the Dark. Since Covenant tech is better, the trip would be even less. Also it didn't take anywhere near 8 months for the In Amber Clad in Halo 2 to get to Installation 05, which was basically across the fucking galaxy from earth. Also, in Halo 3, the Gravemind sent an entire fucking Covenant Cruiser infected with flood to earth. If he truly needed every last bit of flood to infect the Ark he'd definitely need that. Not to mention the fact that that cruiser had a Gravemind on it, since it was talking to chief during that mission. And since he had already sent an entire cruiser with thousands of flood on it to earth, it would really not be hard at all to spare a few pods to send to earth or even mars if he was passing through. But the Ark didn't have a population of intelligent life so why would he pass up infecting earth and its entire population if he had the chance? It would have been incredibly easy to do if high charity was in the Earths Solar System. Point being, if he could spare a cruiser, than he could easily spare a couple hundred pods to infect a defenseless earth. That, and if it takes humans only 2 months to get to earth, than High Charity, with its superior slipspace technology would be able to do it much quicker.

[@beardthedog865]

Powers make mistakes or over assume.

[@gmisael2957]

Does anyone know what happened to the arbiters masoleum after the flood took over? Maybe those body's got infected or something.

[@deranemira7230]

i have the same idea army of flood arbiter 👻👻

[@weeerazer3099]

*THEL!*

[@gmisael2957]

chris pearson just read that on halo wiki lol that would've been cool

[@PolskiHetman]

chris pearson damn I would have liked if Chief was on Installation 05 and Arbiter fought those

[@victorm222]

You can see the mausoleum of the arbiters as an easter egg but that's about it

[@truestarwarsfan2347]

2:33 This is one of my Favorite storylines in Halo 2, the Civil War between the Brutes and Elites, it’s so interesting, and it’s funny that the Covenant couldn’t fight the Flood very effectively because they were fighting each other. I Love the mission where the Covenant fight each other on High Charity, it is one of the Best Missions ever.

[@vincentellenrieder]

Gosh I love Halo 2's soundtrack

[@aj-ij7pd]

Remake or classic?

[@tastycookiechip]

@@aj-ij7pd classic

[@emilc3528]

Gets me every time seeing the flood infect high charity in 2 then seeing it in 3 fully infected knowing whoever was on it fought to there last breath while still having a civil war

[@furiousfinch1587]

I figure that when the Gravemind figured out none of his ships would be able to make it out of Delta Halo's area without being run down by the Elite fleets (which, even if the Gravemind sent ships slipspace from inside High Charity itself, would be trackable anyway, as the Covenant have always had that technology), he decided to scrap a shitfuck of wreckages within High Charity itself to replace the Keyship Dreadnaught's power and make High Charity mobile again. Capitalizing on the surprise of the Elites, and knowing where the Keyship had been headed, he took High Charity to the alternate portal and launched High Charity to the Ark to prevent galaxy-wide containment protocol, simply not having the time or freedom of choice to leave behind infection vectors on Mars or back at Delta Halo. Not enough time, Elites hot on his heels. Fortunately for him, he knew how to open that portal and how to _close the portal behind him,_ preventing the Elite response force from trailing High Charity to the Ark and cooking it off the installation from the sky with glassings, and leaving the Elites back at Mars with their thumbs up their asses.

[@danielleighton4161]

I always loved how in the mission Cortana, the room you find cortana in is the same as the one in halo 2 where truth and mercy talk to the arbiter about getting the index.

[@Y.2khAnimations]

LNG vid : I sleep Hiddenexperia vid : stay woke 🤤

[@Y.2khAnimations]

scs1156320 how come

[@HiddenXperia]

LOOOOOL KZbin civil war incoming

[@lothric3362]

YSF_117 Real shit?!

[@kaguyashinomiya5937]

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[@Julianrocker200]

YSF_117 both are great halo youtubers

[@vincentbedard4267]

I would love an animation or a comic that gives more details on how the infection of High Charity went from the perspective of the covenant .

