The Horrifying Biology of The Flood (Part Two) | The Science of Halo's Parasite

[@MachJacob343]

One terrifying thing about the Gravemind is that there is just one. Once a Proto-Gravemind reaches enough biomass to evolve, it doesn't become a Gravemind, it becomes *the* Gravemind, complete with the full memories of Flood outbreaks long since past.

[@tristanbackup2536]

Which tells me. Is the Gravemind conciousness impeded from the Space-time fabric itself? Is the flood a manifestation of the universe itself? Like a god of sorts. Lore does imply it.

[@MachJacob343]

@@tristanbackup2536 Basically. One fun analogy is that the Gravemind consciousness is stored on the Cloud, and once a Flood outbreak gains enough biomass it can connect to the internet.

[@bruce_ketta9186]

​@@tristanbackup2536 kinda, the flood is basically a twisted form of the Precursors (basically gods), who are a bit angry for being genocided by their own creations and said the lore equivalent of "since y'all can't behave, I'm taking it away". I hope thatade some semblance of sense

[@thelongestdongrod190]

​​@@tristanbackup2536heres a really great video on this theory that makes a ton of sense. It's called "The Primordial's horrifying secret."

[@dysae4484]

​@Tristan Backup it uses a concept created by the precursors that essentially defines everything in existence as "living".

[@TwinSteel]

Caught up just in time for “as long as my consciousness is my own” to suddenly slow down accentuating the creep out factor

[@GiskardRevenlov]

I literally started to doze off (super long day no insult to the creator the vid is actually super interesting and engaging) and that shit made me snap awake lmao

[@rodneyjenkins2578]

Why Does Everyone Keep Saying This? Does He State It In The Video? I Know I'm Late But I'm Just As Confused... Edit: Yep Just Watched It.

[@TheRoomforImprovement]

"I am a monument to all your sins." is one of the eeriest lines in fiction.

[@unappealingpig8592]

Hands down

[@WhatIsSanity]

Especially when you realise the gravemind that said that was partially constituted from humans both modern and ancient. That gravemind was from delta Halo contained on the installation from the time of the first flood outbreak and likely had direct memories of that time over 500000 years ago. The flood assimilated remnants of ancient humanity would go onto kill and infect 26th century humans just as voraciously and use those memories to torment future victims.

[@Lycanthropean720]

​@@WhatIsSanitykey detail: when the flood gathers enough mass to evolve from a proto-gravemind to a gravemind, it becomes *the* gravemind. The flood itself is connected to every single form of itself, from the dangerous combat forms to the single-celled spores. Think about this: the flood is called like that because, when you get infected, you are but a mere droplet of water upon an endless ocean of consciousness from untold millennia-- every single one connected into a only being, an only voice-- always seeking, always hungry, doing whatever is necessary to add more "voices" into its "death chorus". When you get infected, you might die, or become *the* flood itself, for its only drive is to assimilate every being into a hivemind, a *keymind*

[@Lycanthropean720]

"There is much talk, and I have heard from rock, metal and time"

[@Lyndonmaman]

_I am a timeless chorus. Join your voice with mine and sing victory everlasting._

[@Bary_McCokner]

"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness. A father's sins pass to his son."

[@fabiocosta3830]

Of course, you came for her. We exist together now, two corpses in one grave."

[@PedestalPrime]

​@@fabiocosta3830 "A collection of lies, that's all I am. Stolen thoughts and memories."

[@Notlordstark]

As a molecular biologist, the case of Jenkins is fascinating to me. I would love to get a sample of those weakened FSCs. I’m certain some protein vital for infection was partially denatured by it’s age. Would make an excellent drug target for preventing infection if we could figure out which one it is.

[@hunterkage2842]

Considering the forerunners couldn't make a cure, I doubt we can but good luck

[@jeuzz3171]

@@hunterkage2842 Less a cure, more a vaccine I think. Could potentially help against spore infections I'd bet, but I'm guessing direct infection via infection form would still work. Not a biologist, but I think that's what he was referring to.

[@hunterkage2842]

@@jeuzz3171 According to the novels, when the Flood reaches a certain stage they can infect space and time itself.

[@jeuzz3171]

​@@hunterkage2842 yes yes, I'm sure we're all well aware of how busted the Flood are in lore. It's more the idea and curiosity of being able to make a potential preventative with modern medicine that's intriguing, I think.

