Poll: Flood (Halo), Replicators (Stargate), or the Borg (Star Trek)?

[Eipok Kruden]

The Flood aren't just dumb animals. Don't forget about the Gravemind.

But they never do anything really intelligent. They don't use tools when the tools would be beneficial. They don't use armor. They don't build things. It sounds like the Gravemind doesn't have fine control over individual Flood beings - it can send them this way or that, but it cannot tell them to close a door or pick up a shovel and dig. If they just built a bunch of ships, they would have owned the galaxy 10 times over.

That's not the Flood's way. They don't usually build anything, they hijack ships and can take over manufacturing facilities, but they don't build stuff from scratch. Flood are like zombies, but more agile. Also, the flood don't need armor. I mean honestly, how would they put on armor anyway? The infection forms use whatever armor the host was wearing. They use whatever weapons the host was using. They don't find and put on armor in the middle of a warzone before they attack. They infect a host, then they attack. Fast and simple. The Flood are all about speed. And besides, the Flood have Tanks and Juggernauts. Massive Flood forms with tough calcium armor. They don't need conventional armor.

And the Gravemind is just a tactician, a leader. He does not directly control every Flood. He just gives orders. That doesn't mean the Flood aren't smart. During the Forerunner-Flood war, the Flood took control of massive fleets of Forerunner dreadnoughts. They didn't do it with the Covenant because it was easier to just board the Covenant ships and take them over that way. The Flood do whatever will lead them to victory.

 

[pffh]

My vote goes to the Furlings, nothing can beat the Furlings.

 

[Psypherus]

Borg all the way. and I dont even like Star Trek

 

[Cortheya]

The replicators could infect the flood but the flood couldn't infect the replicators (with their nanites) of course this is if were talking about the alteran replicators. The replicators would spread and spread whereas the flood could be starved without enough life to infect

 

[Cortheya]

You forgot to add the Borg to this poll.
Also the replicators are machines therefore superior to the average biological mutant without the anti-replicator gun.

The Flood are hardly the average biological mutant. They're a fungi. As long as one spore survives, the Flood survives. One spore can give birth to an entire Flood colony. They are impossible to permanently eradicate.

The same can be said of a single nanite..the only reason that Mckay was able to kill them was he gathered them all together into a godzilla nanite. Even then there are still replicators out there, Dr. Weir, her crew, and the replicators aboard the ships destroyed by the Apollo and Daedalus. Though all of them are now dormant.

 

[blinkgun96]

What is the replicator intelligence made of? Are they a hive mind or do they have a central intelligence?

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

 

[Eipok Kruden]

You forgot to add the Borg to this poll.
Also the replicators are machines therefore superior to the average biological mutant without the anti-replicator gun.

The Flood are hardly the average biological mutant. They're a fungi. As long as one spore survives, the Flood survives. One spore can give birth to an entire Flood colony. They are impossible to permanently eradicate.

The same can be said of a single nanite..the only reason that Mckay was able to kill them was he gathered them all together into a godzilla nanite. Even then there are still replicators out there, Dr. Weir, her crew, and the replicators aboard the ships destroyed by the Apollo and Daedalus. Though all of them are now dormant.

I know that. I wasn't saying the Flood were the only species in this poll that is that resilient. I was just pointing out that the Borg can't do that. They can't rebuild from just a single drone floating in space. The Flood and Replicators can.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

 

[Eipok Kruden]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

Yahtzee was just ranting when he said that. He's wrong. The Flood is so much more powerful and more resilient than the Flood. Just read my first post.

 

[The Shade]

Hey! You added the Borg after I already cast my vote for the Flood! I woulda voted for them if I'd known it was an option.

But, ultimately, I'd vote headcrab, if it was one of the choices. Nano-tech zombies are bad-ass and all, but nothing beats having a frozen turkey humping your head into submission.

 

[sms_117b]

Replicators, just because of the way they replicate, repair and have evolved, the flood are damning the borg are scary, the replicators are unstoppable, unless you have the kill code embedded or the anti-nano communicator gun or override their communications so they all fall together and collapse into a singularity....I'm still siding with replecators

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

Yahtzee was just ranting when he said that. He's wrong. The Flood is so much more powerful and more resilient than the Flood. Just read my first post.