[@EastWoodGrap]

Flood sees dead elite. Flood *Its Free Real Estate*

[@taleseylad1249]

oh my goodness! lol. but that is true though

[@159tb]

High charity is my favorite place in the halo universe. It has so much mystery and greatness. It has so many places that were unexplored that would've been cool. Halo 2 has the best locations in the halo universe in my opinion

[@abelwyans4907]

5:14 That transition was GOLD

[@HiddenXperia]

+Abel Wyans THANK YOU I'M SO HAPPY SOMEONE NOTICED THIS LOL

[@abelwyans4907]

HiddenXperia - The home of Halo 5 lore videos! No. Thank YOU for noticing me... ...noticing your comment. 🤤

[@sammzz]

@@HiddenXperia it was so good I even thought it was part of the original vid :O

[@JAMMYJUDE123]

The Gravemind is really similar to the Master from the first fallout

[@greaterhalo0659]

Jude Summone true

[@derekmensch3601]

Jude Summone kinda. Except the gravemind is a culmination of the intelligence of millions. While the master is FEV mgee. (I agree with you i just really wanted to write FEV mgee)

[@GuiltySpark-ud2jq]

No.

[@PackHunter117]

Why haven't we seen anything about the Forerunner portal on Mars? I didn't even know Mars had a Forerunner portal.

[@RGBCLIPS461]

Im watching all of your old videos. I love see your channel change over the years, getting better and better Keep it up!

[@slicer940]

Ok 2 things I wanna say and speculate on. First the UNSC In Amber clad had almost all of its troops deployed to the library and the sentinel wall. They were all infected and most likely ambushed arriving pelicans. Or seeing as how the gravemind teleported the chief aboard high charity he was probably able to teleport flood onto the human ship as well seeing as it was much closer to the ring than high charity was. Second I know in halo 3 the flood infected ship that crashed on earth made a few jumps in system as well and it was even stated that high charity jumped to mars orbit before jumping to the ark. So I'm curious if the gravemind deployed any flood to mars as well as a backup or to hide there. If you really know halo lore then you'd know what I'm talking about.

[@rachupranger9306]

Something I always wondered about in the Cortana level at high charity was how did an ODST got on high charity with the flamethrower? Also, where did the pelican come from that chief, Cortana, and arbiter flew off with lol.

[@ketchup2147]

must of been from the infected In Amber Clad when it crashed in High Chairty

[@ATP2555ify]

"How Miranda Keyes caused the fall of High Charity" should be the title

[@bbarbiter]

yeah honestly imagine parking your frigate right above a highly dangerous quarantine zone absolutely brimming with flood?

[@GundamReviver]

Still a shame, I loved me some in Amber clad ship design

[@landrysaathoff2418]

To be fair, I don’t think she knew it was quarantined. If anything, it’s Arby’s fault for lowering the shield. Blame could be shifted even further than that, and we’d be here all day doing it.

[@FalloutGuy22]

I think its mostly Truths fault to be fair. If he hadn't started the Great Schism when he did, either the Gravemind would have gotten himself and Master Chief killed on High Charity, or the Gravemind would have had to abandon his plan.

[@shanemurphy3186]

It’d be fun to have a Halo version of Empire At War where you play a mission as the Elites trying to quarantine High Charity. I can definitely imagine Shipmasters desperately trying to move their ships into position to cut off escaping Flood vessels trying to run the blockade

[@XelitexX360]

It was kinda weird there were so many human flood forms on High Charity when it got infected, perhaps because chief was close to the crash site but still I think Bungie should had made it for the human forms to be the few ones present there.

[@adolfgaming1761]

High Charity: *Exists* Flood: *Im about to end this whole mans Career*

[@farmfirecracker25]

Elite: we are invisible. Flood combat form: are you sure about that

[@linkkicksu]

I'd love to see a "director's cut" version of Halo 3 where you get to see the Gravemind.

[@bromodragone8405]

Technically, you are seeing him. The Combat Forms, Pure Forms, the biomass, all of it is him. That giant gaping maw was just a physical form, so to speak, so he could talk to our heroes directly. The Gravemind doesn't need a mouth to speak. He's psychic. Not to mention, the whole hive mind thing.

[@CircleOfBeliefs]

Would love a full on game about this, always enjoyed the level high charity, seeing the covenant fighting the flood in almost pure darkness.

[@CLOUD2K1]

My favorite halo 2 missions was on the high charity

[@weeerazer3099]

It was so Epic to see Covenants Capital

[@majorchief8424]

Two of the most epic missions in all of gaming ;)

[@scottm8292]

@@majorchief8424 And one of the hardest Gravemind on Legendary...