[@johnlucas2838]

@@hunterkage2842 The Flood became lame as balls. I feel Greg Bear did too much in that I think there is an inherent disconnect between Halo 3 and 4. With knowledge of the novels, the goal of the Gravemind in 3 should have been to reach Key Mind then from there win.

[@Kclanks]

Remeber that elite that literally lifted up Emile with one arm? He literally weighs 426 kilograms. The flood literally pushes their bodies to the absolute maximum, allowing regular humans to jump over 20 feet. I can't imagine how strong an infected Elite or Brute must be canonically.

[@HolySilverStrike]

You should have mentioned Avery Johnson. He is one of the only one to have resisted a flood infection due to his scrambled neural system.

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

That wasn't the reason. Johnson demanded the Flood leave him alone and the Flood, terrified, happily obliged and scuttled away.

[@disaster_chief]

nah, he made a deal with the gravemind. johnson knows what the aliens like.

[@PromptHorizon12]

That's a bit of a misconception , Borens syndrome which supposedly caused him to be "resistant" was a lie told by ONI to keep the fact that Johnson is a spartan 1, it's even in the acronym B.S. Obviously meaning Bull sh*t.

[@MrPennyBags]

Bad mofo. The only spartan 1 to remain in service after the procedure.

[@alexsanchez5629]

FRFR!! I'm surprised Thought Potato would've knew this going through Flood lore, but oh welly.🤷‍♂️

[@insomniagobrrr5542]

"as long as my conciousness remains my own." Two day later: *infected*

[@serganteddy5]

Thel' Vadame, who is known as "the Last Arbiter," called the Gravemind a "Parasite." Observe these quotes as an example "Kill me or release me, Parasite. But do not waste my time with talk. " -The Arbiter in Halo 2 Gravemind: Sinners! The Arbiter: Rise up O' Parasite, and I shall kill you! Again and again! -The Arbiter, responding to the Gravemind's whisper on earth in Halo 3.

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

I'd love to see a series on the necromorphs next.

[@eliavita]

I watched a lot of videos about necromorphs(Wich are heavy inspired by the flood, almost a knockoff but a good one and with enough differences to make them interesting enough), but potato is goes really in depth with biology so I'd like a video in his style

[@patriotenfield3276]

Hello again , Thought Potato. Tokyo Ghouls have some really interesting biology that i as a fellow monster researcher would like you to suggest look into . The RC Cell parts in the bloods of both Ghouls and Non Ghouls really confuse me a lot and the fact how the kagunes of these ghouls takes different form is still a mystery i am trying to uncover. For some weird reason, i do believe bringing physics in this part will help us. There are a lot of other mysteries like why use kagunes from back like a scorpion or any insect and not like defined bloodweapons like a sword made of blood . Or why the half ghouls are far more stronger than Full bred ghouls.

[@ThoughtPotato]

I'm definitely going to look more into this. Thanks for the detailed information!

[@MeekCrayon]

This! 👆 this conversation right here is why I love this channel.

[@somaloll]

Crazy how even just a slight outburst of a single precursor results in the destruction of all life in the galaxy. Precursors are so cool i hope they play a more active role in future games.

[@AngieMakarovMW3]

They will as they are most likely the endless

[@ColoneloftheCorn]

​@@AngieMakarovMW3that's what I initially thought they were during my first playthrough

[@brendanmuller7301]

Can't wait I love this channel and hope you cover more stuff like this and your biology on mythical creatures series.

[@ThoughtPotato]

Thanks so much. Definitely more to come!

[@COctagons]

Next, do the one "species" that could easily stop the Flood: Warframes! No, but seriously, Warframe has some nutty biology in it.

[@goldendoomslayer6301]

Your technically right in a way as their skin has been described as hard as sword steel due to the technocyte but I still think the flood at the keymind stage would have a chance. But in a way they are still susceptible to infection because the warfranes still have a nervous system.

[@venomousfrog5546]

Part of the reason the Gravemind is so powerful in the Halo universe is because of it's origins as what ammounts to the Haloverse's "gods". It has intimate knowledge of the biology of its home universe, whilst it wouldn't have any such knowledge in a foreign universe (or when fighting something extrauniversal) and so the nervous system might not be as much of a vulnerability, at least not at first.