The flood is better than the flood? The head crabs and the flood are basically the same. There have been a couple games with parasites before halo, Resident evil 4, half life 1,2 ect. but the flood is just another part of the below average halo story line. Aliens invade earth and its up to a man with no real face name or voice to save the day... never heard that one before... They even look the same, there both the colour of an old can of white paint, they jump at you then try to absorb bodies, they fall from the sky in pods, the flood. If you hear the name "FLOOD" what do you think? I think of a raging wave of water. If I think of "Head Crab" I think of a creater trying to do somthing with my head.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

The flood is better than the flood? The head crabs and the flood are basically the same. There have been a couple games with parasites before halo, Resident evil 4, half life 1,2 ect. but the flood is just another part of the below average halo story line. Aliens invade earth and its up to a man with no real face name or voice to save the day... never heard that one before... They even look the same, there both the colour of an old can of white paint, they jump at you then try to absorb bodies, they fall from the sky in pods, the flood. If you hear the name "FLOOD" what do you think? I think of a raging wave of water. If I think of "Head Crab" I think of a creater trying to do somthing with my head.

Yes, the flood's infection forms are basically head crabs, but the mutations they cause are even more drastic and they happen even faster. And the head crabs don't have a Gravemind. They don't have ranged forms, tanks, juggernauts, stalkers, or carriers and the regular head crab zombies are no match for combat forms. The head crabs have normal zombies, fast zombies, poison zombies, and gonomes. Just admit it, the Flood, while based around the same concept, are very different and are much more powerful. Hell, if Bungie ripped off anything, it's the Tyranids.

 

[oliveira8]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

Yahtzee was just ranting when he said that. He's wrong. The Flood is so much more powerful and more resilient than the Flood. Just read my first post.

The flood is better than the flood? The head crabs and the flood are basically the same. There have been a couple games with parasites before halo, Resident evil 4, half life 1,2 ect. but the flood is just another part of the below average halo story line. Aliens invade earth and its up to a man with no real face name or voice to save the day... never heard that one before... They even look the same, there both the colour of an old can of white paint, they jump at you then try to absorb bodies, they fall from the sky in pods, the flood. If you hear the name "FLOOD" what do you think? I think of a raging wave of water. If I think of "Head Crab" I think of a creater trying to do somthing with my head.

Sorry being a Half Life fanboy and reading on the Flood backround yesterday and today, the Headcrabs and the Flood are very diferent from one another.

What the Headcrab does when he finds a creature to...couple with it so the Headcrab can become more powerfull. They dont really evolve it something else. The closest thing they resemble are those jello creatures from Futuram that lodge on peoples heads and turn them into zombies.

And the Headcrabs are used as biological weapons for the Combine when these dont want to bother into making assaults, so they just chell out the place they need. (Ravenholm and the little town that shows up in Lost Coast. And you can see the pods drop in anticitezen one and follow freeman.)

Finally the poison Headcrabs and Fast ones are possibly result of two things: Or they were geneticly modified by the combine or the prolonged expore to Earth animals/foods/radiation altered them.

Also theres Headcrab hats!

 

[Leeathal]

Replicators all the way, they could even replicate the borg or flood.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

Yahtzee was just ranting when he said that. He's wrong. The Flood is so much more powerful and more resilient than the Flood. Just read my first post.

The flood is better than the flood? The head crabs and the flood are basically the same. There have been a couple games with parasites before halo, Resident evil 4, half life 1,2 ect. but the flood is just another part of the below average halo story line. Aliens invade earth and its up to a man with no real face name or voice to save the day... never heard that one before... They even look the same, there both the colour of an old can of white paint, they jump at you then try to absorb bodies, they fall from the sky in pods, the flood. If you hear the name "FLOOD" what do you think? I think of a raging wave of water. If I think of "Head Crab" I think of a creater trying to do somthing with my head.