[@DROOPYSNAIL4813]

It's amazing how over the course of like 30 minutes in game between Gravemind and High Charity the Flood completely over run the entire station. Their screams still haunt me xD

[@BlackRifleStudios]

How come Guilty Spark said "B-b-but a premature activation will destroy The Ark" but The Ark didn't get destroyed after 04-C was activated? I thought for the longest time that The Ark in HW2 was The Lesser Ark until Isabel said otherwise.

[@kaguyashinomiya5937]

HOT PURSUIT95 "Deal With It"

[@Vince5754Pro]

I believe it may have simply been an assumption on his part. Guilty Spark had little knowledge of other installations, so he likely assumed that since his ring was destroyed by an improper activation, the same would happen to the Ark.

[@SirBigWater]

HOT PURSUIT95 Wasn't the Ark repaired later on by the sentinels? There is a 5-6 year gap from Halo 3 to Halo wars 2, so that would be a possibility.

[@albertwesker3299]

HOT PURSUIT95 He meant the premature activation of installation 04B. The ring was incomplete so he thought it's activation would destroy the ark. It didn't though, just heavily damaged it. He didn't really believe it would still be intact. I don't think I would've either.

[@BlackRifleStudios]

ddam1320 ddam1320 The Ark the Spirit of Fire arrived at was the same one. Even Isabel tells Cutter and Jerome that the Chief was there to end The Great War and yeah I meant 04-B, I was thinking of HW2

[@Anudorini-Talah]

1:40 WOuld love to have a horror movie with the frigate and how the frigate got infected by the flood. Seeing all the actors, that wouldve been epic. A good old horror movie

[@Lt94DP]

Absolutely loving all this halo knowledge. Great job and keep it up ☺

[@joshualijnen7446]

Thank you soooooo much i really wanted a video on this, been waiting a longggg time for this :)

[@humptydumpty3345]

High charity is so beautiful

[@bananakinflyswatter904]

Covenant or not, I still feel bad for High Charity and its victims. Lots of xenos called it home. Losing home's a pain like no other, and humanity in Halo knows that feeling all too well.

[@TheRafark]

It’s a game bra they aren’t real

[@romand271]

you'd love the video "can the (insert name here) survive the flood invasion" series done by EckhartsLadder

[@dev5764]

The problem with the flood isn't the fact that its super contagious, but because of it's intelligence. That's why the flood wins.

[@jittercritter]

Btw you have been SUPER helpful in understanding the lore-thanks for being cool!

[@TrueTributes13]

What an incredible video! Thank you for making this!

[@fettfan91]

Great video, but I do have one contribution. During the assault on the Library in the Halo 2 campaign you can overhear radio communications of human forces engaging and eventually succumbing to the Flood. You can also see dead Marines and destroyed human vehicles strewn about. This may be quick writing but at least they address it. Remember, the reason there were humans on the Delta Halo's surface was because Miranda Keys personally led a unit there. It was race against time to get the Index before Truth, but unfortunately for Miranda it allowed her crew to be exposed to the Flood. Also the same logic about the Great Schism leaving High Charity vulnerable applies to the human/Covenant forces fighting on Delta Halo; they were killing each other thereby creating more potential Flood hosts.

[@davepink5679]

To those wondering how Amber clad got infected, same way the pelicans flew out of it to spread the infection. They learned to fly a pelican then crash landed it into the ship

[@Jubileus216]

I always assumed they used a catapult to get on board. But that's a better and more accurate response.

[@fencington780]

I love your content,keep up the great work

[@Dcpepperwolve138]

The idea of the flood turning rotted flesh into habitable structures is really sickening when you think about it. Also the fact that you don’t really die when you get infected, your mind and thoughts become part of a grave mind is haunting. At least with regular zombies, you get infected/die, and that’s it. But to be assimilated by an ancient plague and not being able to rest just never leaves my mind as an adult. (never thought about that as a kid or a teenager) I love halo :) [the first three/reach/ODST that is...]

[@thealiencommunicator]

once the Gravemind moved onto High charity, wouldn't that then make High Charity a Key mind?

[@everett818]

Cortana is not infected by the logic plague, she is obviously being controlled by 343 Guilty Spark. Why else would she want installation 04c in the Halo Wars 2 ending? Also, Cortana is blue, and do you know who else was blue? Guilty Spark! And Spark was alive after Halo 3 and he took control of a UNSC ship to search for the librarian, so he could easily take control of cortana too!