[@goldendoomslayer6301]

@@venomousfrog5546 that's fair as it would have to learn an entirely new biology and again the warframes biology is extreme indeed but given the warframes inherent connection to the void and it being piloted by what amounts to a child that is seemingly possessed by an eldritch god on the level of cthulu and that warframes as a whole kinda throw all of physics out of the window on even a normal day i could see it being basically impossible for warframes to be corrupted. Now if the flood has reached the level that they are interacting with neural physics the frames wouldn't really be a threat but the tenno very likely would still be out of its reach.

[@tmolne117]

doing research on this topic for fun and man, you knocked it out of the park with the information, the plain language, the editing. Great content mate

[@TeaLover201]

I loved this, I never really understood these creatures but this helped a lot! I’d also love to see something about the rake if possible!

[@mariastevens6406]

It wasn't fully able to take over Jenkins because Jenkins was Chuck Norris's brother from another mother.

[@aaronmaxwell7475]

Chuck Norris was infected once, he assimilated the grave mind in to Normain

[@wendysfreshneverfrozen1853]

I think it was a missed opportunity not to bring up the fact that the grave mind provides a growing infection access to the floods superconsciousness, which quite literally transcends time and space in a manner similar to the forerunners "domain". Providing access to all knowledge ever gathered by the flood. I also think it was a missed opportunity not to mention the precursor concept of "the living universe" and how the flood may play into that on a universal scale. All in all though, both of these videos have been wonderful looks into the biology of the Flood and the comparisons to real world organisms was apt and interesting.

[@aceofconquest5745]

This is a Keymind right?

[@wendysfreshneverfrozen1853]

@@aceofconquest5745 keymind is an unfortunately vague term as it has been used for two VERY different things, the stage immediately preceding a gravemind i.e a sort of middle between proto and grave, alternatively this can also represent a failed attempt at a gravemind. ORRR the planetary level consciousness, where an entire planets worth of biomass or more has been consumed by an outbreak and turned into one keymind.

[@aceofconquest5745]

@@wendysfreshneverfrozen1853 That is unfortunate. In discussions communities should term high potential version as "High-Keymind" / "Clairvoyant Keyminds" for clarity when discussing the differences.

[@vanaheimstories7530]

Whenever Thought Potato releases a video, I know it’s going to be good

[@adamknott7830]

Great 2 videos, really enjoyed them. One thing though is that you got the flood progression mixed up. Its goes like this: base infection, proto-gravemind, gravemind, then keymind as the most advanced stage.

[@Brandinisnores]

343 retconned the lore a bit about keyminds, the vid was right

[@adamknott7830]

@@Brandinisnores dammit 343 stop changing shit

[@daruphir]

Bang up job on The Flood, now in curious if you are going to do one for the Xenomorph XX-121 Inverticus Raptus

[@HappyMealPlusTax]

I really love your channel!! I gotta say it’s one of my favorite video game lore channels you have a really unique personal style that makes these videos an excellent watch. PS: cyclops next? PPS: phoenix?

[@lividphoenix359]

I watched Pt. 1 of this video, and I gotta say, I loved it. Can't wait to fully watch this vid!

[@ColoneloftheCorn]

"Do I take life or do I give it" This line from the Gravemind level in Halo 3 has always resonated with me, as it paints the Gravemind as seeing itself as some kind of liberater from the chaos of sentient life

[@george9453]

I just know this vid is going to be as good as always

[@SCP_Void_7274]

Absolutely love your videos. Do you think that you could someday make a video about the Protomolecule from The Expanse?

[@jawz9455]

I already know this one's gonna be good.

[@orctrihar]

Got recommend your video and I diden't thought I was this early. I wished to see a part three already ! Good job and I wait for what you do next.

[@Baryshnikov4804]

You should take a look at the headcrab zombies from half life sometime. There's some top notch body horror to find there

[@Xillionnonono]

Love watching these videos. I can't wait to see what you'll research next!!

[@jenndowden8131]

This was fascinating, & has me drawing correlations with emerging biotechnologies. (For more on that, look into Policy Horizons & "Understanding BioDigital Convergence".

[@jennyfeare1702]

Our favorite thoughtful potato never misses with these banger videos~!