Sorry being a Half Life fanboy and reading on the Flood backround yesterday and today, the Headcrabs and the Flood are very diferent from one another.

What the Headcrab does when he finds a creature to...couple with it so the Headcrab can become more powerfull. They dont really evolve it something else. The closest thing they resemble are those jello creatures from Futuram that lodge on peoples heads and turn them into zombies.

And the Headcrabs are used as biological weapons for the Combine when these dont want to bother into making assaults, so they just chell out the place they need. (Ravenholm and the little town that shows up in Lost Coast. And you can see the pods drop in anticitezen one and follow freeman.)

Finally the poison Headcrabs and Fast ones are possibly result of two things: Or they were geneticly modified by the combine or the prolonged expore to Earth animals/foods/radiation altered them.

Also theres Headcrab hats!

HOLLY SHIT I have to get one of those hats!!!

 

[oliveira8]

Screw all those, ever heard of a head crab?

LOL Flood>Head Crabs. The Flood are like the Head Crabs evil all-powerful twin that underwent genetic experiments and was given superpowers.

"The flood is just the head crabs in disquise"

Yahtzee was just ranting when he said that. He's wrong. The Flood is so much more powerful and more resilient than the Flood. Just read my first post.

The flood is better than the flood? The head crabs and the flood are basically the same. There have been a couple games with parasites before halo, Resident evil 4, half life 1,2 ect. but the flood is just another part of the below average halo story line. Aliens invade earth and its up to a man with no real face name or voice to save the day... never heard that one before... They even look the same, there both the colour of an old can of white paint, they jump at you then try to absorb bodies, they fall from the sky in pods, the flood. If you hear the name "FLOOD" what do you think? I think of a raging wave of water. If I think of "Head Crab" I think of a creater trying to do somthing with my head.

Sorry being a Half Life fanboy and reading on the Flood backround yesterday and today, the Headcrabs and the Flood are very diferent from one another.

What the Headcrab does when he finds a creature to...couple with it so the Headcrab can become more powerfull. They dont really evolve it something else. The closest thing they resemble are those jello creatures from Futuram that lodge on peoples heads and turn them into zombies.

And the Headcrabs are used as biological weapons for the Combine when these dont want to bother into making assaults, so they just chell out the place they need. (Ravenholm and the little town that shows up in Lost Coast. And you can see the pods drop in anticitezen one and follow freeman.)

Finally the poison Headcrabs and Fast ones are possibly result of two things: Or they were geneticly modified by the combine or the prolonged expore to Earth animals/foods/radiation altered them.

Also theres Headcrab hats!

HOLLY SHIT I have to get one of those hats!!!

30 dollars on Valve's store.

http://store.valvesoftware.com/productshowcase/productshowcase_HL2HeadCrabHat!.html

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Of course the Borg can assimilate a Flood'ed being. The Flood still have a central nervous system, muscles, biological structures. Those structures can be absorbed. Flood spores can be killed, destroying the telepathic abilities and control nodes.

I believe I've explained more than once that the Flood DON'T have central nervous systems. Every individual Flood cell is capable of thought and they group together to increase processing power. Every individual cell is also capable of muscular movement. In fact every Flood cell is a self-contained organism, capable of doing whatever it needs to.

The Flood's telepathic ability is beyond our science to explain (by which I mean "What the frack do you think you're talking about? control nodes phtshha!"). Also, spores aren't technically alive and thus cannot be killed (you need to have been alive in order to be dead).

Also, any Borg technological advantage can very quickly become a Flood advantage. And there is no indication that the Flood could not build ships given the opportunity and motivation (they are never given both in any story in the Halo universe, either they are cut off from resources or have a plentiful supply of ships to take). They can manipulate technology very skillfully if required, the Flood infested cruiser in Halo 3 was piloted so precisely that it was able to exit slipspace within the Earth's atmosphere (a remarkable feat given the astronomical number of calculations required to make a ship simply enter slipspace). Or even better, the Flood infested frigate in Halo 2 was able to exit slipspace inside High Charity.