[@jordanaponte6867]

I think you might be right....you could hear her humming in the ending of halo 5.

[@ghoulcity117]

Jordan Aponte or maybe that’s a sign she went crazy with the logic plague

[@tempemm]

This music is literally amazing

[@Sir_Ravenstein]

This is the video im looking for for my research! Thank you!

[@WebSoak]

My question is how was the ark even habitable after the high charity crash something of that size should’ve sent so much ash into the atmosphere-that you could not breath there

[@jamiemcdonald1904]

I love you hidden experia, you just have this kinda.....i dunno iconic style that other KZbinrs don't have ! 😉

[@britbrittingson3129]

did i hear *I C O N I C*

[@juanpaVlz]

I agree

[@kuyans3889]

There should be more recognition for people who finished "The Flood" mission on legendary. Falls to floor screaming from a flood flashback "AAAAHAAAHHH THE PURE FORMS, THEY DON'T STOP SHOOTING"

[@senatorstevenarmstrong6703]

@Melissa Waterman Sounds like a grave time

[@jakebyrne7737]

Damn man im hooked on this channel love these videos

[@cortanaai5083]

It was bad...Those 38 days, very bad.

[@TheDarkUmbreon8623]

My people are trying to study these.....Flood as everyone calls them. We hope to, possibly, find a cure. So far.....nothing.

[@SwordsmanMercenary]

Did Gravemind get in your head?

[@travisshaffer6623]

And I seen enough rule 34 to know where this went!. . . Halo 5!

[@devoidoverlord1836]

@@SwordsmanMercenary not the only thing he got in

[@tundrevenant1831]

Wait till you see jenkins. Good god. Good he died and was saved

[@Pamasich]

"flood-related" "nostalgia" "awesome" Will your next video be about SPV3? Probably not, but would love to see you review that mod.

[@enviousgaming3250]

yay! You also have halo amino! I have had it for a while

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

Don't forget about how the flood also can flush their spores into the ventalation systems just like on Installation 04, according to the Flood novel when Guilty Spark and Master Chief were in the Library.

[@realironsquid1701]

In the halo 3 cutscene with High Charity in the mission the Covenant who said the words "High charity" because I don't recognize that voice I thought it could be Prophet of Truth, Arbiter, Shipmaster, or even the Gravemind it would help what you think said it

[@217adaptiveperspective]

It was probably just a random Elite that was on the Bridge.

[@realironsquid1701]

Bighat The Star Nomad Probaly

[@victorm222]

It was the shipmaster. Been playing thia game since it was first releases from bungie. Im positive

[@realironsquid1701]

Victor M true

[@bobbill3594]

It was 100% Shipmaster

[@imalisard4805]

how did the gravemind get on high charity?

[@britbrittingson3129]

biomass being piled up into a proto gravemind

[@bmkaggie]

They should make a game entirely surrounding the events of high charity being taken by the flood and great schism. set in high charity

[@holcomx]

This was actually really cool

[@TheCitedAviator]

UNSC: Pfffft the flood didnt do anything, let's use this as military propaganda to say we're winning...

[@217adaptiveperspective]

TheCitedAviator *Half of Africa suddenly Vanishes*

[@TheCitedAviator]

Bighat The Star Nomad pffft, lets use that as more propaganda and say it was the covenants fault! Mwuhahaha

[@217adaptiveperspective]

TheCitedAviator *4 years later a Random Forerunner ship composes Colorado*

[@TheCitedAviator]

Bighat The Star Nomad arizona, not colorado

[@217adaptiveperspective]

TheCitedAviator *Something about Sentinels trying to Harvest Earth in order to repair the Ark*

[@Witty2579]

so if the flood didnt infected high charity the covenant would have alot more power and troops and prob wouldnt have besn destroyed in halo 5

[@jordanaponte6867]

Basically

[@shibnathmaji2675]

It's more like if the civil war wasn't raging, then the flood invasion wouldn't have happened in High Charity.

[@nathanshkopiak9060]

U make the best flood vids, keep them up

[@bigremy4569]

amazing video! where did you get this information about it spreading in high charity? i want to research more!

[@5nanometers]

High Charity is only 200 miles..? Texas is almost 900 miles across. Texas really is bigger than everything.

[@horationelson2440]

Alaska

[@jackmcantee2917]

Queensland.

[@o_o-037]

Australia.