[@ThoughtPotato]

Haha thanks so much. They are indeed, but I must admit I haven't done a ton of research yet. Love the idea though, for sure

[@Doginthesleep]

Love this! Flood have been one of my favorite sci-fi takes on zombies and the undead, Would love to see you dive in the Reapers from mass effect one day! floodesqe biomechanical harbingers of death 😁

[@forzahellrizing6274]

I have been watching your videos for a while now and I really want to see you make a video about Sasquatch and everything behind it’s lore and it’s existence because it really interests me and people think I’m crazy because of it

[@purplehaze2358]

0:23 I personally felt like this action SciFi music and the sequence to which it attaches felt.. oddly out of place for a video whose tone is that of a scientific study.

[@ThoughtPotato]

Fair enough, I appreciate the feedback!

[@brianstanton2721]

Well I think it's pretty safe to say the flood is one of the coolest things in anything ever lol!!

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

the flood: infecting every organism plants being immune for some reason

[@JohnG44]

Flood can infect that also they created flood mountain during the forerunner flood war.

[@KikinCh1kin]

No nervous system. The Halo Rings fried everything with a nervous system effectively wiping out the floods food. The flood lived though and then the events of the games take place.

[@nathen7586]

You should totally do a biology video about the Stone Mask vampires and the Pillar Men from Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure

[@zacharyjames9602]

I love these monster biology videos. Do you think you could do one on the Chupacabra? Thank you.

[@leopon5917]

That was nice. Even if I already knew this well and have seen so many detailed videos about it, your perspective was also very nice and well told. I loved that video ❤

[@ajackass5950]

There is much talk, and I have listened, through rock and metal and time. Now I shall talk, and you shall listen.

[@thorshammer7883]

People try to convince me the Tyranids from Warhammer 40k are worse. But they simply don't compare to the Flood in it's speed, escalation, cunning intelligence, capabilities, and abilities to buliding upon it's infrastructure and overcoming threats. And it's possible potential from using star roads and doing something to the stars and space-time.

[@RigoMonroy-vj1mt]

OK state your case

[@thorshammer7883]

@@RigoMonroy-vj1mt State my case? What do you mean? Are you aware of Halo lore and just how much superior the Flood is in it's ability to process knowledge and remember pretty much everything and it's ability to rapidly adapt and exponentially grow more powerful once it has access complete dominion over Neural physics and that they can assimilate the Halo equivalent of souls because the Forerunners tried to revive a infected subject and restore his or her's mind to a pre infected body with no Flood supercells present and yet the attempt completely failed and the subject was a Floodform again despite no Flood supercells within the subject's new body. The Gravemind is also a master manipulator and intelligent ruthless strategist as it constantly showed through it's war with the Forerunners and Ancient Humans. And unlike the Tyranids the Flood's simultaneous connection to all it's Flood forms does not break nor does it ever slow down like what can happen to the Tyranid Hivemind/Overmind where they can lose control of their bioforms as 40k has shown in specfic situations and conditions. You cannot cut off the Flood's constant connection and the Gravemind is able to process commanding all of them at the same time. And unlike the Tyranids the Gravemind develops and utilize complex strategies on many levels and layers and thinks extremely ahead of time before deploying it's forces. And it steals all traits and assets both biological and technological of it's assimilated victims much unlike the Tyranids who don't use technology and are extremely slow in it's pace. Once Keyminds are able to reality Warp and Neural physics become a thing the Flood reach a new tier of power that is realistically relatively impossible to stop or overcome. The Flood's ability to propagate and exponentially keep up and out think and out develop and become faster is simply far superior then the Tyranids ever were.

[@jgblkshot8375]

​@@RigoMonroy-vj1mtHave you considered watching these videos.

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Yes but what makes the tyrannids dangerous compared to the flood is that in the "modern" 40k setting they have already consumed the biomass of an unknown number of galaxies so they come in much larger numbers than anyone in the galaxy can reasonably hope to stop right from the get go whilst the flood require hosts to grow, as they usually start off with little or no biomass.

[@thorshammer7883]

@@seekingabsolution1907 But the Tyranids are not as smart as the Flood and the Flood are extremely resourceful and have exponential growth and utilize their knowledge on all levels and scale and process information far quicker. They are not the type to throw most of everything they have into a single conflict without developing and producing extensive counter measures. They would find ways at how to prepare with the approaching Tendrils themselves and annihilate them. And if that means taking and comprehending hyper advance alien technologies they are going to do it. Add with the Flood's reality warping abilities they can gain once they enter the Keymind stage it becomes even greater for them to process information and gain vast qualities amounts of knowledge. They have time to prepare a entire infrastructure and developing newer and newer tactics for when the big ones arrive. Afterall this is how the Gravemind thrives in total war.

[@WarnerKov]

*Me after waking up* "Oh boy! Time for another productive, good day!" *Me a kajillion hours later, after stumbling into Flood lore videos* "I have accomplished nothing. But I can now write a small thesis paper on the Flood." 😥

[@cookiecomments846]

Would you ever be willing to look into the Lickers from Resident Evil?

[@ThoughtPotato]

Oh I'm always willing

[@zhcultivator]

Please consider making a video on the "Speculative Biology of all Cryptids".

[@carlosmedina1281]

Can’t forget to mention that the gravemind contains the consciousness of the Primordial

[@atimidbirb]

"as long as my consciousness is my own" uM???? SIR???

[@robjsmiles]

Just found this channel, I love these

[@IcyHalo]

I love your videos there so good You should do the necromorphs from Dead Space

[@redmountainflag2357]

Can you do warhammer 40k tyranids ?

[@ThoughtPotato]

Oooh I like it.

[@feralaquarist8805]

Seconded!

[@miniaturejayhawk8702]

In the video you showed a comic that clearly illustrated that the infection form was damaged before it could fully assimilate jenkins. I see that as enough explaination. If ot were simply old age the other marines should have experienced something similar, which they clearly didnt considering the fact that infected mendoza did not hesitate to attack chief.

[@Wezryx]

The flood basically being supercancer, is still not immune to cancer. Maybe

[@joshrobinson2409]

I dont think mushrooms are that similar to the flood cause their are alot of mushrooms that are symbiotic with trees and not parasitic

[@kaelanirevyruun1676]

Only one point of contention on this video from me: A Keymind is not what comes before a Proto-gravemind or a Gravemind; Rather, you go from plain infected to proto-gravemind to Gravemind to Keymind. As a good way to imagine it, a Protogravemind is a Seargent (however you spell it lol), a Gravemind is a mid level officer, and a Keymind is a General.

[@mari_golds-bleeding-ink]

In case you’re taking requests, could you do Diclonius? Assuming their scientifically possible to begin with. Though it’s fine if you don’t 😅

[@ThoughtPotato]

I'll definitely add it to the list! I always appreciate suggestions

[@mari_golds-bleeding-ink]

@@ThoughtPotato 🤩

[@Chad_Thundercock]

"We're all equally edible."

[@takenname8053]

SUPER NICE, other halo species soon?

[@PromptHorizon12]

look up installation 00 they recently made a video on elite biology in ridiculous detail.

[@TheMechwar88]

I’d love to hear your analysis of The Beast from Homeworld Cataclysm

[@firepowerx-venezuelangame3890]

7:05 I believe you are wrong there- Keyminds, if I recall correctly, are the stage *after* a Gravemind, where a whole planet is made into one giant flood hive/organism

[@digitalninja5941]

The reason he says that is probably due to Halo Wars 2 were they made a mistake and called a proto gravemind a key mind. I don't know if they corrected that since it came out, though.

[@marshalledelen4687]

​@@digitalninja5941no, that whoopsies is now canon and anything that coordinates the flood is considered a keymind... as opposed to the planet scale gravemind of yore.

[@angelosusa4258]

The humans during forerunner made a cure for the flood but it was lost during the forerunner human war, that and Spartans trained against the potential threat of Spartan flood which would be game over

[@MrMegaMetroid]

Honestly, everyone is always talking about how devastating spartan flood are, as if that matters. It doesn't matter if the flood infects toddlers, soldiers, spartans or literal trees (i know i know, nervous system, im just tryina make a point). The floods threat does not come from their individual combat capabilities at all. It comes from their sheer presence as a biological super computer. Their ability to coordinate against an enemy they intrinsically know, makes them as dangerous as they are. They have enough samples of every race to have incredibly precise predictive abilities. They can see the next 5000 steps you take before you even know yourself what situation you're in, simply because they think like you do. From an individual level all they way up to entire fleet maneuvers, the gravemind can predict everything and anything everywhere. He is playing 8d chess 10.000 steps ahead while we are trying to figure out how connect 4 works. This thing has literally just talked the most computationally complex super AI into submission. It has the knowledge and experience of TRILLIONS of beings, and an exponentially complex neural network to make use of it. There is nothing you can throw at it that it hasn't seen comming from miles away. The games struggle immensely with the floods lore (they literally outsmarted and outperformed anchient humans, who where the most advanced race to ever exist in the galaxy aside from the precursors themselves, yet lose to regular humans due to a massive mistake on the graveminds side, that is so incredibly stupid that even humans would absolutely not make it) The fact that humanity won in halo 3 is based on 2 massive plot holes, and the biggest plot armor in any game ever. Its like having an enemy that single handedly beats an entire army of fully geared navy seals, (flood - anchient human war), and then the same enemy loses to literal cavemen (flood - modern human war).