[@oniagent391]

🇨🇦Canada eh

[@colbie472]

Alaska

[@danielbob2628]

But why did the Flood use High Charity to disable the weapon systems on the Shipmaster's ship BEFORE it could kill Truth from the air, then help Chief stop Truth anyway?

[@simonnice9030]

That is actually a good question. Maybe it didn't have full control of the pods it sent out?

[@freddieladduk6386]

I've always thought of how god damn terrifying high charity would've been when the flood took over.

[@jarogniewtheconqueror2804]

Flood is my favourite thing about Halo, which is why you are the best Halo KZbinr. None of the rest bother to show flood in except maybe one video

[@jessepinkman6413]

hidden ex who would win in a fight the arbiter thel vadamy or lock

[@bigbob8023]

Paulus Papas probably the arbiter

[@weeerazer3099]

*Thel 'Vadam

[@4realm8rusirius]

Rookie lol the arbiter is gonna kick locks ass faster than a jackal sniper killing you on legendary​ difficulty

[@joshuabalzarni7747]

thel

[@bigbob8023]

Rookie dude the arbiter has active camo, more experience and if Locke had tried to assassinate him he probably would have failed. Seriously you don't become one of the most beloved commanders in all the covenant for nothing.

[@joshshires1317]

Imagine being a marine that was captured and you had get out of the city before you die or a your a proud sangheli zealot that returns to your family in high charity you start of traveling through the city it would give a good insight on how the covenant lived you arrive home and skip to the next day and you wake up and all of sudden you hear a loud bang at your door it's a brute captain he then stands you ask him what do you want he says nothing and then you hear the prophet of truth speak through a nearby speaker he says what he says in halo 2 in the mission the gravemind the brutes pull out their plasma rifles you light your energy knife and stab one and kill the other one you then disarm the brute and pull him inside you ask him why the brutes are attacking the elites he laughs and says your race cannot protect the hireachs and now the great journey will leave you behind you kill him and run outside and help as many elites as you can you then return home to your wife and say to her we need to get out of the city she ask no questions the other elites that you help wish to help you since your zealot and all you doing the same kinda thing help out as many elites and any lekgolo and ungoy that are in danger you and the rest of the survivors are beginning to become a big threat to nearby brutes as you are joined by more and more survivors you all then encounter a large contingent of brutes with a brute chieftain leading them a battle follows and you kill the brutes then there is a loud whoosh sound and tremor felt you look up and see in amber clad fly past and smash into the support arch that we see in halo 2 you are not next to it but you are reasonably close. You see numerous pelicans fly out at first you believe it's some humans that believe they can attack the holy city alone the a pelican lands close to your position you all hear screams and shouts and as you go to the origin of these screams you are horrified to see the parasite infecting everyone you begin to try to fight them but you are soon outnumbered what's left or your force most elites and some ungoy and your wife leave with you you all are horrified the ungoy go crazy and run away and so you and your elites come up with a plan you know that you command your own ship a corvette and that you may be able to save your crew and leave lets skip to bit where you are knocked out or about to be. You are running for life from a horde of flood combat forms when you arrive on board the ship your crew all alive you take off however before you get into space the forerunner key ship smashes into you because of you bring in it way and you begin to descend into the city an you crash and are knocked unconscious you wake up and look around the ship had split the bridge where you are was far away from the engines side of the ship you panic and try to find your wife an elite zealot field marshal comes into the ships bridge with a squad of fellow zealots he asks you what's wrong and you tell him what happens he says that you have to come to the conclusion that she is most likely dead he offers his help to get out of the city you accept. You look for any survivors and as you find round at least 15-30 survivors, you hear the iconic flood scream and roar and so you the field marshal and his elites, your survivors and some marines who broke out of their cell. This could be where the marine side of the scenarios intertwines with the elites. You need all the help you can get so you let them tag along. You all then arrive at the richer district of the city more specifically a base of operations for some other survivors who are under attack by some brutes. Remember the flood didn't take the city for another 36 days so they won't be everywhere so quick and much of city won't be affected by the flood and the civil war was still a very big problem. With that said you clear the base tell the survivors your story then you and the most senior elites all come up with a game plan. The high ranking officers consist of you the field Marshall several other zealots two generals a few shipmaster and a fleet master who was on high charity when the flood arrived and he couldn't leave. The plan is this, you along with roughly 350 elites and 30 hunters and other heavy armoured vehicles and air vehicles all make your way towards let's say the city centre more or less the citadel. When you arrive there is a large army of brutes and jackals who have a scarb they have lets say 400 troops. A battle insures and you gain the upper hand and you capture the scarb by reworking it as such. You and the generals, the field marshal, the other zealots and the fleet master with several other elites all make your way towards the citadel while your army defend the area. The war chieftains that command the brutes in high charity are at the top where a phantom is on its way to pick them up. You ask them to surrender but they refuse, a conversation follows and then you all kill them and take the phantom but beforehand re you leave you talk through the intercom that truth spoke through in halo 2. You give a rousing speech and say help will come to rescue all survivors. This is where the fleet master comes in, he takes several battle cruisers and rescues as many survivors from the city roughly a few thousand 10 thousand at the most. You play as the elite in other scenarios or missions like the one on the ark or other things when grey team blew up onyx and when the glassing of Africa began. Hell for a more personal mission you could accompany the arbiter to high charity when it crashed on the ark. Obviously the story would have to be changed up a bit but t you could relive the memories of the battle of high charity.that's what the kind of start of the scenario is. If wrote it all we would be here forever, but the story would give an insight on how high charity looked and how elites were with each other in battles. Sorry if it's extremely long I got a bit carried away but I thought I would share this scenario with you all hoped you all liked it and thanks if you read all the way to this point thank you.👍