[@carlosmedina1281]

Nope the flood let humanity think they did to give false hope so they could crush it. The flood are sadists

[@Phwonk]

Humanity created something they thought was a "cure" and used it seemingly to some effect on the flood, leaving the forerunners wondering what their supposed cure was. But this was all actually just the flood leaving Humanity alone to trick the forerunners into thinking there actually was a potential cure, so they'd waste time and resources trying to find it. The flood, being precursor in origin, still had plans for humanity. It's implied that humanity will take the mantle of responsibility only after beating a massive flood outbreak that has yet to happen.

[@omniscientbarebones]

The UNSC plan for a spartan infected with the flood is to nuke and glass. Literally. The second the code: “CORRUPTER” is written, use of weapons of mass destruction are authorized and encouraged. A combat form with the power of a spartan is too dangerous to be left to its own devices.

[@BlackReshiram]

man these videos are good i will also never not be fascinated by hiveminds

[@thisguy2557]

I wonder, since the Doc did the flood, if he'll do the tyranids from 40k?

[@ForensicRocks]

You should do the biology of Project I71A, or know as the blackwing virus

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Isn’t that from Star Wars Legends? Can’t remember if it’s a zombie virus similar to the Rakghul Plague from the same universe, or that one that liquifies the infected’s organs.

[@ForensicRocks]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial it lies in wait until it can detect the victim is not ready to fight it off.

[@ForensicRocks]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial and yeah, a zombie virus.

[@titan_redeemer7371]

Anything depicting the manipulation of organic materials in the manner that the flood does makes my skin crawl. The Thing, The Flood, or even something like maybe Scorn, although I guess that is more organic machines, no matter what the depiction I get a severe sense of dread thinking about it.

[@dairydregone7146]

Are the Necromorphs next?

[@iamweird3919]

The moment he said "and wondrous ways" i knew the logic plauge got him too.

[@TheAscended5038]

Dear Thought Potato, do you remember your mothman vid, if so, do you think you can make a black tshirt with the species of black owl with red face markings on it? Sincerly the ascended

[@Mr-Wolf117]

Bet Hidden Xperia would dig these.

[@tristanbackup2536]

This is more Installation 00. He goes into insane levels of details of Halo. Hidden is more for normie halo fans.

[@Mr-Wolf117]

@@tristanbackup2536 sure.

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

To think ONI once tried to weaponise The Flood...

[@SuperNova-nl5eb]

you and roanoke gaming should make a colab video

[@ThoughtPotato]

I'd love that

[@Wom_uu]

U should do a video on headcrabs

[@markburns4987]

There was a lot of real technical jargon in that vodeo about a super made up space disease. Like way more than I expected. Still, loved the videos.

[@heathenly_aesthetic7233]

The Gravemind... The most metal master of puppets

[@gasparg643]

I wonder if poisons work on the flood becase if they did at least neurotoxins could be used to dumber them

[@MrMegaMetroid]

Individuals, maybe. But their intelligence doesn't come from individual forms. They are all but expendable since they have trillions of combat forms. The controller of them all is the gravemind, so even if you could poison one of them, or a group, it would hardly matter since they would just be replaced. I even doubt poisoning them makes much sense, since they do not act themselves. If you destroy their brains, the gravemind might not care at all and still controll them. Idk how he controls them and if the brain is nessesary. Id argue not since you can shoot their heads off and they still walk and fight. What's important is their pod form or the super cells, which make up the entire body.

[@Bruckle]

The flood is 100% inspired by real life parasites

[@TheRealSharpe]

So is a distant memory or form of Captain Keye's nervous system still part of the greater Gravemind's consciousness?

[@yodagaming5905]

I one day hope to see taken or vex from destiny videos, just to have to an organized way to win about them

[@anything8805]

Great video now where them cryptids at

[@ThoughtPotato]

Haha coming soon!

[@OldNorth152]

Actually everything infected by the flood remains alive, Jankens was just the only person able to temporarily regain control of his body

[@gabrielhatter4795]

I'm here because the halo series finale was crazy!!!!!

[@mtndevils8624]

You should do a video like this on the tyranids from Warhammer 40K!!

[@bruh5742]

I left when he started showing bugs, what I miss?

[@partyrock4144]

You um. You messed up the terminology with the juggernaut. Firstly that’s now a “pure form” as in pure flood biomass and a “keymind” is not the first form it’s the final form. As in the culmination of an entire planet’s biomass

[@dragonmaster1360]

The biggest issue with the Flood is... It's physically impossible for changes to occur in a multicellular organism as big as even humans. This isn't theoretical, it's PHYSICALLY impossible. Material transfers within the human body, an amalgamation of cells specifically evolved to work together, takes time. Anything hijacking that system, even if it's as seemingly ruthless and intelligent as the Flood, isn't going to be able to make rapid changes like that. It's going to take time, especially if we're dealing with the laws of biology (for instance, the laws of material diffusion, 2x the distance takes, I believe, 4x as much time). Even then, the amount of energy required to make rapid form changes like that is... Well, if we could harness it in the form of electricity, one pure form changing could probably power an entire electrical grid, it takes that much energy. Watching these just makes me find the halo universe hard to believe, as terrifying as the Flood is. It's just... Not believable. Even cordiceps (sp?) takes time to make the changes it does, and that's in an ANT! The Flood could not change humans that quick. It doesn't matter who or what the flood used to be, it can't do it.

[@russell9378]

Party pooper

[@lennardchurch8483]

That's a significant misunderstanding of the Flood. It rips cells apart at the molecular level to build more Flood cells. It's more like a factory operating at lightning speed than a biological infection. The Flood are avatars of eternal constants, and infect space-time itself, changing the laws of reality, not merely "infecting" organisms. That's why it's able to do what it does so quickly.

[@MajFour70]

It’s a game go cry cun

[@thesexer606]

So the aliens, energy shields and plasma weapons were perfectly believable lol

[@uoriwoh]

Ain’t no defending against this muck. Damn the flood are nuts!

[@JohnG44]

True once the spores are out the hole world eventually gets converted

[@TroyColey]

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[@ThoughtPotato]

You are too kind. Thanks so much, and same to YOU

[@ManMilff]

There is a difference is sapiens and sentient life. The flood affects sentient life not just sapiens

[@rarelypoetic]

Am i really tired or is the way the Flood integrates the consciousness/identity of its individual parts analagous to what's happening with modern day AI

[@muammarfarismohdsharan5589]

Can flood survive in Warhammer 40k?

[@johnlucas2838]

21:15 to me is where the video ends.

[@Andriej69]

This is a really cool idea for videos, albeit they could be a bit shorter

[@jeanmouloude]

ah :) cool, part 2

[@Frieren_Lienel]

Im def, im relying my listening on translator andsub messages on this

[@AbyssalSchmitt]

Lets say there's another gravemind on the other side of the galaxy on it's own, would it combat the opposite gravemind? Like how keyes became a proto gravemind ect

[@JohnG44]

Highly doubt it they are the same mind still

[@lennardchurch8483]

The same entity that occupied the Primordial also occupies the forms of every Gravemind, so they're never at odds with each other.

[@Rand0m_Mex1can14]

Once you’re done with this can you do biology on the last of us?

[@HollowDog5899]

Infected spartans while in Mjolnir?

[@paihobbes8680]

= terrifying

[@PromptHorizon12]

There's actually a lore scenario when a spartan is infected by the flood, it's called CORRUPTER. An infected spartan is so fu*king dangerous the protocol dictates all unsc assets NEED to leave the battlefield and nuke the entire area from orbit.

[@axamukvar-choikohariicatho8980]

Do tyranids next pls

[@кира-ш4ъ]

началось в 22 часа по бишкекскому времени в 14 мая

[@stariu6901]

Very good

[@alexsanchez5629]

Gonna play Halo now 💯