[@MilkyH12]

Josh Shires That's a veryyyy long sentence, please use some periods.

[@icerulerking7382]

PERIODS

[@Goldennote]

Josh Shires had to stop reading because of the clearly immature writing. Take an english class kid, it'll go a long way.

[@Slith3rdLegion]

*Cameron Smyllie -1000 subs with no good content* THIS IS SERIOUS! EVERYBODY FROM SANGHELIOS KNOWS SHANK-FU!

[@aeronautisch]

This would make a great game or Halo Custom Edition mod! The team who made SPV3 could maybe make this come true. Think about it, Reach like graphics in High Charity, along with this story.. Now all we need more is some people who have a steady hand to film the cutscenes.. Or any possible cutscenes could be made in Source Film Maker. Fuck man, now I just wanna go out and start making this come true.. If people are making this come true then I hope it won't become another Hunt Down the Freeman though lol..

[@hantumann4r449]

6:00 yup, that's the reason why the Flood is the most dangerous zombie species than any species in Resident Evil, Last of Us, World War Z, or any other mainstream zombie games out there

[@central_core8178]

Already has halo amino, still has to see ad for said amino. Yay.

[@SkyAttacker52]

The real question is, how did that marine with a flamethrower get into high charity without getting transformed.

[@josuelara2311]

SkyAttacker what if he is a spartan I

[@britbrittingson3129]

*Flamethrower*

[@Rufio_Cristiforus_Tucarus]

The Flood taking High Charity was, like, akin to the Turks taking Constantinople in 1453.

[@dom3349]

Thx for showing this app it's very good

[@lindagodfrey9994]

I can't believe that just a parasite can end a Galaxy Spanning empire with massive ships

[@thespiderarmy1852]

I might've been first but I watched the whole video instead of commenting first Can I get a gold star

[@mechanusgaming78]

there not called elites there called sanghelli

[@ethanwagner6418]

Shadow Gamer965 like c'mon it's 2017. We shouldn't be using such derogatory words.

[@thesenate2180]

*Splitmouth

[@surprisinglywhitetyrone5545]

*Hingehead

[@elijahwatson3474]

Shadow Gamer965 Dinos

[@samuelgill7373]

Shadow Gamer965 they're*

[@kennynito235]

I want like a full documentary of all 30 days of how it was like being invaded by the flood

[@brandonlee934]

They're just space zombies until they make a gravemind.

[@Blue_Fire-Chibi]

did anyone know that theres a glitch in halo 2 on the level high charity where the carrier forms that are standing on the crashed pelican you see cannot move at all meaning you don't have to shoot them and any possible infection forms will be stuck in that state for as long as nothing happens to the carrier forms

[@rhonangeraci9885]

Its my most favorite thing ever to hear my boi experia drop a couple f bomb... Idk why it just is

[@Khonic23]

Wow who knew it was so intricately planned and thought out like that.., in the midst of the covenant civil war what better timing

[@memonson5586]

Humans struggled to take down a covenant ship. But the flood took over high charity in less than an hour. That says a lot about the flood